Senior Social Media Manager - DAZN Football

Joining DAZN as a Senior Social Manager – DAZN Football means operating at the centre of global football storytelling, where live moments, fan culture, and digital creativity converge to engage millions of fans worldwide.

Football is one of DAZN’s most important content pillars, with coverage spanning major leagues, competitions, and emerging properties. DAZN’s football social ecosystem is designed to capture the biggest moments in the sport while building always-on engagement with fans across platforms.

In this role, you will play a key part in shaping how DAZN Football shows up on social — leading execution, guiding strategy, and ensuring best-in-class coverage across matchdays, tentpole events, and daily storytelling.

The Role: Senior Social Manager – DAZN Football

As a Senior Social Manager – DAZN Football, you will be responsible for leading the day-to-day execution and optimisation of DAZN Football’s social output, while supporting the broader strategic direction set by the Head of Social.

You will work across DAZN Football social handles, ensuring content is planned, executed, and delivered to a high standard across platforms. This includes managing matchday coverage, supporting team coordination, and driving consistency in editorial tone and output.

This role sits within the Social team and acts as a key bridge between strategy and execution — helping translate high-level direction into effective day-to-day programming and content delivery.

While primarily focused on leadership and execution, you will also be expected to step in hands-on during major moments, contributing to posting, editing, and real-time decision-making when needed.

Department

74-407 - Content - P&E - Content Formats

Employment Type

Permanent - Full Time

Location

UK - London

Workplace type

Hybrid

What You'll Be Doing:

Lead the day-to-day execution of DAZN Football social content across key platforms.

Support the implementation of the Football social strategy in line with direction from the Head of Social.

Coordinate matchday and tournament coverage, ensuring efficient execution across the team.

Help manage and guide Social Content Creators, ensuring clarity on priorities and output.

Oversee programming and publishing across DAZN Football social handles.

Act as a key editorial voice during live events, supporting real-time decision-making.

Step in to create, edit, or publish content during major football moments when required.

Collaborate with Creative, Editorial, Production, and Marketing teams to align output.

Track performance and use insights to optimise content formats and execution.

Ensure consistency in tone, quality, and brand standards across all Football content.

What You'll Bring:

Strong experience managing social media within football or sports media environments.

Deep editorial knowledge of football, including leagues, competitions, and fan culture.

Experience coordinating live sports coverage and matchday execution.

Ability to manage workflows and support team coordination under pressure.

Strong understanding of social programming and platform-specific content strategies.

Confidence contributing to content creation and live publishing when needed.

Strong communication and collaboration skills.

Ability to balance strategic thinking with operational execution.

Benefits

Benefits include access to DAZN, 25 days’ annual leave (increasing by 3 days after 3 years), private medical insurance, life assurance, pension contributions up to 5%, family friendly community including enhanced parental leave, electric vehicle benefit option, learning and development resources, opportunity for flexible working, and access to our internal speaker series and events.

About DAZN

At DAZN, we bring ambition to life. We are innovators, game-changers and pioneers. So, if you want to push boundaries and make an impact, DAZN is the place to be. 

As part of our team, you'll have the opportunity to make your mark and the power to make change happen. We're doing things no-one has done before, giving fans and customers access to sport anytime, anywhere. We're using world-class technology to transform sports and revolutionise the industry and we're not going to stop. 

DAZN VALUES – THE ‘HOW’ IN WHAT WE DO:  

Agility and creativity fuel growth and innovation, to Make It Happen. 

Prioritising what matters drives progress and positive outcomes, Focusing On Impact. 

Collective ambition builds optimism and success, in order to Win As One. 

At DAZN, we are committed to fostering an inclusive environment that values equality and diversity, where everyone can contribute and have their voices heard. This means hiring and developing talent across all races, ethnicities, religions, age groups, sexual orientations, gender identities and abilities. 

If you’d like to include a cover letter with your application, please feel free to. Please do not feel you need to apply with a photo or disclose any other information that is not related to your professional experience.

Our aim is to make our hiring processes as accessible for everyone as possible, including providing adjustments for interviews where we can.

We look forward to hearing from you.