Social Media Editor

The role will focus on managing and developing DAZN’s presence across social media and other off-platform channels. The main goal is to build and engage a sports fan community, amplify DAZN’s content portfolio and brand awareness, and contribute to measurable business outcomes, including D2C registrations, paid subscriptions and monetisable reach.

This role will be based in Lisbon, Portugal. 

Please note, our Talent Acquisition team and some Hiring teams are based in the UK so parts of the recruitment process will be in English. Please also upload your resume in English, thanks!

Department

53-402 - Subscription - Social

Employment Type

Permanent - Full Time

Location

Portugal - Lisboa

Workplace type

Hybrid

What You'll Be Doing:

• Building and growing DAZN’s off-platform fan community through high-performing always-on and near-live content.
• Planning and publishing platform-native content on a daily and weekly basis, with real-time coverage during key sporting events.
• Driving engagement, traffic to DAZN platforms and top-of-funnel conversion.
• Taking direct ownership of social KPIs, including followers, engagement, reach, impressions, views, listeners, conversion, campaign delivery and reporting.
• Supporting wider business goals such as brand awareness, content consumption and Ad Sales performance through social inventory.
• Delivering sustained community growth, improved content performance, stronger lead-to-subscription conversion and clear value for partners and advertisers.
• Owning the off-platform strategy, editorial priorities, publishing cadence, community governance, social activations, content creators and influencers, and creative direction.
• Working closely with cross-functional teams, including Marketing, Content, Product and Ad Sales, both locally and at HQ.
• Producing structured post-campaign reports and regular monthly, quarterly, annual and end-of-season performance reviews.
• Translating performance data and insights into clear actions, optimisations and strategic recommendations.
• Working flexible shifts, including evenings and weekends, to support near-live coverage and real-time community management around DAZN’s sports calendar.

What You'll Bring:

• We are looking for someone with proven experience managing off-platform channels within sports, entertainment, media or a digital subscription business.
• The ideal candidate should have strong platform-native content skills, near-live execution experience, paid social and analytics knowledge, creative storytelling abilities and a genuine passion for sport, particularly football and motorsport.
• A solid understanding of sports rights, brand safety and community governance would also be important.
• Strong knowledge of major social media platforms, including Meta, TikTok, X and YouTube, as well as audio platforms such as Spotify and Apple Music.
• Good understanding of native formats, algorithms and platform analytics.
• Strong short-form video, social content production and creative skills.
• Experience with analytics, KPI frameworks, dashboards and insight generation.
• Ability to connect social media performance with wider business outcomes.
• Understanding of sports rights, clip usage, geo-blocking, brand safety and compliance workflows.
• Strong storytelling and copywriting skills aligned with DAZN’s brand guidelines.
• Ability to work quickly and effectively under pressure, with strong prioritisation and attention to detail.
• Strong stakeholder management and collaboration skills across Marketing, Content, Product and Ad Sales teams.
• A creative problem-solving mindset, with an interest in continuous improvement, testing and experimentation.
• Proven experience managing social, video or audio platforms within sports, entertainment, media or a digital subscription business.
• Experience delivering near-live or real-time coverage of major sporting or entertainment events.
• A track record of driving growth through engagement, conversion and integrated organic and paid activity.
• Experience working with rights holders, clubs, leagues, talent, pundits, content creators, influencers and brand partners.
• Experience preparing campaign reports and performance reviews.
• A degree, or equivalent professional experience, in Marketing, Communications, Media, Sports, Digital, Business or a related field.
• Relevant platform, paid media or analytics certifications would be an advantage

Benefits

Benefits include access to DAZN, medical insurance, daily meal allowance paid through a meal card, refer a friend scheme, learning and development resources, opportunity for hybrid 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.