Technical Assistant

Technical Assistant

Department: 73-153 - Delivery - Virtual Production Operations

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: UK -Leeds

Reporting To: Thodorakis Kapourani

Description
Are you looking to further your career as a tech assistant in an exciting fast-paced live sports environment? Look no further!

Me have an exciting opportunity available for a Technical Assistant.

In this role you will be responsible for media management, implementing file-based workflows, setting up production suites for live edits, commentary and voiceovers and managing the ingest of media working within a shifted rota system. The team also provide first-line support for a virtual production environment, clients, editors, and live commentary booths.

The Global Virtual Production Operations team are responsible for running the operations for the innovative virtual content enhancing tools across the business, working across multiple regions and sports. This busy team work very closely with multiple teams and 3rd parties across live and post-production to produce quality content for our customers.

This role is based in Leeds.

As our new Technical Assistant, you'll have the opportunity to:

• Monitor success of workflows and look for ways to improve them
• Promote great communication within the team and with other departments
• Support team with first-line support of live events, edit sessions and file-based workflows
• Assisting in the preparation and setup of online edit production suites.
• Ensure quality control of digital media encodes and broadcast deliverables

You'll have:

• Experience working in a post-production or media services environment.
• Experience working with Adobe Premiere editing software and cloud-based MAM systems with a good understanding of workflows, video file formats and video and audio codecs.
• Media manager knowledge: ingesting, delivering, archiving content.
• Knowledge of the Adobe package.
• Experience in dealing with clients in a service environment and communicating technical and non-technical information well.
• Know-how with distribution platforms; Aspera & Signiant.
• Fluent in English, knowledge of other languages is appreciated.
• Experience working in sport or an interest in it.
• Experience working with remote virtual production workflows
• Background working in live events or galleries.

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, free access for you and one other to our workplace mental health platform app (Unmind), 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.

Everyone has the opportunity to make change and impact our DEI journey by joining our ERGs: Proud@DAZN, Women@DAZN, Disability@DAZN and ParentZone.

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.