Technical Assistant

Why Join DAZN? 

Joining DAZN in Leeds means being part of a cutting-edge sports streaming company in a vibrant tech hub. You’ll work alongside passionate, talented professionals on innovative projects that reach millions of fans worldwide. Leeds offers a dynamic work environment with a great balance of career growth and lifestyle. If you’re excited about shaping the future of live and on-demand sports entertainment, DAZN Leeds is the perfect place to make your mark and grow your career. 

The Role 

This is a hands-on, operational role where you’ll be instrumental in supporting file-based workflows, managing media assets, and assisting in live and post-production environments. You'll also be part of a team that delivers first-line technical support for virtual production tools and commentary operations across DAZN’s global output. 

As an individual contributor, you’ll work closely with editors, clients, and production teams to ensure high-quality delivery of content. The role operates on a rotating shift pattern, including evenings and weekends, to support 24/7 live sports coverage. 

Department

73-153 - Delivery - Virtual Production Operations

Employment Type

Permanent

Location

UK - Leeds

Workplace type

Onsite

What You'll Be Doing:

• Monitor, maintain, and improve media workflows across live and post-production. 
• Provide first-line technical support for virtual production tools and commentary booths. 
• Set up and support edit production suites for live edits, voiceovers, and commentary. 
• Manage ingest, archiving, and delivery of digital media assets. 
• Conduct quality control checks on digital media and broadcast deliverables. 
• Communicate effectively with clients, editors, and internal teams in high-pressure environments. 
• Collaborate with global teams and third-party vendors to support multi-region productions. 
• Contribute to continuous improvement of production and post-production operations. 

What You'll Bring:

• Experience in a post-production or media services environment. 
• Working knowledge of Adobe Premiere Pro, cloud-based MAM systems, and media workflows. 
• Strong understanding of video file formats, codecs, and digital asset management. 
• Media management expertise, including ingesting, archiving, and content delivery. 
• Familiarity with distribution tools like Aspera and Signiant. 
• Excellent communication skills, both technical and non-technical. 
• An interest in live sports and/or prior experience supporting live events or galleries. 
• Experience or awareness of remote virtual production environments. 

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.