Senior Platform Lead

Join DAZN as our new Senior Platform lead to use your extensive experience leading editorial platforms across sports websites and applications. If you exhibit a strong experience working in Football, Basketball, MMA, Boxing and / or other sports, with a flair for leading editorial platform teams to create headlines that sell, and users cant ignore… this could be the opportunity for you.

As Senior Platform Lead of the DAZN Platform for France, you’ll work across a range of key rights, including Ligue 1, Betclic Elite, PFL, Bellator, Women’s Champions League, Jupiler Pro League, Boxing, NFL and more.

You will lead the DAZN editorial platform team, working with live and non-live video content to engage subscribers on a daily basis to launch the success of our French platform. You will ensure DAZN content is exceptionally merchandised on-platform (the DAZN app), using A-class images, headlines, narratives and segments to give users a first-class experience. You will make data-led decisions and plan the ordering of content to give users what they want.

You will also be responsible for ensuring all live events are programmed on the DAZN platform. Crucially, your vision and ideas will dictate: The look and feel of the DAZN App; The success of individual pieces of content; Editorial strategies around major events; Customer retention strategy.

Key Responsibilities:

• Set the editorial agenda for the French Platform, using your Editorial Leadership experience.
• Be accountable for publication of live events and non-live content.
• Lead the team to make daily homepage layout plans to hit several key audiences.
• Select headlines, clips and narratives that sell DAZN content.
• Oversee the editorial platform team for DAZN France.
• Develop promotion and retention strategies for upcoming events
• Commission short-form non-live video content for key rights (in particular Ligue 1, Betclic Elite, MMA, …)
• Work closely with Production, Creative, Social Media, CRM, PR, and Marketing teams.
• Be the senior, go-to platform contact for teams worldwide.

You’ll have:

• Strong knowledge and passion for football, basketball, boxing, and other sports with experience working with sports content at a senior level
• Experience of planning page layouts and fine attention to detail
• Strong understanding of OTT platforms
• Editorial expertise, up to date with the latest sports stories
• Firm understanding of how to engage a sports fan
• Experience of leading an editorial team within the sports and broadcasting industry
• Experience presenting to senior business leaders and Exec level
• Ability to interpret data and formulate data-led decisions
• The ability to effectively coordinate across multiple teams
• Fluency in French and English

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