Are you a skilled editor with a passion for sports? Do you have a hyper accurate eye for detail and a strong instinct for what engages an audience? DAZN may be the place for you!???
As?Senior Platform Editor at DAZN you will work under the Chief Editors, publishing content, organising the app across multiple territories and ensuring a flawless content experience. You will require a strong knowledge of a variety of sports, particularly boxing.
You will be responsible for editorial maintenance of the app on both the front and back end, therefore accuracy is key. It is crucial that you can pick the right line and image to tell the story, and that you are able to prioritise content by what will appeal to a user most.?
We are looking for someone highly organised, who is comfortable planning, reviewing, and presenting to internal stakeholders, as well as building relationships with our partners.
This?role is?based in?our Leeds office but offers?hybrid working. Shifts will work across a 7-day rota, with some evening work required, aligning with the big sporting events.
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.
As our new Senior Platform Editor, you'll have the opportunity to:
Engage a worldwide audience?
Dictate the look and feel of the app
Deliver first-class content to subscribers, across a stacked schedule
Contribute and execute ideas for key rights and major events
Take ownership of specific sections/major rights and report directly to Chief Editors
You'll have:
Experience picking out errors in spelling and grammar.
Ability to watch an interview and pick out the killer headline every time. You know what lines sports fans will click on
Experience in presenting to stakeholders and collaborating with internal and external teams
Extremely?strong attention to detail and be highly organised
The ability to plan for big events and review after
Experience?working in the fast-paced environment of sport
A knowledge of the OTT/sports broadcasting landscape
A working knowledge of Adobe Creative Cloud
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:
AMBITIOUS – people who want to make a big impact and drive DAZN forward.
INVENTIVE – people with bright ideas who deliver great new experiences for our customers – and improvements for our business. People who come up with better, simpler ways of doing things.
PASSIONATE – people who are proud of our product, our content and our business – and love to shout about it. People who love what they do and show commitment every day.
BRAVE – people who take difficult decisions to help us focus on improving DAZN, our performance and our results.
SUPPORTIVE – people who know that we achieve more as a team than as individuals. People value inclusion and look out for each other, helping their colleagues enjoy their work and develop their careers. People who consider others before making decisions.
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.
