Are you ready to join DAZN on its quest to become the ultimate global sports destination for fans?
As a Technical Product Manager for DAZN, you will continuously analyse and develop our playback services, ensuring the highest-quality video playback experience for sports fans globally across various devices. Your collaboration with cross-functional teams across DAZN will be instrumental in defining a product roadmap and delivering it with internal and external development teams to maintain DAZN’s leadership in the industry.
A successful candidate will be highly analytical, resourceful, customer focused, team oriented, and will have an ability to work independently under time constraints to meet deadlines. They will have a proven track record in taking on end-to-end ownership and successfully delivering results in a fast-paced and dynamic business environment.
In this full-time role you will be part of a dynamic and internal Product Management team that supports key business activities. Our team prides itself on inclusivity with a big focus on supporting and uplifting each other. You will report into a Senior Product Manager who will work alongside you in a closely linked domain. This role is based in our Leeds (UK) office, and the internal job title is Technical Product Manager.
As our new Technical Product Manager, you’ll have the opportunity to:
- Lead the transformation and modernisation of DAZN’s back-end playback services.
- Own the long-term product vision and road map.
- Manage the backlog prioritisation for multiple engineering teams.
- Become the subject matter expert in this functional area.
- Work with internal teams to shape requirements and define playback experiences.
- Drive continuous improvements through personal insights, analytics, and metadata trends.
You’ll be set up for success if you have:
- Knowledge and experience working with Agile methodologies.
- Strong requirement composition skills, with experience of writing high quality user stories and acceptance criteria in an agile environment.
- Strengths in problem solving, issue-resolution, ability to work in a deadline-driven work environment, attention to detail, and ability to multitask.
- Demonstrated ability to understand and discuss technical concepts, manage trade-offs and evaluate opportunistic new ideas with internal and external partners.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills with demonstrated experience engaging and influencing senior management.
- Understanding of the issues surrounding delivering live video planning and distribution.
- Pragmatic approach to feature prioritisation and compromises between designs and technical capabilities.
Even better if you have:
- A degree, MBA or equivalent, relevant ongoing training and development.
- General interest in sport.
Benefits include access to DAZN, 25 days’ annual leave, annual performance-related bonus, pension contributions up to 3%, family friendly community, 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.
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.
If you’re ambitious, inventive, brave and supportive, then you’re the kind of person who’s going to enjoy life at DAZN.
We are committed to fostering an inclusive environment, both inside and outside of our walls, that values equality and diversity and where everyone can contribute at the highest level and have their voices heard. For us, this means hiring and developing talent across all races, ethnicities, religions, age groups, sexual orientations, gender identities and abilities. We are supported by our talented Employee Resource Group communities: proud@DAZN, women@DAZN, disability@DAZN and ParentZONE.
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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.
