Streaming & Media Technology Director

Global Sports Jobs Limited; Barcelona; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Euroleague Basketball is seeking a Streaming & Media Technology Director who holds full technical accountability for ELTV and its OTT platform, overseeing architecture, integrations, licensing, and delivery across web, apps, and connected TV. You will collaborate with Marketing Tech, Data, ICT and external partners.

The role requires 5+ years in streaming, strong vendor governance, incident management, and a proven track record in live streaming environments.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years in streaming/OTT or media tech with live platform ownership.
• Knowledge of live/VOD workflows, encoding, CDN, DRM, playback, and multilingual audio.
• Experience leading live platform programmes, with data migration and cutover.
• Experience with media asset management and automated content generation.
• Experience with entitlement, SSO integration and rights availability rules.
• Familiarity with content protection and license requirements.

Responsibilities

• Own the OTT platform architecture, roadmap, integrations and vendor governance.
• Drive playback quality, availability and performance across markets and devices.
• Lead major platform programmes from requirements to go-live.
• Implement commercial integrations including checkout and in-stream ads.
• Onboard content from rights holders and manage metadata and protections.
• Ensure content delivery to channel stores and partner platforms.
• Maintain asset management and automated content generation stacks.
• Define and manage operational incident protocols and escalation.
• Ensure geo-restrictions and territorial rules are correctly applied.

Skills

Streaming architecture

OTT platform ownership

Vendor governance

Incident management

English fluency

Tools

CDN

DRM tech

SSO

Job description

About the Role

The Streaming & Media Technology Director holds full technical accountability for the platforms that deliver Euroleague Basketball’s streaming and media proposition across its competitions. The role centres on EuroLeague TV (ELTV) and its OTT platform, supported by the media asset management environment, automated content generation stack, content publishing and distribution workflows, and historical media archive. It owns these systems end to end, including technical architecture and roadmap, integrations, lifecycle, vendor governance, service quality, content protection and compliance enforcement, and leads major technical programmes affecting the streaming platform. The role works closely with Marketing Technology, Technical Product Management, Data, ICT and Systems & Security Operations, alongside external platform, production and content partners, while commercial negotiation, content rights acquisition, editorial curation, pricing and packaging, promotional planning, CRM, paid acquisition and the marketing technology stack sit outside its remit.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the technical architecture and roadmap of the OTT platform, covering ingest, encoding and packaging, playout, CDN, DRM and playback, metadata, and delivery across web, apps, connected TV and console environments
• Own playback quality, availability and performance standards across markets and devices, driving continuous improvement based on usage, platform telemetry and support data.
• Hold the day-to-day technical relationship with the streaming platform provider, including release planning, roadmap alignment, escalation, structured service reviews, and review deliverables against defined technical requirements.
• Lead major platform programmes end to end, including requirements definition, integration design, entitlement and user data migration, environment and release management, acceptance testing, cutover and go-live
• Implement and maintain technical configuration supporting the commercial proposition, including subscription and entitlement setup, checkout and payment integrations, and in-stream advertising on the streaming platform.
• Own technical onboarding of content from external rights holders, including ingest of live feeds, archives and metadata, implementation of licensor content protection and delivery requirements, and maintain a repeatable onboarding process for new content and distribution partners
• Own the technical delivery of content to channel stores, aggregators and partner platforms as a subscription channel and as supplied content, meeting partner technical specifications and keeping entitlements, metadata and availability in sync.
• Own the media and digital asset management environment, including asset ingest, metadata models and taxonomy, rights and usage metadata, permissions, and automated traceable asset flows
• Own the automated content generation stack and its integrations with competitions and production feeds, including publishing rules and delivery into the OTT platform and consuming channels.
• Own the technical content publishing model within the streaming platform and its content management backend, covering scheduling, metadata, rails and homepage configuration, VOD ingest and continuous channel delivery, and drive automation of recurring manual tasks.
• Own the technical delivery of integrations between the streaming and media platforms and the wider ecosystem, including game centre and live schedule, broadcaster and club assets from the Competition Engine, the identity and single sign-on layer, partner and sponsor activations on livestreams and affiliate partners; implement the event taxonomy and tracking framework defined with Marketing Technology and Data, govern vendor implementation, and ensure data required by the unified data platform is reliably and accurately emitted.
• Define and maintain operational protocols for the streaming platform within the Game Night Data & Tech Desk, including pre‑match verification, severity classification and escalation paths across all competitions
• Own tracking and follow‑up of all streaming incidents through to resolution, including real‑time critical incidents, standard support for non‑critical incidents, structured post‑incident review, and conversion of recurring support cases into technical fixes.
• Ensure correct implementation and continuous verification of geo‑restrictions, territorial holdbacks, blackout rules and market‑specific commentary restrictions, validated ahead of each season and whenever agreements change

Required Experience & Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years in streaming, OTT or media technology, with direct technical ownership of a live consumer video platform.
• Working knowledge of the streaming stack: live and VOD workflows, encoding and packaging, CDN behaviour, DRM and playback, metadata models, playout and scheduling, subtitling and multi‑language audio.
• Experience leading technical platform programmes in a live service environment, including integration design, data and entitlement migration, acceptance testing and cutover.
• Experience with media asset management and automated content generation environments, including metadata models, cataloguing standards and rights metadata.
• Experience with entitlement and access models in subscription environments, including integration with SSO and authorisation logic.
• Experience implementing and validating territorial restrictions and rights‑driven availability rules across multiple markets.
• Experience onboarding third‑party content and delivering to channel stores, aggregators or partner platforms, including partner technical specifications, licensor content protection requirements and entitlement synchronisation.
• Familiarity with media archive practice (storage tiering, preservation and format obsolescence) and with content protection in live streaming (DRM, watermarking and entitlement abuse controls).
• Proven vendor governance experience: technical evaluation, SLA management, release and roadmap alignment, and structured performance review.
• Operations mindset, with the ability to design and run incident management protocols, classify severity and drive resolution to closure.
• Strong documentation discipline, able to define technical requirements clearly and to review what vendors deliver against them rather than accepting it.
• Able to operate without a team beneath them and to influence technical, editorial, commercial and club stakeholders.
• Fluent in English.
• Holds EU nationality and/or a valid residency/work permit for Spain.
• Occasional availability to support critical incidents during game nights.

Preferred Skills

• Experience in sports, media or subscription‑led environments is advantageous.
• Spanish and additional European languages are a plus.