Streaming Tech Director: OTT & Media Platforms

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

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.