Platform Editor

DAZN; Leeds; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A global sports streaming company is seeking a Platform Editor in Leeds to enhance user experience by curating and publishing dynamic content. This role involves shaping the app's visuals, engaging with audiences, and ensuring seamless content delivery for a vibrant sports community. Ideal candidates will have strong editorial skills, a deep knowledge of sports, and experience in content management systems.

Benefits

Access to DAZN

25 days annual leave

Private medical insurance

Pension contributions up to 5%

Enhanced parental leave

Flexible working opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience in content curation and publishing.
• Ability to engage sports fans effectively.
• Knowledge of the sports broadcasting landscape.

Responsibilities

• Curate and publish content for a global audience.
• Maintain the DAZN app for seamless content delivery.
• Drive impactful content strategies for specific sections.

Skills

Error detection in spelling and grammar

Headline crafting

Knowledge of major sports

Adobe Creative Cloud

CMS experience

Job description

Platform Editor

Department: 87-406 - Content - P&E - Platform & Engagement

Employment Type: Permanent

Location: UK - Leeds

Reporting To: Robert Jones

Description

Why Join DAZN?

Joining DAZN in Leeds means being part of a cutting-edge sports streaming company in a vibrant tech hub. You’ll work alongside passionate, talented professionals on innovative projects that reach millions of fans worldwide. Leeds offers a dynamic work environment with a great balance of career growth and lifestyle. If you’re excited about shaping the future of live and on-demand sports entertainment, DAZN Leeds is the perfect place to make your mark and grow your career.

The Role

As a Platform Editor at DAZN, you will play a crucial role in delivering an exceptional sports streaming experience to millions of fans worldwide. You will be responsible for curating, publishing, and optimising content across our platform, ensuring that users have seamless access to the most engaging and relevant sports coverage. Your work will directly shape the way fans interact with DAZN, making live and on-demand content more accessible, dynamic, and engaging than ever before.

What you’ll be doing

• Capture the attention of a global audience with engaging, dynamic content.
• Craft, edit, and promote content that shines on our platform, ensuring it reaches fans in the most impactful way.
• Shape the app's look and feel, creating an unforgettable user experience.
• Keep subscribers engaged by maintaining the DAZN app, ensuring seamless delivery of key metadata, highlights, and replays across a packed schedule.
• Play a key role in executing exciting ideas for major events and key rights.
• Own specific sections or major rights, reporting directly to the Chief Editor and driving impactful content strategies.

What You’ll Bring

• 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
• Fantastic knowledge of major sports and the OTT/sports broadcasting landscape
• A working knowledge of Adobe Creative Cloud
• Strong experience in working within a CMS

Benefits

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.