Project Manager

Job Description

Built on a decade of digital expertise and innovation, the world’s leading sports OTT platform and the biggest soccer website to specialist sports sites, ​apps and engaged social communities, DAZN Media’s channels reach over 400m monthly users across 37 markets in ​18 languages. Are you ready to help drive the next phase of our journey? Can you help plan and organise our product requirements through delivery in our development teams? The Project Manager will support the Product Managers / Product Owners responsible for the media portfolio; planning and managing deliverables in line with overall strategy, as well as ensuring that the products are maintained and supported. You will collaborate with internal teams across product, design, operations, finance, marketing and commercial on the product requirements, along with managing delivery with both internal and external development teams. You’ll track projects and tasks within workstreams to ensure that they are completed on schedule whilst meeting all associated requirements. Your exceptional interpersonal, organisational and communication skills will enable you to handle numerous requests from your stakeholders and help you build strong business relationships with internal teams. This is a permanent position based in DAZN’s brand new White Rose office in Leeds Benefits include 25 days’ annual leave (increasing by 3 days after 3 years), private medical insurance, life Assurance, pension contributions up to 5%, access to learning portal, training and development and more.

HERE’S A BREAKDOWN OF WHAT YOU’LL DO (NOT ALL OF IT, JUST THE MOST IMPORTANT STUFF)

• Support the development and maintenance of core project documentation, including product vision, scope and detailed business/customer requirements.
• Work with product and development teams to gather estimates and impact of proposed work, in order to inform prioritisation.
• Assist in identifying any dependencies on projects and ensure these are tracked and resolved by internal and external teams, making sure that responsible parties are held accountable to the project plan.
• Manage regular stakeholder meetings and reporting to communicate current status and delivery timelines.
• Track project/product deliverables to ensure that work is completed as per the agreed priorities, and work with the Insights team to track and report on KPIs.
• Coordinate internal communication and supporting (handover) documentation ahead of product launches, working with operations and customer services to on-board new products/features where necessary.

DO YOU HAVE THESE ESSENTIALS?

• Hands on experience with Agile methodologies.
• Excellent organisational and coordination skills
• Strengths in problem solving, issue-resolution, ability to work in a deadline-driven work environment, attention to detail and ability to multitask.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.

IT WOULD BE GREAT IF YOU HAD THESE SKILL TOO...

• Relevant work experience, in a fast-paced online environment.

In 2015, DAZN was simply an idea. Now we are a global sports media tech company with over 2000 permanent employees and a unique product live in nine countries. Our goal is to change the world of sport for fans, connecting them & bringing them closer to every aspect of the game. We’re one of the fastest growing sports media companies in the world and as such, work in a fast-paced, dynamic and progressive environment. We’re passionate about what we do, particularly when it comes to building a great product for our customers. Our Product team works collaboratively with the Engineering team to continue optimizing our OTT Product and serve even more happy customers around the world. We stream sports to fans directly through DAZN, featuring the widest arry of live and on-demand content ever offered on one platform. We partner with the biggest rights holders across football (Champions League, Europa League, English Premier League, La Liga, Serie A and 25+ more), boxing, Formula 1, NFL, NHL Baseball, Basketball, Rugby, Golf and many more, produce the best content ourselves, and operate some of the world’s biggest digital sports platforms. If you’re looking to really make your mark on a fast growing global product, this is your chance. Apply for this job