Account Executive

About the Position

Why Join DAZN?

DAZN is a global sports entertainment platform, bringing fans closer to the sports they love through premium live rights, streaming, and digital experiences. In the U.S., DAZN continues to expand its sports footprint through a growing portfolio of premium national and regional sports rights.

Team Whistle, part of DAZN, is a leading sports and entertainment media company built around original content, social storytelling, creators, and branded entertainment. Team Whistle helps brands connect with the next generation of fans across sports, culture, and entertainment through content designed for the platforms where audiences spend their time.

Together, DAZN and Team Whistle offer brands a unique combination of premium live sports and culturally relevant content, creating opportunities to reach fans across live games, video, social, creators, and original programming.

Salary Range: $110,000-$125,000 + Commission

As part of our recruitment process, we may use automated or AI-supported tools to assist with application review and screening. These tools are used to support, not replace, human decision-making. Final hiring decisions are always made by our hiring team.

Responsibilities

• Own and grow a book of business across new and existing brand and agency partners, developing strong relationships with senior-level marketers, media buyers, and agency stakeholders.
• Drive revenue across DAZN’s Regional Sports Network portfolio and premium video inventory, including live sports, streaming, CTV, and digital video.
• Prospect and generate new business through strategic outreach, networking, referrals, and industry relationships, partnering closely with the VP, Brand Partnerships on key accounts and opportunities.
• Develop strategic media plans, proposals, RFP responses, and proactive opportunities aligned with client objectives and key sports and cultural moments, managing opportunities from pitch through negotiation and close.
• Identify opportunities to expand media partnerships into broader 360-degree programs, collaborating with Team Whistle sales and internal teams to incorporate branded content, social, creators, and original programming where relevant.
• Collaborate with internal teams across Marketing, Insights, Media Planning, Content, Production, Account Management, and Ad Operations to bring partnerships to life.
• Consistently achieve and exceed quarterly and annual revenue targets.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree preferred.
• 4+ years of successful sales experience across sports media, digital media, streaming, CTV, advertising, or related industries.
• Demonstrated success meeting or exceeding revenue goals and managing a book of business.
• Strong understanding of the sports media, streaming, CTV, and digital advertising landscape, with experience selling premium video and integrated media solutions.
• Existing relationships with brands, agencies, media buyers, and key decision-makers strongly preferred.
• Exceptional communication, presentation, and negotiation skills, with a proactive, results-oriented approach and ability to thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
• Strong interest in sports, entertainment, media, and culture, with an ability to work across teams to develop creative solutions for clients.

We Offer

Benefits include access to DAZN, up to 15 days of paid time off, health benefits (including dental & eye care), a sick time package, parental leave offering, voluntary benefits (such as basic life term, personal accident, and short and long-term disability covering), and a 401(k) retirement plan. You’ll also find a family-friendly community and learning and development resources.

About the Company

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 revolutionize the industry, and we're not going to stop.

DAZN VALUES – THE ‘HOW’ IN WHAT WE DO:

• Agility and creativity fuel growth and innovation, to Make It Happen.
• Prioritizing what matters drives progress and positive outcomes, Focusing On Impact.
• Collective ambition builds optimism and success, in order to Win As One.

At DAZN, we are committed to fostering an inclusive environment that values equality and diversity, where everyone can contribute and have their voices heard. This means hiring and developing talent across all races, ethnicities, religions, age groups, sexual orientations, gender identities, and abilities.

If you’d like to include a cover letter with your application, please feel free to. Please do not feel you need to apply with a photo or disclose any other information that is not related to your professional experience.

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.

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