Live Director (Transmission/TX, OTT, Sports)

About the Position

Why Join DAZN?

Joining DAZN in Hyderabad 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. Hyderabad 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 Hyderabad is the perfect place to make your mark and grow your career.

Role Purpose:

Live and breathe sport? Transmission experience in live sports broadcasting? Ready to ‘grand slam’ your way into a brand-new role with one of the fastest-growing sports broadcasters in the world?

As our Live Director, your responsibilities will include broadcasting various live sports events to our unique OTT product. Our OTT channels transmit globally to our various territories, and you’ll take ownership for managing these communications as well as communications between our global production facilities.

We’re a dynamic, evolving ‘live’ environment where no two days are the same. We thrive on the excitement of transmitting seamless sporting events to our subscribers around the world. We are proud of our vibrant Leeds team at the helm of the broadcast arm of the business. So, if you’re also a bit of a chameleon who enjoys adapting to changing business needs, cultures, conditions, and work responsibilities, then this could be the role for you!

Due to our live sports schedule, this is a shift-based role so working hours are very flexible including nights, weekends, national and public holidays.

Responsibilities

• Executing scheduled live events to ensure exact content is broadcast at the correct time
• The Routing and Line up of live streams
• The Monitoring and quality control of up to 10/30 live events at a time
• Loading, preparation, and transmission of playout schedules
• Ensuring all scheduled media is available for playout each day and communication with the relevant channels if anything is missing/incorrect (e.g., graphics or production)
• Providing support of all Transmission services and equipment
• Pre-empting all possible faults and a resolution plan ready to minimize ‘on-air’ impact
• Review Workorders in SchedueAll, to ensure technical resources and signals planned are compliant with agreed live delivery procedures
• Accurate reporting of any on-air incidents and technical problems

Requirements

• Previous experience working in transmission
• Experience working in a live sports environment
• Operational and technical experience with broadcast automation systems
• Operational knowledge of Dataminer (nice to have)
• Knowledge and passion for Live Sport
• An understanding of the end-to-end broadcast process

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.
• Prioritising 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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