Senior Product Manager

About the Position

Why Join DAZN?

Joining DAZN in Japan means becoming part of a global team that is transforming the way fans experience live sports. Whether it's on mobile, web, or living room devices, we’re building a platform that reaches millions. As a Product Manager, you’ll be an essential part of ensuring that the features and experiences we deliver are not only cutting-edge but also rock-solid. We offer you the opportunity to shape your career path on product management and partner development, and support to help you grow in your chosen area.

The Role:

Looking to take the next step in your product management or project management career? This role is a unique opportunity to work at the heart of DAZN’s product experiences, owning complex partner integrations and helping to deliver world-class live sports technology. You will play a critical role in ensuring reliable, high-quality experiences by collaborating with leading telecommunications carriers, software vendors, and internal teams across DAZN’s global organization. Come and join us!

As a Senior Product Manager, Partnerships, you will be a key member of the Product Growth organization, acting as the technical owner of multiple external partnerships that underpin DAZN’s offering. You will lead the full partner lifecycle-from onboarding and implementation through to ongoing optimization-while serving as the day-to-day technical and operational point of contact. Working closely with external partners and Business Development, Operations and Engineering teams, you will help shape technical requirements, manage releases and deployments, oversee SLAs and KPIs, and drive root cause analysis and continuous improvement. Through proactive risk management and a focus on operational excellence, you will help ensure resilient, scalable, and best-in-class partner integrations across DAZN’s platform.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical relationship and serve as the daily point of contact with multiple external partners, including telecommunications carriers and software vendors, to deliver and continuously enhance DAZN’s product experiences.
• Lead the end-to-end partner integration lifecycle, from initial onboarding and implementation to ongoing performance optimization.
• Work closely with the Product team to shape requirements and ensure seamless technical execution of new mobile app features.
• Manage delivery schedules, partner performance KPIs, and hold partners accountable to agreed SLAs and service levels.
• Drive root cause analysis (RCA) efforts on partner-side issues, implement learnings, and continuously improve resiliency.
• Ensure technology best practices and operational excellence across all partner engagements.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree.
• 5+ years of experience as a Project Manager (PM) or Project Leader (PL) in system integration development, package software development, or system construction.
• Proven success delivering software or platform services in high-availability, real-time, or consumer-facing environments.
• Strong understanding of software development life cycles, agile methodologies, and systems integration practices.
• Native-level Japanese and business-level English; exceptional communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences.
• Demonstrated ability to resolve issues rapidly, with a hands-on approach to incident management and stakeholder coordination.
• Experience working with telecom infrastructure, cloud services, or video delivery pipelines is a plus.
• Highly organized, with strong project management, documentation, and coordination skills.

We Offer

• Social security included (Health care insurance, Employee pension scheme, Employment insurance, Labour personal accident insurance)
• Annual Health Exams
• Defined Contributions Plan (DC)
• Annual paid leave of 15 days (pro-rated depending on the start date)
• Benefit One – employee benefit package (access to more than 50,000 services such as discounts in sports clubs, leisure facilities and physical exams)
• Company doctor (monthly inspection of office as well as stress check)
• Free subscription on DAZN
• Access to free tickets for every J-league game and occasionally for other sports
• Paid commuting allowance up to 30,000 yen a month

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.

Apply Now

Not quite right? Register your interest to be notified of any roles that come along that meet your criteria.

Register your interest

Apply Now