<div>The <b>SVP of Basketball</b> will spearhead DAZN’s global basketball direct-to-consumer (D2C) strategy, with responsibility for driving overall P&amp;L and crafting a world-class basketball experience within the DAZN ecosystem. This role requires a visionary leader with a strong commercial background, expertise in digital platforms, and the ability to work cross-functionally across marketing, product, and local markets to enhance DAZNs basketball offering.</div><div><br /></div><div>The ideal candidate will lead the development of the global basketball product strategy, ensuring DAZN becomes the ultimate home of basketball content for fans worldwide. This is an exceptional opportunity to shape the future of basketball streaming and grow DAZN’s presence in a rapidly evolving market.</div><div><br /></div><div><span> </span>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.</div><h3>As our new SVP Basketball youll have the opportunity to:</h3><ul><li>Create and execute a comprehensive plan for DAZN’s global basketball D2C product, with full ownership of the profit and loss performance.</li><li>Design a compelling basketball product proposition including subscription packages (e.g., season passes, free/paid options), pricing strategies, and the integration of key features such as live streaming, stats, scores, and highlights.</li><li>Collaborate with the rights team to identify and acquire the optimal mix of basketball properties to attract and retain customers, focusing on driving acquisition and engagement.</li><li>Work closely with DAZN’s product teams to develop a best-in-class user experience for basketball fans, ensuring that DAZN’s app delivers a seamless and engaging experience.</li><li>Partner with the marketing team to create acquisition, retention, and re-engagement campaigns tailored for basketball fans, ensuring the successful execution of global and local strategies.</li><li>Collaborate with local DAZN markets to fully integrate the global basketball proposition, driving engagement with existing DAZN subscribers and cross-sell opportunities.</li><li>Provide thought leadership and strategic direction for basketball initiatives, ensuring alignment with broader DAZN business objectives and market demands.</li></ul><h3>Youll have:</h3><ul><li>Extensive experience in leading direct-to-consumer digital platforms with a focus on subscription or PPV models, ideally within sports or media industries.</li><li>Strong practical commercial experience with P&amp;L ownership, combining both trading mentality and strategic foresight to drive sustainable business growth.</li><li>Proven track record of working cross-functionally, providing leadership, direction, and collaboration with marketing, product, and regional teams to execute on business objectives.</li><li>Passion and understanding of global basketball leagues, teams, and culture, with a vision for growing the sports presence on DAZN.</li><li>Ability to think strategically while also being comfortable rolling up sleeves and leading initiatives from concept to execution.</li><li>Demonstrated success in achieving ambitious business goals, scaling operations, and enhancing user engagement through innovative product offerings.</li><li>Proven experience in a senior-level leadership role with a focus on direct-to-consumer platforms, ideally within sports streaming, digital media, or technology sectors.</li><li>Strong leadership and cross-functional management skills, with the ability to work across departments and drive results in a matrixed, global organisation.</li><li>Knowledge of global sports markets, with a particular understanding of the basketball landscape and the ability to adapt strategies for different local markets.</li></ul><div>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. </div><div><br /></div><div>As part of our team,youll have the opportunity to make your mark and the power to make change happen. Were doing things no-one has done before, giving fans and customers access to sport anytime, anywhere. Were using world-class technology to transform sports and revolutionise the industry and were not going to stop. </div><div> </div><div><b>DAZN VALUES – THE ‘HOW’ IN WHAT WE DO: </b> </div><div> </div><div><b>AMBITIOUS – people who want to make a big impact and drive DAZN forward.  </b></div><div> </div><div><b>INVENTIVE – people with bright ideas who deliver great new experiences for our customers – and improvements for our business.  People who come up with better, simpler ways of doing things.</b> </div><div> </div><div><b>PASSIONATE – people who are proud of our product, our content and our business – and love to shout about it.  People who love what they do and show commitment every day.</b> </div><div> </div><div><b>BRAVE – people who take difficult decisions to help us focus on improving DAZN, our performance and our results.  </b></div><div> </div><div><b>SUPPORTIVE – people who know that we achieve more as a team than as individuals.  People value inclusion and look out for each other, helping their colleagues enjoy their work and develop their careers.  People who consider others before making decisions.</b> </div><div><br /></div><div>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. </div><div><br /></div><div>Everyone has the opportunity to make change and impact our DEI journey by joining our ERGs: Proud@DAZN, Women@DAZN, Disability@DAZN and ParentZone.</div><div> </div><div>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.</div><div> </div><div>Our aim is to make our hiring processes as accessible for everyone as possible, including providing adjustments for interviews where we can.</div><div> </div><div>We look forward to hearing from you.</div>