Sports Media Outlet

DAZN Football

Social Media Manager

Morgan Tencza

DAZN Arabia

**Why Join DAZN?** 

DAZN is the global home of sport, delivering premium live and on-demand coverage to fans around the world. Through our DAZN channels, we connect passionate basketball communities with the teams, players, stories, and moments that matter most. This role offers the opportunity to help shape how basketball is experienced across social media, creating engaging, social-first content that drives conversation, fandom, and community engagement around the sport. 


**The Role** 

As a Content Creator you will be responsible for creating and publishing engaging social-first content across DAZN social channels, helping bring the biggest moments from the sport closer to fans. This is a hands-on role requiring creativity, strong basketball knowledge, and excellent editorial judgement.

***Salary Range: $70,000 - $85,000. This is hybrid role which will be based mostly on site from our New York office.***

## What You'll Be Doing:

**What You'll Be Doing** 

* Create and publish short-form content across TikTok, Instagram, X, Facebook, and YouTube. 
* Cover live basketball games and produce content in real time around key moments and fan conversations. 
* Self-shoot, present, and appear on camera regularly as part of the content output. 
* Edit high-quality vertical video content with fast turnaround times. 
* Clip live game footage and transform key moments into engaging social content. 
* Lead on reactive, personality-led content during live games and key basketball events. 
* Identify trends and turn them into engaging basketball storytelling. 
* Collaborate closely with the Social Manager and wider social team to execute content plans. 
* Contribute creative ideas and new formats to evolve the basketball social presence. 

## What You'll Bring:

**What You'll Bring** 

* Proven experience creating engaging social-first content (portfolio required). 
* Strong passion for basketball, with extensive knowledge of basketball culture. 
* Excellent on-camera presence and confidence presenting content regularly. 
* Advanced skills in filming, editing, and producing content end-to-end. 
* Strong understanding of social media platforms, trends, and audience behaviors. 
* Ability to work quickly and effectively in fast-paced, live-event environments. 
* Creative, proactive mindset with strong execution skills. 
* Fluent English (spoken and written) essential.

## Benefits

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 DAZN

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 revolutionise 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.

Social Media Manager / Content Creator

## About the job



**Department:** RS-803 - Content - P\&E - Creative Services

**Location:** US - New York

**Compensation:** $90,000 - $110,000 / year


**Description**

We are looking for a talented and highly experienced **Senior Static Designer** to join our internal creative team, specialising in the world of **US regional sports**.

You will be responsible for creating high-quality, engaging static marketing creative, across major US sports rights, including the **NBA, NHL and MLB.** Translating live sporting moments, team narratives, player stories, promotions and commercial campaigns into visually compelling content.

This is a fast-paced role suited to a designer who understands both **premium sports design and the speed of digital publishing**. You’ll need a strong eye for typography, composition, image selection and visual storytelling, alongside an understanding of the different audiences, cultures and visual identities within US sports.

***Salary Range: $90,000 - $110,000***

**What You'll Be Doing:**



* Design high-quality static creative for key major rights on DAZN US, such as MLB, NBA and NHL.
* Create marketing campaign assets for social media, digital campaigns, editorial content, promotions and marketing initiatives.
* Develop game-day and event-driven creative, including pre-game, live-game, post-game and breaking-news graphics.
* Design player-focused content, matchup graphics, statistics, rankings, records, milestones and team-related creative.
* Translate creative briefs, concepts and data into visually compelling designs.
* Work within established global DAZN brand guidelines to bring fresh ideas and creative approaches to the work.
* Adapt designs across multiple formats and platforms, including social, web, mobile and digital advertising.
* Produce multiple creative variations efficiently while maintaining a consistently high standard, utilising automation tools where applicable.
* Collaborate closely with a global creative team (Balboa Global) which includes other designers, copywriters, editors, content producers, motion designers.
* Respond quickly to time-sensitive creative requests around major games, events and sports news.
* Stay current with trends in sports design, social media, typography, photography, illustration and digital culture.
* Ensure all creative is accurate, polished and appropriate for the relevant sports, teams and audiences.
* Help establish and evolve design systems, templates and visual standards across sports content.
* Lean into automation technological developments and appropriate Ai use.


**What You'll Bring:**



* 5+ years of professional graphic design experience, ideally within sports, media, entertainment, advertising or digital publishing.
* A strong portfolio demonstrating exceptional static graphic design and visual storytelling.
* Strong understanding of US sports, particularly NBA, MLB and NHL.
* Excellent knowledge of Figma, Adobe Creative Cloud, especially Photoshop and Illustrator.
* Strong typography, composition, color, hierarchy and image-editing skills.
* Experience creating social-first creative for platforms such as Instagram, X, Facebook and TikTok.
* Ability to work quickly and accurately in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.
* Strong attention to detail, particularly when working with player names, team information, statistics and game data.
* Ability to interpret a brief and independently develop a strong creative solution.
* Comfortable handling multiple projects and priorities simultaneously.
* Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
* A genuine passion for sports and an understanding of how sports fans consume content digitally.


**Benefits**

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.

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