Product Owner

Key Responsibilities

• Own the product vision and roadmap for DAZN’s metadata and backend delivery systems, ensuring metadata supports every part of the viewing journey, from planning to playback
• Lead product direction for rights, planning, and scheduling tools that connect content rights to delivery workflows
• Act as the primary bridge between internal engineering teams, external partners, and operational teams
• Define product requirements for metadata ingestion, enrichment, and distribution to multiple downstream systems
• Partner with broadcast and ad tech teams to ensure metadata integration supports live production, scheduling, and monetization workflows
• Collaborate with engineering to ensure system design supports reliability, scale, and real-time data accuracy
• Represent backend systems and metadata strategy in cross-functional forums, driving alignment across product, operations, and commercial teams
• Analyse how metadata flows through the ecosystem and identify opportunities for improvement, automation, and innovation.

Skills, Knowledge & Expertise

• Experience as a Product Manager in media, broadcast, or streaming environments will be an added advantage
• Deep understanding of sports metadata. How it’s produced, enriched, and consumed across products and platforms
• Familiarity with backend systems, APIs, and data formats like JSON, and how they scale across distributed architectures
• Exposure to broadcast or ad tech systems and the metadata standards that underpin them
• Ability to navigate complex stakeholder networks from engineering and operations to external data partners
• Comfort in discussing system design and trade-offs with engineers at a conceptual level
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to translate technical concepts into business impact
• Genuine passion for live sports and the technology that powers the fan experience.