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 Launch 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 growth, and support to help you grow in your chosen area.
The Role:
Looking to take the next step in your product management career? This role is a unique opportunity to work at the heart of DAZN’s product experiences, building the product launch strategy for features adding value to just a sports streaming service and helping to deliver world-class live sports technology. You will play a critical role in ensuring reliable, high-quality experiences by collaborating with local market stakeholders and central development team. Come and join us!
As a Sr. Product Launch Manager, you will be a key member of the Product Growth organization, acting as the technical owner of product launch strategy. You will build overall launch work-back-schedule, aligning with stakeholder teams, and track tasks and milestones to ensure a successful, on-time product launch. Working closely with Japan market teams, you will drive GTM strategy for new features, including not but limited to target dates. You will develop and present a cohesive project view to leadership with business and launch strategy.
You will manage all elements of the product launch process and bring innovative user experiences by aligning with internal stakeholders.
- Manage development and execution of go-to-market plans including value propositioning and internal organizational readiness.
- Oversee launch timelines, managing milestones of end-to-end product-launch lifecycle from pre-launch to post-launch.
- Act as the central point of contact among engineering, marketing, CRM, business development, legal, and PR to ensure team alignment.
- Optmize product launches based on business/operational requirements and impacts of all cross functional teams.
- Monitor product quality and analyze launch metrics to find short-term product improvement opportunities.
- Compile and analyze customer/stakeholder feedback to identify long-term product improvement opportunities.
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Bachelor’s degree is MUST. MBA is preferable.
- 5+ years of experience as a product manager in software and web development.
- 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.
- Business-level English; exceptional writing and editing skills, combined with strong presentation and public speaking skills.
- Demonstrated ability to resolve issues rapidly, with a hands-on approach to incident management and stakeholder coordination.
- Highly organized, with strong project management, documentation, and coordination skills.
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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
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.
