Senior Product Launch Manager

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.

What You'll Be Doing:

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.

What You'll Bring:

• 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.

Benefits

• 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