Technical Assistant

Why join DAZN?

Joining DAZN in Madrid means being part of a cutting-edge sports streaming company in a vibrant tech hub. You’ll work alongside passionate, talented professionals on innovative projects that reach millions of fans worldwide.

The Role

This is a hands-on, operational role where you’ll be instrumental in supporting file-based workflows, managing media assets, and assisting in live and post-production environments. You’ll also be part of a team that delivers first-line technical support for virtual production tools and commentary operations across DAZN’s global output.

As an individual contributor, you’ll work closely with editors, clients, and production teams to ensure high-quality delivery of content. The role operates on a rotating shift pattern, including evenings and weekends, to support 24/7 live sports coverage.

Additionally, you will support production live tasks such as routing IP streams (acquisition and contribution), supporting gallery and studio shows and editing. This is a multi-skilled role that evolves to meet business needs and will require extensive knowledge of DAZN tooling (Virtual editing production and PCR/MCR)

This role will be based in Lisbon, Portugal.

Please note, our Talent Acquisition team and some Hiring teams are based in the UK so parts of the recruitment process will be in English. Please also upload your resume in English, thanks!

What You'll Be Doing:

• Monitor, maintain, and improve media workflows across live and post-production.

• Provide first-line technical support for virtual production tools and commentary booths.

• Set up and support edit production suites for live edits, voiceovers, and commentary.

• Manage ingest, archiving, and delivery of digital media assets.

• Oversee the team’s archive system, including both working storage and deep storage

• Conduct quality control checks on digital media and broadcast deliverables.

• Communicate effectively with clients, editors, and internal teams in high-pressure environments.

• Collaborate with global teams and third-party vendors to support multi-region productions.

• Contribute to continuous improvement of production and post-production operations

• Ensure quality control of digital media encodes and broadcast deliverables

• Ensure commentary levels and mixes are at the highest standard

• Coordinate the commentators and complete tests and line-ups

• Assess the quality of live audio commentary as well as transmissions for video and audio faults

• Coordinate own job with the technical staff (MCR / PCR operators) in our facility in Lisbon

What You'll Bring:

• Experience in a post-production or media services environment

• Working knowledge of Adobe Premiere Pro, cloud-based MAM systems and media workflows.

• Strong understanding of video file formats, codecs and digital asset management.

• Media management expertise, including ingesting, archiving, and content delivery.

• Familiarity with distribution tools like Aspera and Signiant

• IP/SDI routing and monitoring in a PCR/MCR environment

• An interest in live sports and/or prior experience supporting live events or galleries.

• Experience or awareness of remote virtual production environments

Benefits

Benefits include access to DAZN, refer a friend scheme, learning and development resources, and access to our internal speaker series and events.