Senior Sales Manager
About this role
Senior Sales Manager
Department: RS-602 - Media - Ad Sales
Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time
Location: US - New York
Description
The Senior Sales Manager, Media will be responsible for driving advertising and media revenue growth across DAZN's premium sports portfolio in North America. Reporting to the VP, Media, this role will focus on developing strategic relationships with advertisers, agencies, brands, and media partners while identifying and executing revenue-generating opportunities across streaming, connected TV (CTV), digital, and integrated sponsorship offerings.
Salary Range: $120,000 - $150,000. This is hybrid role which will be based mostly on site from our New York office.
What You'll Be Doing:
- Develop and manage a pipeline of advertising and media revenue opportunities, achieving targets through sponsorships, branded content, and integrated media solutions.
- Prospect, secure, and grow relationships with advertisers, agencies, and strategic partners through new business development and account expansion.
- Create tailored client proposals that connect advertiser objectives with DAZN’s media assets, audience insights, and commercial capabilities.
- Support upfront, scatter, and sponsorship sales initiatives while managing negotiations and commercial partnerships.
- Build trusted relationships with key agency and advertiser stakeholders, acting as a strategic advisor on media solutions and opportunities.
- Develop integrated media strategies across CTV, streaming, digital, social, branded content, sponsorships, and experiential activations.
- Partner cross-functionally with Marketing, Ad Ops, Product, Finance, and Legal teams to deliver successful campaigns and commercial solutions.
- Leverage market intelligence, audience data, and industry trends to identify growth opportunities and strengthen DAZN’s position in the advertising market.
What You'll Bring:
- 5-7+ years of experience in advertising sales, media sales, sports marketing, sponsorship sales, digital media, streaming, or related industries.
- Demonstrated success achieving and exceeding revenue targets.
- Experience selling media and advertising solutions across digital, streaming, CTV, video, sponsorship, or sports platforms.
- Strong understanding of media planning, buying, audience targeting, and measurement.
- Established relationships with agencies, advertisers, and media decision-makers preferred.
- Strong negotiation and consultative selling skills.
- Experience developing integrated marketing and sponsorship solutions.
- Excellent presentation, communication, and relationship-building abilities.
- Strong analytical and business acumen.
- Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, evolving environment.
- Passion for sports, media, and emerging advertising technologies.
Benefits
Company at a glance
We are DAZN. We are innovators, game-changers and pioneers. Together, we bring ambition to life.
We are the digital leader in global sports media. We are home to the world’s largest, fastest-growing sports streaming service. We're using world-class technology to revolutionise the industry.
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.
For us, it's all about Limitless Ambition - never settling, always restless, always wanting more for our customers. We're growing fast and have made a big impact so far, and that's just the beginning. There's so much we can do. Working with us is exciting, empowering and truly global.
We are committed to fostering an inclusive environment, both inside and outside of our walls, that values equality and diversity. A place where everyone can contribute at the highest level and have their voices heard. For us, 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, that’s fine. 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. We will do our best to accommodate adjustments for interviews.
If you're ambitious, inventive, passionate, brave and supportive, then you're the kind of person who's going to enjoy life at DAZN.
We look forward to hearing from you!
Top Benefits
- Access to DAZN
- Paid time off
- Health benefits
- Dental care
- Eye care
- Sick time package
- Parental leave
- Voluntary benefits
- Life insurance
- Personal accident insurance
- Short-term disability
- Long-term disability
- 401(k) retirement plan
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