Senior Product Manager, Ad Product

Description

Join DAZN and help shape the future of advertising across Asia. In this role, you will contribute directly to the growth of DAZN’s advertising business by bringing innovative advertising solutions to market and collaborating with talented teams and industry partners across the region. With Japan as the primary market, you will have the opportunity to make a meaningful impact on a fast-growing global sports streaming platform.

As a Senior Product Manager, you will drive advertising revenue growth across Asia, with Japan as the primary market. You will define product requirements, manage the advertising product lifecycle end-to-end, and deliver innovative advertising solutions through close alignment with internal teams and external partners. This is a regional role that combines local market expertise with broader responsibility for advertising product initiatives across Asia.### What You'll Be Doing:

• Own the technical relationship and serve as the daily point of contact for multiple external partners – including ad agencies, programmatic partners, and other key ad tech vendors – to deliver and continuously enhance DAZN’s ad product experiences.
• Lead the end-to-end partner integration lifecycle, from initial onboarding and implementation through to ongoing performance optimisation.
• Work closely with the Product team to shape requirements and ensure seamless technical execution of new ad solutions.
• Manage delivery schedules and partner performance KPIs, holding partners accountable to agreed SLAs and service levels.
• Drive root cause analysis (RCA) on partner-side issues, embed the learnings, and continuously improve resiliency.
• Ensure technology best practices and operational excellence across all partner engagements.

What You'll Bring:

• Education: Bachelor’s degree required (Computer Science, Engineering, Business, Marketing or a related field). Master’s / MBA a plus.
• Experience: 6–8 years of product management experience overall, including 4+ years in ad tech / digital advertising / programmatic monetisation.
• Partner integration: Proven track record owning external partner / vendor integrations end to end (onboarding optimisation).
• Domain knowledge: Strong working knowledge of the ad delivery chain – ad serving (e.g. Google Ad Manager), programmatic (SSP / DSP / exchanges, PMP / PG, OpenRTB, header bidding) and CTV / OTT streaming ad delivery. Measurement, verification and identity a plus.
• Technical fluency: Able to act as the daily technical point of contact – APIs / SDKs, VAST / VPAID / SSAI, data handling and RCA / troubleshooting.
• Product craft: Demonstrated ability to define product requirements and prioritise a roadmap in a cross-functional environment.
• Stakeholder skills: Excellent stakeholder management and the ability to influence without authority.
• Data: Data-driven; comfortable with analytics (SQL, GA4 / Looker or similar) a plus.
• Language: Business-level Japanese and English (essential for the Japan market and regional partners).
• Location: Based in Tokyo; occasional regional travel.

Benefits

各種保険(健康保険、厚生年金、雇用保険、労働災害保険)* 確定拠出年金制度 * 年次健康診断 * 年次有給休暇15日(入社初年度は入社月に応じて付与します) －9月入社の場合5日 * ベネフィットステーション * DAZNでの無料視聴 * Jリーグの全試合の無料チケット、他スポーツの無料チケット権利 * 通勤手当 ※月3万円まで

About DAZN

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.