People Assistant

Description

Why Join DAZN?

At DAZN, we’re redefining sports entertainment—and that extends to how we support our people. The People Team plays a critical role in shaping the employee experience, driving culture, and delivering exceptional support across the business. As our new People Assistant, you’ll join a dynamic, fast-paced environment where collaboration and care come together to help people thrive. With the opportunity to grow your HR career in a global sports media company, you’ll work alongside experts who are passionate about sport, people, and progress. If you’re ready to learn and make a difference, DAZN is the place to be.

The Role

As a People Assistant at DAZN, you’ll play a key role in supporting the daily operations of our People (HR) function, helping ensure our people-related processes run efficiently and accurately. This is a great opportunity for someone looking to grow their HR career in an international, fast-paced environment.

You’ll be involved in a wide range of HR administrative tasks, including onboarding and offboarding, HR system updates, payroll coordination, and responding to employee queries. You’ll also support with employee documentation, data management, and compliance with local employment legislation.

You'll collaborate closely with colleagues across Recruitment, Payroll, and Global People teams to deliver a best-in-class employee experience in the UK and internationally.

This role will be based in our Madrid office.

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!

By joining DAZN, you will be part of a company that has earned the Great Place to Work certification, a recognition we’ve achieved thanks to the commitment and professionalism of everyone at DAZN Spain. This certification reflects the exceptional environment we've built together, where employee well-being is a top priority. At DAZN, we take pride in being an excellent place to work, as confirmed by the experiences and feedback of our team members.### What You'll Be Doing:

• Act as a first point of contact for general employee HR queries, ensuring a professional and timely response.
• Prepare and manage employee documentation, including contracts, promotion letters, resignations, and parental leave notices (UK & international).
• Support processes related to secondments, relocations, and visa applications.
• Maintain and update employee data in our HR systems, ensuring accuracy and confidentiality.
• Coordinate onboarding and offboarding activities, including system setup and documentation.
• Collaborate with Payroll to ensure accurate and timely payroll changes (e.g. new joiners, leavers, compensation updates).
• Provide administrative support for employee relations matters and exit interviews.
• Raise and manage purchase orders and HR-related invoices.
• Assist in reviewing and maintaining HR policies and documentation in line with local employment law.
• Support ad-hoc HR projects and provide general administrative support to the People team.

What You'll Bring:

• Some experience in an HR administrative or operational role, preferably in an international environment.
• Basic understanding of UK and/or EU employment legislation.
• Familiarity or hands-on experience with payroll processes and HR systems.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to handle confidential information with discretion.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and other Microsoft Office tools.
• Fluent English communication skills, both written and verbal.
• A proactive, organised, and solution-oriented mindset.
• Ability to work collaboratively with different stakeholders across regions and teams.

Benefits

Benefits include access to DAZN, medical insurance fully funded by the company provided by Cigna (including access to a medical chart, premium hospitals and a reimbursement policy), Cobee flexible compensation policy: 180€ every month to be used on a range of social benefits, refer a friend scheme, learning and development resources, opportunity for hybrid working , and access to our internal speaker series and events.

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.