Director, Content Lifecycle Management’

Company Description

NBCUniversal is one of the world's leading media and entertainment companies. We create world-class content, which we distribute across our portfolio of film, television, and streaming, and bring to life through our theme parks and consumer experiences. We own and operate leading entertainment and news brands, including NBC, NBC News, MSNBC, CNBC, NBC Sports, Telemundo, NBC Local Stations, Bravo, USA Network, and Peacock, our premium ad-supported streaming service. We produce and distribute premier filmed entertainment and programming through Universal Filmed Entertainment Group and Universal Studio Group, and have world-renowned theme parks and attractions through Universal Destinations & Experiences. NBCUniversal is a subsidiary of Comcast Corporation.

Our impact is rooted in improving the communities where our employees, customers, and audiences live and work. We have a rich tradition of giving back and ensuring our employees have the opportunity to serve their communities. We champion an inclusive culture and strive to attract and develop a talented workforce to create and deliver a wide range of content reflecting our world.

Comcast NBCUniversal has announced its intent to create a new publicly traded company ('Versant') comprised of most of NBCUniversal's cable television networks, including USA Network, CNBC, MSNBC, Oxygen, E!, SYFY and Golf Channel along with complementary digital assets Fandango, Rotten Tomatoes, GolfNow, GolfPass, and SportsEngine. The well-capitalized company will have significant scale as a pure-play set of assets anchored by leading news, sports and entertainment content. The spin-off is expected to be completed during 2025.

Job Description

Reporting to the EVP, Content Strategy, this key role in the Universal Television Entertainment Group is responsible for managing the entertainment content lifecycle management process, including Greenlight, for NBC, Bravo, and Peacock. This role also has a dotted line into the CFO, UTEG Finance. This role will collaborate with other team verticals to manage deal analysis activities and facilitate strategic investment decisions for original and acquired entertainment content, and is responsible for both running the greenlight decision-making process and creating the deliverables that help drive those decisions, as well as coordinating the meeting agendas, constituents, and deliverables for upstream and downstream content decision related activities surrounding the Greenlight process (e.g., content pre-launch trackers and performance post-mortems). Highly qualified candidates must be an expert at developing and communicating strong strategic rationales that utilize both quantitative and qualitative inputs and are designed to deliver key audience outcomes and enterprise value. The ideal candidate has a deep passion for entertainment content and a firm understanding of critical metrics for evaluating content across linear and streaming.

Essential Responsibilities

• Partner closely with cross-functional teams (Content Strategy, Finance, Decision Sciences, Marketing, Development, etc.) to create and consolidate strategic and financial rationale for content projects under consideration for greenlight, as well as any materials required to support upstream and/or downstream content decision stages
• Develop story-telling visual presentations to help inform and influence the decision-making process
• Own the planning, creation, and distribution of materials for monthly greenlight decision meetings with senior leadership and project manage those meetings
• Maintain greenlight pipeline and tracking, and provide updates monitoring the progress of previous content decisions
• Traffic titles through the appropriate approval hierarchy, and advocate for optimal approval threshold levels
• Further define and optimize the greenlight management process
• Partner with cross-functional teams to evaluate performance of content against greenlight targets and prepare post-mortem materials to present to senior leadership
• Partner with cross-functional teams to ensure communication of content pre-launch performance expectations materials to share with senior leadership
• Partner with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment of greenlight process and decisions with critical upstream stages, including (i) keeping track of updates to strategic slate priorities coming out of senior leadership’s quarterly meetings; and (ii) regular syncs with development and content acquisitions teams where content pipelines are being developed ahead of greenlight
• Effectively manage multiple stakeholders and priorities, and delegate work appropriately to direct reports, leading by example and exhibiting the culture and values of the Universal Television Entertainment Group
• Foster an inclusive environment that requires collab