Manager, Product

Company Description

NBCUniversal owns and operates over 20 different businesses across 30 countries including a valuable portfolio of news and entertainment television networks, a premier motion picture company, significant television production operations, a leading television stations group, world-renowned theme parks and a premium ad-supported streaming service. Here you can be your authentic self. As a company uniquely positioned to educate, entertain and empower through our platforms, Comcast NBCUniversal stands for including everyone. We strive to foster a diverse and inclusive culture where our employees feel supported, embraced and heard. We believe that our workforce should represent the communities we live in, so that together, we can continue to create and deliver content that reflects the current and ever-changing face of the world. Click here to learn more about Comcast NBCUniversal’s commitment and how we are making an impact.

Job Description

NBCUniversal’s Enterprise Product Team builds products that provide essential capabilities to organizations throughout NBCUniversal. The team leverages deep relationships with our business engagement and engineering counterparts to build cohesive, end to end solutions for their clients or users. The product portfolio is aligned around critical NBCU functions such as Content/Title Management, Data & Analytics, Scheduling & Distribution, and Content Sales.

As a part of the Product team, the Manager, Product will serve as an expert on all products within your designated space.  You will lead a group of product owners and specialists and guide this team to develop cross functional design and build of any current or new products within this space.  You will execute on a strategic vision for your area and be a thoughtful and experienced leader, who is responsible for defining and prioritizing requirements and who can communicate our business partners strategic vision into a planned product roadmap.  You will participate in large initiatives and SWAT teams that tackle major problems within the organization that turn into larger, more complex projects or initiatives.

Essential Responsibilities

• Responsible for guiding team members, setting strategy and product deliverables and monitoring progress toward those goals
• Manage team of product owners/specialist; lead recruiting, hiring, and training of new employees
• Engage with multiple clients/business units/internal stakeholders to understand their requirements and translate them into product features and capabilities for internal development by our engineering partners
• Manage a team of local and remote Product Owners and Product Specialists focused on building out NBCUniversal’s Measurement and Analytics platforms and destination data services
• Develop and lead long term vision and strategy across all products
• Define and maintain product roadmaps and product integration strategy balancing internal requirements with client requests/priorities
• Collaborate with system architect’s and project managers to scope each development sprint, track progress, and work through development hurdles to deliver great products on time and within scope
• Provide consistent communication back to clients and stake holders on development progress and product delivery timelines as well as conduct feature roadmap overviews periodically
• Create and present documentation to external and internal business partners where necessary
• Execute periodic product demos and walk-throughs for client product teams and internal leadership
• Take a leadership role in leading a team of Product Owners and Specialist’s
• Identify synergies/efficiencies across the Measurement and Analytics enterprise product teams and leverage a shared approach when applicable and reduce redundancy and duplication of functionality
• Partner with strategic organizations such as our streaming services or central data hubs to align on data initiatives and strategic data use cases

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience required
• Minimum 3+ year experience in a role demonstrating strong technical, quantitative, and analytical skills
• Minimum 3 years’ experience in a role exhibiting excellent written and oral communications, effective interpersonal skills, project management, and strong formal presentation abilities
• Expertise in the SDLC process, with a focus on scoping, iteration planning, user story and acceptance criteria writing, rollout management

Desired Characteristics

• 3+ years product management experience, gathering client requirements, writing product and/or technical specification