Sr. Lead, Experimentation Platform

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

Welcome to Peacock, the dynamic new streaming service from NBCUniversal. Here you’ll find more than a job. You’ll find a fast-paced, high-performance team of incredible colleagues that want to be at the epicenter of technology, sports, news, tv, movies and more. We work hard to connect people to what they love, each other and the world around them by creating shared experiences through culture-defining entertainment. 

As a company, we embrace the power of difference. Our team is committed to creating an organization that champions diversity and inclusivity for all by curating content and a workforce that represents the world around us.  We continue to challenge ourselves and the industry by being customer-centric, data-driven creatures of innovation. At Peacock, we are determined to forge the next frontier of streaming through creativity, teamwork, and talent. 

Data is part of the DNA at Peacock, and the Experimentation team plays a large role in driving our data driven culture. We own the technology that enables experimentation and act as subject matter experts to help teams measure the performance of the features and campaigns that customers experience every day. Our work is high visibility as it directly informs product and editorial decisions. Key stakeholders include Product, UX, Editorial and Advertising teams.

The Sr Lead, Experimentation will be the platform’s product owner and is responsible for building features and capabilities that will scale the velocity and complexity of experiments. This role will own the feature roadmap and overall help advance the practice across Peacock.
 
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Own the experimentation platform roadmap and product strategy to drive adoption
• Identify opportunities where new features, tooling and automation can optimize the experiment lifecycle of planning, launching and analyzing results
• Understand stakeholder needs, create user stories and define requirements to ensure features are impactful and help stakeholder teams achieve their goals
• Partner with our engineering and tech delivery teams to bring features to life in an agile environment
• Guide stakeholders through platform integrations and create playbooks to make the process as seamless as possible
• Conduct trainings and help manage a center of excellence to foster a culture of experimentation and overall use of the platform

Salary Range: $165,000 - $190,000

Qualifications

• 5+ years of product management experience building or enhancing an experimentation platform at an eCommerce, social network, direct to consumer or media entertainment company
• Expert knowledge of how experimentation platforms function and what capabilities are required to scale data driven product decisioning
• Direct experience managing or interfacing with APIs (application programming interfaces), SDKs (software development kits), CMSs (content management system) or other middleware platforms
• Strong understanding of experimental design, statistics and other analytical concepts for experimentation
• Ability to manipulate and analyze data using SQL, R or Python
• Experience using home grown and industry platforms (i.e. Adobe Target, Optimize, split.io, etc.)
• BA/BS in technical or quantitative disciple or significant relevant work experience

Desired Characteristics

• A great storyteller and communicator, and can build relationships with a diverse set of stakeholders
• Utilize excellent communication skills to clearly distill the essence of your technical work to audiences of all levels and across multiple functional areas
• Ability to collaborate and work in partnership with different parts of the organization
• Combination of technical skill sets and business savvy to interface with all levels of the organization