Product Manager, Ad Workflow Automation

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 global theme park destinations, consumer products, and experiences. We own and operate leading entertainment and news brands, including NBC, NBC News, NBC Sports, Telemundo, NBC Local Stations, Bravo, and Peacock, our premium ad-supported streaming service. We produce and distribute premier filmed entertainment and programming through our powerhouse film and television studios, including Universal Pictures, DreamWorks Animation, and Focus Features, and the four global television studios under the Universal Studio Group banner, and operate industry-leading theme parks and experiences around the world through Universal Destinations & Experiences, including Universal Orlando Resort, home to Universal Epic Universe, and Universal Studios Hollywood. NBCUniversal is a subsidiary of Comcast Corporation. Visit www.nbcuniversal.com for more information.

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.

Job Description

NBCUniversal Advertising Products & Solutions (AP&S) is responsible for the product development and project management of NBCUniversal’s full advertising technology suite. From sales support to campaign execution, delivery, and billing, our division services both internal and external customers in support of NBCUniversal’s $7B+ annual advertising business. Together, we’re building the platform that powers the future of advertising at NBCU.

The Advanced Products and Activation team within Advertising Products & Solutions is looking for a Product Manager, Workflow Automation, to help us deeply understand how Ad Sales operates today—and to reimagine how it should operate tomorrow. This role sits at the intersection of business process, automation, and AI, with a mandate to simplify and streamline how our internal teams and external partners transact within & with our company. This role will work across all business groups to organize, shape and evangelize the automation work (including AI) taking place across the product organization, with a goal to call out duplication and/or synergies and to create a space for collaboration.

The ideal candidate is a highly collaborative product manager who is passionate about media and automation, and who brings strong product execution skills, stakeholder communication abilities, technical fluency, and a willingness to take ownership where needed.

Responsibilities:

• Become a deep expert in NBCU’s Ad Sales landscape & processes, understanding end-to-end workflows, internally and externally, across all lines of business & identify pain points, inefficiencies and manual processes.
• Support and execute automation strategies that improve the way NBCU Ad Sales groups do business, via system to systems and AI.
• Partner closely with Sales, Strategy, Planning, Ad Operations, Insights & Measurement, Product, and Data teams to create thoughtful solutions & ensure there is no duplication of efforts
• Drive alignment across teams to ensure automated workflows work horizontally across the broader ecosystem and integrate cleanly with existing systems and tools.
• Generate & own cross functional Automation/AI roadmap in collaboration with all business groups & flag synergies across teams to increase value return
• Ensure external-facing automation improves the partner and client experience, reducing friction in how we transact, communicate, and execute.
• Lead the organization and communication of all Automation work to leadership and the business at large
• Create vendor engagement frameworks that product groups can leverage across the business when exploring new AI opportunities.
• Track insights and contribute to KPI development to evaluate and optimize existing product capabilities

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• 2+ years of experience in product management within the advertising, streaming, or data-driven media ecosystem, ad tech or AI space.
• Experience owning product workflows in cross-functional environments
• Strong communication skills with the ability to engage confidently with senior stakeholders when needed
• Impact driven, with a focus on real efficiency gains
• Experience collaborating with internal and external stakeholder teams to de