Senior Manager, Editorial Operations, Product and Technology

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. 

NBCUniversal is hiring a Senior Manager of Editorial Operations to help track product feature releases and shepherd key technology work for the Platform Editorial team at our direct-to-consumer streaming service, Peacock. We are looking for a cool-headed candidate with a track record of designing processes to solve complex challenges, governing cross-functional workstreams and managing projects to completion.

The Platform Editorial team is tasked with driving viewership, curating content for a wide variety of audience segments and ensuring the readiness of the streaming library by managing a constantly expanding catalog of titles that spans entertainment, sports, anime and numerous languages. It is a 24/7 operation responsible for updating based on performance, programming tactics and events unfolding in real time while working in coordination with globally distributed colleagues in technical, marketing and partner teams.

The role of Senior Manager, Editorial Operations will be responsible for working directly with our adjacent product and tech teams on a day-to-day basis. They will help define product requirements, track and report on the progress of product enhancements as they advance through the development pipeline and act as the Editorial team stakeholder for front-end and back-end teams. They will also carry a sense of personal responsibility for the excellence of their work and a keen interest measuring the performance of their efforts.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with the Product and Technology groups to ensure editorial requirements were communicated, tested and validated.
• Present project status to executive leadership and stakeholders to provide transparency and ensure objectives are being met.
• Prioritize a backlog of editorial needs to ensure  that highest value development work is delivered in a timely manner.
• Collaborate with other product managers, design, data and strategy teams to develop holistic points of view and confidently make product decisions 
• Partner with project management and technology teams in the US and Europe and influence multi-year product roadmaps across Peacock and SkyShowtime.

This position is eligible for company sponsored benefits, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k), paid leave, tuition reimbursement, and a variety of other discounts and perks. Learn more about the benefits offered by NBCUniversal by visiting the Benefits page of the Careers website. Salary range: $95,000-$115,000 (bonus eligible)

Qualifications

• Must be able to work East Coast hours
• Minimum 4 years’ experience in technology or digital media preferably with consumer-facing products
• Excellent writing, presentation, and communication skills.
• Strong collaborative and interpersonal skills with the ability to work flexibly across departments as well as manage internal and external partners in a dynam