Product Owner

Company Description

At NBCUniversal, we believe in the talent of our people. It’s our passion and commitment to excellence that drives NBCU’s vast portfolio of brands to succeed. From broadcast and cable networks, news and sports platforms, to film, world-renowned theme parks and a diverse suite of digital properties, we take pride in all that we do and all that we represent. It’s what makes us uniquely NBCU. Here you can create the extraordinary. Join us.

Job Description

As the Product Owner for Enterprise Product, you will lead the implementation of strategic data-driven initiatives, managing high-profile projects from concept to delivery. Your experience managing the full product life cycle will be key as you collaborate with cross-functional teams and stakeholders across upstream/downstream systems, Data Warehouses, data backbones, and data lakes, ensuring data validation, consistency, and integrity at every stage.

In this role, you will act as a strategic partner to business stakeholders, addressing high-impact analytical challenges with innovative, data-driven solutions. You will translate functional and non-functional requirements into user stories and guide the team through planning, execution, and retrospective cycles to maximize creativity and efficiency in alignment with the product roadmap.

Key responsibilities include:

• As the Product Owner for Enterprise Product, you will be responsible for implementing strategic data-driven initiatives
• Manage high-profile projects and deliveries
• Experience in managing the end-to-end life cycle of a product
• Work with respective stakeholders responsible for upstream/downstream systems, Data Warehouse, data backbone, and data lake systems, ensuring validation of relevant data sources, consistency, and data integrity are in place
• Be a strategic partner and work with business stakeholders to define high-impact analytical problems and find innovative ways to solve problems with data
• Break down functional and non-functional requirements into user stories, and present them to the team in planning sessions
• Facilitate sprint planning, sprint demo, and retrospective meetings with product and engineering teams to increase creativity while improving efficiency, based on the priorities on our product roadmap
• Ensure appropriate controls and monitoring are in place to enable accurate reporting of status across the portfolio, including timelines, risks, and issues
• Build and support internal and external communication plans, status reports, analyses, and presentations
• Develop testing, validation, and approval process for systems that involve all data-driven lifecycle components
• Ensure the integrity of all reports, data models, and data tables through appropriate maintenance and documentation of data sources, definitions, and calculations used for metrics, KPI’s
• Perform ad hoc analysis and reports as determined by the needs of the business

Qualifications

• Analytical skills to present to create analyses that tell a “story” focused on insights and data
• Understanding and ability to deliver trend and data analytics, ability to provide meaningful analysis
• Ability to gather and comprehend requirements and challenges across all levels of the business which can be assisted by data analytics
• Ability to convey complex technical issues internally to both technical and non-technical individuals
• Experience with AWS, Snowflake SQL, and Tableau
• Experience with Jira or similar project management tool

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree in data analytics, business, statistics, mathematics, computer science, or a related field
• 5+ years of experience with the ability to collect, organize, analyze, and present the results with attention to detail and accuracy
• 3+ years of relevant experience in media, ideally with a background in Research Product development and working with clients
• Minimum 2+ years of product management experience in media, gathering client requirements, writing product and/or technical specifications, working with development teams, and managing product roadmaps as well as launches
• At least 2 years of direct client engagement experience
• Experience with Agile methodology
• Experience working with Jira, writing detailed user stories and supporting acceptance criteria
• Hands-on experience with data extraction, manipulation, and analyses; including SQL stored procedures, complex joins, creation of views, and database scripting
• Experience with systems integration, data governance, and security compliance

Fully Remote: This position has been designated as fully remote, meaning that the position is expected to contribute from a non-NBCUniversal worksite, m