Sr. Manager, Design Operations

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

Responsibilities

The Senior Manager, Design Operations, is a savvy, experienced, collaborative design expert responsible for managing the operations for the design team. This position requires extensive design knowledge and excellent production management skills across video, print, digital, as well as exceptional communication, organization, and prioritization skills.

This position will report to the Senior Director, Creative Operations, manage two direct reports and partner closely with the head of Peacock Brand Design. They will be responsible for collaborating with the team of internal designers, external agencies and cross-functional stakeholders to maintain the Peacock brand design integrity across the marketing organization.

This is a unique opportunity to be at the forefront of managing Peacock design-system infrastructure that shapes the visual look and sonic branding across the company and build long-lasting emotional connections with consumers.

• Lead initiatives to build and enforce brand design identity, including planning, prioritizing, goal setting, tracking, timelines, and stakeholder relationships with the objective to make design elements consistent and scalable across Peacock.
• Propose and facilitate process standards, workflows, documentation, and tools management for the design team to ensure efficient and timely delivery of compelling innovative creative.
• Lead project intake and resourcing for the internal design team, ensuring alignment between project requirements and skill sets, with ongoing management of time allocation and team bandwidth to drive efficient execution.
• Manage the production & maintenance of all style guides, toolkits and gfx packages in partnership with designers. Then serve as the lead to rollout to internal stakeholders and agencies​.
• Work with multiple teams, including Single Title, Growth & Lifecycle, and Performance Media, to ensure channel specific deliverables and asset needs are accounted for in design-system.

Qualifications

Basic Requirements:

• Minimum 8 years design industry experience, including as a designer or leading teams as a Design Manager
• Experience developing and scaling design system within a large, matrixed organization
• Advanced project management and execution skills, including a passion for planning, tracking, organizing logistics, details, and documentation
• Advanced expertise with leading design tools, including the Adobe Creative Cloud suite, Sketch, Figma, and other collaboration and prototyping tools
• Demonstrated expertise and experience designing for web, mobile, and other application platforms
• Strong leadership skills, with the proven ability to coordinate team members across teams and locations
• Excellent written and verbal communications, ability to tailor to all levels of an organization
• Visual design expertise (or at least a very good eye)
• Bachelor’s degree level or equivalent

Desired Characteristics:

• Proven ability to proactively solve creative problems, self-motivate and work independently as well as collaboratively.
• Strong track record of interacting and working with multiple stakeholders and partnering collaboratively with brand creative, marketing, partnerships, creative ops and co