Sr. Director/Director, Program Standards & 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 theme parks and consumer experiences. We own and operate leading entertainment and news brands, including NBC, NBC News, MSNBC, CNBC, NBC Sports, Telemundo, NBC Local Stations, Bravo, USA Network, and Peacock, our premium ad-supported streaming service. We produce and distribute premier filmed entertainment and programming through Universal Filmed Entertainment Group and Universal Studio Group, and have world-renowned theme parks and attractions through Universal Destinations & Experiences. NBCUniversal is a subsidiary of Comcast Corporation.

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.

Comcast NBCUniversal has announced its intent to create a new publicly traded company ('Versant') comprised of most of NBCUniversal's cable television networks, including USA Network, CNBC, MSNBC, Oxygen, E!, SYFY and Golf Channel along with complementary digital assets Fandango, Rotten Tomatoes, GolfNow, GolfPass, and SportsEngine. The well-capitalized company will have significant scale as a pure-play set of assets anchored by leading news, sports and entertainment content. The spin-off is expected to be completed during 2025.

Job Description

As the Sr. Director/Director, Program Standards & Operations you will be a positive, highly professional leader with a thoughtful, proactive nature, strong interpersonal instincts, and the ability to influence others and solve problems collaboratively. You will have full functional responsibility for managing and leading a team of individuals responsible for evaluating programming content, with wide latitude for initiative, judgment, and action. You will coordinate and leverage standards capabilities throughout VERSANT, including organizing and implementing standards initiatives and projects and serving as an advisor on standards matters across multiple portfolios.

• Lead, manage, grow and inspire team members with varying levels of experience in a complex and rapidly evolving environment, while nurturing a culture of coaching, learning, feedback, and teamwork, and encouraging collaboration, creative thinking, and innovation.
• Be hands on, including screening, issuing notes, and assigning Television Parental Guidelines ratings for multiple programming formats (e.g., scripted and unscripted), to ensure compliance with all regulatory and industry self-regulatory requirements as well VERSANT’s program and advertising standards.
• Interface regularly and foster excellent relationships with internal sales, commercial operations, legal and creative executives to enforce standards decisions and reinforce and solicit feedback on standards policies.
• Manage the coordination of cross-department teams on strategic projects, serving as an organizational problem solver, collaborating on effective solutions, and delivering excellence in execution, including driving projects that help the department utilize technology more effectively within the content review eco-system.
• Serve as a senior decision-maker and subject matter expert for content standards throughout VERSANT and participate in decisions affecting major policy and procedural issues.
• Promote coordination of standards activities and sharing of best practices across VERANT’s linear, streaming, and other digital platforms to ensure consistency in standards processes to the extent possible.
• Demonstrates a strong understanding of, or a willingness to learn, operational workflows and commercial content formats, and how they inform strategic planning and cross-functional collaboration.

Qualifications

Basic Requirements:

• BA/BS Degree (MBA, JD or LLM a plus), or equivalent work experience. 
• 5+ years combined experience in standards and practices, and/or relevant work experience in any of following areas: trust and safety, content moderation, production, or Risk, Policy or Legal within the media, entertainment or technology industries.
• At least 3 years of experience leading teams.

Desired Characteristics:

• Must be willing and available to work some evening and weekend hours to meet operational needs.
• Must be able to separate personal beliefs and interests from content review requirements to apply VERSANT's guidelines and policies to applicable content.
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