Senior Technology Project Manager

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.

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Job Description

Our Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) portfolio is a powerhouse collection of consumer-first brands supported by media industry leaders Comcast, NBCUniversal, and Sky. When you join our team, you’ll work across our dynamic portfolio, including Peacock, NOW, Fandango, SkyShowtime, Showmax, and TV Everywhere, powering streaming across more than 70 countries globally. And the evolution doesn’t stop there. With unequaled scale, our teams make the most of every opportunity to collaborate and learn from one another. We’re always looking for ways to innovate faster, accelerate our growth, and consistently offer the best consumer experience. But most of all, we’re backed by a culture of respect. We embrace authenticity and inspire people to thrive. 

The Senior Technology Project Manager, Peacock, will be responsible for successfully delivering enterprise-level programs and projects supporting customer search capabilities within the Peacock streaming product. This position requires strong communication skills, influence, and program management expertise. A candidate should exhibit a keen ability to understand technology principles and agile delivery to succeed. Also important is establishing and maintaining critical relationships within business and technology groups and interacting with diverse stakeholders and partners.

This position will report to the Director of Program Management for Personalization and Search Tech Delivery. It will work in a highly matrixed structure, indirectly and directly managing technology teams across NBC, Sky, and the wider Comcast group, as well as within multiple areas of the business including Product, Design, and Engineering teams. The role will also be responsible for directing consultants and 3rd party integrators for current and future initiatives.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead and partner across workstreams to support stakeholder communications and program status.
• Lead and partner with business, product, data, and developer workstreams to execute technology deliverables.
• Partner with other PMO and Delivery teams to ensure successful delivery within business expectations and requirements.
• Provide program governance with clear and consistent communication of project-level status for leadership, project sponsors, and stakeholders.
• Engage and support executive stakeholders through plan preparation, status updates, risk planning and objective-based meetings.
• Proactively identify and manage risks, issues, and dependencies and develop plans to escalate and mitigate them.
• Utilize enterprise project management tools such as JIRA, Confluence, Smart sheet and other applications to provide project status and reporting while adhering to PMO processes, documentation standards, and best practices.
• Partner with workstreams to identify and report against critical program milestones and report on challenges.
• Support planning activities to deliver maximum business value based on critical program KPIs.
• Partner with embedded and tactical PM teams to ensure consistent and accurate project scoping, cost-benefit analysis, and level of effort assessments.
• Effectively prioritize critical path activities to ensure on-time delivery.
• Partner across the business to identify and secure resources required to execute plans and manage internal and external assigned resources.
• Create and manage required project documentation and required reports.
• Coordinate and manage change control in adherence to PMO standards.
• Facilitate agile delivery of technology process and gain an understanding of streaming technology workflow.
• Work with engineering teams across the organization, and the Technology PMO, to ensure that the committed roadmap and pipeline are well articulated, understood and managed aga