Director, Publishing Tools

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 unequalled scale, our teams make the most out 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 very best in consumer experience. But most of all, we're backed by a culture of respect. We embrace authenticity and inspire people to thrive.

This role reports to the VP, Product, Commerce Platform Tools  

Primary focus 

As a Director, Product Management leading Publishing Tools product development on our Commerce team, the role holder will conceive, define, design, develop, test, and launch highly effective enterprise level content management and translation products that are effective at enabling content delivery and configuration at global scale.  

Key Responsibilities  

• Develop a strategy and prioritize a roadmap for content management that delivers effective tools that decrease publisher overhead, increase time to market and deliver durability and stability in product outcomes 

• Use data insights and stakeholder intelligence to drive prioritization, hypotheses, and product plans.  

• Vigorously defend your strategy and roadmap to stakeholders at every level of the organization. Be an expert in your product’s insights and KPIs.  

• Collaborate with other product leads, designers, and engineers to successfully deliver products to market with your team with a focus on measurable outcomes and consistent optimization.   

• Produce high-quality requirements, strategies and work product. Push relentlessly for quality while meeting aggressive deadlines.   

• Plan and build scalable and extensible products and tools.   

• Lead and mentor others, providing strategic direction, thought leadership, and inspiration to product managers and members of the wider product team. 

• Establish multi-territory and multi-tenant strategies for publishing at scale.  

• Lead buy vs. build analyses in partnership with technology counterparts  

• Build and maintain training programs to enable content authors and managers to utilize tools as designed.  

Qualifications

Essential Skills & Attributes 

• You are an experienced product leader with a proven track-record of end-to-end ownership and delivery of technical products — in particular, success leading digital strategies for publishing/content management tools at a global scale.   
• You have experience leading teams of Product Managers, whereby goal setting and coaching is one of your strongest abilities — acting as a force-multiplier, building product teams and growing talent.  
• You can navigate multi-layered, matrixed organizations through your deft communication, attention to detail, systems thinking and relationship building. You are creative in driving teams to deliver, influencing leadership and you believe building rapport and earning trust is an important investment in success.    
• You enjoy thinking big and crafting visions but have the technical chops to talk architecture and help your team creatively solve deliverability challenges.  
• You have relentlessly high standards, deep operational knowledge, and expertise in every aspect of digital product development and e-commerce.   
• You have an established set of product