SVP, Enterprise Product, Ad Sales & Enterprise Data

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. Here you can be your authentic self. As a company uniquely positioned to educate, entertain and empower through our platforms, Comcast NBCUniversal stands for including everyone. We strive to foster a diverse and inclusive culture where our employees feel supported, embraced and heard. We believe that our workforce should represent the communities we live in, so that together, we can continue to create and deliver content that reflects the current and ever-changing face of the world. Click here to learn more about Comcast NBCUniversal’s commitment and how we are making an impact.

Job Description

Join NBCUniversal’s Technical Operations division to lead strategy definition, roadmap creation, technical buildout, and execution for NBCUs product and technology ecosystem supporting NBCUs Global Ad Sales division, inclusive of Sales Enablement, Audience, Planning, Traffic, and Distribution across both Linear and Digital endpoints.  This leader will have key technical product responsibilities to deliver NBCUs OnePlatform vision, allowing advertisers to seamlessly connect audiences to premium content offerings, no matter what the consumption platform is.  Additionally, this role will be responsible for overseeing NBCUs centralized ad serving, integration, and certification team enabling digital advertising across all owned, and non-owned, digital products inclusive of Peacock.  This includes responsibilities over both supply-side and demand-side integrations to enable 1st and 3rd party programmatic advertising while ensuring premium content quality and consumer ad experience. 

In addition, this leader will also oversee NBCU’s enterprise data initiatives, inclusive of the data ecosystem powering the NBCUnified platform which supports the company’s vast network of consumer touchpoints into a scaled offering for marketers within OnePlatform.  Beyond that, this leader will oversee the product vision and roadmap for NBCUniversal’s Data Mesh, which aims to build vertical products and horizontal connections across the company’s vast data repositories supporting critical businesses across Content, Sales, Finance, Research, Marketing, Workforce, Operations, and many more.  This leader will oversee connecting all of these data assets into a single, managed, orchestrated mesh to unlock new insights and capabilities without requiring large data transfers and unwieldy transforms.

The candidate will be expected to understand and drive best practices and innovative approaches across advertising, ad technology, and data products, while leading a large team of product leaders to deliver on ambitious roadmaps and commitments.  This role will require strong collaboration across multiple business partners ensuring clear prioritization, status, issue mitigation, multi-year strategic planning, and roadmap alignment.  Additionally, as the product leader, this role will partner across the Operations and Technology (O&T) organization to lead build vs buy assessments, vendor selections, destination architecture creation, multi-year roadmap generation, and product development execution.

This is a truly unique role, positioned at the center of technical innovation and product development to fuel fast evolving business and commercial models.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Partner with NBCU Ad Sales, Enterprise Data, and other stakeholders, to develop a shared vision for capabilities to support business objectives
• Drive thought leadership and strategic direction on all existing products, with alignment to a destination architecture and rationalization of legacy capabilities
• Develop multi-year product roadmaps with accountability to short term, mid-term, and long-term execution and deliverables
• Build highly reliable, available, scalable, and performant products, and continuously measure and monitor KPIs to drive improvement to the development process and run state of all products
• Translate business requirements into technical product strategies, technical specifications, and designs
• Effectively identify, recruit, hire, develop, and retain talented product leaders, ultimately maintaining a performance culture grounded in inclusiveness, collaboration, expertise, accountability, and results
• Leverage Agile methodologies to ensure an iterative and incremental approach to building out destination platforms, and partner with engineering and technology leaders to drive overall