Company Description
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.
Comcast NBCUniversal has announced its intent to create a new publicly traded company ('SpinCo') 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.
As a company uniquely positioned to educate, entertain and empower through our platforms, Comcast NBCUniversal stands for including everyone. Our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion initiatives, coupled with our Corporate Social Responsibility work, is informed by our employees, audiences, park guests and the communities in which we live. We strive to foster a diverse, equitable and inclusive culture where our employees feel supported, embraced and heard. Together, we'll continue to create and deliver content that reflects the current and ever-changing face of the world.
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
The Global Streaming Platform powers the best entertainment experiences from Peacock, NOW/WOW, SkyShowtime, and Showmax. When you join our team, you'll work across our dynamic portfolio supported by media industry leaders Comcast, NBCUniversal, and Sky. 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 a best-in-class consumer experience across more than 70 countries. Most importantly, we're backed by a culture of respect. We embrace authenticity and inspire our people to thrive.
The Global Streaming Platform organization is looking for a Principal Product Manager, Sports to join the Engagement Product team. You will be responsible for creating a product vision for how Peacock, NOW/WOW, SkyShowtime, and Showmax engage sports fans in the future by leveraging new technologies for emerging user needs. This role will focus on building usable, scalable, and delightful experiences around sports and live events more broadly as a vertical. This is an opportunity to be part of a fast-paced and ambitious initiative focused on creating the next generation of products for Sports fans.
In this role, you will:
- Lead product strategy, roadmap and KPIs for sports and live events for connected TV, mobile and web applications
- Collaborate closely with editorial, engineering and design teams to create the best real-time content experiences and scalable workflows
- Deeply understand business considerations, competitive landscape, and best practices to drive optimal sports and live product experiences
- Lead feature development through the full software lifecycle, including discovery, ideation, requirements, design, build, release, testing, evaluation and iteration
- Create and deliver winning executive presentations that explain product vision, features and roadmaps and manage senior stakeholder expectations
- Analyze qualitative and quantitative data to inform feature prioritization, definition and longer-term product strategies
- Create balanced, performant experiences that satisfy superfans without alienating casual consumers of sports and news
Qualifications
- Proven track record of working on and developing innovative consumer-facing sports products
- Comprehensive knowledge of sports including both US (NFL, NBA, WWE) and International (e.g. Premier League)
- Vision to anticipate evolving consumption trends around sports and live event consumption
- Experience leading end-to-end product development processes, from concept through retrospective, for both consumer-facing and back-end features
- A strong ability to lead and inspire alignment to a shared vision and outcome
- Empathy for the user and a curiosity for identifying their needs
- Distinguished verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills
- Demonstrated proficiency in A|B testing, data analysis and analytical thinking
- Flexibility to quickly adapt to rapidly changing priorities and deadlines
- Technical fluency to know when to challenge developers and ask pertinent questions
- The product sense to thoughtfully balance beautiful design, usability and business outcomes
- Collaborative spirit and a willingness to share product responsibilities and occasionally lead work streams outside of live event innovation space
- Enthusiasm to be positive, confident and energetic
Basic Qualifications:
BA/BS degree in a relevant field
- 7+ years working in a Product Management (or relevant) role, preferably in consumer-facing media, and a track record of delivering excellent products at scale with measurable success
- Familiarity with real-time content delivery and/or live/sports streaming experiences preferred
- Experience working in an Agile software development environment
- Experience with A/B testing, hypothesis validation and user testing
- Experience with multiple platforms (iOS, Android, Amazon, Roku) and domains (TV, Movies, Sports, News)
- Fluency with project management tools such as Jira, Asana and Trello as well as analytics software
- Ability and self-motivation to work effectively offsite and with remote, global, multi-lingual teams
This position is eligible for company sponsored benefits, including medical, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), paid leave, tuition reimbursement, and a variety of other discounts and perks. Learn more about the benefits offered by NBCUniversal by visiting the Benefits page of the Careers website. Salary range: $170,000 - $220,000, bonus and long term incentive eligible.
Additional Information
As part of our selection process, external candidates may be required to attend an in-person interview with an NBCUniversal employee at one of our locations prior to a hiring decision. NBCUniversal's policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, gender identity or expression, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status, membership in the uniformed services, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law.
If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran and require support throughout the application and/or recruitment process as a result of your disability, you have the right to request a reasonable accommodation. You can submit your request to [email protected].
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From film, television, news, theme parks, interactive media, and streaming, our people are at the center of it all. Here, we solve complex and business-critical problems. That’s why we’re looking for people to help us continue our evolution, imagining and delivering the most innovative and disruptive products and services through the latest tech advancements in the industry.
Here you can develop solutions. You’ll develop solutions that allow engineers to broadcast live TV from the comfort of their homes. These solutions will enable the use of our collection of hundreds of thousands of distinct intellectual properties across our film, television and streaming brands.
Here you can transform. You’ll make decisions and solve complex problems by leveraging insights that come from data, building AI to help enable solutions to optimize every aspect of our content eco-system.
Here you can build. You’ll build emerging immersive technologies that are used to power the broadcasts and streaming of global events like the Super Bowl and Olympics. You can create secure, elastic cloud-based services connecting parts of our global platform ecosystem that effect tens of millions of viewers, consumers and businesses that consume and love NBCUniversal’s content. And while you design, build and architect your career, we have the culture to make sure you’re supported.
Here you can work and still live your best life!
We’re leaders in our fields. We hire smart people and trust them to get the job done. We are never too busy to develop a fellow colleague. We understand our goals – or we ask. When we see something that needs doing – we do it. We make data-driven decisions. We fiercely believe in our talent and their growth. If you're ready to make an impact, here you can.
Why Work With Us
For us, it's more than just a work life. It's a daily passion. We take great pride in our legacy. We find fun in the challenge. We collaborate and inspire others. We're always creating, always solving and always ahead of competition.
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