Vice President, Data Product Management, Global Streaming Platform

NBCUniversal; Brentford; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Vice President of Data Product Management to lead the charge in transforming data into actionable insights. This role is pivotal in overseeing the entire product development lifecycle, ensuring that data solutions meet the evolving needs of the organization. The successful candidate will champion a Data-as-a-Product mindset, enabling teams to leverage data for strategic decision-making. With a focus on collaboration and innovation, this position offers a unique opportunity to influence the future of data management in a dynamic and fast-paced environment. If you are passionate about data and thrive in a culture of respect and authenticity, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in data-driven industries with a focus on product development.
• Strong communication skills to convey complex data concepts effectively.

Responsibilities

• Manage the product development lifecycle for data solutions.
• Collaborate with technology partners to implement new data capabilities.
• Define KPIs to track success and prioritize features for development.

Skills

Data-driven decision making

Product development lifecycle management

Stakeholder engagement

Agile methodology

Data Lake/CDP strategies

Test-Driven Development

Communication skills

Creative problem-solving

Education

Advanced degree (MA, MBA, or equivalent)

Tools

Data architecture tools

Data quality management tools

Job 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.

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.

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 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.

The Vice President, Data Product Management will be responsible for overseeing the process of collecting, storing, organizing, and sharing data within the Global Streaming organization and playing a global leadership role in representing all aspects of the Decision Sciences organization to our international stakeholders as they navigate our data products and ecosystem. This person will champion a Data-as-a-Product mindset and will be responsible for governing, operating, and improving our data ecosystem while ensuring robust and secure utilization by the DTC businesses. We gather data from across all customer/prospect journeys in near real-time to allow fast feedback loops across DTC functions; combined with our strategic data platform, this data ecosystem is at the core of being able to make intelligent customer and business decisions.

The successful candidate will be pragmatic and agile-delivery focused, who will need to balance the strategy, execution, and governance of data products across the NBCU ecosystem. In addition, this person will be required to enable conversations between stakeholders, executives, engineers, analysts, and other product teams. In-depth knowledge of and experience in digital data solutions is essential to support the growing demand for solutions in that area, however, an excellent understanding of wider technology landscape is also an advantage.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Manage and be accountable for the entire product development lifecycle, including clear and consistent requirements standards that are usable by all teams, a clear process to translate requirements into technical scope and subject matter expertise in breaking down requirements into user stories to inform the scope and design of data solutions.
• Work closely with technology partners to define the roadmap for and realize implementation of new data capabilities and new business initiatives, contributing to high level designs, integrity of solution and a comprehensive UAT.
• Partner with the Marketing Technology and Ad Technology teams to ensure that our first party data and models can be effectively leveraged to optimize media campaigns.
• Grasp the unique and complex commercial needs and differences between proposition users of the data products ecosystem and ensure they are catered to in solution design.
• Develop key relationships with stakeholders to deliver timely requirements that ensure that the solution can be defined, and business value understood by all teams.
• Support data products that are built and managed for integration into a larger global run ecosystem and ensure solutions deliver business objectives.
• Help develop and track the usage of reports for operational delivery, finance, and all support teams to identify opportunities for improvement.
• Help define KPIs to track success and prioritize features for development.
• Manage the data fidelity to and from all products and partners, this includes data quality, lineages, etc. and champion data literacy to drive adoption across the organization.
• Enforce relevant legal and compliance needs for all proposition geographies, balancing risk against integration complexity.
• Perform regular market assessments to ensure the tooling and methodologies are consistent with best-in-class standards.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• An experienced executive in data driven industries such as marketing or ad sales with increasing responsibility in the Entertainment, Media, Communications, Financial Services or related industries.
• Experience with Data Lake/CDP strategies and partnering with IT on data architecture and identity resolution solutions.
• Experience with the end-to-end product development process.

Desired Characteristics:

• Clear communicator who can articulate complex data concepts and strategies to stakeholders of all levels and experience with data.
• Track record of ownership for team’s execution; achieves strategic goals through operational excellence.
• Test-Driven Development background, with understanding of levels of testing required to continuously deliver value to production.
• Strong executive presence combined with excellent verbal, written and presentation skills.
• Results-driven leader with an unwavering focus on utilizing an Agile methodology for product and software development.
• Demonstrates organizational savvy by successfully navigating complex, highly matrixed and decentralized organization.
• Avid follower of the evolving technology landscape with a focus on marketing and ad sales.
• Creative problem-solver; takes a high level of initiative, has a strong sense of personal accountability to follow-through at all times.
• An advanced degree (MA, MBA, or equivalent) preferred.

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 [e-mail].