Associate, Release Planning

NBCUniversal; California; Hybrid; USD 70,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) retirement plan

Paid leave

Tuition reimbursement

Employee discounts

Job summary

NBCUniversal is seeking a detail-oriented professional to join its Global Release Planning team. The role focuses on auditing global release data across domestic and international markets, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and governance across all source systems.

You will collaborate with Release Planning, Release Operations, and Licensing teams to confirm data and implement corrective actions. The position emphasizes data quality, process improvements, and timely communication across a global

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience.
• 1+ years of experience in content operations, business systems, data analysis, quality assurance, or a related field.
• Exceptional attention to detail, with strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
• Proven proficiency in Microsoft Excel, and experience working with operational data, trackers, or reporting tools.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities, follow issues through resolution, and work effectively across global teams.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a primary operational resource for global release auditing across domestic and international markets.
• Conduct routine and exception-based audits to ensure data completeness, accuracy, and consistency.
• Maintain clear audit documentation, trackers, and reporting to support accountability and data governance.
• Partner with Release Planning, Release Operations, Licensing teams when audit findings require data confirmation, correction, or updates.
• Coordinate across teams to ensure updates are completed accurately and reflected in the appropriate source systems.
• Promote consistent data standards and auditing practices
• Develop and maintain reporting that provides visibility into audit findings, data accuracy, issue status, and resolution trends.
• Analyze recurring discrepancies and system issues to identify opportunities for stronger controls, improved workflows, and automation.
• Provide reliable status updates on audit results, operational risks, and corrective actions.

Skills

Content operations

Data analysis

Quality assurance

Excel

Data governance

Cross-functional communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Job description

About Us

Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (UPHE) markets and distributes NBC Universal’s film and television offerings across transactional digital and disc formats worldwide. Distributed lines of content include contemporary and classic productions within the company’s expansive entertainment catalog, spanning properties from Universal Pictures, Focus Features, DreamWorks Animation, Illumination, Universal Television Studios and Peacock, as well as from select third-party partners.

UPHE distributes through its own operations in parts of North America, Europe, Asia Pacific and South America and through a variety of licensee partnerships across major territories around the world. The Company is leading the way in exploring innovative technologies and in developing and adapting dynamic new windowing strategies and other initiatives for the evolving global home entertainment market.

Its vast 4,000-plus title catalog is among the largest and most celebrated in the industry, comprising a wide variety of titles and genres. Among its most-prized properties are such franchise as The Fast and the Furious, Jurassic, Despicable Me, Minions, Mama Mia!, Downton Abbey, Shrek, Back To The Future, Jaws, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial and the legendary classic monster movies; recent films including Odyssey, Wicked, and The Super Mario Bros. Movie; as well as such acclaimed television series as the Chicago and Law & Order franchises and The Office.

In addition, UPHE is committed to fostering diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I) within its operations and content. As part of Universal Pictures, UPHE benefits from the company's comprehensive DE&I initiatives, which aim to create an inclusive environment both on-screen and behind the scenes.

Global Business Operations – Release Planning

The Release Planning team helps ensure NBCUniversal’s Film & TV content is released accurately and on time across transactional digital platforms worldwide. The team manages global release schedules, licensing communication, and data accuracy, serving as a central resource for title-level information across the business. Working closely with commercial, operational, and technology teams, the team helps drive accurate execution, resolve issues, and maintain data integrity needed to support successful global content releases.

Who You’ll Work With

• An innovative team culture driven by impact, delivering meaningful outcomes globally.
• An over-performing yet culturally humble peer set that builds each other up, a WE mentality.
• Celebratory team that works hard and plays hard, holding each other accountable. #Together.
• A strength-based organization, where individual employee/manager collaborative growth conversations are valued.

Responsibilities

Global Release Auditing

• Serve as a primary operational resource for global release auditing across domestic and international markets.
• Conduct routine and exception-based audits to ensure data completeness, accuracy, and consistency.
• Maintain clear audit documentation, trackers, and reporting to support accountability and data governance.

Cross-Functional Communication & Data Updates

• Partner with Release Planning, Release Operations, Licensing teams when audit findings require data confirmation, correction, or updates.
• Coordinate across teams to ensure updates are completed accurately and reflected in the appropriate source systems.
• Promote consistent data standards and auditing practices

Reporting & Continuous Improvement

• Develop and maintain reporting that provides visibility into audit findings, data accuracy, issue status, and resolution trends.
• Analyze recurring discrepancies and system issues to identify opportunities for stronger controls, improved workflows, and automation.
• Provide reliable status updates on audit results, operational risks, and corrective actions.

Basic Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience.
• 1+ years of experience in content operations, business systems, data analysis, quality assurance, or a related field.
• Exceptional attention to detail, with strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities
• Proven proficiency in Microsoft Excel, and experience working with operational data, trackers, or reporting tools.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities, follow issues through resolution, and work effectively across global teams.

Desired Characteristics

• Familiarity with data auditing, quality assurance, data governance, or exception management practices.
• Experience identifying, documenting, and coordinating the resolution of system-related issues.
• Comfort working with large datasets and investigating data anomalies.
• True passion for working with data, leveraging analytics and numerical insights to solve complex problems, identify trends, and drive informed business decisions.

Additional Requirements

Hybrid: This position currently has a hybrid schedule, which requires contributing from the office a minimum of four days per week. The Company reserves the right to change in-office requirements at any time.

• 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.

Salary range: $70,000 - $75,000.

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.

NBCUniversal will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories, or arrest or conviction records, in a manner consistent with relevant legal requirements, including the City of Los Angeles' Fair Chance Initiative For Hiring Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, where applicable.