Design Program Manager

NBC Universal; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k)

Paid time off

Tuition reimbursement

Employee discounts

Job summary

NBCUniversal is seeking a highly organized design program manager to support design and product teams in delivering a world-class streaming experience. This role focuses on coordination and execution across initiatives, ensuring alignment, clarity, and efficiency from concept to launch.

The ideal candidate thrives in a fast-paced environment, understands design and product development workflows, and can manage multiple priorities with ease.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of experience as a project or program manager.
• Strong understanding of design and product lifecycles, from roadmapping and initial requirements through final delivery and release.
• Proven ability to work with product designers, product managers, and technology partners.
• Ability to manage high-impact initiatives with competing deadlines, multiple stakeholders, and complex dependencies.
• Ability to operate independently and multi-task in a rapidly evolving, fast-paced environment.
• Familiarity with design tools (Figma, Sketch) and project management platforms (Jira, Confluence, Airtable).
• Strong communication, organizational, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to provide clarity and structure in an environment of constant change.

Responsibilities

• Support planning, tracking and delivery of multiple initiatives across design and product, ensuring alignment on priorities, goals and timelines.
• Ensure design deliverables are aligned with product requirements.
• Facilitate communication and decision-making across disciplines, including marketing, data and research.
• Identify bottlenecks and propose improvements to design, product and engineering processes, supporting scalable ways of working across teams.
• Facilitate the scoping of design requests from product, and communicate with stakeholders to help move product initiatives forward.
• Own and facilitate meetings to drive progress against goals, resolve issues, identify clear next steps, and escalate when needed.
• Communicate progress, risks and outcomes effectively to senior stakeholders and leadership.
• Maintain project tracking tools, such as Jira, Confluence, Airtable and Figma.

Skills

Organization

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

Design workflow understanding

Product lifecycle knowledge

Stakeholder management

Meeting facilitation

Mentoring vendors/contractors

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Airtable

Figma

Sketch

Job description

• Compensation: USD 130,000 - USD 170,000 - yearly

Company Description

NBCUniversal is one of the world's leading media and entertainment companies. We create world-class content, which we distribute across our portfolio of film, television, and streaming, and bring to life through our global theme park destinations, consumer products, and experiences. We own and operate leading entertainment and news brands, including NBC, NBC News, NBC Sports, Telemundo, NBC Local Stations, Bravo, and Peacock, our premium ad-supported streaming service. We produce and distribute premier filmed entertainment and programming through our powerhouse film and television studios, including Universal Pictures, DreamWorks Animation, and Focus Features, and the four global television studios under the Universal Studio Group banner, and operate industry-leading theme parks and experiences around the world through Universal Destinations & Experiences, including Universal Orlando Resort, home to Universal Epic Universe, and Universal Studios Hollywood. NBCUniversal is a subsidiary of Comcast Corporation. Visit www.nbcuniversal.com for more information.

Our impact is rooted in improving the communities where our employees, customers, and audiences live and work. We have a rich tradition of giving back and ensuring our employees have the opportunity to serve their communities. We champion an inclusive culture and strive to attract and develop a talented workforce to create and deliver a wide range of content reflecting our world.

Job Description

The Media Group at NBCU supports a powerhouse collection of consumer-first brands including Peacock, NBC, Bravo, NBC Sports, and NBCU International. 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.

We’relooking for a highly organized and proactivedesignprogram managerto support our design and productteamsin delivering a world-classstreaming experience.This role will focusondrivingcoordination and execution across product initiatives,ensuringalignment, clarity, and efficiency from concept to launch.The ideal candidate thrives in a fast-paced environment, understands design and product development workflows, and can manage multiple priorities with ease.

WhatYou’llDo

• Support planning, trackingand delivery ofmultiple initiatives acrossdesign andproduct, ensuring alignmenton priorities,goalsand timelines.
• Ensure design deliverables are aligned with product requirements.
• Facilitate communication and decision-making across disciplines, including marketing,dataand research.
• Identifybottlenecks and propose improvements to design, product andengineeringprocesses, supporting scalable ways of working across teams.
• Facilitate thescoping ofdesignrequestsfromproduct,andcommunicate with stakeholders to help move product initiatives forward.
• Own andfacilitatemeetings todrive progress against goals,resolve issues,identifyclear next steps, and escalat
• Communicate progress,risksand outcomes effectively to senior stakeholders and leadership.
• Maintain project tracking tools, such as Jira, Confluence,Airtableand Figma.

Qualifications

• 3-5yearsof experienceas a project or program manager.
• Strong understanding ofdesign and product lifecycles,fromroadmappingand initial requirements through final delivery and release.
• Proven ability to work withproduct designers,product managers,andtechnology partners.
• Ability to managehigh-impact initiatives with competing deadlines,multiple stakeholders, and complex dependencies.
• Ability tooperateindependently and multi-taskin a rapidly evolving, fast-paced environment.
• Familiarity withdesign tools (Figma, Sketch)and project management platforms (Jira, Confluence,Airtable).
• Strong communication, organizational, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to provide clarity and structure in an environment of constant change.

Preferred Attributes

• Experience indesignor productoperations,ordesignprogram management within a product-driven organization.
• Ability totranslate ambiguous requirements into actionable plans.
• Comfortable facilitating discussions and driving alignment across cross-functional teams.
• Experience managingdesignand productvendors and contractors.

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. Learn more about the benefits offered by NBCUniversal by visiting the Benefits page of the Careers website. Salary range: $130,000 - $170,000(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 [e-mail].

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