Product Manager

Comcast; New York (NY); On-site; USD 125,000 - 188,000; Full time

Job summary

FreeWheel, a Comcast company, is hiring a Product Manager in New York to shape cross-platform video advertising technology and ML-powered decisioning within Streaming Hub.

You will work with clients, engineering, marketing, sales, services, and product teams to define the vision and roadmap for next‑gen capabilities in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years in Product Management or equivalent delivering customer-oriented, complex solutions.
• Undergraduate degree in CS, Math, or Engineering; MBA preferred.
• Experience across the product lifecycle for enterprise products or services.
• Ability to learn, understand, and expand complex product concepts quickly.
• Strong communication, able to present to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience translating requests into detailed designs and guiding engineering.
• Adaptability to industry changes, strong organization, and attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end ideation, design, and delivery of features enabling clients to execute cross-platform advertising.
• Set product strategy for hybrid and linear ad decisioning products.
• Identify opportunities via market analysis and inform roadmap decisions.
• Understand client needs and align engineering to deliver useful solutions.
• Oversee engineering product development using Agile methodologies.
• Collaborate with product, UX, sales, marketing, advisory services, and client solutions to position products.
• Build business cases, prioritize needs, and highlight use cases before investment.
• Define and measure success metrics for owned products.
• Maintain awareness of advertising and media operations landscape.
• Travel up to 20% domestically or internationally.

Skills

Requirements Specification

Advertising

Product Development

Product Management

Product Backlog Management

Agile Methodology

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Job description

FreeWheel, a Comcast company, provides comprehensive ad platforms for publishers, advertisers, and media buyers. Powered by premium video content, robust data, and advanced technology, we’re making it easier for buyers and sellers to transact across all screens, data types, and sales channels. As a global company, we have offices in nine countries and can insert advertisements around the world.

Job Summary

FreeWheel is hiring a Product Manager who will join the team working on cross-platform video advertising technology. As the video advertising ecosystem evolves, we are looking to have someone join us in an innovative role to help define the optimization & machine learning applications within FreeWheel’s Streaming Hub platform. This role will focus on expanding our suite of Machine Learning-powered ad decision capabilities, including supply optimization, advertiser demand optimization, and much more, within the Streaming Hub. A successful candidate will engage with clients, engineering, marketing, sales, services, and product management, while shaping the vision and definition around the next generation of product capabilities. This opportunity offers the right candidate a chance to shape important products in the FreeWheel portfolio and drive the future of the video advertising industry.

Job Description

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Own end-to-end ideation, design, and delivery of features and technologies that enable FreeWheel clients to execute against cross-platform video advertising.
• Help set product strategy and direction for hybrid and linear ad decisioning products at FreeWheel.
• Identify new product opportunities from industry trends and challenges and perform market analysis to inform product decisions and roadmap.
• Holistically understand core business problems and requirements from clients, prospects, sales and support, in order to invent efficient and useful solutions.
• Using agile methodologies, oversee the engineering team’s product development efforts, ensuring the final product is functional, operational, and meets design and feature specifications.
• Partner with various functions including product management, user experience, sales, marketing, advisory services, and client solutions to successfully position products and features for successful client use.
• Use limited resources effectively, by building business cases for new products and features and prioritizing needs based on team objectives; clearly highlight business use cases and vet assumptions prior to further investment.
• Define and consistently measure quantifiable success metrics of owned products with each feature.
• Maintain a general awareness and understanding of the advertising/media operations and television/content-providers landscape, including vendors, partners, and new technologies.
• Potential for up to 20% time for travel (domestic and international).

ABOUT YOU

• 3-5 years of Product Management or equivalent experience with successful history of delivering customer-oriented, complex solutions in a fast-moving environment, ideally in the digital advertising space.
• Computer science, math, or engineering undergraduate degree or equivalent; MBA or equivalent graduate degree strongly preferred
• Experience across the product management lifecycle for enterprise products or services.
• Proven ability to quickly learn, understand, and expand complex products, processes, and concepts.
• Superior communication skills for addressing colleagues and customers; the ability to present complicated concepts in a clear and concise manner to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience understanding and evaluating client requests, translating requests into detailed designs, and guiding engineering through implementation.
• Ability to quickly adapt to changes in the industry, development processes, and business priorities.
• Good organizational skills and strong attention to detail.
• Passionate about what you do, and excited about the opportunity ahead of FreeWheel!

Disclaimer:

This information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees in this role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications.

Comcast is an equal opportunity workplace. We will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law.

Skills:

Requirements Specification; Advertising; Product Development; Product Management; Product Backlog Management; Agile Methodology

Salary:

New York Pay Range: $125,204.74 - $187,807.12

Comcast intends to offer the selected candidate base pay within this range, dependent on job-related, non-discriminatory factors such as experience. The application window is 30 days from the date job is posted, unless the number of applicants requires it to close sooner or later.

Base pay is one part of the Total Rewards that Comcast provides to compensate and recognize employees for their work. Most sales positions are eligible for a Commission under the terms of an applicable plan, while most non-sales positions are eligible for a Bonus. Additionally, Comcast provides best-in-class Benefits to eligible employees. We believe that benefits should connect you to the support you need when it matters most, and should help you care for those who matter most. That’s why we provide an array of options, expert guidance and always-on tools, that are personalized to meet the needs of your reality - to help support you physically, financially and emotionally through the big milestones and in your everyday life.

Education

Bachelor's Degree

While possessing the stated degree is preferred, Comcast also may consider applicants who hold some combination of coursework and experience, or who have extensive related professional experience.

Relevant Work Experience

2-5 Years