Sr Director, Program Management - Accelerated Development

Comcast Resume; Philadelphia (Philadelphia County); On-site; USD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Comcast seeks a Sr Director, Accelerating Talent to lead an enterprise portfolio of education and experience pathways, aligning investments with business strategy and skills intelligence. The role uses AI-enabled personalization and disciplined program management to move talent to critical roles and ensure strong pipelines.

Responsibilities include designing pathways, managing budgets, setting fair criteria, and measuring outcomes across readiness, mobility, and retention.

Qualifications

• Design and lead enterprise pathways that combine learning, rotations, stretch assignments, sponsorship, and exposure to accelerate skills and leadership readiness.
• Manage the program portfolio, budget, capacity, dependencies, risks, and executive decisions, prioritizing investments based on business and workforce value.
• Establish transparent, equitable selection, readiness, placement, and completion criteria that broaden access and strengthen accountability.
• Use skills intelligence, AI, and automation to personalize pathways, match talent to experiences, track progress, and streamline program administration.

Responsibilities

• Connect participants and graduates to succession plans, internal mobility, and critical-role opportunities, with clear leader and participant accountability for applying development.
• Partner with business, HR, and Talent leaders to align pathways with future-critical skills, pipeline gaps, transformation priorities, and enterprise talent strategy.
• Govern external education and development partners against capability outcomes, participant experience, cost, and business value.
• Measure impact through skill growth, readiness, mobility, critical-role placement, retention, pipeline strength, and return on investment.

Skills

Budget Management

Change Management

Cross-Functional Leadership

Executive Presence

People Management

Portfolio Management

Program Planning

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Job description

Comcast brings together the best in media and technology. We drive innovation to create the world’s best entertainment and online experiences. As a Fortune 50 leader, we set the pace in a variety of innovative and fascinating businesses and create career opportunities across a wide range of locations and disciplines. We are at the forefront of change and move at an amazing pace, thanks to our remarkable people, who bring cutting-edge products and services to life for millions of customers every day. If you share in our passion for teamwork, our vision to revolutionize industries and our goal to lead the future in media and technology, we want you to fast-forward your career at Comcast.

Job Summary

The Sr Director, Accelerating Talent leads an enterprise portfolio of education and experience pathways that build future-critical skills, accelerate readiness, and strengthen pipelines for early career, advancing and accelerating talent, and critical role talent. This role aligns development investments with business strategy, skills intelligence, succession, internal mobility, and long-term workforce needs, using disciplined program management, AI-enabled personalization, and measurable outcomes to move talent where the business needs it most.

Job Description

Responsibilities:

• Design and lead enterprise pathways that combine learning, rotations, stretch assignments, sponsorship, and exposure to accelerate skills and leadership readiness.

• Manage the program portfolio, budget, capacity, dependencies, risks, and executive decisions, prioritizing investments based on business and workforce value.
• Establish transparent, equitable selection, readiness, placement, and completion criteria that broaden access and strengthen accountability.
• Use skills intelligence, AI, and automation to personalize pathways, match talent to experiences, track progress, and streamline program administration.
• Connect participants and graduates to succession plans, internal mobility, and critical-role opportunities, with clear leader and participant accountability for applying development.
• Partner with business, HR, and Talent leaders to align pathways with future-critical skills, pipeline gaps, transformation priorities, and enterprise talent strategy.
• Govern external education and development partners against capability outcomes, participant experience, cost, and business value.
• Measure impact through skill growth, readiness, mobility, critical-role placement, retention, pipeline strength, and return on investment.

Employees at all levels are expected to:

• Understand our Operating Principles; make them the guidelines for how you do your job.
• Own the customer experience think and act in ways that put our customers first, give them seamless digital options at every touchpoint, and make them promoters of our products and services.
• Know your stuff be enthusiastic learners, users and advocates of our game-changing technology, products and services, especially our digital tools and experiences.
• Win as a team make big things happen by working together and being open to new ideas.
• Be an active part of the Net Promoter System a way of working that brings more employee and customer feedback into the company by joining huddles, making call backs and helping us elevate opportunities to do better for our customers.
• Drive results and growth.
• Support a culture of inclusion in how you work and lead.
• Do what’s right for each other, our customers, investors and our communities.

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.

Skills

Budget Management, Change Management, Cross-Functional Leadership, Executive Presence, People Management, Portfolio Management, Program Planning

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Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Certifications (if applicable)

Relevant Work Experience

10 Years +

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.