Sr. Product Design Manager

NBCUniversal; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

NBCUniversal seeks a Sr. Product Design Manager for the Discovery & Playback Experience team.

You will lead, grow, and mentor a small design team while remaining hands-on as a senior contributor, defining the vision, strategy, and design direction for how audiences find and watch content on Peacock. You’ll shape cross‑platform experiences for TV, mobile, and web, balancing leadership with doing high‑quality design work.

Qualifications

• Degree in design, computer science, human factors or equivalent work experience.
• 7+ years of relevant design work with 3+ years in people management.
• Proven player-coach capable of growing a design team while delivering senior-level work.
• Clear communication of design solutions to stakeholders.
• Strong understanding of interaction design principles.
• Fluent with Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, and AI tools.

Responsibilities

• Deliver production-ready UX designs aligned with business goals for domestic and international audiences.
• Manage, coach, and grow a small team of product designers; run critiques and define patterns.
• Drive alignment with research insights and design decisions.
• Collaborate with the UX team across ideation and project lifecycles.
• Identify actionable insights and ensure alignment with long-term strategies.
• Balance leadership with hands-on design work and attention to detail.
• Communicate design rationale and rally cross-functional partners.

Skills

Leadership

Mentoring

UX design

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

Strategic vision

Education

Degree in design or related field

Tools

Figma

Adobe Creative Suite

AI tools

Job description

Job 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.

What You’ll Do:

As a Sr. Product Design Manager on the Discovery & Playback Experience team, you will lead, grow, and mentor a small team of designers while remaining hands-on as a senior individual contributor. You’ll have the unique opportunity to define the vision, strategy, and design direction for how audiences find and watch content on Peacock. You’ll strike a balance between guiding your team's work with owning high-priority projects yourself — ensuring alignment with our organization's goals, design principles, and long-term product vision.

Our team is focused on delivering best-in-class discovery and playback experiences with a strong emphasis on TV, alongside mobile and web. From helping viewers find their next favorite show to crafting intuitive playback, live events, replays, and lean-back viewing, you'll help build experiences that meet viewers where they are and elevate how they watch.

This role calls for a true player-coach: someone who can translate user needs into elegant, cross-platform experiences while also coaching a small team of designers to do the same. You'll drive innovation, foster collaboration across disciplines, and shape the future of how audiences discover and connect with content on Peacock — all while staying close to the craft.

As a Sr. Product Design Manager, you will:

• Deliver production-ready UX designs aligned with overarching business and UX goals for domestic and international audiences.
• Manage, coach, and grow a small team of product designers — running critiques, weighing cross-functional priorities, supporting career development, and defining patterns and practices for the team and the product.
• Drive stakeholder and leadership alignment around research insights and design decisions.
• Collaborate with the larger UX team around ideation and concept explorations throughout project lifecycles; facilitate and drive UX solutions, discussions, and planning while maintaining project oversight.
• Identify actionable insights and ensure they align with long-term design and product strategies.
• Balance people leadership with hands-on design work, staying close enough to the details to lead by example.
• Maintain a critical eye and an obsessive attention to detail.

Experience and Skills Must-Haves

You're a seasoned designer and recognized people leader with relentlessly high standards and deep operational knowledge across every aspect of UX and product design — especially in crafting intuitive discovery and playback experiences for TV, mobile, and web.

You're thoughtful and curious, always learning from both viewers and teammates. You stay fully versed in consumer digital product trends, emerging technologies, and interaction models shaping the future of how audiences find and watch content.

You listen to the voice of the viewer and let data guide your decisions — blending qualitative insights with performance metrics to design experiences that resonate.

You identify the most impactful ideas and push them through a rigorous course of evaluation, experimentation, and release — from early concept to launch.

You're fluid and adaptable — able to pivot seamlessly between managing your team and contributing as a seasoned designer, across projects and priorities.

You're a storyteller and strong communicator, able to articulate design rationale and rally cross-functional partners around a shared vision — and to coach your team to do the same.

You can speak confidently to industry best practices, evolving viewer behaviors, market strategies, and competitor standards in the streaming space.

You're scrappy, driven, and the natural owner of both bold ideas and practical, high-quality output — equally comfortable managing a team, defining the big picture, or jumping into the details yourself.

You thrive in a fast-paced environment where iteration is constant and collaboration is key

Qualifications

• Degree in design, computer science, human factors or equivalent work experience.
• Design professional with 7+ years of relevant work experience, including 3+ years directly managing, mentoring, and developing designers.
• Proven experience as a player-coach — able to manage and grow a small team while continuing to produce senior-level design work yourself.
• Ability to clearly communicate design solutions to stakeholders.
• Understanding of interaction design principles.
• Demonstrable fluency with Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, and AI tools.
• Has experience in and knowledge of UX/prototyping development and motion graphics best practices.
• Excellent collaborative skills with critical thinking and creative problem-solving abilities.
• Ability to operate independently and manage multiple projects in a deadline-driven environment.
• Strong portfolio of solid web, mobile, and digital-media required.
• Deep knowledge of cross-platform usability standards and UI specifications.
• Well-versed in streaming platforms like Roku, Fire TV, Samsung, Apple TV, X1, etc.
• Experience with accessibility, localization, and internationalization best practices.

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.

Salary range: $150,000 - $190,000 (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].