VP, Content Delivery Networks - Global CDN Leader

Nbcuniversal Media, LLC; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 245,000 - 340,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k)

Paid leave

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

NBCUniversal is seeking a Vice President of Content Delivery Networks to lead the global CDN strategy for our OTT and media products. You will manage a multinational team of engineers, set performance standards, and drive architecture decisions across our delivery networks.

Responsibilities include optimizing latency, startup time, and rebuffering, governing KPIs/SLAs, and partnering with Product, Operations, and Platform Engineering to support launches and growth.

Qualifications

• Ten years’ experience managing large-scale digital software systems.
• Five years’ experience leading a CDN function.
• Expertise in software security best practices and tooling.
• Expertise in digital video codecs and encoding profiles.
• Experience in digital media or direct-to-consumer video business highly preferred.
• Expertise in high-availability software patterns and performance testing.
• Knowledge of Cloud & Container Security.

Responsibilities

• Devise and execute Content Delivery Strategy to deliver current and planned media products & events at necessary performance & scale.
• Attract and retain a multi-national team of subject matter experts to deliver strategy.
• Develop relationships and engage with partner ISPs & telco industry to ensure performant access.
• Collaborate with procurement teams to manage key vendor commercial relationships.
• Ensure technology decisions supporting strategy are made from the latest market research of vendors and competition.
• Engage with Legal and Finance teams to negotiate vendor contracts and manage budgets.
• Conduct Short/long term technology evaluations (e.g. multicast, p2p, hybrid/ISP CDNs, deeper distribution, self-build CDN).
• Own the end-to-end CDN roadmap, including capacity planning, performance optimization, resiliency, cost efficiency, and future-state architecture across global streaming products.
• Set and govern CDN reliability, quality, and performance standards, ensuring measurable KPIs and SLAs for availability, latency, startup time, rebuffering, and overall viewer experience.
• Lead incident readiness and operational excellence for high-profile live events and peak traffic moments, including escalation protocols, risk mitigation, and post-event learnings.
• Partner with Product, Operations, Distribution, and Platform Engineering to ensure CDN strategy supports business priorities, product launches, global expansion, and audience growth.
• Drive vendor strategy and optimization, including multi-CDN strategy, contract performance, vendor scorecards, cost modeling, and negotiation support.
• Champion innovation in next-generation content delivery, including automation, observability, traffic steering, edge compute, ISP partnerships, and emerging delivery models.
• Establish data-driven decision-making practices by using real-time monitoring, analytics, and performance insights to improve delivery quality and business outcomes.
• Ensure security, compliance, and risk controls are embedded into CDN architecture and third-party partnerships, especially for global content distribution.
• Develop succession plans and an organizational structure for the CDN function to ensure scalability, continuity, and long-term leadership depth.
• Represent the CDN function with senior executives, translating technical performance, risk, investment needs, and roadmap tradeoffs into clear business recommendations.

Skills

Ten years\' experience managing large‑

Tools

Web Application Firewall

Container Security

Static Code Analysis

Dynamic Code Analysis

Job description

NBCUniversal is seeking a Vice President of Content Delivery Networks to lead the global CDN strategy for our OTT and media products. You will manage a multinational team of engineers, set performance standards, and drive architecture decisions across our delivery networks.

Responsibilities include optimizing latency, startup time, and rebuffering, governing KPIs/SLAs, and partnering with Product, Operations, and Platform Engineering to support launches and growth.