Product Owner

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 theme parks and consumer experiences. We own and operate leading entertainment and news brands, including NBC, NBC News, MSNBC, CNBC, NBC Sports, Telemundo, NBC Local Stations, Bravo, USA Network, and Peacock, our premium ad-supported streaming service. We produce and distribute premier filmed entertainment and programming through Universal Filmed Entertainment Group and Universal Studio Group, and have world-renowned theme parks and attractions through Universal Destinations & Experiences. NBCUniversal is a subsidiary of Comcast Corporation.

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.

Comcast NBCUniversal has announced its intent to create a new publicly traded company ('Versant') comprised of most of NBCUniversal's cable television networks, including USA Network, CNBC, MSNBC, Oxygen, E!, SYFY and Golf Channel along with complementary digital assets Fandango, Rotten Tomatoes, GolfNow, GolfPass, and SportsEngine. The well-capitalized company will have significant scale as a pure-play set of assets anchored by leading news, sports and entertainment content. The spin-off is expected to be completed during 2025.

Job Description

The Product and Delivery team are responsible for successfully implementing new business opportunities or changes to existing services across our International Networks and HayU businesses. With responsibility across the Media Operations lifecycle from scheduling & playout to media ordering & fulfilment, the team are experts at delivering new services across the end-to-end workflow.

The team develop, support and deploy business systems and solutions used by several NBCU business units globally, including International Networks, HayU, Peacock and Sky Showtime. 

Specifically, we require a Product Owner to manage the product development process for Product(s) within our portfolio and be responsible for gathering feature requests, roadmap planning, scheduling releases and coordinating sprints. They work closely with cross-functional teams, identify user needs and ensure our products meet customer expectations. 

Responsibilities

• Act as a Product Owner managing the product development process for Product(s) within the international portfolio.
• Coordinate sprint planning for your products with the Product Manager, balancing priorities alongside other Product Owners in the team.
• Own the roadmap for your products, ensuring stakeholders are regularly updated.
• Plan releases for your products in partnership with the Product Manager and Engineering.
• Lead and own solution design and implementation for new or enhanced features in the international product portfolio.
• Collaborate alongside other Product and Delivery team members, contributing to project planning and estimation relating to new product development projects.
• Act as an advisor, SME and consultant to the Director Product, the Product Manager and the IMO leadership team on key decisions.
• Ensure that best practice is always upkept for project/product documentation, including ensuring quality of information provided to Software Engineering.
• Responsible for providing a clearly prioritised requirements backlog to Software Engineering based on business need.
• Responsible for production and maintenance of documentation about our products and solutions that makes it easy for users and support to understand how they interact and troubleshoot.
• Oversee and ensure effective prioritisation of all requested development work, working collaboratively with other Integration and Delivery and Media Technology team members to ensure business needs are met.
• Work closely with colleagues from our Enterprise Product team, to understand global goals and ensure international alignment.
• Ensure that solutions are aligned with agreed technology strategy and architectural principles.
• Educate teams in International Media Operations and externally in the wider business on new products or features post project implementation. 
• Provide effective liaison between technical and non-technical audiences, both internal to NBCU and 3rd parties.
• Some international travel may be required.

Qualifications

Skills & Experience 

• Degree in a technical discipline, or equivalent experience desirable.
• Extensive experience in a role demonstrating strong technical, quantitative, and analytical skills.
• Proven track record in a role exhibiting excellent written and oral communications.
• Effective interpersonal skills and strong presentation abilities.
• Significant experience in Product Management methodologies, including Scrum and SAFE.
• Significant experience in broadcast and media workflows, in particular Linear TV, VOD and OTT service implementation.
• Be able to plan roadmaps for products you own and be able to discuss with technical and non-technical audiences alike.
• Expertise in research, technical writing and development of user stories.

Other Skills and Behaviours 

• Able to see the big picture while at the same time have a keen eye for detail.
• Good knowledge of User Experience principles and experience with designing efficient user interfaces preferred.
• Significant experience with agile project management tools such as Jira.
• Some experience with data visualisation frameworks such as Microsoft PowerBi. 
• Strategic thinker, able to envisage and deliver innovative end to end solutions to support business requirements in a large international media organisation.
• Experience with release testing, including the creation and execution of test cases.
• Experience working with business analytics teams, understanding business problems and translating them into technical solutions.
• Proactive with excellent interpersonal, written and verbal communication, planning and time management skills.
• Clearly understand the business drivers behind each solution developed and also be able to articulate complex technology solutions in a manner understood by business stakeholders.
• Knowledge of broadcast media systems, such as channel, content, rights, asset and subscriber management systems, that support the content management lifecycle for linear TV, VOD and OTT services.
• Some experience with media asset management systems, encoding and transcoding systems, distribution systems and playout systems for digital media for television, web and mobile platforms.
• Experience working with senior stakeholders, building buy-in through written and verbal communication.
• High emotional intelligence, demonstrating self-awareness, self-control and ability to lead and inspire others.
• Proven ability to work to deadlines, prioritise, and perform as part of a team to meet project objectives.
• Methodical, organised and have a hands-on approach.
• Self-motivated and able to work using your own initiative.
• Confidence to assess a situation and take action.
• Able to multi-task.
• Expert user of Jira and Confluence.

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.

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