About the Role
As a Platforms Product Manager at NBC News Digital, you will own the strategy, execution, and delivery of audience and revenue-driving initiatives. You will develop features, platform experiences, and insights across award-winning news products, making impactful decisions based on user data and research. Your passion will be to discover, develop, and ship products and features that benefit users and drive business growth.
Responsibilities
- Develop and share a deep understanding of the customer, data, business, and industry.
- Establish, articulate, and advocate product vision, strategy, and business success metrics.
- Define and build consensus on meaningful metrics for success.
- Prioritize upcoming sprints, features, and enhancements in the story backlog.
- Build and maintain roadmaps (annual and quarterly KPIs and OKRs) for alignment and focus.
- Create a clear path for defining value for users and business growth.
- Author use cases and user stories, building shared understanding around user needs and the definition of 'done'.
- Identify and implement opportunities to reduce technical, business, and user experience debt.
- Discover value-driven opportunities via product discovery experiments and methods.
- Identify and map customer goals, values, and needs.
- Inform decisions with unbiased qualitative and quantitative data.
- Ensure good communication and transparency by partnering with internal teams.
- Coordinate and collaborate with product peers to share learnings and ensure quality cross-platform experiences.
Requirements
- Minimum of 5+ years in digital growth experience, especially around platform performance, streaming experiences, and technical product management.
- Domain subject-matter expertise and proven thought leadership.
- Proven ability to deliver successful, valuable customer and business outcomes.
- Strong user experience sensibilities.
- Strong experience with analytics and using user research to drive decisions.
- Strong experience with Agile methodologies, sprints, prioritization, and debt elimination.
- Human-centered thinking and a strong empathy for solving problems for customers.
- Exceptional written, spoken, and visual communication skills.
- Exceptional storytelling skills.
- Exceptional organizational and analytical skills.
- Ability to speak fluently with business people, stakeholders, partners, and engineers.
- Experience in the media, news, or technology/internet industries.
- Experience with Product Discovery, Design Thinking, Lean Product is a plus.
Skills
- Digital growth
- Platform performance
- Streaming experiences
- Technical product management
- Analytics
- User research
- Agile methodologies
- Product discovery
- Design Thinking
- Lean Product
Location
- Hybrid
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 5+ years
Salary/Compensations
- $130,000 - $160,000
Benefits
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- 401(k)
- Paid leave
- Tuition reimbursement
- Variety of other discounts and perks
About the Company
- NBCUniversal is a leading media and entertainment company that creates world-class content distributed across film, television, and streaming, and brought to life through theme parks, consumer products, and experiences.
- The company owns and operates leading entertainment and news brands including NBC, NBC News, NBC Sports, Telemundo, NBC Local Stations, Bravo, and Peacock.
- NBCUniversal produces and distributes filmed entertainment and programming through its film and television studios, including Universal Pictures, DreamWorks Animation, and Focus Features, and operates theme parks and experiences worldwide.
- NBCUniversal is a subsidiary of Comcast Corporation.
- The company's impact is rooted in improving the communities where employees, customers, and audiences live and work, with a tradition of giving back and ensuring employees have opportunities to serve their communities.
- NBCUniversal champions an inclusive culture and strives to attract and develop a talented workforce to create and deliver a wide range of content reflecting the world.
Equal Opportunity
- 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.
- Qualified individuals with a disability or disabled veteran who require support throughout the application and/or recruitment process as a result of their disability have the right to request a reasonable accommodation.
