Technical Product Manager - job 1 of 4

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.

Versant Media’s Content and Operations group is seeking a Technical Product Manager to join our teams. This role will report to the Manager of Technical Product and support the delivery of best-in-class tools and platforms that power the accurate, timely, and compliant ingest, fulfillment, scheduling, and distribution of our content across platforms and endpoints.  

You’ll serve as a core member of a cross-functional squad, driving solutions that unify asset readiness, scheduling coordination, compliance validation, and multi-platform delivery. Whether streamlining file ingest, supporting real-time schedule updates, or embedding metadata into downstream pipelines, your work will directly enhance the speed, accuracy, and scalability of Versant’s content supply chain.

This role is ideal for product thinkers with hands-on experience in media workflows, a systems mindset, and a drive to reduce operational friction through technology.

Key Responsibilities

• Backlog Ownership: Define, refine, and prioritize product backlog items in alignment with strategic goals and operational needs.
• Workflow Enablement: Gather requirements from ingest, QC, packaging, scheduling, traffic, playout, and partner management stakeholders; translate needs into actionable user stories that improve orchestration, and delivery.
• Delivery Execution: Collaborate daily with engineers, designers, and QA to drive sprint planning, review, and execution.
• Operational Support: Ensure enhancements support real-world content operations, including SLA monitoring, compliance checks, scheduling accuracy, and delivery-status visibility.
• System Modernization: Contribute to the transformation from legacy tools to scalable, cloud-native solutions; help decompose monoliths into modular services.
• Automation & Intelligence: Help embed intelligent automation into tooling—such as predictive schedule and fulfillment readiness, intelligent QC, metadata validations, and anomaly detection.
• Documentation & Training: Maintain clear product documentation and support rollout of new features to operational users.
• Cross-Team Collaboration: Interface with Product Managers, Analysts, and other Product Owners to coordinate dependencies and support seamless end-to-end workflow integration.

Basic Qualifications

• 3+ years in product ownership, product management, or technical project management—ideally in a media or broadcast operations environment.
• Familiarity with content ingest, scheduling, playout, metadata packaging, or distribution tooling.
• Strong backlog management skills, including user story writing, prioritization, and refinement.
• Comfort with agile development tools like Jira, Confluence, and delivery planning frameworks.
• Ability to translate complex operational needs into clear technical requirements.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder facilitation skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with tools and workflows across the content supply chain—such as ingest and packaging systems, scheduling and traffic platforms, metadata management tools, playout readiness solutions, or distribution orchestration frameworks.
• Experience leveraging AI-powered tools (e.g., LLMs, copilots) to enhance product workflows—such as drafting user stories, enriching metadata, generating test cases, or identifying product insights.
• Technical fluency sufficient to discuss implementation tradeoffs with engineering teams.
• Product certifications (CSPO, SAFe POPM, etc.) are a plus.

Work Style & Culture

You’ll thrive in this role if you:

• Are energized by operational systems and real-world constraints.
• Excel at collaborative delivery with engineers and business partners.
• Are relentlessly curious and eager to simplify complexity.
• Care deeply about the reliability of what you ship and how it supports critical workflows.

Additional Requirements:

• On-site Requirement: This position has been designated needing to be in the office 2 - 4 times per month depending on business needs.
• This role will require quarterly on-site collaboration weeks in New York City (NY) and Englewood Cliffs (NJ). Limited travel (<10%) to broadcast, vendor, or operations centers may be required.

This position is eligible for company sponsored benefits, including medical, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), paid leave, tuition reimbursement, and a variety of other discounts and perks. Learn more about the benefits offered by NBCUniversal by visiting the Benefits page of the Careers website. Salary range: $120,000 - $160,000 (bonus eligible)

We are accepting applications for this position on an ongoing basis.

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 [email protected].

Although you'll be hired as an NBCU employee, your employment and the responsibilities associated with this job likely will transition to Versant in the future. By joining at this pivotal time, you'll be a part of this exciting company as it takes shape.