Vice President, Data Products, Decision Sciences

Company 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 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 ('SpinCo') 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 Media Group at NBCU supports a powerhouse collection of consumer-first brands including Peacock, NBC, Bravo, NBC Sports, and NBCU International. With unequalled scale, our teams make the most out of every opportunity to collaborate and learn from one another. We’re always looking for ways to innovate faster, accelerate our growth and consistently offer the very best in consumer experience. But most of all, we’re backed by a culture of respect. We embrace authenticity and inspire people to thrive.

Vice President, Data Products, Decision Sciences will be responsible for the development, strategy, and delivery of our data platform capabilities. This role sits at the intersection of data product, data architecture, data engineering, and business enablement, overseeing a diverse portfolio that includes:

• Data Analytics Products
• Medallion Architecture Implementation
• Enterprise Metadata Systems
• Marketing, Identity & Cleanroom Data Products
• Data Mesh & Sharing Frameworks

They will manage the product vision and roadmap across our modern data ecosystem, drive stakeholder alignment, and partner with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable, secure, and value-driven data products that power innovation across the enterprise.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Product Strategy & Leadership
  • Define and evolve the strategic roadmap for data products across ingestion, transformation, metadata, and sharing domains.
  • Align product initiatives with business goals, analytics needs, compliance standards, and future-state architecture.
  • Champion a product mindset across the data organization and drive prioritization based on business value and scalability.
• Platform Oversight
  • Lead the evolution of our Medallion architecture to support trusted, curated, and governed data products.
  • Collaborate with engineering, architecture, and governance teams to scale data mesh principles and platform capabilities.
• Metadata Management
  • Oversee products that automate and enrich metadata lineage and discovery, supporting data governance and self-service.
• Marketing & Identity Data Enablement
  • Partner with marketing and advertising teams to integrate identity resolution and cleanroom data products that comply with privacy regulations.
  • Facilitate the product integration of customer 360, audience activation datasets, and data-sharing interfaces that enable analytics and personalization.
• Data Sharing & Collaboration
  • Develop scalable frameworks for data sharing internally and externally, leveraging mesh principles, APIs, and data contracts.
  • Enable domain teams to publish, discover, and consume high-quality data products with clear SLAs and metadata standards.
• Team Management & Stakeholder Engagement
  • Build, mentor, and scale a high-performing product management team.
  • Collaborate across data engineering, governance, legal, security, and business domains to balance agility with control.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Proven experience leading cross-functional product portfolios at scale, preferably in large enterprises or platform-first organizations.
• Understanding of data architecture concepts (e.g., Medallion/Lakehouse, Mesh, Event Streams, Cleanrooms, Identity Graphs).
• Strong background in building internal products, ingestion frameworks, and metadata-driven data platforms.
• Familiarity with enterprise data governance, cataloging, and compliance frameworks (GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA, etc.).

Desired Characteristics

• Knowledge of marketing, digital identity, and privacy-safe data activation is highly desirable.
• Strong leadership and communication skills with the ability to engage senior executives and technical teams alike.
• Executive presence combined with excellent verbal, written and presentation skills.
• Background in cloud data platforms (Databricks, Snowflake, GCP, AWS, Azure).
• Experience with real-time streaming architectures (Kafka, Pub/Sub).
• Exposure to zero-trust or differential privacy-based data sharing models.
• Experience with ML feature stores, observability, or data contracts.

Additional Requirements:

Hybrid: This position has been designated as hybrid, generally contributing from the office a minimum of three days per week.

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: $220,000 - $325,000 (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 [email protected].