Sr. Product Manager, Global Metadata

Company Description

NBCUniversal owns and operates over 20 different businesses across 30 countries including a valuable portfolio of news and entertainment television networks, a premier motion picture company, significant television production operations, a leading television stations group, world-renowned theme parks and a premium ad-supported streaming service.

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Job Description

Welcome to Peacock, the dynamic new streaming service from NBCUniversal. Here you’ll find more than a job. You’ll find a fast-paced, high-performance team of incredible colleagues that want to be at the epicenter of technology, sports, news, tv, movies and more. We work hard to connect people to what they love, each other and the world around them by creating shared experiences through culture-defining entertainment.

As a company, we embrace the power of difference. Our team is committed to creating an organization that champions diversity and inclusivity for all by curating content and a workforce that represents the world around us. We continue to challenge ourselves and the industry by being customer-centric, data-driven creatures of innovation. At Peacock, we are determined to forge the next frontier of streaming through creativity, teamwork, and talent.

Peacock’s viewing product team is seeking an energized senior product manager to own the metadata product roadmap that advances content discovery experiences, and user personalization through the utilization of content metadata

In This Role, You Will

• Own and drive the domestic and international metadata and image strategy needs for powering evolving viewing experience features
• Understand all aspects of the metadata model from program descriptions, content ratings, imagery, credits, languages, video specifications, genres, etc.
• Take ownership of a metadata features and/or functionality, continually assessing product strengths and defining areas to improve
• Collaborate with external partners and key businesses to develop, launch and support features that will improve content discovery experiences across multiple products
• Define metadata lexicon specifications to be used by various parts of the platform architecture
• Partner with editorial and content teams to understand and prioritize metadata needs that contribute to their success
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, operations and technology teams to design and deliver metadata platform capabilities
• Anticipate and identify emerging industry metadata trends and technologies that can be leveraged for compelling new user experiences
• Build a passion for metadata discipline within the product organization
• Translate complex problems into executable MVPs, communicate a plan and vision, and gain stakeholder consensus
• Perform competitive analyses, conduct market research, and synthesize customer insights and analytics to develop evidence-based points of view
• Help build a product culture at Peacock

What You Have

• Love for television, film, and sports entertainment
• Passion for creating innovative and engaging consumer products
• Compulsion for organization and detail
• Familiarity with industry metadata sources such as Gracenote, TiVo, Rotten Tomatoes, IMDb and more
• Empathy for the user and understanding of how to meet their needs and simplify their lives
• Vision to anticipate the ever-evolving consumption trends and an appreciation for TV/entertainment
• Communication skills to work effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences
• Curiosity to seek the right solution and the persistence to iterate
• Flexibility to quickly adapt to rapidly changing priorities and deadlines
• Enthusiasm to be positive, confident, energetic and display a willingness to learn

Qualifications

• BA/BS degree in a relevant field
• Minimum 5-7 years experience working in a Product Management (or similar) role
• Experience with metadata systems and hierarchical data organization
• Experience in technology or digital media preferably with consumer-facing products
• Experience working in an Agile software development environment preferred
• Experience with multiple entertainment platforms (e.g. iOS, Android, Amazon, Roku) and domains (e.g. TV, Movies, Sports, News, Kids)

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: $150,000 – $190,000; bonus and long-term incentive eligible

Additional Information

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