Vice President, Product, Entertainment Experience

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 global theme park destinations, consumer products, and experiences. We own and operate leading entertainment and news brands, including NBC, NBC News, NBC Sports, Telemundo, NBC Local Stations, Bravo, and Peacock, our premium ad-supported streaming service. We produce and distribute premier filmed entertainment and programming through our powerhouse film and television studios, including Universal Pictures, DreamWorks Animation, and Focus Features, and the four global television studios under the Universal Studio Group banner, and operate industry-leading theme parks and experiences around the world through Universal Destinations & Experiences, including Universal Orlando Resort, home to Universal Epic Universe, and Universal Studios Hollywood. NBCUniversal is a subsidiary of Comcast Corporation. Visit for more information. 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.

Job Description

The Vice President of Product, Entertainment and Sports Engagement will develop and champion a product vision within a bold set of strategic ambitions, and lead its execution from concept through customer impact across three interconnected areas that are central to reimagining streaming and how fandoms come to life for the next generation of fans:

• Entertainment and Sports Experiences: Create differentiated experiences around live sports, TV, movies, franchises, and major cultural moments, working closely with Sports and the NBCUniversal Studio Group to Innovate across fandoms, interaction mechanics, and content formats to deepen engagement and deliver outstanding fan experiences.
• Discovery and Browse Experience: Define how customers explore Peacock and decide what to watch or play across platforms. Creating simple, intuitive journeys that thoughtfully integrate capabilities from other product groups including Search, Personalization, Advertising and content metadata teams into a coherent customer experience.
• Mobile Reimagined : Define a differentiated vision for mobile that revolutionizes how customers discover, watch, play, and participate on their phones. Develop compelling formats beyond traditional streaming, including games, podcasts, microdramas, short-form and vertical video, while bringing these experiences together into a coherent and intuitive product.

This is a senior leadership role that requires product judgement, organizational leadership, and the ability to turn ambitious ideas into customer-facing experiences and roadmaps that scale across platforms and teams. We are looking for an experienced, versatile product leader who can take an ambitious strategic direction and turn it into a distinctive product vision with measurable outcomes, and develop a growing product team in a competitive consumer landscape. A successful candidate will bring creativity to look at problems in new ways, discipline in using experiments and proof of concepts to validate hypotheses, strong collaboration skills to get things done across a matrixed organization, including the wider NBCUniversal and Sky businesses, and excellent communication skills. This role will lead a team of approximately 20 product managers, report to the SVP, Product and UX, and work across the organization to deliver measurable improvements in customer engagement, including frequency, watch time, discovery success, and participation in entertainment and sports experiences. In this role, you will:

• Create and champion a bold product vision that brings Peacock and NBCUniversal’s broader strategic ambitions to life for how customers engage with Peacock across all devices, including TV, mobile, web, and next-generation devices, through a mix of new features, enhancements, and innovation.
• Grow and lead an experimentation portfolio that rapidly validates new content formats, interaction models, and engagement experiences through iterative testing.
• Act as a senior thought partner to the SVP Product & UX on content innovation, portfolio prioritization, and executive stakeholder management, balancing immediate business priorities, foundational capabilities, and longer-term innovation.
• Define how Search, Personalization, Ad Innovation, and emerging AI capabilities come together within the customer experience, partnering with the teams that own those capabilities to deliver simple, intuitive, and differentiated journeys.
• Create coherence across discovery, mobile, playback and fan experiences, ensuring that individual initiatives contribute to a simple and connected customer experience.
• Build, lead, and develop a high-performing organization of product leaders and managers, establishing a culture of clear accountability, strong decision-making, and alignment around a shared vision and measurable outcomes.
• Help create an AI-forward product culture by establishing new ways of working that improve the speed, quality, and effectiveness of research, product definition, prototyping, experimentation, and decision-making.
• Have a keen sense for good UX/design and the ability to make evidence-based decisions using consumer insights, product analytics, competitive and market analysis.
• Translate complex ideas into clear, compelling executive presentations and prototypes that explain product vision and strategy.
• Collaborate with product design, project management, merchandising, data, marketing, content, and strategy teams to develop holistic points of view and confidently make product decisions and deliver high quality products.
• Build business cases for incremental product investment that drives innovation and measurable customer or business impact.
• Build experiences and engagement capabilities that can scale across Peacock, Sky and global streaming platforms.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 15 years of product strategy/management experience within the media or consumer technology space
• Minimum of 8 years successfully leading a team of customer-centric product managers
• Demonstrated ability to influence senior executives and align diverse stakeholders around a shared vision and outcome through collaboration, even without direct authority.
• Experience managing a broad product portfolio and making investment and prioritization decisions across near-term delivery, foundational capabilities, and longer-term innovation.
• Consumer-centric view with a proven track record of developing and acting on customer insights
• Proven ability to be flexible and quickly adapt to changing priorities, with tight deadlines, balancing short-term progress with long-term thinking
• Proven ability to hire, coach, and develop senior product leaders and build an organization that delivers through clear accountability and empowered decision-making.
• Track record of successfully operating within a highly matrixed work environment, managing multiple stakeholders
• Experience building products across multiple platforms (iOS, tvOS, Android, Roku, Amazon)
• Ability and self-motivation to work effectively offsite and onsite and with global, multilingual teams
• Strong analytics skills and a hypothesis-driven approach to problem solving, including significant experience with A/B testing and analytics
• Exceptional verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills
• BA/BS degree or equivalent practical experience

Hybrid : This position currently has a hybrid schedule, which requires contributing from the office a minimum of four days per week. The Company reserves the right to change in-office requirements at any time. 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].