NBCUniversal

Product Integration Lead

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Hiring Remotely in New York NY USA

Remote or Hybrid

105K-135K Annually

Senior level

AdTech • Cloud • Digital Media • Information Technology • News + Entertainment • App development

NBCUniversal has a rich history of evolving the media and entertainment industry.

The Role

The Product Integration Lead manages ad technology integration for NBCUniversal’s platforms ensuring optimal ad experiences across various devices. This role involves collaboration with product tech and QA teams troubleshooting ad issues and documenting new features and specifications.

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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 www.nbcuniversal.com 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
NBC Universal's Technical Operations Enterprise Product team builds products and services to organizations throughout NBCUniversal including Ad Sales Broadcast Operations NBC Digital NBC News NBC Sports Cable Entertainment brands and local TV stations. The Enterprise Product team span 6 key verticals: Content Management Content Sales and Finance Scheduling and Distribution Ad Sales Ad Technology and Integration Data and Analytics and Linear Distribution. Within the Ad Technology and Integration team we are ultimately responsible for evolving our mission-critical digital ad tech stack to enable monetization of NBCU's billion-dollar digital ad sales portfolio.
In addition we are responsible for continuously monitoring our production environments to ensure the optimal end-user video ad experience across our STB OTT desktop and mobile platforms. We constantly strive to innovate and discover new ways in which we can optimize our overall business processes by implementing new tools systems and/or processes to help manage and grow NBCU's Digital business.
The Ad Technology and Integration team is looking for a highly collaborative engineer to manage ad integrations on NBCUniversal's O&O and partner streaming media applications. This role will be responsible for evaluating the approach and solutioning supply and demand integrations on NBCU's ad serving platforms DTC streaming applications and off domain partner apps. The Product Integration Lead will serve as an internal consultant and subject matter expert on backend ad technology ad serving systems integration and architecture and will work alongside the Product Owner and Product Architecture teams to validate business requirements for technical feasibility. This role will work very closely with the product brand engineering and QA departments to ensure that ad integrations go smoothly and meet the high standards of the NBCUniversal portfolio. This role would report to the Manager Ad Integration.

Act as a subject matter expert on NBCU's ad server integrations across non-O&O supply and demand partners
Responsible for leading ad integration activities across platforms
Work with ad product and central/brand tech teams to dictate ad implementation best practices and influence application and player design as it relates to advertising
Responsible for baseline ad systems configurations for new supply endpoints
Responsible for troubleshooting and debugging ad issues on pre-release logs to help facilitate and unblock QA execution
Responsible for documenting ad-related features and tech stacks across related ad integrations
POC and solution new advertising features and products on partner supply endpoints
Understands the complexities and inherent limitations of the ad technology ecosystem and various streaming devices
Responsible for bridging the gap between Ad Sales product and QA; helping to operationalize test cases to ensure features can be effectively tested
Keep up to date with new specifications technologies and industry initiatives
Collaborate and cross-train teammates on other squads who specialize in other endpoints (Desktop OTT etc)

Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or Information Systems or relevant experience
5+ years Experience with ad serving systems dynamic ad insertion and related workflows
Knowledge of FreeWheel ad server and server-to-server integrations
Knowledge of VAST VMAP ORTB protocol and specifications
Knowledge of streaming media including experience with streaming video players ABR streaming techniques Content Delivery Networks etc.
Experience troubleshooting technical issues running Charles sessions evaluating web traffic and event triggers
Experience with RESTful APIs to connect mobile applications to back-end services

Preferred Qualifications:

Detail-oriented; highly meticulous and process-oriented ability to quickly learn new technologies and apply those learnings to projects/implementations
Flexible self-starter who enjoys exploring new technology
Demonstrated ability to own projects end-to-end with minimal supervision and guidance
Experience/knowledge of various ad integration techniques (server side vs. client side)
Excellent written verbal visual/presentation and interpersonal communications skills
Team player dedicated to excellent customer service for internal and external customers

Additional Requirements:

Hybrid: This position has been designated as hybrid generally contributing from the office a minimum of four 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: $105000 - $135000 bonus 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].

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The Company

HQ: New York City NY

68000 Employees

Year Founded: 1912

What We Do

From film television news theme parks interactive media and streaming our people are at the center of it all. Here we solve complex and business-critical problems. That’s why we’re looking for people to help us continue our evolution imagining and delivering the most innovative and disruptive products and services through the latest tech advancements in the industry. Here you can develop solutions. You’ll develop solutions that allow engineers to broadcast live TV from the comfort of their homes. These solutions will enable the use of our collection of hundreds of thousands of distinct intellectual properties across our film television and streaming brands. Here you can transform. You’ll make decisions and solve complex problems by leveraging insights that come from data building AI to help enable solutions to optimize every aspect of our content eco-system. Here you can build. You’ll build emerging immersive technologies that are used to power the broadcasts and streaming of global events like the Super Bowl and Olympics. You can create secure elastic cloud-based services connecting parts of our global platform ecosystem that effect tens of millions of viewers consumers and businesses that consume and love NBCUniversal’s content. And while you design build and architect your career we have the culture to make sure you’re supported. Here you can work and still live your best life! We’re leaders in our fields. We hire smart people and trust them to get the job done. We are never too busy to develop a fellow colleague. We understand our goals – or we ask. When we see something that needs doing – we do it. We make data-driven decisions. We fiercely believe in our talent and their growth. If you're ready to make an impact here you can.

Why Work With Us

For us it's more than just a work life. It's a daily passion. We take great pride in our legacy. We find fun in the challenge. We collaborate and inspire others. We're always creating always solving and always ahead of competition.