Director, Data Platform Product Management

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Job Summary

Data is critical to the day-to-day operations and decision-making at Comcast, and the Director, Technical Data Product Owner (Data Platform Products) for the Data and AI team will play a critical leadership role in delivering Comcast’s strategic goals. This Director will lead a team of Technical Product Owners to define and evolve Comcast’s portfolio of data platform products. In this role, the leader will work cross-functionally with Customer Engagement, Engineering, Architecture, and Business stakeholders to develop data platform capabilities and to partner with a diverse array of internal data customers to deliver best-in-class data platform solutions. Among other duties, the Director will set the vision and oversee the definition and execution of data platform strategies that meet key business use cases, operating in a technology-rich and data-rich environment to solve complex, day-to-day data problems at Comcast. This is an excellent opportunity for a well-rounded, technical, collaborative problem-solver and people leader who is passionate about growing Technical Product Owners and driving impact through Data Platform and Product Management.

Job Description

Core Responsibilities:

• Product Definition & Roadmaps: Set the strategic direction for data platform products across multiple technical platforms, domains, and functional areas by evaluating business cases, finding the +1 opportunity, and guiding the team in socializing concepts. Work through Technical Product Managers to convert these opportunities into platform features and detailed data platform product requirements and roadmaps (use cases, MVP, epics, user stories, success metrics), while keeping the broader business impact on the data ecosystem in view.
• Customer-Centric: Champion a deep understanding of customer and business stakeholder perspectives when defining MVPs to identify underlying needs, recognize trends, and anticipate future demand across supported domains. Ensure the team translates these insights into data platform product features that meet user expectations and influence broader roadmap and prioritization decisions.
• Data Platform: Own the strategy and lifecycle of key data platform products across supported environments and domains. Define what data platform capabilities are needed, how they are designed and consumed by data producers and consumers, and how they evolve to meet changing business, customer, and AI/analytics needs; direct Technical Product Managers, data engineering, and platform teams on priorities for new platform capabilities, enhancements, and retirement so the overall data platform product portfolio remains usable, reliable, and high value.
• Technology: Provide strategic direction across multiple technical platforms and data environments, ensuring technology decisions support long term scalability, performance, and reliability of the data platform. Partner with engineering and other leaders to evaluate options, resolve key technical trade offs, and sponsor architectural approaches that effectively address market, customer, and business needs.
• Communication: Deliver clear, compelling storytelling for the data platform product portfolio that drives consensus and energizes executives and constituents across the company. Set the standard for how the team communicates platform strategy, status, risks, and outcomes through documentation, internal enablement materials, and executive presentations.
• Implementation: Oversee the translation of platform strategy into executable technical work by reviewing high level technical designs, capacity plans, and major delivery milestones, while keeping day to day hands on product management to a minimum. Stay closely informed about platform details and team challenges, ensuring backlog grooming and delivery plans result in capabilities that consistently meet business and technical acceptance criteria.
• Collaboration & Support: Act as the senior go to leader for assigned data platform products and domains, enabling and unblocking teams as they support internal users with complex questions and issues. Foster a culture of open feedback, ensuring structured input from users and partners is fed back into platform roadmaps and backlogs, and take end to end responsibility for team culture, resources, and platform outcomes—you succeed or fail with your team.
   

Required Skills/Experience:

• Bachelors Degree or Equivalent experience
• 10+ years of experience in  Data platforms or related technical roles
• 4+ years of Product Manager/Product Owner experience
• 4+ years of people leader experience.
• Proven track record owning the strategy, roadmap, and lifecycle of data products or data platforms in a large, matrixed organization.
• Strong analytical and quantitative background 
• Responsive, able to adapt to fast-moving projects
• Quick learner, comfortable with nascent technologies and emerging strategies 
• Comfort with budget, headcount, and vendor decisions for data platforms and tools.
• Experience driving adoption and change management for new data products across diverse internal teams.
• Have worked with or understanding of: Data pipelines and workflow orchestration; ETL processes; Data warehousing; Storage and compute systems; Cloud platforms, especially AWS; Streaming technologies
• Intermediate SQL Skills

Employees at all levels are expected to:

• Understand our Operating Principles; make them the guidelines for how you do your job.
• Own the customer experience - think and act in ways that put our customers first, give them seamless digital options at every touchpoint, and make them promoters of our products and services.
• Know your stuff - be enthusiastic learners, users and advocates of our game-changing technology, products and services, especially our digital tools and experiences.
• Win as a team - make big things happen by working together and being open to new ideas.
• Be an active part of the Net Promoter System - a way of working that brings more employee and customer feedback into the company - by joining huddles, making call backs and helping us elevate opportunities to do better for our customers.
• Drive results and growth.
• Support a culture of inclusion in how you work and lead.
• Do what's right for each other, our customers, investors and our communities.

Disclaimer:

• This information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees in this role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications.

Skills

Big Data Platforms, Collaboration, Communication, Customer Experience (CX), Leadership, Product Management, Product Strategies

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Education

Bachelor's Degree

While possessing the stated degree is preferred, Comcast also may consider applicants who hold some combination of coursework and experience, or who have extensive related professional experience.

Certifications (if applicable)

Relevant Work Experience

10 Years +

Comcast is an equal opportunity workplace. We will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law.