Comcast

Executive Director, Partner Network Deployment & Operations

PA - Philadelphia, 1800 Arch St Full time
Make your mark at Comcast -- a Fortune 30 global media and technology company. From the connectivity and platforms we provide, to the content and experiences we create, we reach hundreds of millions of customers, viewers, and guests worldwide. Become part of our award-winning technology team that turns big ideas into cutting-edge products, platforms, and solutions that our customers love. We create space to innovate, and we recognize, reward, and invest in your ideas, while ensuring you can proudly bring your authentic self to the workplace. Join us. You’ll do the best work of your career right here at Comcast. (In most cases, Comcast prefers to have employees on-site collaborating unless the team has been designated as virtual due to the nature of their work. If a position is listed with both office locations and virtual offerings, Comcast may be willing to consider candidates who live greater than 100 miles from the office for the remote option.)

Job Summary

As the Executive Director, Partner Network Deployment & Operations, you will shape the future of how our partners deliver entertainment and connectivity to millions of households. In this role, you’ll lead a talented team driving operational strategy, building new support models from the ground up, and ensuring our syndicated products and access network solutions run seamlessly at scale. You’ll be the trusted operational voice for our customers, guiding them through transformation while ensuring every product launch and ongoing service delivers excellence, efficiency, and customer success.

This role blends strategic leadership with hands-on execution to design operational models for nascent businesses and drive transformation in managed service operations. You will own senior operational relationships with customers, serve as their advisor and advocate, and ensure our solutions enable efficient, scalable operations without increasing support burden.

Job Description

Core Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership & Business Transformation 

  • Define and drive operations strategy for syndicated products and access network solutions, optimizing service delivery models to meet evolving partner needs. 

  • Lead business transformation initiatives in managed service environments, ensuring scalable support and operational excellence. 

  • Partner with senior leaders across our Entertainment, Connectivity, and Access Business Units to align operational readiness with product roadmaps and customer objectives. 

  • Develop and implement transformative delivery and support models that enable scalability, efficiency, and customer success. 

Partner & Customer Engagement 

  • Own senior operational relationships with customer operations leaders, serving as their expert advisor and primary line of escalation. 

  • Collaborate with Account Management to ensure customer needs are fully addressed in deployment and ongoing operations. 

  • Establish standardized operational criteria for product trials (entry/exit checkpoints) across people, processes, and tooling. 

  • Develop customer-specific operational mechanisms to drive adoption, minimize support costs, and ensure success. 

Operational Excellence 

  • Oversee readiness and sustaining operations for syndicated products, ensuring SLAs and KPIs are consistently met. 

  • Partner with Reliability Engineering, Data Engineering, and Product teams to proactively monitor and address operational impact. 

  • Prioritize team Level of Effort for all new products and programs aligning with Account Management, Product, and Engineering on deployment plans. Assess impact to monthly and quarterly support plans across portfolio. 

  • Manage tooling strategy and roadmap to align with evolving product and customer requirements. 

  • Ensure compliance with regulatory, security, and operational standards. 

People Leadership 

  • Lead and develop a U.S.-based team of program managers, engineers, and operations specialists. 

  • Build, optimize, and right-size team capabilities, addressing skills gaps through training and development. 

  • Foster a high-performance, customer-centric culture. 

 

Requirements 

  • 10+ years of leadership experience in managed service operations, with proven success building support models from the ground up. 

  • Strong track record delivering operational transformation in broadband, access networks, or telecommunications. 

  • Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams and manage complex stakeholder environments. 

  • Expertise in operational performance management, including SLA oversight, KPI monitoring, and customer success. 

  • Ability to influence at the executive level and manage senior customer relationships, acting as a trusted advisor and escalation point. 

  • Skilled at driving consensus across internal and external stakeholders in complex organizations. 

  • Excellent communication and relationship management skills. 

  • Familiarity with compliance, security, and risk management frameworks within the broadband/connectivity industry. 

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

Customer Experience (CX), Operational Performance, Program Management

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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.