Product Integration Lead (Ad Tech)

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Hiring Remotely in New York, NY
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120K-150K 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 at NBCUniversal will manage ad integrations on various platforms, serving as a subject matter expert in backend ad technology and ad serving systems. Responsibilities include leading integration activities, troubleshooting ad issues, documenting features, and ensuring high standards for ad implementations across streaming platforms.
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Company Description
At NBCUniversal, we believe in the talent of our people. It's our passion and commitment to excellence that drives NBCU's vast portfolio of brands to succeed. From broadcast and cable networks, news and sports platforms, to film, world-renowned theme parks and a diverse suite of digital properties, we take pride in all that we do and all that we represent. It's what makes us uniquely NBCU. Here you can create the extraordinary. Join us.
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 ad 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 its domestic and international endpoints
  • 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 mobile apps
  • Responsible for troubleshooting and debugging ad issues on pre-release builds 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 mobile 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
REQUIREMENTS:

  • 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 streaming media including experience with streaming video players, ABR streaming techniques, Content Delivery Networks, etc.
  • 3+ years 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
  • Knowledge of FreeWheel ad server
  • Knowledge of GAM ad server integrations
  • 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


Fully Remote: This position has been designated as fully remote, meaning that the position is expected to contribute from a non-NBCUniversal worksite, most commonly an employee's residence.
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: $120,000 - $150,000
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.
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\nqualified applicants with criminal histories, or arrest or conviction records, in a manner
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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.

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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.

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