Product Specialist

Summary

Join Comcast NBCUniversal's new publicly traded company, Versant, as a Product Specialist. You will build the future platform for Titles & Metadata, designing scalable tools that integrate with various systems in the Content Supply Chain. Collaborate with Business Engagement and Engineering teams to create end-to-end solutions. Success requires a passion for TV & Film and understanding of content creation. You will document business use cases, collaborate on designs, identify new functionalities, and own product stories. This fully remote position offers competitive benefits.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Software Development, Product Management, or equivalent experience required
• Minimum 1+ years of relevant work experience in the technology or media industry
• Minimum 1+ years’ experience in a role demonstrating strong technical, quantitative, and analytical skills
• Minimum 1+ years’ experience in a role exhibiting excellent written and oral communications, effective interpersonal skills, project management, and strong formal presentation abilities
• Be able to understand technical system diagrams and be able to discuss at a high-level with a less technical audience
• Expertise in research, technical writing, and development of user stories
• Expertise with CMS and or backend technology platforms

Responsibilities

• Document business use cases and requirements that will in turn become product stories for our engineering teams
• Collaborate with the Operations & Technology design team to build out workflows, user journeys and whiteboarding sessions that help showcase the larger picture
• Identify new forward-thinking functionality to meet new business needs or provide new business/integration opportunities
• Help collaborate on product requirement documents across a multi-disciplinary team to set forward a cohesive plan that takes all aspects into consideration
• Own Product stories end to end and work with the Product owner responsible for Product Development within the Titles & Metadata team
• Develop relationships with the various Services teams to determine inter-team dependencies, and work with Product Owners to mitigate risks

Preferred Qualifications

• Minimum 1+ years product management experience in media, gathering client requirements, writing product and/or technical specifications, working with development teams, product testing, and managing product roadmaps as well as launches
• At least 2 years of direct client engagement experience
• Experience in Television/Broadcast, Media, Technology, or related field
• Experience with Agile methodology
• Experience with using Jira or a similar system to track and maintain feature requirements and development progress
• Natural problem solver, who is adaptable in a fast-paced environment and is highly collaborative

Benefits

• Medical, dental and vision insurance
• 401(k)
• Paid leave
• Tuition reimbursement
• A variety of other discounts and perks