Manager, Data Operations

NBCUniversal’s Data Operations team is looking for enthusiastic, goal-driven, proactive, and resourceful individuals to support innovation in our Ad Platforms and Operations One-Platform group. One-Platform is the collection of all NBCU’s data-driven, advanced advertising products, including data-driven linear, addressable, OTT and digital channel advertising products. Within our group we promote a culture of inclusion for all employees that respects their unique abilities, experiences, and views. We believe that our varied backgrounds help us work better together, make smarter choices, and deliver better business results. This position will support the Senior Manager on the Advanced Data Operations team and incorporate digital and convergent data tactics and strategies to ensure operational efficiency of audience-targeted ad products. In addition, the Manager position will work with the other members of the Data Operations team to streamline communication and optimize the workflow between the core internal teams, as well as data vendors, to ensure success and growth. Areas Of Responsibility Include, But Are Not Limited To Leverage coding, programming, and Excel skills to analyze various audience-related datasets, build target audiences, provide insights on audience data and platform usage, and support data products requiring custom outputs from our pool of datasets. Work directly with Sales and Planning team members to fulfill audience strategies for client campaigns. Work with vendors to ensure audience targets are successfully delivered and activated for audience-targeted campaigns across all digital platforms. Partner with other Digital Ad Sales leads as a Data Ops expert to develop new operational workflows, with the intention of streamlining convergent project and troubleshooting audience-related issues. Utilize a broad spectrum of analytics tools and databases to identify key metrics, trends and insights that effectively position NBCUniversal ad products and services to clients. Manage vendor relationships, including identifying and testing ways to leverage their platforms and data for offline and online data convergence. Employ project management experience to identify inefficiencies in current workflows and infrastructure and build plans to improve them. Pull reports and orchestrate dashboards utilizing Tableau, PowerBI, or other software to support internal teams with data insights. Assist in evaluating data vendors’ contribution to campaign fulfilment alongside our 1P data products to ensure efficient sourcing of audience data. Collaborate with Engineering and IT teams to ensure that the implementation of new data products is optimized for data operations use and document new use cases, enhancements, and bugs. Keep abreast of the rapidly-evolving technologies and trends in the TV and digital realms and build a thorough understanding of the media and advertising ecosystem and its key players.