Director, Product Sports & Programming

NBC is seeking a Director, Product - Sports and Programming Data to lead the product strategy, design, integration, and evolution of the data architecture that powers sports viewing experiences. This role will serve as a strategic product leader and primary subject matter expert for sports data and programing architecture, responsible for translating complex data feeds into scalable, reliable, and fan-friendly digital experiences across web, mobile, connected TV, and emerging platforms. The ideal candidate combines deep technical expertise in live sports data systems with a strong understanding of how sports information is consumed by fans, broadcasters, journalists, and internal stakeholders.

What You'll Do:

The role will work closely with engineering teams, product management, design, editorial, and operations groups to ensure accurate and compelling presentation of sports and programming information across digital platforms

• Define and own sports data architecture solutions across multiple digital products.
• Serve as the subject matter expert for international sports data ecosystems.
• Partner with Product, Engineering and UX teams to translate complex sports datasets into intuitive user-facing experiences.
• Own the strategy and roadmap for programming metadata platforms, from data ingestion and processing through distribution across digital products.
• Ensure programming data is accurately mapped to and integrated with NBCU's existing metadata models and platform architecture.
• Serve as the subject matter expert for programming data, including data providers, linear schedules, content taxonomy, and metadata architecture.
• Drive alignment between external data providers, internal stakeholders, and engineering teams to continuously improve metadata coverage, accuracy, and usability.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience of working with sports data platforms, sports technologies, or large-scale digital sports products.
• Deep knowledge of international sports data models, event structures, schedules, athlete metadata, statistics, and results systems.
• Experience integrating and interpreting complex programming data feeds.
• Strong understanding of programming data systems, broadcast workflows, and competition operations.
• Experience translating technical data structures into customer-facing experiences.

Preferred

• Direct experience working with OBS data services, Olympic Games technology programs, or IOC information systems.
• Experience with ODF, BDF, XML, JSON, GraphQL, and sports data APIs.
• Experience working with data providers such as Stats Perform, Sportradar, Opta, Genius Sports, Gracenote, or equivalent.
• Knowledge of Olympic and international federation competition formats.
• Experience supporting large-scale live sporting events.
• Familiarity with cloud-based data platforms and modern data engineering practices.
• Experience with AI-assisted metadata enrichment, content tagging, and sports data discovery

Additional Requirements

• This position is eligible for company sponsored benefits, including medical, dental and vision insurance, pension, 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: EUR 95,000 - EUR 110,000 (bonus and long-term incentive eligible)

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.