Product Integration Lead (Ad Tech)

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 endpointsResponsible for leading ad integration activities across platformsWork with ad product and central/brand tech teams to dictate ad implementation best practices and influence application and player design as it relates to advertisingResponsible for baseline ad systems configurations for new mobile appsResponsible for troubleshooting and debugging ad issues on pre-release builds to help facilitate and unblock QA executionResponsible for documenting ad-related features and tech stacks across related ad integrationsPOC and solution new advertising features and products on mobile endpointsUnderstands the complexities and inherent limitations of the ad technology ecosystem and various streaming devicesResponsible for bridging the gap between Ad Sales product and QA; helping to operationalize test cases to ensure features can be effectively testedKeep up to date with new specifications, technologies, and industry initiativesCollaborate and cross-train teammates on other squads who specialize in other endpoints (Desktop, OTT, etc)