NBCUniversal is one of the world's leading media and entertainment companies. We create world-class content, which we distribute across our portfolio of film, television, and streaming, and bring to life through our theme parks and consumer experiences. We own and operate leading entertainment and news brands, including NBC, NBC News, MSNBC, CNBC, NBC Sports, Telemundo, NBC Local Stations, Bravo, USA Network, and Peacock, our premium ad-supported streaming service. We produce and distribute premier filmed entertainment and programming through Universal Filmed Entertainment Group and Universal Studio Group, and have world-renowned theme parks and attractions through Universal Destinations & Experiences. NBCUniversal is a subsidiary of Comcast Corporation.
Our impact is rooted in improving the communities where our employees, customers, and audiences live and work. We have a rich tradition of giving back and ensuring our employees have the opportunity to serve their communities. We champion an inclusive culture and strive to attract and develop a talented workforce to create and deliver a wide range of content reflecting our world.
Comcast NBCUniversal has announced its intent to create a new publicly traded company ('Versant') comprised of most of NBCUniversal's cable television networks, including USA Network, CNBC, MSNBC, Oxygen, E!, SYFY and Golf Channel along with complementary digital assets Fandango, Rotten Tomatoes, GolfNow, GolfPass, and SportsEngine. The well-capitalized company will have significant scale as a pure-play set of assets anchored by leading news, sports and entertainment content. The spin-off is expected to be completed during 2025.
Job Description
We are hiring a Portfolio Specialist to support a dynamic, engineering/product/operations portfolio that spans multiple Agile delivery squads, business units, and strategic initiatives. This is a critical role that blends Scrum Mastering, Jira administration, project management, and executive reporting, enabling delivery velocity and operational excellence across our squads. This is an ideal role for someone with strong Jira and Scrum skills, a knack for process thinking, and a passion for connecting technical execution to business outcomes. You'll partner closely with the Portfolio Manager (your direct manager), as well as project managers, engineers, product owners, and leadership across the enterprise.
What You'll Be Doing
- Serve as Scrum Master across up to 4 engineering/development squads.
- Coach teams on Agile best practices, backlog refinement, and sprint health.
- Support hybrid delivery environments using Agile, Scrum, and Waterfall.
- Create/manage Jira projects, boards, workflows, and automation rules.
- Build and maintain squad Confluence materials and knowledge spaces.
- Act as change coach for new systems, rituals, and delivery practices.
- Build executive-facing slides, documentation, and risk summaries.
- Support data analytics on project health and delivery metrics.
- Maintain a strong business lens in all communications and summaries.
Qualifications
Required Experience & Skills
- Minimum of 3 years in a Scrum Master, Agile Project Management, or Product Management role.
- Experience scrum mastering engineering, dev, operational squads.
- Mastery in Atlassian Cloud toolset (Jira, Confluence, Service Manager).
- Strong understanding of Agile and Waterfall delivery methodologies.
- Experience with change management.
- Mastery in PowerPoint and proficiency in Excel.
- Excellent writing and documentation ability.
- Extreme attention to detail and business acumen.
- Data storytelling skills and experience with metrics interpretation.
Nice to Have
- Experience in DevOps or infrastructure-focused environments.
- Prior ownership of Confluence spaces.
- Exposure to SAFe or scaled Agile delivery.
- Experience in DevOps or infrastructure-focused environments.
- Agile Coaching or onboarding experience.
- CSM, PMP, or similar certifications
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.
If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran and require support throughout the application and/or recruitment process as a result of your disability, you have the right to request a reasonable accommodation. You can submit your request to [email protected].
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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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