Product Integration Lead

$120,000 - $150,000/Yr

NBC - Englewood Cliffs, NJ

Full-time - Mid Level

Remote - Englewood Cliffs, NJ

1,001-5,000 employees

Broadcasting and Content Providers

About the position

The Product Integration Lead at NBCUniversal is responsible for managing ad integrations across various platforms, ensuring seamless ad experiences in NBCU's streaming media applications. This role involves collaborating with product, engineering, and QA teams to validate technical feasibility and implement best practices for ad serving systems. The position requires a strong understanding of ad technology and the ability to troubleshoot and document ad-related features effectively.

Responsibilities

• Act as a subject matter expert on NBCU's ad server integrations across its domestic and international endpoints.
• Lead ad integration activities across platforms.
• Work with ad product and central/brand tech teams to dictate ad implementation best practices and influence application and player design as it relates to advertising.
• Responsible for baseline ad systems configurations for new mobile apps.
• Troubleshoot and debug ad issues on pre-release builds to facilitate and unblock QA execution.
• Document ad-related features and tech stacks across related ad integrations.
• Point of contact and solution for new advertising features and products on mobile endpoints.
• Understand the complexities and inherent limitations of the ad technology ecosystem and various streaming devices.
• Bridge the gap between Ad Sales product and QA; operationalize test cases to ensure features can be effectively tested.
• Keep up to date with new specifications, technologies, and industry initiatives.
• Collaborate and cross-train teammates on other squads who specialize in other endpoints (Desktop, OTT, etc).

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or Information Systems, or relevant experience.
• 5+ years experience with ad serving systems, dynamic ad insertion and related workflows.
• Knowledge of streaming media including experience with streaming video players, ABR streaming techniques, Content Delivery Networks, etc.
• 3+ years experience troubleshooting technical issues, running Charles sessions, evaluating web traffic and event triggers.
• Experience with RESTful APIs to connect mobile applications to back-end services.

Nice-to-haves

• Detail-oriented; highly meticulous and process-oriented.
• Ability to quickly learn new technologies and apply those learnings to projects/implementations.
• Flexible self-starter who enjoys exploring new technology.
• Demonstrated ability to own projects end-to-end with minimal supervision and guidance.
• Knowledge of FreeWheel ad server.
• Knowledge of GAM ad server integrations.
• Experience/knowledge of various ad integration techniques (server side vs. client side).
• Excellent written, verbal, visual/presentation and interpersonal communications skills.
• Team player dedicated to excellent customer service for internal and external customers.

Benefits

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Tuition reimbursement
• Vision insurance