The posting
FreeWheel, a Comcast company, provides comprehensive ad platforms for publishers, advertisers, and media buyers. Powered by premium video content, robust data, and advanced technology, we’re making it easier for buyers and sellers to transact across all screens, data types, and sales channels. As a global company, we have offices in nine countries and can insert advertisements around the world.
Job Summary
FreeWheel, a Comcast company, has superior end-to-end technology, a premium marketplace, and best-in-market advisory services that power the advertising businesses of the largest media and entertainment companies in the world, including DIRECTV, Fox, NBC Universal, Warner Bros Discovery and Viacom in the U.S., and Sky and Channel 4 in Europe.
From our unique position at the center of the premium video economy, we enable our clients to unify audiences across desktop, mobile, OTT, and traditional STB devices, and profitably monetize their content. FreeWheel is hiring a Senior Director of Product Management to lead our Built-In AI Platform and Data Experiences portfolio for premium video.
Job Description
Your Impact:
Advertisers and publishers increasingly rely on data and AI to make faster, more confident decisions in a complex premium-video marketplace.
You will lead FreeWheel’s Built-In AI Platform and Data Experiences product area, creating the intelligence layer that brings trusted data, intuitive reporting, and AI-powered decision support directly into the platform.
This team builds the shared AI capabilities—including orchestration, multi-agent workflows, intent, skills, and guardrails—that allow product teams to deliver scalable, secure, and continuously improving AI experiences.
You will partner closely with the Director of Data Platform to translate our shared data foundation and modeling capabilities into intelligent and accessible customer experiences.
You will pair that foundation with data exploration, dashboards, visualizations, and proactive alerts that transform complex signals into clear, actionable insights, helping customers identify opportunities, respond faster, and drive better business outcomes.
Core Responsibilities:
- Own the end‑to‑end product strategy, roadmap, and delivery for our Built-In AI Platform and Data Experiences across multiple interconnected product suites in premium video.
- Translate advertiser, agency, publisher, and partner needs into clear roadmap priorities and execution plans.
- Lead and develop a team of product managers across a multi-platform, cross-functional product area. Establish standards for product discovery, business case development, and execution artifacts to ensure quality and consistency.
- Represent your product portfolio with executive stakeholders, strategic customers, and external partners; influence cross‑company priorities and align senior leadership on roadmap and investment decisions. Serves as a subject-matter expert for assigned products.
- Leads all phases of the product lifecycle, from inception through product deployment and provides direction of introduction into the marketplace.
- Accountable for product-area business performance, including investment prioritization, ROI evaluation, KPI definition, and ongoing performance management tied to growth, adoption, and cost efficiency.
- Turn ambiguity into clear priorities, recommendations, and execution plans; delegate meaningful ownership and hold teams accountable for work that is understood, progressing, and delivered.
- Facilitate collaboration across disciplines (e.g.,product, engineering, revenue, client services) and and help teams resolve issues efficiently.
- Build, lead, and retain a high‑performing product organization by setting clear expectations, developing talent, making thoughtful compensation and promotion decisions, and modeling strong judgment in matters of strategic and organizational importance.
- Maintain regular, consistent and punctual attendance. Must be able to work nights and weekends, variable schedule(s) and overtime as necessary.
- Other duties and responsibilities as assigned.
Professional Experience & Qualifications:
- 8+ years in product management for advertising or marketing technology platforms, with experience operating at scale.
- 5+ years managing staff and fostering careers.
- Sound business and technical judgment, strong analytical skills, and the ability to influence others.
- Intimate familiarity with the programmatic ad tech ecosystem and monetization strategies.
- Experience partnering with engineering and data science teams to design AI-powered product capabilities—including LLMs, agentic workflows, orchestration, intent and skill design, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and evaluation practices—that enable product teams to deliver intelligent experiences consistently.
- Strong understanding of responsible AI principles, including data protection, governance, permissioning, guardrails, monitoring, and feedback loops that improve quality, reliability, and user trust over time.
- Experience designing reporting and analytics experiences—including data exploration, dashboards, visualizations, and alerting—that help users understand performance and take timely, informed action.
- Demonstrated ability to translate complex data and AI capabilities into intuitive in-platform experiences that simplify decision-making and create measurable customer and business value.
- Strong hands-on analytical and AI data skills, including SQL, data exploration, experimentation, model and output evaluation, performance monitoring, and applying quantitative feedback to improve product decisions and AI experiences.
- Excellent communication skills.
Employees at all levels are expected to:
- Understand our Operating Principles; make them the guidelines for how you do your job.
- Own the customer experience think and act in ways that put our customers first, give them seamless digital options at every touchpoint, and make them promoters of our products and services.
- Know your stuff be enthusiastic learners, users and advocates of our game-changing technology, products and services, especially our digital tools and experiences.
- Win as a team make big things happen by working together and being open to new ideas.
- Be an active part of the Net Promoter System a way of working that brings more employee and customer feedback into the company by joining huddles, making call backs and helping us elevate opportunities to do better for our customers.
- Drive results and growth.
- Support a culture of inclusion in how you work and lead.
- Do what's right for each other, our customers, investors and our communities.
Disclaimer: This information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees in this role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications.
Skills
Advertising Technologies, Agentic AI, Collaboration, Communication, Data Analysis, People Management, Product Management
Compensation
New York Pay Range: $206,445.02 - $309,667.52
Comcast intends to offer the selected candidate base pay within this range, dependent on job-related, non-discriminatory factors such as experience. The application window is 30 days from the date job is posted, unless the number of applicants requires it to close sooner or later.
Base pay is one part of the Total Rewards that Comcast provides to compensate and recognize employees for their work. Most sales positions are eligible for a Commission under the terms of an applicable plan, while most non-sales positions are eligible for a Bonus. Additionally, Comcast provides best-in-class Benefits to eligible employees. We believe that benefits should connect you to the support you need when it matters most, and should help you care for those who matter most. That’s why we provide an array of options, expert guidance and always-on tools, that are personalized to meet the needs of your reality – to help support you physically, financially and emotionally through the big milestones and in your everyday life. Please visit the compensation and benefits summary on our careers site for more details.
Education
Bachelor's Degree
While possessing the stated degree is preferred, Comcast also may consider applicants who hold some combination of coursework and experience, or who have extensive related professional experience.
Certifications (if applicable)
Relevant Work Experience
10 Years +
Comcast is an equal opportunity workplace. We will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law.
