Director, Product Sports – Programming

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🇳🇱 Netherlands – Remote

💵 €95k - €110k / year

⏰ Full Time

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NBCUniversal

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10,000+ employees

Founded 2004

📱 Media

Media • Entertainment

NBCUniversal is a leading global media and entertainment company known for creating and distributing content across a variety of platforms. With over 100 years of experience, it is a part of Comcast and encompasses brands like Peacock, NBC Sports, and many others to educate, entertain, and empower audiences around the world. The company is involved in television broadcasting, film production, and theme parks, and is also recognized for its initiatives in technology and corporate social responsibility. NBCUniversal is committed to innovation and social impact, making it a vibrant workplace for media and tech professionals.

📋 Description

• Lead product strategy, design, integration, and evolution of the data architecture powering sports viewing experiences • Translate complex data feeds into scalable, reliable, and fan-friendly digital experiences across web, mobile, connected TV, and emerging platforms • Define and own sports data architecture solutions across multiple digital products • Serve as 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 NBCUniversal's metadata models and platform architecture • Serve as subject matter expert for programming data, including data providers, linear schedules, content taxonomy, and metadata architecture • Align external data providers, internal stakeholders, and engineering teams to improve metadata coverage, accuracy, and usability • Collaborate with engineering, product management, design, editorial, and operations groups to ensure accurate presentation of sports and programming information

🎯 Requirements

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

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical insurance • Dental insurance • Vision insurance • Pension • Paid leave • Tuition reimbursement • Other discounts and perks • Bonus eligibility • Long-term incentive eligibility