Director, Insights & Portfolio Development

Comcast•New York, NY

8d•$180,717 - $271,076•Hybrid

About The Position

Comcast Ventures is seeking a Director, Insights & Portfolio Development to sit at the intersection of our investment verticals’ (notably SportsTech) portfolio development and strategic insight functions. This is a hybrid role with three distinct but interconnected lanes: driving our SportsTech investment vertical forward, activating enterprise engagement across the Comcast ecosystem, and generating institutional intelligence that serves both the Comcast team and our partners. You will work closely with founders, VC partners, operating partners across Comcast, and external SportsTech partners. The role requires someone who can operate fluidly across early-stage startups and large institutional partners, communicate with credibility in both environments, and produce work product that is clear, structured, and actionable.

Requirements

Recent and relevant experience in venture, portfolio operations, enterprise partnerships, strategy, consulting, banking, or a high-growth operating role with meaningful cross-functional exposure.
Direct prior exposure to sports, media, or platform businesses, whether through investing, operating, or partnerships work.
A demonstrable point of view on where the sector is going.
Demonstrated ability to produce written work product (memos, briefs, decks) for senior internal and external audiences. Writing samples may be requested.
Comfort operating across both early-stage startups and large institutional organizations, and presenting credibly in front of senior external stakeholders.
High ownership mindset with the organizational capacity to manage multiple active workstreams in a small, fast-moving team.
Comfortable with regular domestic and occasional international travel for industry events, partner meetings, and conferences.
10 Years + Relevant Work Experience

Responsibilities

Own the operating cadence of our partner program, including agendas, materials, surveys, and follow-through across a defined set of internal Comcast and external sports industry stakeholders including NBC Sports, Sky Sports and several of Comcast’s professional sports League partners.
Manage ongoing engagement with a consortium of media, league, and venue partners across the sports ecosystem, including structured touchpoints, information sharing, and joint programming.
Build and sustain community across partners and portfolio companies through structured touchpoints, introductions, and shared programming.
Route inbound and sourced companies to relevant Comcast business units and external partners with tailored context, and track engagement.
Identify emerging investment themes and develop sector presentations and materials for internal and external partner audiences.
Produce regular qualitative reporting for partners, synthesizing portfolio highlights, enterprise engagement activity, and vertical developments.
Take initial meetings with prospective founders and produce structured first-pass assessments to inform partner review.
Represent Comcast Ventures in front of partners, founders, and industry forums.
Directing strategic business development initiatives for SportsTech investment vertical within Comcast Ventures.
Orchestrating cross-functional teams in conducting market intelligence studies to identify emerging trends and market landscape shifts
Developing strategic partnership frameworks and market-aligned response plans aligned with company objectives and market dynamics
Establishing relationships with industry associations and key stakeholders to advance company's market position and strategic interests
Consistent exercise of independent judgment and discretion in matters of significance
Other duties and responsibilities as assigned.
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.