Executive Director, Engineering - Xumo PLAY

Comcast Resume • Philadelphia, PA

4d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Executive Director, Engineering leads engineering strategy and execution for Xumo Play as it develops across deeply integrated, platform-native experiences on owned-and-operated systems and distribution-optimized experiences across third-party ecosystems. The role works across platform architecture, product strategy, content distribution, audience reach, monetization, and enterprise partner outcomes, aligning engineering investment with engagement growth, platform efficiency, commercial scalability, and long-term business sustainability.

The leader oversees work spanning client applications, backend services, platform integrations, data, personalization, identity, quality, release operations, and partner-facing capabilities. The role provides architectural guidance, manages budgets and resources, develops engineering leaders, and builds globally distributed teams. It also serves as a key connection between Xumo Play and platform, product, content, business, and distribution partners, while ensuring operational excellence, security, compliance, governance, audit readiness, and production quality.

The position is office-based in Philadelphia, with four days a week in the office and one day remote. Regular attendance is required, and the role must be able to work nights and weekends on variable schedules as necessary.

Requirements

• At least 10 years of relevant work experience.
• Master's degree is preferred; applicants with a combination of coursework and experience or extensive related professional experience may also be considered.
• Must be able to work nights and weekends on variable schedules as necessary.
• Must maintain regular, consistent, and punctual attendance.

Nice To Haves

• Deep experience leading engineering organizations responsible for video, advertising technology, CTV applications, backend services, and AI/ML-based personalization and recommendation platforms at scale.
• Proven success building and evolving cloud-based platform architectures for high-volume consumer and enterprise products.
• Experience scaling platforms from early-stage development through significant user growth.
• Demonstrated ability to lead through ambiguity and drive results in fast-paced, high-growth environments.
• Track record of managing global teams, developing engineering leaders and established teams, and fostering accountability, collaboration, high performance, and a winning culture.
• Exceptional cross-functional leadership and ability to partner effectively across product, data, operations, and business organizations.

Responsibilities

• Define and lead engineering strategy for Xumo Play across owned-and-operated and third-party distribution environments.
• Lead execution across client applications, backend services, platform integrations, data, personalization, identity, quality, release operations, and partner-facing capabilities.
• Translate FAST, content, enterprise, distribution, partner success, and monetization needs into scalable engineering roadmaps, platform capabilities, and repeatable operating models.
• Establish KPI-driven execution models tied to engagement growth, third-party expansion, monetization, platform cost efficiency, reliability, scalability, and long-term ROI.
• Drive integration with the Xumo platform (EntOS), including native UX integration, shared data models, platform-owned identity, recommendation and programming systems, and hybrid personalization capabilities.
• Build relationships between Xumo Play product ecosystems and platform architects, product leaders, FAST business stakeholders, content teams, enterprise business leaders, distribution partners, and monetization stakeholders.
• Balance platform alignment with product ownership, including roadmap priorities, business KPIs, product autonomy, integration trade-offs, and differentiated customer experiences.
• Provide strategic thought leadership as ownership structures and operating models evolve, including decisions about platform alignment, optionality, enterprise-facing capabilities, and business outcomes.
• Provide technical and architectural guidance across distributed systems, cloud-native platforms, streaming and device ecosystems, identity-driven personalization, data sharing, and ad-experience-driven monetization.
• Manage budgeting, resource allocation, and strategic investment decisions to align engineering capacity, platform dependencies, and execution priorities with business value and financial outcomes.
• Build and scale globally distributed engineering organizations able to work across platform dependencies, product divergence, partner complexity, and cross-functional execution challenges.
• Develop leaders and senior technical talent who can work across engineering, product, platform, business, and enterprise partner boundaries.
• Ensure operational excellence, security, compliance, governance, audit readiness, and production quality across Xumo Play systems and platform integrations.
• Build team commitment and a shared vision, and foster a collaborative, inclusive, high-performing engineering culture across onshore and offshore teams.
• Exercise independent judgment and discretion in matters of significance.
• Maintain regular, consistent, and punctual attendance and work nights and weekends on variable schedules as necessary.
• Perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned.
• Follow the company's Operating Principles, put customers first, support the Net Promoter System, drive results and growth, promote inclusion, and act in the interests of customers, investors, colleagues, and communities.

Benefits

• The company describes an array of benefits and support options, expert guidance, and always-on tools personalized to support employees physically, financially, and emotionally. Further details are available in the benefits summary on the careers site.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director