Product Integration Lead

NBCUniversal•New York, NY

3d•Hybrid

About The Position

NBC Universal’s Technical Operations Enterprise Product team builds products and services to organizations throughout NBCUniversal including Ad Sales, Broadcast Operations, NBC Digital, NBC News, NBC Sports, Cable Entertainment brands and local TV stations. The Enterprise Product team span 6 key verticals: Content Management, Content Sales and Finance, Scheduling and Distribution, Ad Sales, Ad Technology and Integration, Data and Analytics, and Linear Distribution. Within the Ad Technology and Integration team, we are ultimately responsible for evolving our mission-critical digital ad tech stack to enable monetization of NBCU’s billion-dollar digital ad sales portfolio. In addition, we are responsible for continuously monitoring our production environments to ensure the optimal end-user video ad experience across our STB, OTT, desktop and mobile platforms. We constantly strive to innovate and discover new ways in which we can optimize our overall business processes by implementing new tools, systems and/or processes to help manage and grow NBCU’s Digital business. The Ad Technology and Integration team is looking for a highly collaborative engineer to manage ad integrations on NBCUniversal’s O&O and partner streaming media applications. This role will be responsible for evaluating the approach and solutioning supply and demand integrations on NBCU’s ad serving platforms, DTC streaming applications and off domain partner apps. The Product Integration Lead will serve as an internal consultant and subject matter expert on backend ad technology, ad serving systems integration and architecture, and will work alongside the Product Owner and Product Architecture teams to validate business requirements for technical feasibility. This role will work very closely with the product, brand engineering and QA departments to ensure that ad integrations go smoothly and meet the high standards of the NBCUniversal portfolio. This role would report to the Manager, Ad Integration.

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 FreeWheel ad server and server-to-server integrations
Knowledge of VAST, VMAP, ORTB protocol and specifications
Knowledge of streaming media including experience with streaming video players, ABR streaming techniques, Content Delivery Networks, etc.
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
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

Responsibilities

Act as a subject matter expert on NBCU’s ad server integrations across non-O&O supply and demand partners
Responsible for leading 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 supply endpoints
Responsible for troubleshooting and debugging ad issues on pre-release logs to help facilitate and unblock QA execution
Responsible for documenting ad-related features and tech stacks across related ad integrations
POC and solution new advertising features and products on partner supply endpoints
Understand the complexities and inherent limitations of the ad technology ecosystem and various streaming devices
Responsible for bridging the gap between Ad Sales product and QA; helping to 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)