Technical Project Manager 4

Comcast

About The Position

Comcast Advertising is driving the TV advertising industry forward, from delivering ads to linear and digital audiences to pioneering the tech that makes it possible. We help brands connect with their audiences on every screen using advanced data, technology, and premium video content. Our media sales division helps local, regional, and national brands reach potential customers through multiscreen TV advertising. Our ad tech division FreeWheel provides comprehensive adtech that makes it easier to buy and sell premium video advertising across all screens, data types, and sales channels. Job Summary Responsible for managing complex projects through entire project lifecycle (inception, design, development, integration and test, trial and deployment). Act as a liaison with appropriate company personnel and vendors to ensure project compliance to standards, coordinate multiple complex high priority tasks. Assure feature and functionality and performance metrics requirements are defined. Initiate, facilitate and monitor specific inter/intra-departmental project progress and performance to assure quality and on time delivery. Ensure milestone dates are met. Monitor risks during various stages of the project and escalate issues to the appropriate level of management. Maintain project status reports on projects. Create and manage contingency plans for projects. Estimate and manage budgets. Evaluate impact change request against communicated timelines. Integrates knowledge of business and functional priorities. Acts as a key contributor in a complex and crucial environment. May lead teams or projects and shares expertise.

Requirements

Familiarity with SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) concepts and ceremonies; certification not required.
Hands‑on experience with Aha! and Jira for planning, tracking, and reporting across complex programs.
Strong executive presence and communication skills, with demonstrated experience engaging and influencing senior leadership.
Ability to translate technical information into clear business‑focused updates tailored for executives.
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.
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.
Relevant Work Experience 7-10 Years

Responsibilities

Integrate SAFe‑informed practices into project coordination, ensuring alignment with cross‑team Agile processes and adapting to the rhythms of Release Trains, Product Management, and Engineering.
Utilize product and portfolio management tools such as Aha! for feature definition and roadmap alignment, and Jira for backlog management, dependency tracking, and reporting.
Prepare and deliver clear, concise status updates, risk summaries, and executive‑ready communications for senior leadership across Technology and Business organizations.
Influence and collaborate with executive stakeholders, articulating options, risks, and impacts to support timely decision‑making.
Manage deployment readiness when applicable, including go/no‑go criteria, cutover planning, communication, and post‑deployment validation to ensure smooth and successful releases.
Coordinate scoping and architecture review activities for initiated programs and follow process for program approval at architecture initiation board.
Create and track end to end project plan in conjunction with the lead engineer.
Track tasks and milestones across all parties, including vendors.
Coordinate, manage and drive test organization activities.
Facilitate bug triage, manage bug lists across vendors, track issue resolution with lead engineer.
Coordinate change request generation and tracking.
Make project scheduling decisions in conjunction with the lead engineer or facilitate conversations necessary for decision making.
Report on project's progress as required by product engineering management.
Identify and manage critical path and risk areas and create risk response and mitigation plans.
Report weekly (or as necessary) on any risks/issues.
Escalate issues as required to unblock open issues.
Work with other project managers to track and manage inter-project dependencies.
Communicate updates on major milestones, escalations and status to lead engineer and lead project manager.
Work with lead engineer and management to set project specific budget.
Project spend rates based on the budgets.
Manage within budgetary objectives set by manager, monitoring and controlling costs within functional area.
Mentor junior level project managers on the team.
Consistent exercise of independent judgment and discretion in matters of significance.
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.