Comcast

Director 1, Program Management

Comcast$135K — $160K *
Enterprise Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in a related field; combination of coursework and experience may be considered.
  • 10+ years of relevant work experience, particularly in software project execution and governance.
  • Strong proficiency in modern software delivery techniques, including Agile and Lean methodologies.
  • Experience in portfolio financial management, including budget planning and vendor management.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead high-performing teams through talent acquisition and workforce planning.
  • Excellent communication skills to liaise with cross-functional teams and drive alignment.

Responsibilities

  • Lead portfolio governance and software project execution by establishing effective delivery frameworks.
  • Manage portfolio financials, including budgeting, investment oversight, and cost optimization.
  • Drive continuous improvement through modern software delivery practices and operational excellence.
  • Provide executive-level governance and visibility into portfolio performance and strategic initiatives.
  • Build partnerships across product, engineering, and customer experience teams to ensure success.
  • Coach and mentor teams through career development and performance leadership.
  • Identify opportunities for organizational and process transformations to enhance productivity.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive support options tailored to physical, financial, and emotional needs.
  • Personalized guidance and tools for navigating significant life milestones and daily challenges.
  • Commitment to a culture of inclusion and community support.
  • Access to wellness resources and initiatives promoting work-life balance.
Full Job Description

Job Summary

This job involves leading program management initiatives to align with corporate strategies and enhance operational processes. It encompasses This role provides strategic leadership for software delivery, portfolio governance, and engineering execution across customer-facing digital and agent-assisted experience platforms. This leadership position is responsible for driving predictability, operational excellence, financial stewardship, and adoption of modern software development methodologies, including AI-accelerated practices. The successful candidate partners closely with product, business, and engineering leaders to drive strategic execution, communicate delivery commitments and risks, remove organizational impediments, and ensure successful business outcomes.

Job Description

  • Lead portfolio governance and software project execution by establishing delivery frameworks, aligning to strategic roadmaps, managing dependencies and risks, and ensuring alignment between business objectives, technology investments, and customer outcomes.
  • Accountable for portfolio financial management, including budget planning, investment governance, vendor management, workforce strategy, capacity planning, and cost optimization.
  • Drive continuous improvement through modern software delivery practices, change control, release management, Agile and Lean methodologies, AI-accelerated tooling, and operational excellence initiatives.
  • Provide executive-level governance and visibility into portfolio performance, delivery progress, business outcomes, financial health, operational risks, and strategic initiatives.
  • Build and maintain strong partnerships across product, engineering, operations, customer experience, and business organizations to drive alignment, decision-making, and delivery success.
  • Lead, coach, and develop high-performing teams through talent acquisition, workforce planning, succession management, performance leadership, and career development.
  • Lead adoption of AI-enabled capabilities and ensure responsible implementation through appropriate governance, security, compliance, and operational controls.
  • Identify and drive organizational, process, and technology transformation opportunities that improve scalability, productivity, delivery predictability, and user experience outcomes.
  • Establish and monitor key delivery, quality, operational, and financial performance metrics to drive accountability and continuous improvement across the portfolio.
  • 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) as necessary.
  • Other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

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.

Disclaimer: This information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees in this role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications.

Skills

Engineering Implementation, Leadership, Lean Agile, Portfolio Governance, Portfolio Management, Strategic Roadmaps, Taking Initiative

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Education

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.

Certifications (if applicable)

Relevant Work Experience

10 Years +

About Comcast

FreeWheel manages the economics of content for the enterprise class of entertainment, offering technical infrastructure for revenue rights management and business operations, wrapped in advisory services. They offer advertising sales rights, display, video, mobile ad management, contract management, professional content, ad serving, reporting, analytics, technology, services, advisory services, business operations, programmatic advertising, advertising marketplace, and linear, and online advertising.

Comcast Careers

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Size
31,000 employees
Market Cap
$149.9 billion
Industry
Net Income
$10.5 billion
Founded
1963
5 Year Trend
+7.6%
Revenue
$103.5 billion
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