Comcast

Sr. Director, Technical Program Management

Comcast$150K — $180K *
Information Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of experience in technical program management or related fields
  • 5+ years in a leadership role managing teams
  • Experience in enterprise program and portfolio management
  • Strong cross-functional leadership skills with executive influence
  • Ability to translate business objectives into scalable delivery models
  • Proficient in risk and issue management
  • Strong technical acumen, particularly in cloud or distributed systems environments
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

  • Define and drive program management strategy for complex, cross-functional portfolios
  • Engage in high-impact initiatives to align teams and ensure delivery outcomes
  • Translate business strategies into actionable execution plans and objectives
  • Establish clear ownership and governance for program execution
  • Proactively manage risks and issues to ensure timely resolution
  • Enhance delivery processes to improve predictability and outcomes
  • Communicate executive insights to facilitate rapid decision-making
  • Develop and mentor a high-performing technical program management team

Benefits

  • Array of health, financial, and emotional support options
  • Personalized tools to help manage life milestones
  • Expert guidance available for various employee needs
  • Focus on supporting employee well-being in daily life
  • Opportunities for continuous improvement and skill development.
Full Job Description
Job Summary
We're seeking a Senior Director of Technical Program Management to lead strategy and execution across a complex portfolio of technology initiatives. This role drives alignment between business priorities and delivery outcomes by translating strategy into clear execution models, establishing disciplined operating rhythms, and ensuring consistent, predictable delivery at scale. Operating as both a strategic leader and hands-on program lead, this individual partners with engineering, product, and business leaders to navigate ambiguity, drive decisions, proactively manage risk, and build high-performing TPMs that deliver measurable impact.

Job Description

What You'll Do:
  • Define and drive program management strategy across a complex, cross-functional portfolio aligned to strategic initiatives.
  • Operate as both a strategic leader and hands-on program lead, directly engaging in select, high-impact initiatives to drive alignment, navigate ambiguity, and ensure delivery outcomes.
  • Translate strategy into executable models, establishing clear objectives, operating rhythms, and governance to enable consistent, scaled delivery.
  • Establish and enforce execution discipline across the organization, including clear ownership, integrated plans, binary readiness signals, and status that drives decisions.
  • Drive proactive risk and issue management, ensuring early visibility, clear ownership, and timely resolution of critical and cross-cutting challenges.
  • Drive continuous improvement of delivery systems, increasing predictability, reducing friction, and improving outcomes at scale.
  • Provide clear, actionable executive visibility, enabling rapid decision-making and alignment on priorities, risks, and tradeoffs.
  • Partner with engineering, product, and business leaders to shape program direction, influence tradeoffs, and ensure alignment between strategy and execution.
  • Develop a high-performing TPM team, elevating execution through clear expectations, direct engagement, and feedback on critical programs.
  • Ensure strong cross-functional alignment, enabling teams to operate as a coordinated system focused on shared outcomes.
  • Consistent exercise of independent judgment and discretion in matters of significance.
  • Regular, consistent and punctual attendance.
  • Other duties and responsibilities as assigned.


What You'll Need:
  • 10+ years of experience in technical program management, engineering, or related roles, with 5+ years in people leadership
  • Enterprise program & portfolio management across complex, cross-functional technology initiatives
  • Cross-functional leadership & executive influence across engineering, product, and business stakeholders
  • Strategic planning & execution, translating business objectives into scalable delivery models
  • Strategic prioritization & tradeoff management in dynamic, ambiguous environments
  • Execution discipline & operational excellence, driving predictable, high-quality delivery at scale
  • Risk & issue management with proactive identification, escalation, and resolution of cross-cutting challenges
  • Executive communication & reporting, delivering clear insights to drive decisions and alignment
  • Organizational leadership & team development, building and scaling high-performing TPM teams
  • Change management & continuous improvement of delivery systems and processes
  • Strong technical acumen with experience in cloud, distributed systems, or modern architecture environments


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
Cross-Functional Teamwork, Independent Judgment, Leadership, Planning Ability, Program Management, Strategic Objectives, Taking Initiative

We believe that benefits should connect you to the support you need when it matters most, and should help you care for those who matter most. That's why we provide an array of options, expert guidance and always-on tools that are personalized to meet the needs of your reality-to help support you physically, financially and emotionally through the big milestones and in your everyday life.

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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.

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Net Income
$10.5 billion
Founded
1963
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+7.6%
Revenue
$103.5 billion
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