Sr Director Director, Program Standards & Operations

Job Description

NBCUniversal is one of the world's leading media and entertainment companies.
Our impact is rooted in improving the communities where our employees, customers, and audiences live and work. We have a rich tradition of giving back and ensuring our employees have the opportunity to serve their communities. We champion an inclusive culture and strive to attract and develop a talented workforce to create and deliver a wide range of content reflecting our world.

Job Description
As the Sr. Director/Director, Program Standards & Operations you will be a positive, highly professional leader with a thoughtful, proactive nature, strong interpersonal instincts, and the ability to influence others and solve problems collaboratively. You will have full functional responsibility for managing and leading a team of individuals responsible for evaluating programming content, with wide latitude for initiative, judgment, and action. You will coordinate and leverage standards capabilities throughout VERSANT, including organizing and implementing standards initiatives and projects and serving as an advisor on standards matters across multiple portfolios.
• Lead, manage, grow and inspire team members with varying levels of experience in a complex and rapidly evolving environment, while nurturing a culture of coaching, learning, feedback, and teamwork, and encouraging collaboration, creative thinking, and innovation.
• Be hands on, including screening, issuing notes, and assigning Television Parental Guidelines ratings for multiple programming formats (e.g., scripted and unscripted), to ensure compliance with all regulatory and industry self-regulatory requirements as well VERSANT's program and advertising standards.
• Interface regularly and foster excellent relationships with internal sales, commercial operations, legal and creative executives to enforce standards decisions and reinforce and solicit feedback on standards policies.
• Manage the coordination of cross-department teams on strategic projects, serving as an organizational problem solver, collaborating on effective solutions, and delivering excellence in execution, including driving projects that help the department utilize technology more effectively within the content review eco-system.
• Serve as a senior decision-maker and subject matter expert for content standards throughout VERSANT and participate in decisions affecting major policy and procedural issues.
• Promote coordination of standards activities and sharing of best practices across VERANT's linear, streaming, and other digital platforms to ensure consistency in standards processes to the extent possible.
• Demonstrates a strong understanding of, or a willingness to learn, operational workflows and commercial content formats, and how they inform strategic planning and cross-functional collaboration.
Qualifications
Basic Requirements:
• BA/BS Degree (MBA, JD or LLM a plus), or equivalent work experience.
• 5+ years combined experience in standards and practices, and/or relevant work experience in any of following areas: trust and safety, content moderation, production, or Risk, Policy or Legal within the media, entertainment or technology industries.
• At least 3 years of experience leading teams.

Desired Characteristics:
• Must be willing and available to work some evening and weekend hours to meet operational needs.
• Must be able to separate personal beliefs and interests from content review requirements to apply VERSANT's guidelines and policies to applicable content.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Must demonstrate respect for all and foster an equitable and inclusive environment.
• Must possess a demonstrated ability to engage in sensitive and difficult conversations as the nature of the work performed may require discussion of sensitive subjects that appear in content undergoing review.
• Confidence, executive presence and the ability to interact and present at senior management levels.
• Ability to recognize and adapt to rapidly changing business needs and prioritize accordingly.
• Excellent multi-tasking, negotiation and analytical thinking skills, and the ability to perform in a fast-paced, time-sensitive environment.
Additional Requirements:
Hybrid: This position has been designated as hybrid, generally contributing from the office a minimum of three days per week.
This position is eligible for company sponsored benefits, including medical, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), paid leave, tuition reimbursement, and a variety of other discounts and perks. Learn more about the benefits offered by NBCUniversal by visiting the Benefits page of the Careers website.
Director Salary range: $125,000 - $175,000 (bonus and long-term incentive eligible)
Sr. Director Salary range: $135,000 - $185,000 (bonus and long-term incentive eligible)

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-4kk51z-216-73-216-221-42 in your application.