Full-Time Product Integration Lead (Ad Tech)

NBC Universal's Technical Operations Enterprise Product team builds products and services for organizations within NBCUniversal (Ad Sales, Broadcast Operations, NBC Digital, NBC News, NBC Sports, Cable Entertainment brands, and local TV stations). The team spans 6 verticals: Content Management, Content Sales and Finance, Scheduling and Distribution, Ad Sales, Ad Technology and Integration, Data and Analytics, and Linear Distribution.

Within Ad Technology and Integration, we are responsible for developing NBCU's mission-critical digital ad tech stack to monetize its billion-dollar digital ad sales portfolio.

We constantly monitor production environments to ensure optimal video ad experiences across STB, OTT, desktop, and mobile platforms.

This role manages ad integrations on NBCUniversal's O&O and partner streaming media applications, evaluating approaches and solutions for ad integrations on NBCU's ad serving platforms, DTC streaming applications, and off-domain partner apps.

Responsibilities include:

• Acting as a subject matter expert on NBCU's ad server integrations.
• Leading ad integration activities across platforms.
• Collaborating with ad product and central/brand tech teams to establish ad implementation best practices.
• Configuring baseline ad systems for new mobile apps.
• Troubleshooting and debugging ad issues in pre-release builds to support QA.
• Documenting ad-related features and tech stacks.
• Developing and implementing new advertising features and products.
• Understanding ad technology ecosystem complexities.
• Bridging the gap between Ad Sales and QA, operationalizing test cases.
• Staying updated on new specifications, technologies, and industry trends.
• Collaborating and training teammates on different endpoints (desktop, OTT, etc.).

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 streaming media (players, ABR streaming, CDNs)
• 3+ years troubleshooting technical issues, using Charles sessions, evaluating web traffic, and event triggers
• Experience with RESTful APIs

Preferred Qualifications:

• Detail-oriented, process-oriented, quick learner
• Flexible, self-starter
• Experience owning projects end-to-end
• Knowledge of FreeWheel and GAM ad servers
• Experience with various ad integration techniques (server-side vs. client-side)
• Excellent communication skills
• Team player

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