Principal Product Designer, Content Experience Job at NBCUniversal in New York

Company Description

NBCUniversal owns and operates over 20 different businesses across 30 countries including a valuable portfolio of news and entertainment television networks, a premier motion picture company, significant television production operations, a leading television stations group, world-renowned theme parks and a premium ad-supported streaming service.

Here you can be your authentic self. As a company uniquely positioned to educate, entertain and empower through our platforms, Comcast NBCUniversal stands for including everyone. We strive to foster a diverse and inclusive culture where our employees feel supported, embraced and heard. We believe that our workforce should represent the communities we live in, so that together, we can continue to create and deliver content that reflects the current and ever-changing face of the world. Click here to learn more about Comcast NBCUniversal’s commitment and how we are making an impact.

Job Description

The Global Streaming Platform powers the best entertainment experiences from Peacock, NOW/WOW, SkyShowtime, and Showmax. When you join our team, you'll work across our dynamic portfolio supported by media industry leaders Comcast, NBCUniversal, and Sky. With unequalled scale, our teams make the most out of every opportunity to collaborate and learn from one another. We're always looking for ways to innovate faster, accelerate our growth, and consistently offer a best-in-class consumer experience across more than 70 countries. Most importantly, we're backed by a culture of respect. We embrace authenticity and inspire our people to thrive.  

The Viewing Product team lives and breathes design excellence. We’re a cross-functional team of product managers, UX researchers, UX designers, product engineers, and data scientists. Here you’ll find more than a job. You’ll find a fast-paced, high-performance team of incredible colleagues who want to be at the epicenter of technology, sports, news, TV, movies, and more. Our work is central to our mission to deliver a future-focused user experience across our best-in-class streaming platforms. Together, we’re focused on getting customers to content they love, faster and easier. 

What You’ll Do:

As a Principal Designer on the Experience Design team, you will define the design vision and strategy for your product area, leading multiple projects and designers to ensure alignment with organizational goals and values. The team is committed to delivering best-in-class sports, playback, and lean-back experiences. This role demands a visionary mindset, overseeing the execution of design initiatives while driving collaboration and innovation across the organization. You’ll play a pivotal role in shaping the future of our products, ensuring design excellence at every stage.

As a Principal Designer, you will:

• Deliver production-ready UX designs that align with business and UX goals for both domestic and international audiences.
• Identify actionable insights and ensure alignment with long-term design and product strategies.
• Drive stakeholder and leadership alignment around research insights and design decisions.
• Rapidly advance the progress of existing work (experience designs, UX guides, information architecture, visual designs, etc.) to project completion.
• Collaborate with the larger UX team during ideation and concept explorations throughout project lifecycles, facilitating and driving UX solutions, discussions, and planning while maintaining project oversight.
• Lead others and grow talent by providing creative direction and mentorship to designers, defining patterns and practices for the team and the product, and sharing findings with fellow designers.
• Maintain a critical eye and obsessive attention to detail.

Qualifications

• Seasoned Design Expertise: Possess deep operational knowledge and expertise in all aspects of UX and product design, with consistently high standards.
• Learner's Mindset: Thrive on continuous learning, staying up-to-date with the latest consumer digital product best practices, technologies, and tools.
• Data-Driven Decision Maker: Rely on data and consumer insights to inform product strategies and decisions.
• Impact-focused: Identify high-impact concepts and rigorously drive them through evaluation, execution, implementation, experimentation, and release.
• Strong Storyteller & Communicator: Confidently articulate ideas and engage in fact-based discussions with stakeholders, using strong storytelling to align vision and goals.
• Industry Expertise: Speak fluently about industry best practices, market strategies, and competitor standards to shape product direction.
• Resourceful & Driven: Naturally take ownership of both large-scale projects and day-to-day tasks, always finding creative solutions to achieve goals.
• Thrives in Fast-Paced Environments: Excel in a dynamic, iterative, and collaborative environment, embracing challenges and opportunities for innovation.
• Adaptable & Flexible: Efficiently manage multiple projects and priorities, seamlessly shifting between initiatives to meet evolving business needs.

Minimum Requirements:

• Possess a degree in design, computer science, human factors, or equivalent professional experience.
• Over 10 years of relevant work experience as a design professional, with a strong track record in product design.
• Demonstrated experience leading design teams and guiding others through the creative process.
• Skilled at effectively communicating design solutions and concepts to stakeholders, ensuring alignment and clarity.
• Deep understanding of interaction design principles and how they apply to digital products.
• Advanced fluency with design tools like Figma and Adobe Creative Suite, ensuring high-quality design outputs.
• In-depth experience in UX design, prototyping, and motion graphics, adhering to best practices in these areas.
• Strong critical thinking and creative problem-solving skills with a proven ability to collaborate effectively across teams.
• Ability to manage multiple projects independently in a deadline-driven environment, delivering high-quality results.
• A robust portfolio showcasing solid design work across web, mobile, and digital media platforms.
• In-depth knowledge of cross-platform usability standards and UI specifications.
• Familiarity with platforms like Roku, Fire TV, Samsung, Apple TV, X1, and similar.
• Experience with accessibility, localization, and internationalization best practices, ensuring inclusive and global user experiences.

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. 

Salary range: $180,000 -  $225,000.

Additional Information

As part of our selection process, external candidates may be required to attend an in-person interview with an NBCUniversal employee at one of our locations prior to a hiring decision.

NBCUniversal's policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, gender identity or expression, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status, membership in the uniformed services, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law. 

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