Director, Project Management

USD 155000 - USD 185000 - yearly Company Description NBCUniversal is one of the world's leading media and entertainment companies. We create world-class content, which we distribute across our portfolio of film, television, and streaming, and bring to life through our global theme park destinations, consumer products, and experiences. We own and operate leading entertainment and news brands, including NBC, NBC News, NBC Sports, Telemundo, NBC Local Stations, Bravo, and Peacock, our premium ad-supported streaming service. We produce and distribute premier filmed entertainment and programming through our powerhouse film and television studios, including Universal Pictures, DreamWorks Animation, and Focus Features, and the four global television studios under the Universal Studio Group banner, and operate industry-leading theme parks and experiences around the world through Universal Destinations & Experiences, including Universal Orlando Resort, home to Universal Epic Universe, and Universal Studios Hollywood. NBCUniversal is a subsidiary of Comcast Corporation. Visit www.nbcuniversal.com for more information. 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.

The Director, Project Management will be responsible for leading the execution and delivery of a large-scale project portfolio across NBCU News Group, supporting National News, Local Stations, and Telemundo Enterprises. This role will partner closely with the Sr. Director, Program Management to translate strategic priorities into executable projects and workstreams, ensuring consistent delivery, governance, and transparent reporting to leadership. The Director will directly manage a team of contracted Project Managers across News Group, driving accountability, standardization, and delivery excellence across the full project lifecycle—from intake and scoping through execution, hypercare, retrospective, and archive. This role requires strong leadership and partnership with SVP & RVPs to determine Project Management needs, financial discipline, and the ability to synthesize complex technical projects into clear, direct, go-forward objectives and track them in JIRA. The role will collaborate with technology leaders and cross-functional stakeholders from both News Group and internal and external parters to manage Project lifecycles, source and manage appropriate resources and ensure successful outcomes.

Day-to-day management of contracted Project Managers, Technical Project Managers and Coordinators. Recruit, train, mentor and hold accountable to systems and protocols of governance. Own contractor onboarding/offboarding, training and performance management. Establish and enforce clear expectations and accountability for deliverables, reporting accuracy and execution quality across NBCU Ownership of the News Group Projects, including CAPX budgeting, intake, prioritization, and business scoping for project and operational lines, meeting cadences, risk management, budgets, monthly report outs, annual strategic roadmaps and improving existing processes, applying both Agile and Waterfall methodologies Maintain frequent communication with peers and working groups across all required NBCUniversal and vendors/partners to ensure teams are tracking and delivering all dependencies across all projects. Monitor project progress including but not limited to, power point presentations and other documents, tracking Jira tickets, timelines, and issues and risks lists and communicate updates to colleagues and management Partner with