Senior Manager

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Job Summary

Freewheel, a Comcast company, is a global leader in advanced advertising technology, enabling seamless transactions across screens, data types, and sales channels. The Streaming Hub Publisher Suite is a full-stack supply-side platform that allows publishers to manage advertising inventory, optimize yield, and maintain business control across distribution channels while delivering premium video experiences. Committed to innovation, inclusivity, and professional growth, Freewheel fosters a dynamic work environment where diverse perspectives thrive while shaping the future of premium video advertising. Freewheel, a Comcast company, is seeking a Senior Manager, Software Engineering to lead multiple engineering teams powering core components of the Streaming Hub Publisher Suite. This leader is accountable for engineering execution, technical excellence, operational reliability, and talent development across multiple teams, partnering closely with global product and engineering leadership. This role requires strong technical depth and engagement in technical and architectural discussions; it is not a delivery-only management position.

Job Description

Key Job Responsibilities:

Engineering Execution & Delivery:

• Own and drive predictable, agile roadmap delivery across center-owned components and services. 
• Lead structured planning and rigorous estimation processes, proactively managing cross-team dependencies and delivery risks. 
• Develop and maintain clear capacity models to effectively balance near-term feature delivery with long-term platform investments. 
• Ensure consistent, high-quality execution across teams through strong delivery governance, performance metrics, and transparent reporting. 

Technical leadership

• Raise the engineering bar across the full software development lifecycle, including design reviews, code quality, testing, operational excellence, and documentation. 
• Drive architectural clarity and define clear component ownership boundaries across services and platforms. 
• Navigate ambiguity effectively, providing direction and focus while guiding teams through uncertainty and change. 
• Ensure engineering processes and systems are built for scale, resilience, and high availability in revenue-critical environments. 
• Provide coaching, strategic direction, and operational focus to multiple engineering managers and teams (2-4 teams comprising 40+ engineers). 

Organizational leadership

• Represent the center for all Streaming Hub initiatives with global stakeholders, ensuring strong alignment on strategy, goals, and priorities. 
• Build and maintain trusted partnerships with Product, UX, and business leaders, effectively advocating engineering perspectives in decision-making. 
• Hire, develop, and retain high-performing engineers and engineering managers, fostering a strong leadership pipeline. 
• Drive performance excellence through clear expectations, differentiation, and promotion readiness. 
• Build organizational depth through thoughtful succession planning across both technical and managerial career tracks. 
• Cultivate a culture of ownership, collaboration, knowledge sharing, and continuous learning.  

Minimum Qualification & Requirements:

• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience. 
• 15 years of experience building and operating distributed systems at scale. 
• 7-8+ years of engineering leadership experience, including managing engineering teams and developing managers. 
• Strong background in backend architecture using modern programming languages such as Golang or Java. 
• Experience with front-end development using JavaScript (preferably React) and modern HTML-based web technologies. 
• Proven experience designing and implementing scalable, distributed microservices architectures. 
• Strong experience designing and optimizing relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle), including schema design, indexing, and performance tuning. 
• Experience working with NoSQL databases (e.g., MongoDB, DynamoDB, Cassandra) is a plus. 
• Hands-on experience building and operating event-driven systems using Kafka. 
• Experience partnering cross-functionally with Product Management, Architecture, DevOps, and QA to deliver high-quality releases. 

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience in the AdTech domain will be given first preference. 
• Familiarity with real-time bidding (RTB), ad serving, user targeting, or analytics platforms. 
• Candidates with overseas work experience, or experience working for the India operations of a U.S.-based or global technology company 
• Exposure to high-throughput, low-latency systems 

Employees at all levels are expected to:

• Understand our Operating Principles; make them the guidelines for how you do your job.
• Own the customer experience - think and act in ways that put our customers first, give them seamless digital options at every touchpoint, and make them promoters of our products and services.
• Know your stuff - be enthusiastic learners, users and advocates of our game-changing technology, products and services, especially our digital tools and experiences.
• Win as a team - make big things happen by working together and being open to new ideas.
• Be an active part of the Net Promoter System - a way of working that brings more employee and customer feedback into the company - by joining huddles, making call backs and helping us elevate opportunities to do better for our customers.
• Drive results and growth.
• Support a culture of inclusion in how you work and lead.
• Do what's right for each other, our customers, investors and our communities.

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.

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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.

Relevant Work Experience

10 Years +