Director, Technical Project Management-Xumo

Xumo, a joint venture between Comcast and Charter Communications, was formed to develop and offer a next-generation streaming platform for the entire entertainment industry. The company consists of three primary lines of business: Xumo devices, Xumo Play, and Xumo Enterprise. Powered by Comcast’s global entertainment platform, Xumo devices feature a world-class user interface with universal voice search capabilities, making it easy for consumers to find and enjoy their favorite streaming content. Xumo Play is a free ad-supported streaming TV (FAST) service offering hundreds of linear channels and on-demand options. Xumo Enterprise provides tools and services for content creators, distributors, and advertisers to make FAST content more accessible.

Job Summary

Responsible for strategic planning and tactical execution management of complex, cross-functional initiatives across a highly technical, fast-paced organization. This role sits at the intersection of strategy and execution, ensuring engineering and business teams are aligned, resourced, and delivering predictably. The ideal candidate is a seasoned delivery leader with a strong agile mindset, deep tactical planning and coordination management, and proven experience building execution discipline without slowing teams down. You bring a hands-on approach, coach teams through change, and know how to scale agile practices in enterprise environments.

Job Description

Additional Info/Highly Preferred Experience:

• Position is office based in Irvine, CA -4 days a week in office/1 day remote.

• Release Train Engineer experience with a strong engineering team collaboration background ideal within streaming, video, media industry.

Core Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end execution of large, cross-functional projects that are critical to business success.

• Lead tactical delivery across multiple engineering teams, ensuring alignment through consistent agile workflows, ceremonies, and execution standards.

• Act as a senior agile leader and coach, helping teams adopt, mature, and continuously improve agile ways of working in highly technical environments.

• Design, implement, and optimize Jira workflows, reporting, and dashboards to support capacity planning and demand forecasting, dependency and collision management, and proactive risk identification and mitigation.

• Partner closely with Engineering, Product, and Business leaders to translate strategic priorities into executable delivery plans.

• Drive clarity and accountability across teams by identifying delivery risks, managing tradeoffs, and course-correcting as needed.

• Lead a high-performing team of project managers through coaching, development, and performance management.

• Establish the right level of process rigor, bringing structure and predictability while remaining flexible and responsive to change.

• Provide clear, data-driven communication to senior leaders on delivery status, capacity, risks, and resourcing needs.

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.

Comcast is an equal opportunity workplace. We will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law.

Skills:

Technical Designs; Proactive Behavior; Taking Initiative; Cross-Functional Teamwork; Agile Methodology

Salary:

Primary Location Pay Range: This job can be performed in California with a good faith estimated pay range upon hire of $155,178.62 - $206,904.82 USD.

Comcast intends to offer the selected candidate base pay within the posted range for this role at the time of posting dependent on job-related, non-discriminatory factors such as experience. The application window is 30 days from the date job is posted, unless the number of applicants requires it to close sooner or later.

Base pay is one part of the Total Rewards that Comcast provides to compensate and recognize employees for their work. Most sales positions are eligible for a Commission under the terms of an applicable plan, while most non-sales positions are eligible for a Bonus. Additionally, Comcast provides best-in-class Benefits to eligible employees. We believe that benefits should connect you to the support you need when it matters most, and should help you care for those who matter most. That?s why we provide an array of options, expert guidance and always-on tools, that are personalized to meet the needs of your reality ? to help support you physically, financially and emotionally through the big milestones and in your everyday life. Please visit the compensation and benefits summary on our careers site for more details.

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 +