Director, Commercial Initiatives - FreeWheel

FreeWheel, a Comcast company, provides comprehensive ad platforms for publishers, advertisers, and media buyers. Powered by premium video content, robust data, and advanced technology, we’re making it easier for buyers and sellers to transact across all screens, data types, and sales channels. As a global company, we have offices in nine countries and can insert advertisements around the world.

Job Summary

The Director, Commercial Initiatives is responsible for acting as the unified voice of FreeWheel's commercial organization, ensuring that our product and operations teams are developing the capabilities that will maximize FreeWheel's financial and strategic outcomes. In this role, you will work across FreeWheel's global revenue and partnerships organizations to identify all of the major product and operations capabilities that can drive meaningful outcomes. You will prioritize those investments for our executives and product and engineering organizations, and ensure that we stay aligned with those priorities throughout their development and go-to-market lifecycles. This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship. Applicants must be authorized to work for Comcast in the United States without a current or potential future need for sponsorship. The opportunity is onsite (4 days per week) at the FreeWheel office located at 1407 Broadway, New York city.

Job Description

Core Responsibilities

• Consolidate all product and operations investment requests from revenue and partnerships teams.
• Prioritize the highest value requests and develop business cases to justify those priorities.
• Work with the FreeWheel Strategy team to ideate net new product and operations capabilities that support expansion into new lines of business.
• Gain alignment on development priorities with commercial, product and operations leadership.
• Communicate development priorities across the FreeWheel commercial organization, ensuring shared understanding and alignment.
• Collaborate with product and operations teams to refine processes for intake and prioritization of development requests.
• Ensure development and go-to-market teams remain aligned with commercial initiative priorities as they go through their development and go-to-market lifecycles.
• Develop and maintain in-depth understanding of FreeWheel's products, customers, partners and competitors.
• Establish trusted working relationships cross-functionally within FreeWheel.

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.
• Respect and promote inclusion & diversity.
• 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 proud to be 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:

Strategic Prioritization; Business Case Development; Building Trust; Leading by Influence

Salary:

Primary Location Pay Range: $158,689.27 - $238,033.90

Comcast intends to offer the selected candidate base pay within this range, 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 +