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 of Engineering Delivery Management is accountable for the effectiveness, scalability, and outcomes of delivery across the organization. This role owns the delivery operating model, planning and governance mechanisms, performance insights, and talent strategy required to execute complex initiatives aligned to business priorities. The Director leads the delivery organization and partners with Product and Engineering to set realistic, transparent, and reliable delivery commitments. Success is measured by organizational outcomes and delivery effectiveness at scale.

Job Description

Core Responsibilities:

Organizational & People Leadership

• Lead, coach, and develop delivery managers and senior delivery professionals

• Establish role clarity, performance expectations, and career development across the delivery function

• Build succession plans and ensure delivery capabilities scale with business demand

• Promote a culture of accountability, ownership, and continuous improvement

Delivery Operating Model Ownership

• Define and evolve delivery frameworks, standards, and operating expectations

• Establish planning, prioritization, and governance mechanisms appropriate to organizational scale

• Balance autonomy and consistency across teams, platforms, and portfolios

Executive Partnership & Governance

• Serve as a trusted delivery advisor to senior and executive leadership

• Lead delivery governance forums and executive readouts

• Provide clear, data-driven insight into delivery health, risk, and tradeoffs

• Enable informed decision-making by translating complexity into actionable narratives

Metrics, Insights & Continuous Improvement

• Own delivery metrics and dashboards that provide meaningful organizational insight

• Identify systemic risks, capacity constraints, and improvement opportunities

• Drive continuous improvement across delivery practices, tooling, and ways of working

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

Engineering-Centric Delivery Leadership

• Own delivery execution across engineering pods (scrum teams)

• Partner closely with Engineering leadership on execution strategy, sequencing, and dependencies

• Ensure delivery practices align with modern SDLC expectations and engineering workflows

Platform & Dependency Management

• Govern cross-platform dependencies, integration points, and technical risk

• Ensure platform-level initiatives are sequenced and resourced realistically

• Sponsor resolution of systemic engineering delivery impediments

Engineering-Focused Planning & Capacity

• Align engineering capacity with product roadmaps and technical commitments

• Enable tradeoff discussions around technical investment, modernization, and feature delivery

• Ensure delivery decisions reflect engineering constraints and sustainability

Tooling & Engineering Visibility

• Own delivery tooling strategy supporting engineering execution (e.g., Jira ecosystems, deployment visibility)

• Ensure delivery metrics reflect engineering health, flow, and predictable execution

• Reduce manual overhead and improve transparency across engineering teams

EDM Success is measured by

• Predictable engineering execution across platforms

• Reduced delivery friction and technical dependency risk

• Alignment between product ambition and engineering capacity

Job Knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSA’s):

Knowledge:

• Enterprise‑scale engineering delivery models and modern SDLC practices
• Platform‑based technology organizations and cross‑platform dependency management
• Portfolio planning, capacity modeling, and delivery governance frameworks
• Delivery metrics, flow indicators, and performance management at scale
• Organizational change management within engineering and product environments

Skills:

• Executive‑level communication and influence across technical and business leaders
• Leading and developing managers and senior delivery professionals
• Strategic planning, prioritization, and systems‑level problem solving
• Translating engineering complexity into clear risks, tradeoffs, and decisions
• Driving alignment and accountability across distributed, cross‑functional teams

Abilities:

• Design, evolve, and sustain scalable engineering delivery operating models
• Align engineering execution with business strategy, investment, and capacity
• Anticipate and mitigate systemic delivery risks before they impact outcomes
• Establish transparency, predictability, and trust in engineering delivery
• Lead through ambiguity and organizational change while maintaining delivery momentum

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:

Leadership; Program Management; Change Management; Continuous Improvement; People Management; Taking Initiative; Cross-Functional Teamwork

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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 +