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Director, Product and User Experience
NBC Universal
Orlando, FL, United States
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About Us
NBCUniversal is one of the world’s leading media and entertainment companies in the development, production, and marketing of entertainment, news, and information to a global audience. NBCUniversal owns and operates a valuable portfolio of news and entertainment television networks, a premier motion picture company, significant television production operations, a leading television stations group, and world-renowned theme parks. NBCUniversal’s policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, gender identity or expression, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status, membership in the uniformed services, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law. GolfNow, a division of Golf Channel is the internet’s largest online tee time reservation service, trusted by more than 1.5 million golfers. Using leading-edge technology, GolfNow provides more ways for golfers to stay connected to their favorite golf courses and tee times through the web, e-mail and mobile applications. As a partner to golf courses, GolfNow provides turnkey solutions to their operations (www.golfnowsolutions.com) with the main areas of focus on:
Online marketing and distribution of tee times
Web hosting, development and customer management solutions
Revenue optimization, database expansion and other course products
Responsibilities
This position will assume primary responsibility for product and project management of GolfNow.com and related tee time/travel properties. The Sr. Director will coordinate with Technology, Editorial, Marketing and Sales teams to develop features that drive traffic and deliver revenue.
Ownership of the daily operations of all tee time transactional responsive websites including definition and delivery of features and functionality for GolfNow, Military Tee Times, Tee Off Times.
Management of ratings and reviews website (Golf Advisor) and suite of travel related properties (WorldGolf, TravelGolf).
Work closely with Technology teams to prioritize, build, test and implement new applications and functionality.
Act as primary stakeholder for Agile (Scrum) software development projects.
Manage an organizational environment with many highly critical tasks and be able to distinguish opportunities that provide the greatest return to the business.
Work with Business Intelligence team members to develop metrics and reporting strategy that helps stakeholders across our organization.
Work closely with Design team to ensures standards and best practices are appropriately communicated and documented across properties.
Engage with Marketing to provide consistent experience and messaging across products.
Manage external vendor partnerships, ensuring proper resource allocation and timely feature delivery.
Contribute to multi-platform strategy by working closely with Mobile team for seamless transactional experience.
Partner with VP, Product Development to develop and maintain the long-term product strategy & vision for the GolfNow digital products.
Qualifications/Requirements
Bachelor's Degree in related field required.
Minimum of 5 years of experience in related field.
Ability to work effectively in a team environment.
Strong organizational, planning, analytical and communication skills.
Leadership experience
Other related skills and/or abilities may be required to perform this job
Desired Characteristics
Masters degree preferred
Experience shifting a company’s focus from B2B to B2C.
Experience in a startup environment.