Director, Software Engineering (Generative AI)

We are seeking a Director, Software Engineering to play a pivotal role in our company's success. As a leader of several initiatives focused on implementing and innovating multimodal and generative AI technology across various engineering efforts, you will be instrumental in helping ignite how we infuse critical thinking and implement state-of-the-art techniques across the organization. Your technical expertise and leadership will be vital in modernizing how we write software, cross the "uncommon valley" of UX experiences and reduce friction, partner closely with our data science team, and cement a solid engineering culture. Your role will mentor, guide, and grow the team's skills and significantly contribute to our modern unified architecture. Imagine being at the forefront of a critical mission. As a leader of the Generative AI engineering team, you will not only shape the direction of our engineering culture but also leverage generative model techniques, integrate language models for natural understanding capabilities, and enable multimodal models to comprehend a variety of different data sources throughout our ecosystem. This role demands an innovative mindset with a passion for technology-driven business transformation, and the ability to communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders. To be successful, the candidate will have demonstrated experience implementing AI and ML solutions in a business context. They will also have exceptional communication skills to articulate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders and facilitate effective collaboration across different departments. Most importantly, the ideal candidate will be a leader and activist in building a diverse and inclusive workforce, a highly valued role in our company. You will create a culture of solid technical ownership, resulting in reliable products and services at scale, foster a healthy and collaborative culture that embodies NBCU's values, and continue to develop NBCU as one of the best places to work. Your leadership will be critical in fostering a culture of efficiency and innovation within our engineering teams as well as how we collaborate with our partners in across NBCU. You will be responsible for helping root our engineering culture that in cloud-native architectures, “actions over words,” being a “friction reducer.” Responsibilities: Lead engineering teams which will require extensive software engineering experience, especially in formulating strategy, roadmaps, and associated standards, policies, and frameworks. Sharp eye for quality team contribution; ability to assess team members' work product at scale. Analyze customer needs and develop engineering team roadmap and backlog based on organization goals and customer impact. Collaborate closely with internal stakeholders, including product, engineering experience, cyber security, privacy, and business solutions teams, to ensure seamless delivery. Drive technical excellence and innovation within the team, mentoring and developing engineers to build their skills and careers. Manage budgets, contracts, and relationships with vendors and partners, ensuring projects are delivered within scope and budget. Define and oversee the implementation of engineering policies and procedures that promote reliability, security, and compliance across all software products. Expertise working on a team with motivated cross-functional individuals focused on a common goal of delivering innovative solutions to meet aggressive business demands in an ever-changing environment and achieve on-time and on-budget project completion. Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to relate complex information to technical and non-technical audiences with transparency and accuracy. Demonstrated ability to articulate complex technical themes to C-level executives. Ability to manage time and juggle multiple priorities to execute high-quality deliverables. Superior oral and written communication skills with an innate attention to detail.