Director, Product Design, Mobile Reimagined

NBCUniversal is one of the world's leading media and entertainment companies, creating world-class content distributed across film, television, streaming, theme parks, consumer products, and experiences. We own and operate leading entertainment and news brands, including NBC, NBC News, NBC Sports, Telemundo, NBC Local Stations, Bravo, and Peacock, our premium ad-supported streaming service. We produce and distribute premier filmed entertainment and programming through Universal Pictures, DreamWorks Animation, Focus Features, and Universal Studio Group, and operate industry-leading theme parks and experiences worldwide.

About Our Team

Our Product Design team is reimagining what mobile entertainment can be, transforming the Peacock app into a true general entertainment platform where viewers move seamlessly between shows, movies, games, short-form video, podcasts, and AI-powered features. We're dedicated to crafting a mobile experience that puts viewers first, elevates exceptional design, and builds real daily value. We're not just improving how people watch—we're redefining what a mobile entertainment platform can and should be.

Who You Are

You believe great design drives real business value and understand how craft and customer impact connect. You are a design leader with relentlessly high standards and deep operational knowledge across every aspect of UX and product design. You know how to build, coach, and grow a team of designers and take pride in seeing people do their best work. You are thoughtful and curious, staying on top of consumer digital product best practices, tools, and emerging technology, including AI. You leverage data and viewer insights to guide your team, identify impactful concepts, and push them through rigorous evaluation, execution, and release. You are a strong communicator and storyteller, comfortable presenting to senior stakeholders and advocating for design decisions with facts. You think creatively, turning big ideas into actionable plans, and are equally comfortable setting vision or executing daily tasks. You thrive in fast-paced, iterative, and collaborative environments and keep your team grounded amid shifting priorities.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a team of designers, providing mentorship, creative direction, and career development while building a culture of craft and accountability.
• Own end-to-end design strategy for the mobile experience, spanning browse, long-form and short-form content, games, and fandoms, with a vision for how they cohere into a single, seamless platform.
• Connect design work to business impact, tying creative decisions to measurable outcomes.
• Partner closely with Product and Engineering leadership to shape a working model that keeps Design, Engineering, and Product aligned from discovery through release.
• Explore and champion practical ways AI can improve both the product experience and team workflows, from AI-powered features for viewers to AI-assisted tools for design and engineering.
• Translate ambiguous problem spaces into clear frameworks, hypotheses, and design directions for your team to execute.
• Set and uphold production-ready standards in alignment with business and design goals for both domestic and international audiences.
• Drive alignment among stakeholders and senior leadership on research insights, design decisions, and tradeoffs.
• Partner with Data and Research to identify actionable insights and ensure they inform long-term design and product strategy.
• Manage prioritization and workload across the team, ensuring features and vision progress from concept through experimentation to customer launch.
• Represent the design team in cross-functional planning, defining requirements, scope, dependencies, and success criteria alongside PM and Engineering.
• Maintain a critical eye and obsessive attention to detail, both in your own work and in what you approve from your team.
• Share findings and design direction with the broader UX org, presenting work visually and building buy-in across the company.

Requirements

• Degree in design, computer science, human factors, or equivalent work experience.
• 10+ years of relevant work experience in design, including several years directly managing and developing designers.
• Proven track record as a design leader, able to build, coach, and grow a team while directing others through the creative process.
• Ability to clearly communicate design strategy and decisions to senior stakeholders and executives.
• Strong understanding of interaction design principles and how to coach others in them.
• Proven proficiency in Figma, Adobe Suite, Microsoft 365, and Jira.
• Experience with UX and prototyping development, motion graphics best practices, and integrating AI tools into a modern design workflow.
• Excellent collaborative skills with critical thinking and creative problem-solving abilities.
• Experience partnering with Engineering and Product in agile or iterative working models.
• Ability to operate independently, manage a team, and juggle multiple projects in a deadline-driven environment.

Qualifications

• Strong portfolio spanning mobile, web, and multimedia, with demonstrated depth in mobile-first design and leading teams that shipped it.
• Deep knowledge of iOS and Android platform conventions, patterns, and UI specifications.
• Experience designing for accessibility and international audiences.

Schedule

This position has a hybrid schedule, requiring in-office work a minimum of four days per week. The company reserves the right to change in-office requirements at any time.

Pay

Salary range: $180,000 - $225,000 (bonus and long-term incentive eligible).