Executive Director, Engineering - Xumo PLAY

About the role

Xumo, a joint venture between Comcast and Charter Communications, was formed to develop and offer a next-generation streaming platform for the entire entertainment industry. The company consists of three primary lines of business: Xumo devices, Xumo Play, and Xumo Enterprise.

Powered by Comcast's global entertainment platform, Xumo devices feature a world-class user interface with universal voice search capabilities, making it easy for consumers to find and enjoy their favorite streaming content. Xumo Play is a free ad-supported streaming TV (FAST) service offering hundreds of linear channels and on-demand options.

Xumo Enterprise provides tools and services for content creators, distributors, and advertisers to make FAST content more accessible.

Job Summary

This role leads engineering strategy and execution for Xumo Play as it evolves across deeply integrated, platform-native experience on owned-and-operated systems and a distribution-optimized experience across third-party ecosystems. The leader operates at the intersection of platform architecture, product strategy, content distribution, audience reach, monetization, and enterprise partner outcomes, ensuring engineering investments are aligned with engagement growth, platform efficiency, commercial scalability, and long-term business sustainability.

Highly Preferred Qualifications/Ideal Experience

• Deep experience leading engineering organizations responsible for video, advertising technology, CTV applications, backend services, AI/ML based personalization and recommendation platforms at scale.
• Proven success building and evolving cloud-based platform architectures that support high-volume consumer & enterprise products.
• Experience scaling platforms from early-stage development through significant user growth.
• Demonstrated ability to lead through ambiguity & drive results in fast-paced, high-growth environments.
• Track record of managing global teams, developing engineering leaders and established teams, fostering accountability, collaboration, high performance and a winning culture.
• Exceptional cross-functional leadership skills with the ability to partner effectively across product, data, operations, and business organizations.
• Position is office based in Philadelphia -4 days a week in office/1 day remote

Responsibilities

• Define and lead the engineering strategy for Xumo Play across owned-and-operated and third-party distribution environments, ensuring the product can deepen platform integration while preserving business viability and differentiation.
• Lead multi-dimensional execution across client applications, backend services, platform integrations, data, personalization, identity, quality, release operations, and partner-facing capabilities.
• Translate FAST, content, enterprise, distribution, partner success, and monetization needs into scalable engineering roadmaps, platform capabilities, and repeatable operating models.
• Establish KPI-driven execution models tied to engagement growth, third-party expansion, monetization outcomes, platform cost efficiency, reliability, scalability, and long-term ROI.
• Drive deep integration with the Xumo platform (EntOS) ecosystem, including native UX integration, shared data models, platform-owned identity, recommendation systems, programming systems, and hybrid personalization capabilities.
• Act as the primary bridge between Xumo Play product ecosystems and platform organizations, building strong relationships with EntOS platform architects, product leaders, FAST business stakeholders, content teams, enterprise business leaders, distribution partners, and monetization stakeholders.
• Balance platform alignment with product ownership by navigating EntOS roadmap priorities, Xumo Play business KPIs, product autonomy, integration trade-offs, and differentiated customer experiences.
• Provide strategic thought leadership as ownership structures and operating models evolve, helping define where Xumo Play should preserve optionality, deepen platform alignment, create enterprise-facing capabilities, and protect business outcomes.
• Provide technical and architectural guidance across distributed systems, cloud-native platforms, streaming and device ecosystems, identity-driven personalization, data sharing, and ad-experience-driven monetization.
• Manage budgeting, resource allocation, and strategic investment decisions to ensure engineering capacity, platform dependencies, and execution priorities are aligned to business value and financial outcomes.
• Build and scale globally distributed engineering organizations that can operate across platform dependencies, product divergence, partner complexity, and cross-functional execution challenges.
• Develop leaders and senior technical talent who can operate across engineering, product, platform, business, and enterprise partner boundaries.
• Ensure operational excellence, security, compliance, governance, audit readiness, and production quality across Xumo Play systems and platform integrations.
• Inspire team commitment, build shared vision, and foster a collaborative, inclusive, high-performing engineering culture across onshore and offshore teams.
• Consistent exercise of independent judgment and discretion in matters of significance.
• Regular, consistent and punctual attendance. Must be able to work nights and weekends, variable schedule(s) as necessary.
• Other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

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.