Executive Director, Human Resources

Comcast Advertising is driving the TV advertising industry forward, from delivering ads to linear and digital audiences to pioneering the tech that makes it possible. We help brands connect with their audiences on every screen using advanced data, technology, and premium video content. Our media sales division helps local, regional, and national brands reach potential customers through multiscreen TV advertising.

Our ad tech division Free Wheel provides comprehensive adtech that makes it easier to buy and sell premium video advertising across all screens, data types, and sales channels.

Job Summary

The Executive Director of Human Resources for the Engineering Organization is the senior HR leader supporting Free Wheel's global technology function and the Strata Organization. This role partners directly with the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and the Senior Vice President and General Manager for Strata. This person will work closely with their leadership teams to define and execute the people strategy for a large, complex, and highly technical and sales organizations responsible for Free Wheel's product engineering, architecture, platform, and infrastructure capabilities and the growth and development of Strata organization

This HR leader plays a critical role in shaping organizational strategy, engineering culture, talent growth, leadership effectiveness, and the global operating model that enables high performing engineering and sales teams. The Executive Director drives enterprise level initiatives designed to support rapid innovation, scale technical capability, strengthen engineering leadership pipelines, and ensure Free Wheel remains a destination for top technical talent performing engineering teams.

This position is based in New York City and collaborates closely with global HR Business Partners and Centers of Excellence across Talent, Total Rewards, Learning & Development, Workforce Strategy, and DEI.

Job Description

Core Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership & Business Partnership

* Serve as the senior HR advisor to the CTO and engineering leadership team, influencing decisions on organizational priorities, engineering strategy, and workforce implications.

* Serves as the senior HR advisor to the SVP, General Manager of Strata shaping decisions on organizational priorities and workforce design to enable this engineering and revenue generating organization for long-term success.

* Develop and execute a long-term people strategy aligned with the engineering roadmap, technical vision, and product innovation goals, people strategy aligned with the engineering roadmap, technical vision, and product innovation goals.

* Guide organizational design and evolution, including global workforce planning, capacity modeling, team structure, and location strategy.

* Provide executive level coaching to engineering leaders, strengthening leadership capability, cross team alignment, and team performance, level coaching to engineering leaders, strengthening leadership capability, cross team alignment, and team performance.

* Leverage data, engineering productivity insights, and market trends to proactively identify talent needs, risk areas, and organizational opportunities.

Talent Strategy & Technical Workforce Development

* Lead the design and execution of talent strategies for the engineering organization-covering succession planning, career frameworks, technical skills development, and engineering leadership pipelines.

* Drive initiatives to attract, develop, and retain top engineering talent, including modernizing hiring processes, leveling frameworks, and career pathing.

* Partner with Talent Management and L&D to build targeted programs for engineering managers, architects, and emerging technical leaders.

* Establish mechanisms to strengthen engineering engagement, technical culture, innovation, and team health.

Organizational Effectiveness & Change Leadership

* Lead large scale organizational transformations, including operating model evolution, agile adoption, cross functional alignment, and integration efforts

* Provide strategic HR leadership on global engineering initiatives such as modernization, cloud transformation, and new product platform development.

* Ensure change management frameworks drive clarity, adoption, and sustained organizational outcomes.

Employee Relations & Risk Mitigation

* Oversee resolution of high complexity employee relations matters, ensuring consistency, fairness, and legal compliance across global locations, complex employee relations matters, ensuring consistency, fairness, and legal compliance across global locations.

* Anticipate and address workplace trends, engineering team challenges, and organizational risks.

* Ensure HR practices comply with all relevant global employment laws and internal Comcast/Free Wheel policies.

* Maintain high standards of Workday data integrity and compliance reporting.

Cross Functional HR Leadership Functional HR Leadership

* Partner closely with Centers of Excellence to…