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Job Summary

Comcast Ventures is seeking a Director, Insights & Portfolio Development to sit at the intersection of our investment verticals’ (notably SportsTech) portfolio development and strategic insight functions. This is a hybrid role with three distinct but interconnected lanes: driving our SportsTech investment vertical forward, activating enterprise engagement across the Comcast ecosystem, and generating institutional intelligence that serves both the Comcast team and our partners. You will work closely with founders, VC partners, operating partners across Comcast, and external SportsTech partners. The role requires someone who can operate fluidly across early-stage startups and large institutional partners, communicate with credibility in both environments, and produce work product that is clear, structured, and actionable.

Job Description

How You’ll Make an Impact

• Own the operating cadence of our partner program, including agendas, materials, surveys, and follow-through across a defined set of internal Comcast and external sports industry stakeholders including NBC Sports, Sky Sports and several of Comcast’s professional sports League partners.
• Manage ongoing engagement with a consortium of media, league, and venue partners across the sports ecosystem, including structured touchpoints, information sharing, and joint programming.
• Build and sustain community across partners and portfolio companies through structured touchpoints, introductions, and shared programming.
• Route inbound and sourced companies to relevant Comcast business units and external partners with tailored context, and track engagement.
• Identify emerging investment themes and develop sector presentations and materials for internal and external partner audiences.
• Produce regular qualitative reporting for partners, synthesizing portfolio highlights, enterprise engagement activity, and vertical developments.
• Take initial meetings with prospective founders and produce structured first-pass assessments to inform partner review.
• Represent Comcast Ventures in front of partners, founders, and industry forums.

Experience You'll Bring

• Recent and relevant experience in venture, portfolio operations, enterprise partnerships, strategy, consulting, banking, or a high-growth operating role with meaningful cross-functional exposure.
• Direct prior exposure to sports, media, or platform businesses, whether through investing, operating, or partnerships work. A demonstrable point of view on where the sector is going.
• Demonstrated ability to produce written work product (memos, briefs, decks) for senior internal and external audiences. Writing samples may be requested.
• Comfort operating across both early-stage startups and large institutional organizations, and presenting credibly in front of senior external stakeholders.
• High ownership mindset with the organizational capacity to manage multiple active workstreams in a small, fast-moving team.
• Comfortable with regular domestic and occasional international travel for industry events, partner meetings, and conferences.

Why This Role Matters

Comcast Ventures invests across SportsTech as a dedicated vertical with a differentiated set of internal and external partners. This role sits at the center of that work and is responsible for making the vertical tangible through relationships, deal flow, and community, while ensuring our broader portfolio gets activated across one of the largest media and technology platforms in the world. It is an execution role with real ownership, high visibility, and direct exposure to the deals, partners, and founders shaping the next decade of sports and entertainment.

Responsibilities:

• Directing strategic business development initiatives for SportsTech investment vertical within Comcast Ventures.
• Orchestrating cross-functional teams in conducting market intelligence studies to identify emerging trends and market landscape shifts
• Developing strategic partnership frameworks and market-aligned response plans aligned with company objectives and market dynamics
• Establishing relationships with industry associations and key stakeholders to advance company's market position and strategic interests
• Consistent exercise of independent judgment and discretion in matters of significance
• 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.

Disclaimer: This information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees in this role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications.

Comcast is an equal opportunity workplace. We will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law.

Skills:

Business Insights; Portfolio Development; Business Development Programs; Strategic Alliances

Salary:

Primary Location Pay Range: $180,717.01 - $271,075.52

Comcast intends to offer the selected candidate base pay within this range, dependent on job-related, non-discriminatory factors such as experience. The application window is 30 days from the date job is posted, unless the number of applicants requires it to close sooner or later.

Base pay is one part of the Total Rewards that Comcast provides to compensate and recognize employees for their work. Most sales positions are eligible for a Commission under the terms of an applicable plan, while most non-sales positions are eligible for a Bonus. Additionally, Comcast provides best-in-class Benefits to eligible employees. We believe that benefits should connect you to the support you need when it matters most, and should help you care for those who matter most. That’s why we provide an array of options, expert guidance and always-on tools, that are personalized to meet the needs of your reality - to help support you physically, financially and emotionally through the big milestones and in your everyday life. Please visit the compensation and benefits summary on our careers site for more details.

Education

Bachelor's Degree

While possessing the stated degree is preferred, Comcast also may consider applicants who hold some combination of coursework and experience, or who have extensive related professional experience.

Relevant Work Experience

10 Years +