Role Summary: The Universal Studio Group (USG) Strategy and Business Development department is a highly visible function that works closely with USG senior management. The group works on a wide range of strategic initiatives including identifying and assessing key growth opportunities, operating efficiencies and investments on behalf of the television studio group. Reporting to the EVP of Strategy & Business Development, the VP role is a unique, critical, and highly visible one at USG.

Position Overview: Responsible for all rights management, near-term and long-term programming, strategic scheduling, formatting, reporting and contingency planning for all sports across linear and digital platforms. Responsibilities: Responsible for scheduling, planning, and reporting, including communicating schedule information to both internal and external partners.  Responsible for negotiating and managing rights to sports events and programming. Identifies and fosters strong strategic partnerships across the Versant sports portfolio of sports leagues, teams, and other organizations.

The Vice President, Streaming Strategy & Ad Tech will participate in leading development and execution of strategies to maximize ad revenue across all Versant digital endpoints and facilitate reporting of digital revenue performance. Additionally, this role will be a main contributor in efforts against development of ad products, and relationship management across key constituencies including Versant cross-functional leadership, NBCU sales and AP&O teams, and both internal and external tech/enablement partners.

Position Overview We are looking for a highly motivated and experienced Product leader to help us build the next set of innovative products for the news brands within Versant, the new spinoff from NBCUniversal. This is an exciting time to be joining a newly created product and tech unit that will support the ambitious digital goals of CNBC, MSNBC and E!Online.

Position Summary: A key and integral member of the news leadership team, the Vice President, Standards will be responsible for guiding editorial teams at MSNBC and CNBC to decisions that lead to the best journalism outcomes, ensuring compliance with ethical guidelines, and fostering a culture of accuracy, fairness, and transparency in news reporting. They will report to the Senior Vice President, Standards, to help lead the Versant News Standards Team and devise and execute strategic priorities for the team.

The Position The Vice President, Human Resources will provide HR leadership to the NBC News International bureaus in the UK and other international locations where our employees are deployed or based. The role will be responsible for leading and managing the entire employee life cycle, such as recruitment, development, and retention, as well as employee relations, compensation planning, training and development, rewards & recognition, organizational effectiveness and employee communication employee engagement, culture development, and change management.

The VP of Partner Management will be a key leader responsible for fostering, developing and executing relationship and marketing strategies with key distribution partners and platforms to drive and support Versant’s portfolio of media properties to a wide range of companies, spanning MVPDs, virtual MVPDs, and OTT/streaming platforms as well as coordinating and collaborating with and supporting the sales team to execute on negotiated tactics and marketing campaigns.

Versant is seeking an experienced, innovative and growth-driven digital Vice President, Digital Strategy who will be responsible for managing a multi-platform digital strategy, identifying and executing key KPIs and driving growth and revenue across the SYFY, Oxygen, USA and E! News. The Vice President will oversee the digital strategy in the following topical areas: multi-platform video, social and emerging platforms, revenue and audience, and establish best-in-class content strategies on websites, apps and third party distribution.

The Position Responsibilities include, but are not limited to: Oversee the company’s accounting policy function as a key leader in Chief Accounting Officer organization.

OVERVIEW The Vice President, News Programming Finance, will be responsible for leading the finance support for the Programming and Newsgathering teams of MSNBC and CNBC. Managing a team of three motivated professionals, this leader will partner with senior leaders of CNBC and MSNBC to execute on day to day priorities as well as key initiatives.