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Sr Director, Program Management - Accelerated Development

Comcast / Xfinity

Philadelphia, PAFull-timePosted 1w agoStill listed 4 days ago

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Compensation
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Location
Philadelphia, PA
Schedule
Full-time
Work Authorization
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Requirements

Credentials this posting asks for.

Bachelor's degree

Job overview

The Sr Director, Accelerating Talent leads an enterprise portfolio of education and experience pathways designed to build future-critical skills, accelerate readiness, and strengthen talent pipelines. The role aligns development investments with business strategy, succession, internal mobility, and workforce needs, using program management, AI-enabled personalization, and measurable outcomes. It partners across business, HR, and Talent teams to connect development with critical-role opportunities.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Budget ManagementChange ManagementCross-Functional LeadershipExecutive PresencePeople ManagementPortfolio ManagementProgram Planning

Qualifications

10+ Years Relevant ExperienceBachelor's Degree

Full job description

Comcast brings together the best in media and technology. We drive innovation to create the world's best entertainment and online experiences. As a Fortune 50 leader, we set the pace in a variety of innovative and fascinating businesses and create career opportunities across a wide range of locations and disciplines. We are at the forefront of change and move at an amazing pace, thanks to our remarkable people, who bring cutting-edge products and services to life for millions of customers every day. If you share in our passion for teamwork, our vision to revolutionize industries and our goal to lead the future in media and technology, we want you to fast-forward your career at Comcast.

Job Summary The Sr Director, Accelerating Talent leads an enterprise portfolio of education and experience pathways that build future-critical skills, accelerate readiness, and strengthen pipelines for early career, advancing and accelerating talent, and critical role talent. This role aligns development investments with business strategy, skills intelligence, succession, internal mobility, and long-term workforce needs, using disciplined program management, AI-enabled personalization, and measurable outcomes to move talent where the business needs it most. Job Description Responsibilities:

  • Design and lead enterprise pathways that combine learning, rotations, stretch assignments, sponsorship, and exposure to accelerate skills and leadership readiness.

  • Manage the program portfolio, budget, capacity, dependencies, risks, and executive decisions, prioritizing investments based on business and workforce value.

  • Establish transparent, equitable selection, readiness, placement, and completion criteria that broaden access and strengthen accountability.

  • Use skills intelligence, AI, and automation to personalize pathways, match talent to experiences, track progress, and streamline program administration.

  • Connect participants and graduates to succession plans, internal mobility, and critical-role opportunities, with clear leader and participant accountability for applying development.

  • Partner with business, HR, and Talent leaders to align pathways with future-critical skills, pipeline gaps, transformation priorities, and enterprise talent strategy.

  • Govern external education and development partners against capability outcomes, participant experience, cost, and business value.

  • Measure impact through skill growth, readiness, mobility, critical-role placement, retention, pipeline strength, and return on investment.

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.

Skills Budget Management, Change Management, Cross-Functional Leadership, Executive Presence, People Management, Portfolio Management, Program Planning

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 benefits summary on our careers site for more details.

Education Bachelor's Degree

Certifications (if applicable)

Relevant Work Experience 10 Years +

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.

How this job compares

Set against the 10,761 open Program Management jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.

Pay
  • This postingNot listed
  • Pennsylvania median$126–206K/yr160 salary ranges
  • US median$28–36/hr358 hourly ranges
Openings
Olive Jobs lists 262 open Program Management jobs in Pennsylvania and 10,761 across the US. 5% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Pennsylvania
Experience
This posting asks for at least 10 years of experience; Program Management postings that state a minimum ask for 7 years at the median (9,212 postings).
Education
This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 4,188 of the 10,761 open Program Management jobs (39%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 4, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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