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DreamWorks Animation · 11 hours ago

Director, Identity Data Architecture

NBCUniversal is one of the world's leading media and entertainment companies. The Director, Identity Data Architecture is responsible for defining and driving the strategy, technical design, and long-term vision of NBCU’s enterprise Identity Graph, ensuring scalable and privacy-safe identity resolution across all advertising and audience platforms.

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Responsibilities

Lead the overall strategy, architecture, and evolution of NBCU’s Identity Graph, ensuring it delivers scalable, privacy‑safe identity resolution across all Ad Sales and audience platforms
Own architectural decisions and long‑term roadmap for how identity data is modeled, linked, governed, and deployed across internal systems and partner environments
Design, test, and optimize identity graph build logic to support both high‑scale reach and high‑precision matching, improving match rates, fidelity, and performance over time
Evaluate and integrate large‑scale internal and third‑party census‑level datasets, determining the best methods to ingest, normalize, and activate new identity signals
Develop and maintain identity data standards, pipelines, and frameworks that ensure accuracy, stability, and interoperability across downstream activation, analytics, and measurement workflows
Partner with Engineering, Data Science, Privacy, Cyber, Legal, and Product teams to ensure the graph meets regulatory, technical, and operational requirements while enabling new use cases
Continuously analyze new datasets, methodologies, and identity technologies to recommend enhancements that improve graph performance, reduce third‑party dependency, and expand NBCU’s first‑party scale

Qualification

Data architectureIdentity resolutionGraph-based architecturesData engineeringLarge-scale datasetsOrganizational matrixLeadershipCommunication skills

Required

10+ years of experience working in data architecture, data engineering, or identity resolution—ideally within large‑scale consumer data, advertising, or digital platforms
Deep expertise in designing and operating complex identity systems, including graph‑based architectures, multi‑identifier resolution, and ingesting large first‑ and third‑party datasets at scale
Proven leadership partnering across engineering, product, privacy, and data science teams to define data standards, guide architectural decisions, and drive delivery of high‑impact identity products

Preferred

Demonstrated success in working across an organizational matrix
Excellent verbal and written communications skills
A proven ability to effectively present to senior executives, colleagues, vendors, clients, talent, and other levels of personnel
Ability to share cohesive insights and make recommendations
Ability to articulate vision and direction, communicate effectively and manage performance and accountability

Benefits

Medical, dental and vision insurance
401(k)
Paid leave
Tuition reimbursement
A variety of other discounts and perks

Company

DreamWorks Animation

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DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc. engages in the development, production, and exploitation of animated films and associated characters

H1B Sponsorship

DreamWorks Animation has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
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2025 (8)
2024 (7)
2023 (5)
2022 (12)
2021 (13)
2020 (19)

Funding

Current Stage
Public Company
Total Funding
$15M
2016-04-28Acquired
2015-02-12Post Ipo Equity· $15M
2004-10-28IPO

Leadership Team

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Kate Swanborg
SVP, Technology Communications and Strategic Alliances
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Shabrayia Cleaver
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