Universal Ads, a part of Comcast, enables any brand, of any size, to seamlessly make and buy commercials across premium video reaching new qualified audiences at scale. Universal Ads combines premium and brand-safe video content directly from the most influential media companies with the ease and familiarity of social ad buying. It is your one-stop shop for high-quality video ads delivering performance and unmatched scale.

Job Summary

Universal Ads is building the infrastructure to modernize digital and video advertising. We enable advertisers to access premium video inventory through a seamless and scalable platform. Our mission is to simplify campaign management and reporting by combining smart backend systems, flexible APIs, and powerful integrations with external platforms.
As our team grows, we’re looking for a Frontend Engineering Manager to lead the development of our marketing UI and the frontend components that power user interactions, client-side integrations, and more.

As the Frontend Engineering Manager, you will lead a team of engineers working on the core frontend systems behind our marketing UI and internal tooling. You’ll play a key role in architecting scalable solutions, managing client-side integration efforts with third-party services, and ensuring the responsiveness and performance of our frontend systems.

This role is ideal for someone who thrives in a fast-moving environment, has strong architectural instincts, and enjoys balancing technical leadership with people management.

Job Description

Core Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a frontend engineering team focused on building and maintaining our marketing UI and internal platform components.
• Own the architecture and delivery of new features, components, and client-side integrations that power customer-facing and internal experiences.
• Drive clean component design and robust frontend systems for responsiveness, accessibility, and maintainability.
• Collaborate closely with Product and Engineering leadership to translate business needs into technical solutions.
• Oversee technical roadmaps and sprint planning, balancing short-term needs with long-term system health.
• Ensure best practices in code quality, testing, security, and UI consistency.
• Guide frontend integration efforts with backend services and external partners across ad tech, authentication, and analytics.
• Foster a collaborative, inclusive, and high-performing team culture.

Requirements

• 5+ years of frontend software engineering experience, including 2+ years in a technical leadership or engineering management role.
• Strong experience building and scaling modern web applications, ideally using React, Next.js, Storybook, and other standard frontend toolsets and workflows.
• Deep understanding of frontend architecture, component libraries, state management, and client-side integration patterns.
• Experience working with third-party libraries, SDKs, or marketing/advertising platform integrations.
• Proficiency with modern frontend technologies (e.g., React, Next.js) and familiarity with state management (e.g., Redux, Context API), testing libraries (e.g., Jest, React Testing Library), and build tools (e.g., Webpack).
• Experience with cloud platforms, ideally AWS, and frontend deployment practices (e.g., CI/CD for static sites and CDNs).
• Strong people management skills with a passion for mentoring and team growth.
• Ability to work cross-functionally and communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

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

Front End Architecture, Technical Leadership, Web Applications

Compensation

Primary Location Pay Range: $147,273.60 - $220,910.40

This job can be performed in California, Illinois, and New York with a Pay Range of $134,467.20 - $240,120.00

Comcast intends to offer the selected candidate base pay dependent on job-related, non-discriminatory factors such as experience. 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.

The application window is 30 days from the date job is posted, unless the number of applicants requires it to close sooner or later.

Education

Bachelor's Degree (Required)

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.

Certifications (if applicable)

Relevant Work Experience

5-7 Years

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