Alumni Spotlight: Emily Antworth

From an Osprey to Peacock, then NBC to the NBA, today’s All-Star #AlumniSpotlight is on a fast break to the top!

Emily Antworth (’15) graduated from the University of North Florida with a bachelor’s in communication, focused on production and broadcasting. During her time in the UNF School of Communication, she worked with ESPN3 for North Florida Ospreys basketball and volleyball games. That experience allowed her to land a position with NBC Sports where her role consisted of setting up and supervising live streaming content for the network. This content included Premier League, NASCAR, Formula One, Sunday Night Football on NBC and several Super Bowls, Le Tour De France , a Presidential Inauguration and the NBC Olympics Paralympics. As she became more comfortable in the role, she learned the technical aspects of the job.

Antworth then shifted focus into project management and the technical development of streams. She quickly learned she didn’t want to just manage the ongoing work, but she wanted to have input into “what NBC build and how they build it.” She moved to Warner Media in Atlanta and began working on the NBA App as a Product Manager. In that role, she assisted in redesigning the app’s homepage and working on tentpole events within the app. After three years with Warner, she returned to NBC, but this time working with their new Peacock app on setting up how the sports section should function within the app. After a second stint with NBC, she moved back over to the NBA where a role opened to manage the app she had previously worked on.

Emily’s current title is Senior Product Manager of Mobile Platforms. Her role revolves around the planning and execution of the NBA app while also prioritizing customer needs. She said she enjoys the position for the fun it brings to her day-to-day tasks and fulfills her mission on the greater team. She loves that she gets to be creative while also diving into the technical side. To her, the job is like a puzzle, meaning she solves fan-first problems.