JOB DETAILS
JOB BAND: E
CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent, Full-time
DEPARTMENT: Product - Platform
LOCATION: London or Salford with hybrid working.
PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: Up to £100,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
We're happy to discuss flexible working. If you'd like to, please indicate your preference in the application – though there's no obligation to do so now. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.
PURPOSE OF THE ROLE
The BBC Data Platform underpins how data flows across the organisation. It powers our analytics, personalisation, and insights for products such as iPlayer, Sounds, and News.
We are currently undertaking a major transformation programme to modernise how data ingestion and real-time processing work across the BBC. The goal is to build a streaming data platform that can deliver reliable, real-time data at scale and open up new opportunities for analytics, personalisation, and experimentation.
As Executive Product Manager - Data Sourcing, you'll lead the PM team and be accountable for the strategy, roadmap, and delivery for this platform. You'll shape its capabilities and ensure it meets the needs of our internal users as it evolves.
WHY JOIN THE TEAM
This is an opportunity to shape the BBC's future data platform, working on large-scale real-time systems with modern cloud technologies. You'll collaborate with talented engineering, data, and product teams on a high-profile transformation programme with real impact across the organisation.
Your Key Responsibilities And Impact
* Define and deliver the vision and roadmap for the BBC's emerging streaming data platform.
* Work with engineering leads to ensure the platform is scalable, reliable, and cost-efficient as it evolves.
* Translate organisational needs into clear product outcomes for analytics, personalisation, experimentation, and data transformation use cases.
* Drive adoption and usability of the platform across the BBC's internal teams.
* Ensure the platform meets requirements for data quality, governance, and security.
* Bring external insights and industry best practices into the BBC's data platform strategy.
Essential Criteria
YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
* Proven experience in product management, delivering both strategy and execution across multiple squads.
* Track record of line-managing product managers or coaching product craft at a senior level.
* Demonstrated success delivering complex technical products in data or platform environments.
* Examples of operating independently and making decisions in ambiguous, fast-paced settings.
* Strong technical literacy with modern data platforms, event-driven architectures, and streaming pipelines.
* Experience defining and measuring product impact using data, even in complex environments.
* Skilled communicator with examples of tailoring messaging across audiences and writing compelling product narratives.
Desired But Not Required
* Hands-on experience with Agile delivery practices and iterative product development.
* Proven experience navigating data governance and compliance in complex organisations.
* Demonstrated success working in cross-functional leadership teams within empowered product models.
* Experience applying evidence-led approaches to shape decisions and drive measurable outcomes.
* Practical use of prioritisation frameworks (e.g. Impact vs Effort, Kano, ICE) to balance strategic and tactical delivery.
* Experience with data platform modernisation and working with emerging technologies.
* Direct experience with AWS or other cloud platforms (e.g. GCP, Azure), within organisations with a strong product culture.
If you can bring some of these skills and experiences, along with transferable strengths, we'd love to hear from you and encourage you to apply.
Before your start date, you may need to disclose any unspent convictions or police charges, in line with our Contracts of Employment policy. This allows us to discuss any support you may need and assess any risks. Failure to disclose may result in the withdrawal of your offer.
Disclaimer
This job description is a written statement of the essential characteristics of the job, with its principal accountabilities, incorporating a note of the skills, knowledge and experience required for a satisfactory level of performance. This is not intended to be a complete, detailed account of all aspects of the duties involved.
Please note: If you were to be offered this role, the BBC will conduct Employment screening checks which include Reference checks; Eligibility to work checks; and if applicable to the role, Safeguarding and Adverse media/Social media checks. Any offer made is conditional on these checks being satisfactory.
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Redeployment
The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC and they will be given priority consideration ahead of other applicants. Priority consideration means for those employees seeking redeployment their application will be considered alongside anyone else at risk of redundancy, prior to any individuals being considered who are not at risk.