Overview

Location: Newcastle-upon-Tyne, GBR, NE991RN

Job Package

• Job Band: D
• Contract Type: Permanent, Full-time
• Department: Product Group
• Location: Newcastle
• Proposed Salary Range: £72,000 - £82,000 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 Senior Product Manager, you'll lead 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 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.

Your skills and experience

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA

• Proven track record of delivering complex technical products in data or platform environments.
• High agency, comfortable making decisions and working independently in ambiguous settings.
• Strong technical literacy with modern data platforms, event-driven architectures, and streaming data pipelines.
• Skilled at stakeholder management, able to communicate technical topics in business-friendly language.
• Metric driven mindset, with a focus on measurable outcomes and using data to inform product decisions.

DESIRED BUT NOT REQUIRED

• Experience working on platforms that operate at large scale, processing millions or billions of events daily.
• Experience of Agile delivery practices and iterative product development.
• Experience with Ka ka or other event streaming technologies.
• Experience with AWS or other cloud platforms such as GCP or Azure.
• Familiarity with data governance and compliance requirements in complex organisations.
• Comfortable with approaches that prioritise learning quickly and shaping decisions through evidence and measurable outcomes.
• Knowledge of prioritisation frameworks such as Impact vs Effort, Kano, or ICE to balance strategic and tactical delivery.
• Understanding of data platform modernisation approaches and emerging technologies.

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.

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.

Information at a Glance

This is your BBC

At the BBC you can create and innovate in an inclusive environment while contributing to some of the world’s best loved content, and the BBC’s mission to inform, educate and entertain.

Life at BBC

Here you will benefit from:

• Fair pay and flexible benefits including a competitive salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care and gym.
• Excellent career and professional development.
• Support in your working life, including flexible working which you can discuss with us at any point during the application, selection or offer.
• A values-based organisation where the way we do things is important as what we do.

Benefits may vary if you are joining on an FTC basis.

Learn more about life at the BBC and our values in our candidate pack.

You belong

We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, so all our employees feel that they can belong, thrive and achieve their full potential.

We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to join us. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.

We welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief.

Find out more about diversity, inclusion and belonging in our strategy below.

Diversity, inclusion & belonging strategy

Disability confident

We are a disability confident employer. If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the interview process, or to carry out this role, please contact us via email and we’d be happy to discuss: reasonable.adjustments at BBC dot co dot uk

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