Overview

Senior Product Manager-Metadata at BBC

Location: London or Salford – Hybrid

Contract type: Permanent

Department: Product - Authoring & Curation

Proposed salary range: Up to £80,000 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.

Your Key Responsibilities And Impact

• Strategy: Take ownership of the product vision and strategy for a defined area of metadata, translating BBC high-level strategic priorities into actionable outcome-focused product roadmaps and plans.
• Deliver Scalable Solutions: Lead the product lifecycle for metadata tools and services, including both Discovery and Delivery phases, and build scalable, user-focused solutions that work across content types, platforms, and use cases.
• Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Work closely with engineering, UX, data, editorial and policy teams to understand needs, align priorities, and deliver joined-up solutions that unlock value from metadata, applying agile practices to delivery iteratively.
• Product Expertise: Use strong product thinking to guide teams through decisions and trade-offs. Champion outcome-focused practices, experimentation, and continuous improvement.

Essential Criteria

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• Proven experience in product management, ideally in editorial, content management, or internal tooling environments.
• Skilled in prioritisation and value-driven decision-making, utilising data, user research and testing to analyse problems and balance editorial needs, technical constraints, and strategic goals.
• Technical fluency - the ability to engage confidently with engineering teams, understanding systems and workflows.
• Proven experience of successfully shaping and scaling complex products that have been used by large numbers of users.
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills, able to communicate and engage with diverse cross functional teams around a shared vision, and navigate a highly complex stakeholder matrix.
• Experience working in Agile teams, or using Agile methodologies to deliver complex products.

Desired But Not Required

• Background in digital media or public service broadcasting.
• Understanding of AI-assisted editorial tools and ethical considerations.
• Awareness of emerging technology trends and how they apply to editorial product design.
• Familiarity with accessibility standards and inclusive design practices.
• Agile certification or formal product management training.

Interview Process

The interview process will be two stages and held on MS Teams. The first stage will require you to demonstrate the required competencies through examples from your experience and the final stage will include a short presentation/scenario. Interviews will commence the week of 22nd September 2025.

Other Information

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.

Employment screening checks (including references; eligibility to work; safeguarding and adverse media/social media checks where applicable) are required and conditions on any offer will be satisfactory completion of these checks.

For any general queries, please contact: bbchr@bbc.co.uk

Redeployment: The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC and will give priority consideration ahead of other applicants for redeployment cases.