Want to do the best work of your life? With 24 million customers in 6 countries, make your mark at Europe’s leading media and entertainment brand. A workplace where you can proudly be yourself; our people make Sky a truly exciting and inclusive place to work.

Overview

We offer the best and broadest range of content, deliver market-leading customer services and use innovative technologies to give customers the best possible TV, Digital content, Broadband and Mobile experience.

Comcast, based in Philadelphia, wholly owns Sky. Comcast is a formidable technical innovator too, and we have a tremendous opportunity to benefit from their investments and contribute our product development innovations into the wider Comcast group.

Product Delivery

Want to deliver brilliant products and unmissable entertainment that grips millions of households? Our 1000 strong, Product Delivery team does everything from developing innovative AI technology to creating the best HDR viewing experience for TV products. From Sky Go to Sky Q & Sky Glass, we take our products to the next level and make them more agile and reliable with every release.

Without the skills of our in-house product technology teams, our game-changing innovations like Sky+, Sky Q, and Sky Glass wouldn’t have been possible. We develop pioneering products and services to give every one of our customers and users the experiences they will love – whenever and wherever they want. In terms of our digital products, Sky News and Sky Sports are used by many millions of customers every day – built by our talented team out of our Leeds Dock offices

Job purpose

The Product Hub, lead by Fraser Stirling, Sky’s Chief Product Officer, comprises the team that build and evolve our products. The team includes everyone concerned – “from the glass of the studio camera to the glass of the customer’s TV”. Typically we have separate Product Management, Design and Delivery (including technical development) teams within the Product Hub.

The specific role here is to lead the 200-strong News and Sports product delivery team based in Leeds Dock. This team designs, builds, maintains, and evolves the digital products and enabling platforms for Sky Sports web and app and Sky News web and app products for the Sky Group.

In this role, you would be responsible for the delivery of two of Sky’s biggest content brands backed by enormous rights investments and a leading news capability. We touch millions of users across Sky territories and beyond so it’s a role for someone who is looking to operate at an international scale and is passionate about deeply understanding sports fans and news lovers to create engaging content experiences that drive users back time and time again.

What you’ll do

• Partner with the Product Management and Design teams within the Product Hub, role modelling collaboration and recognising that a diverse set of expertise will create the best, most engaging experiences

• Lead a large digital product and platform software development team, building a strong management team that is empowered to step up whilst you provide the right balance of challenge and support

• Build deep and trusted relationships with a range of collaborators and partners such as commercial, design, marketing, editorial, technology vendors and delivery partners and work across geographies, expertly developing strong, often remote relationships

• Additionally, as the most senior Director based in Leeds Dock you will have additional pastoral responsibilities for this exciting facility which is also used by approx. 300 other Sky employees – from building and maintaining world-class place to work in this new hybrid world, to liaison with the local council and the digital economy and ecosystem in this wonderful city.

You will be

• Passionate about transforming what we do for the better, inspiring ground-breaking and energising work and motivating people to try new things in a safe environment

• Able to drive a cultural shift towards a global mentality, helping the team build scaled platforms that can operate across our markets today, as well as our markets of tomorrow.

• Able to bring a new level of agility, where a fully-funded team constantly works on the next most important thing, finding ways to undertake the always-essential “other stuff” of delivering tech enablers and taking care of tech debt or re-platforming when needed while increasing the rate of feature delivery to customers.

• You will quickly spot what matters for our target audiences and use this to develop ideas, make decisions and innovate.

• Outcome focused and bring momentum and pace to the work, fuelling passion within your own team and those you work with to make this happen

• Able to cut through complexity, communicating the vision and strategy clearly, and helping people see where their work fits in.

• You will operate with a platform mindset, relentlessly focussing on how to build once and deploy to many in order to innovate quickly for our users, and for the business.

You will have

• The ability to demonstrate being a collaborative digital delivery partner of a world-class product management team, realising their product vision, and helping prioritise and schedule development while continuously improving delivery velocity.

• Previously articulated a bold transformative vision and strategy and successfully seen it through to realisation at scale

• A reputation for being a collaborative, empathetic and open leader who can engage with the full depth of the team, from the newest graduate developer right up to our Executive team and CEO

• A good technical understanding of digital product software engineering practices and methodologies, and digital tech enablers, frameworks and tools. You will be experienced in delivering agile at scale

• Delivered multinational products that leverage international scale and have mastered how to balance and minimise the impact of local business or regulatory variation in order to move at pace

We take pride in our approach to diversity and inclusion: we’ve been recognised by The Times and Stonewall for this, and we’ve committed £30million to support the fight against racial injustice. We’ve also set ambitious targets for increasing ethnic diversity and representation throughout our organisation.

The perks

As part of the Sky family, you’ll enjoy either: Sky Q (requires a one-off installation payment) or a NOW TV premium package, as well as a generous pension and private health care. You’ll also have access to over 12,000 LinkedIn Learning courses to support your development.

The Rewards:

There’s a reason people can’t stop talking about #LifeAtSky. Our great range of rewards really are something special, here are just a few:

• Sky Q, for the TV you love all in one place

• A generous pension package

• Private healthcare

• Discounted mobile and broadband

• Access a wide range of exclusive Sky VIP rewards and experiences

Where you’ll work:

Leeds:

Our spacious tech hub is under a mile away from Leeds train station. There’s also plenty of parking in the surrounding streets and at the nearby CitiPark.

You can also blow off steam over a game of pool or table tennis, and stay fit at our subsidised gym.

At Sky we don’t just look at your CV. We’re more focused on who you are and your potential. We also know that everyone has a life outside work, So we’re happy to discuss flexible working.

And we’ll do everything we can to support you during your application. If you need us to make any adjustments to our recruitment process, speak to our recruitment team who will be happy to support you.

Why wait?

Apply now to build an amazing career and be part of a brilliant team. We can’t wait to hear from you.

To find out more about working with us, search #LifeAtSky on social media. A job you love to talk about.

Just so you know: if your application is successful, we’ll ask you to complete a criminal record check. And depending on the role you have applied for and the nature of any convictions you may have, we might have to withdraw the offer.