The Core Services team, in Design + Engineering, are building the shared product infrastructure and services that will underpin and power a more personalised and relevant BBC to audiences across web, apps and beyond. 

The team is tasked with delivering the new core web and product services framework on which six of the BBC’s eight audience-facing digital services – News, Sport, Weather, Children’s, Education and Homepage – are based. This means enabling, and working closely with, these big and much-loved services to create the engaging digital propositions of the future through resilient and sound foundations.

Core Services is a collaborative and dynamic team across multiple sites with the mission of building the framework and core services to enable next generation digital products and experiences. By working with us, you will help build out the wider BBC’s vision to create the world’s best digital services, using cutting edge technology, collaboration, and championing faster, simpler ways of ways of doing things.

We’re looking for a seasoned product manager to lead and shape the roadmap for our teams managing the business logic and routing layers of our platform, which the BBC uses to build exciting new audience experiences

Role Responsibility

You’ll be leading a product team in delivering a world class product experience.

• To develop and deliver on the product vision for a set of products and services in line with the department’s strategy and objectives.
• To own the full product lifecycle of a set of products and services – including mature products, recent launches and emerging ideas.
• To lead the impact analysis on and prioritisation of effort on a set of products and services.
• To be a voice for our users  â€“ ensuring that their needs and abilities are at the heart of our propositions.
• To work closely with stakeholders, to understand their requirements and priorities, in order to develop a shared product and content strategy and drive the product direction against it.
• To build relationships with other areas of the BBC key to the successful delivery of our products and services.
• To actively contribute to the development of product management best practice and the department’s collaborative culture

The Ideal Candidate

Are you the right candidate?

You enjoy working collaboratively, dare to think big and have the pragmatism to achieve it. You also have experience in:

• Product management in an agile team on an established product and platform
• Audience research, user testing, analytics and experiments
• Ideas generation and creativity
• A technical background or experience in working in highly technical environments and teams
• Team and stakeholder management
• Good presentation, communication and interpersonal skills and proven ability to communicate complex processes at all levels

Package Description

Band: D
Contract type: Permanent
Location: Glasgow, Scotland, Cardiff, Salford or Flexible

We’re happy to discuss flexible working. Please indicate your choice under the flexible working question in the application. There is no obligation to raise this at the application stage but if you wish to do so, you are welcome to. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.

• Excellent career progression â€“ the BBC offers great opportunities for employees to seek new challenges and work in different areas of the organisation.
• Unrivalled training and development opportunities â€“ our in-house Academy hosts a wide range of internal and external courses and certification.
• Benefits- We offer a competitive salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 26 days (1 of which is a corporation day) with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care, gym and much more.