Job Introduction
- Fancy being a part of a new and growing squad delivering amazing value @ the BBC?
- Seizing on our new and progressive outlook we're offering the opportunity that this role can be remote
- We welcome diversity of thought and approach to create a posture of thinking that's beyond oneself. We think it's a key ingredient to frank conversation, innovation and execution.
- We can offer positive ambiguity giving you the space and autonomy to lead in developing unique solutions for ChannelsPX Product, mitigating against micro-management and nurturing an environment of psychological safety and continuous validation.
Welcome to ChannelsPX!
Main Responsibilities
As our Senior Product Manager you'll work closely with the Group Product Manager to shape the long-term strategy and vision for your product.
You’ll have excellent communication and stakeholder management skills and will help business stakeholders understand the value that the ChannelsPX team are driving.
You’ll be customer focused, and ask the right questions in order to get a full understanding of problems, potential risks and desired outcomes, combining this with insight and analysis drawn from data to form your roadmap.
Who we are, what we do and how you'll help us follow through
We are ChannelsPX a new product offering here at the BBC. We're an enabler as we own & develop a platform which powers consumer facing digital products for the BBC. It uses new technologies and economies of scale to speed up development and make it more resilient.
Our mission is to accelerate the delivery of value across the BBC for the teams using our tools, services, and platform.
Our teams partner with the engineering and product talent who are evolving the audience facing digital products that are used by tens of millions of people around the world. Upon migrating to our platform, one of our products saw a 92% increase in their lighthouse score.
Our platform powers digital products like BBC News & Sport, Weather, Bitesize, Childrens.
We are scaling up and investing in our teams and need 3 Senior Product Managers to work with our multidisciplinary squads to ensure we’re working on enhancements that will provide the biggest impact for our customers (who are predominantly the internal teams using our platform).
Are you the right candidate?
- You’ve been a product manager in a start-up (or demonstrable entrepreneurial spirit being able to initiate change encouraging the right behaviours and focus) or large-scale business (or demonstrable understanding of the complexity in bigger organisations and/or markets) delivering internal facing products.
- Experience with back-end or platform systems (so if things like API or other back end platforms are your jam)
- Prioritisation skills - You'll be working with the team to determine impact and value of the initiatives that they are working on. You're going to have to make difficult decisions about what things to prioritise based on business goals and OKRs.
- Evidence of use of data in decision making.
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- Outcome focussed - your CV/application should focus on the outcomes You’ve been responsible for rather than the specific things you were responsible for (e.g. Generated a 25% reduction in support requests as a result of changes made to a platform)
About the BBC
We don’t focus simply on what we do – we also care how we do it. Our values and the way we behave are important to us. Please make sure you’ve read about our values and behaviours in the document attached below.
Diversity matters at the BBC. We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, enabling all of our employees to thrive and achieve their full potential.
We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to be part of the BBC – whether that’s to contribute to our programming or our wide range of non-production roles. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.
We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief. We will consider flexible working requests for all roles, unless operational requirements prevent otherwise.
To find out more about Diversity and Inclusion at the BBC, please click here
Package Description
Unfortunately we're unable to consider anyone without the eligibility/right to work in the UK and we cannot offer sponsorship
Band: D
Contract type: Permanent
Location: Remote OR hybrid working in London OR Manchester OR Cardiff OR Glasgow
- An employer pension contribution of up to 10%.
- Annual leave 26 days, (based on your working pattern 1 of which is a corporation day) + bank holidays of course with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care, gym and much more.
- Family friendly flexible working arrangements, such as hybrid working, job sharing, flexi-time and compressed hours.
- Learning and development tailored to your role this could include industry recognised qualifications, coaching and mentoring.
- An inclusive and diverse environment with opportunities to join staff networks including: Women’s Network, National Disability Networks and many more.
This job role may be suitable for hybrid working, which is where an employee works part of the week in their BBC office and part of the week from home. This is a voluntary, non-contractual arrangement and your office will be your contractual place of work. The number of days that anyone will be able to work at home will be determined primarily by business need but personal circumstances and other relevant circumstances will also be taken into account. If you are successful, any opportunities for hybrid working, including whether a hybrid working arrangement is suitable for you, will be discussed with you prior to you taking up your post.
What to expect
Stage 1: Application
You will be asked to attach your CV and submit a supporting statement outlining how your skills, experience and achievements align with the essential criteria below and provide evidence of your suitability for the role.
You’ll fill out some eligibility criteria as well.
Guestimation time for application 10 mins.
Stage 2: Interview
If you’re successful and make it through to a 2 round interview process, you’ll be invited to a video interview via Zoom. There, you will be assessed against the criteria listed in ‘Are you the right candidate?’ section.
You will also be assessed on strengths/competency based questions.
Stage 3: Offer
If we have more successful candidates than roles then a reserve list may be held for a period of 3 months from which further appointments can be made.
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Depending on the volume and quality of applications the BBC reserves the right to take this advert offline at any point so get your application in quickly!