Exec Product Manager – CoreData Pla

BBC Studios Ltd; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 85,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading media organization in the UK is looking for an Executive Product Manager for their Core Data Platform. The role involves defining the platform's roadmap, ensuring scalability and driving adoption across teams. Ideal candidates will have proven product management experience, technical literacy in modern data platforms, and stakeholder management skills. This position offers a competitive salary and supports flexible working arrangements based in London, Newcastle, or Salford.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Flexible working hours

25 days annual leave

Defined pension scheme

Qualifications

• Proven product management experience across multiple teams.
• Ability to define and measure product impact using data.
• Experience leading complex technical products in platform environments.

Responsibilities

• Define and deliver the vision for the Enterprise Data Platform.
• Work with engineering leads to maintain platform scalability.
• Drive adoption of the platform across internal teams.

Skills

Product management expertise

Technical literacy in modern data platforms

Stakeholder management

Autonomy in decision-making

Tools

AWS

Agile methodologies

Job description

JOB DETAILS

London, GBR, W1A 1AA | Newcastle-upon-Tyne, GBR, NE991RN | Salford, MAN, GBR, M50 2QH

JOB BAND: E
CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent, Full-time
DEPARTMENT: Product - Platform
LOCATION: London, Newcastle or Salford with hybrid working
PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: Up to £100,000 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 is the foundation that enables teams across the organisation to capture, process, govern, and utilise data. It powers our analytics, personalisation, and insights for products such as iPlayer, Sounds, and News.

We’re in the middle of a major transformation to modernise how we ingest, process, and serve data in real time. Our ambition is to build an enterprise data platform that provides reliable, real-time data at scale and open up new opportunities for analytics, personalisation, and experimentation.

As Executive Product Manager – Core Data Platform, you'll lead the PM team and be accountable for the strategy, roadmap, and outcomes for this platform. You’ll set the direction for the platform’s core capabilities, working closely with engineering and key stakeholders to ensure the platform is adopted, trusted, and measurably improving how the BBC uses data.

This role is for a product leader who thrives in complex platform environments: someone who can balance long‑term architecture and foundations with near‑term value, translate organisational needs into clear product outcomes, and drive alignment across teams with a compelling product narrative.

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 KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND IMPACT:

• Define and deliver the vision and roadmap for the BBC’s Enterprise 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 product management expertise, with a strong track record in both strategy and execution across multiple squads.
• Experience line‑managing product managers or extensive coaching and development of product management craft.
• Demonstrated success in delivering complex technical products within data or platform environments.
• High level of autonomy and decision‑making ability in ambiguous or fast‑changing settings.
• Strong technical literacy in modern data platforms, event‑driven architectures, and streaming data pipelines.
• Ability to define, measure, and communicate product impact using data, even in complex environments.
• Examples of communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to tailor messaging and write compelling product narratives.

DESIRED BUT NOT REQUIRED

• Hands‑on experience with Agile delivery practices and iterative product development.
• Familiarity with data governance and compliance in complex organisational settings.
• Proven ability to work within cross‑functional leadership teams in an empowered product model.
• Comfortable with evidence‑led decision making and rapid learning approaches.
• Knowledge of prioritisation frameworks (e.g. Impact vs Effort, Kano, ICE) to balance strategic and tactical delivery.
• Understanding of data platform modernisation and emerging technologies.
• Experience with AWS or other cloud platforms (e.g. GCP, Azure), including collaboration with AWS engineering teams.

If you can bring some of these skills and experiences, along with transferable strengths, we’d love to hear from you and encourage you to apply.

Before your start date, you may need to disclose any unspent convictions or police charges, in line with our Contracts of Employment policy. This allows us to discuss any support you may need and assess any risks. Failure to disclose may result in the withdrawal of your offer.

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.

INFO AT A GLANCE

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 pensionscheme 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 or on an orchestra conditions contract.

CANDIDATE PACK

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.

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: [e-mail]

BBC Group and Public Services, Broadcasting House, Portland Place, London, United Kingdom, W1A 1AA. BBC Studios Distribution Limited, company no: 01420028, registered address: 1 Television Centre, 101 Wood Lane, London, United Kingdom W12 7FA.