Exec Product Manager - Data Sourcing

BBC Studios Ltd; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading broadcasting organization is looking for an Executive Product Manager to lead the Data Sourcing team responsible for developing a cutting-edge data platform. This role will define the product vision and collaborate with engineering teams to ensure scalability and reliability. The ideal candidate should have extensive product management experience, strong technical literacy, and excellent communication skills. The position is hybrid, based in London, Newcastle, or Salford, offering a competitive salary of up to £100,000 depending on experience.

Benefits

Competitive salary package

Flexible working options

25 days annual leave, with the option to buy 5 more days

Defined pension scheme

Discounted dental, health care, and gym

Qualifications

• Proven experience in product management, delivering strategies and execution.
• Strong technical literacy with modern data platforms.
• Skilled communicator with experience tailoring messages.

Responsibilities

• Define and deliver the vision and roadmap for the data streaming platform.
• Work with engineering leads to ensure platform scalability.
• Drive adoption of the platform across internal teams.

Skills

Product management

Technical literacy with data platforms

Effective communication

Education

Relevant degree or equivalent experience

Tools

AWS

Agile methodologies

Job description

London, GBR, W1A 1AA

Newcastle-upon-Tyne, GBR, NE991RN

Salford, MAN, GBR, M50 2QH

JOB DETAILS

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 - Data Sourcing, you'll lead the PM team responsible for sourcing and ingesting data into this platform. The Data Sourcing team manage real‑time streaming data ingestion from our digital products and processing of third‑party data. The data sourcing team is key in ensuring we can capture and utilise trusted data from our BBC products.

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 emerging streaming 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 experience in product management, delivering both strategy and execution across multiple squads.
• Track record of line‑managing product managers or coaching product craft at a senior level.
• Demonstrated success delivering complex technical products in data or platform environments.
• Examples of operating independently and making decisions in ambiguous, fast‑paced settings.
• Strong technical literacy with modern data platforms, event‑driven architectures, and streaming pipelines.
• Experience defining and measuring product impact using data, even in complex environments.
• Skilled communicator with examples of tailoring messaging across audiences and writing compelling product narratives.

DESIRED BUT NOT REQUIRED:

• Hands‑on experience with Agile delivery practices and iterative product development.
• Proven experience navigating data governance and compliance in complex organisations.
• Demonstrated success working in cross‑functional leadership teams within empowered product models.
• Experience applying evidence‑led approaches to shape decisions and drive measurable outcomes.
• Practical use of prioritisation frameworks (e.g. Impact vs Effort, Kano, ICE) to balance strategic and tactical delivery.
• Experience with data platform modernisation and working with emerging technologies.
• Direct experience with AWS or other cloud platforms (e.g. GCP, Azure), within organisations with a strong product culture.

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.

Information at a Glance

This is your BBC

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.

Find out more about the BBC

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.

Learn more about life at the BBC and our values in our candidate pack.

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.

Diversity, inclusion & belonging strategy

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.