Director, Product Engineering (Experience)

ZipRecruiter; Salford; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

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Job Description

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Job Introduction

The Director, Product Engineering (Experiences) has responsibility for and leads multidisciplinary software engineering teams that enable the delivery of a seamless, integrated experience for audiences when interacting with the BBC's digital products across media including Television, Mobile and Web.

This role will lead a large, high-performing software engineering team that, fundamentally, create the best services for the audience, wherever they are. They will work collaboratively and inclusively with cross-functional peers in Product Group and across the BBC to achieve the collective goal of driving faster time to value for audiences from the BBC's digital products.

We are flexible on the location of this role as it is hybrid and could be contracted out of any of our major UK locations (Newcastle/ Manchester/ London or Glasgow would be preferable)

Main Responsibilities

• Works closely with counterparts for Enablement, Platform, Data and Architecture in support of the Director, Engineering & Data, to lead a high performing engineering organisation
• In partnership with Director of Product Management, Experience, develop a multi-year roadmap for experience evolution, ensuring alignment with audience needs and technological advancement
• Ultimate responsibility for the technical vision and strategy for all of the experiences through which audiences access the BBC's digital products. These include responsibility for:
  • the BBC's mobile and tablet apps,
  • our websites along with the framework and infrastructure that builds and hosts them,
  • and all of our on-TV experiences (including broadcast interactive) and smart speakers
• You will work to bridge these experiences technologically and organisationally to ensure a seamless and integrated experience for audiences
• Ensures development approach is aligned with the overall BBC engineering and architecture strategy and adheres to standards and principles that ensures engineering excellence
• Ensures teams adhere to software engineering best practice
• Deliver the function's strategy as efficiently as possible; driving maximum value through reducing costs, increasing income, ensuring appropriate investment to maximise return to the audience/customer
• Continuous improvement and innovation focussed, ensuring the BBC's digital products keep pace with technical developments and ahead of competitors, ensuring continued compliance and optimisation with new devices
• Foster strong relationships with key leaders across product group, technology group and wider business stakeholders to ensure cohesive strategy execution
• Ensure operational excellence in the products and services delivered and achieve our availability goals
• Drive improvements in the BBC's continuous delivery/integration practices
• Manage resources (financial, technological and people) optimally to deliver the strategic goals of Product Group year-on-year
• Contributes to the healthy promotion of engineering culture in software engineering, investing in our people and the developer experience
• Provide inspirational leadership, support career development and talent retention
• Along with all leaders, is accountable for their area's performance against corporate, location targets. Responsible for creating a diverse, inclusive, and welcoming environment for staff across Product Group, where everybody feels supported to be their authentic self

Are You The Right Candidate?

Essential Requirements:

• Extensive, demonstrable experience building complex consumer facing digital products and internal facing products across web, mobile and TV applications in demanding high event-driven traffic environments
• Experience working in a media publishing and content production environment would be highly beneficial
• Experience in a senior leadership position responsible for building, motivating and leading high performing development teams at scale
• Passionate about software engineering and digital technology, with the ability to communicate that passion to large-scale distributed teams
• Provides professional leadership and acts as role model to their teams and colleagues alike, representing BBC values and high standards of leadership behaviour
• Adept at managing numerous, diverse senior and executive level stakeholders, often operating under tight timescales and managing numerous competing priorities
• A convincing and persuasive communicator, adept at influencing beliefs and opinions of teams, as well as senior stakeholders, able to establish effective and collaborative relations across BBC departments, and external agencies/stakeholders where required
• Act as the conduit to effective communication and influence across the management team
• Strong awareness of the way in which technical initiatives are defined, delivered, financed and completed successfully
• Excellent commercial and financial acumen, including experience of leading high-value regulated procurements
• Experience in managing significant budgets and understanding key financial drivers

Job Package

Band: SL (Senior Leader)

Contract Type: Permanent

Location: Flexible/ Hybrid (within commuting distance to one of our hubs)

About the BBC

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 - the BBC offers great opportunities for employees to seek new challenges and work in different areas of the organisation.
• Unrivalled training and development opportunities - 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 pension scheme and discounted dental, health care, gym and much more.

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 below document: https://performancemanager.successfactors.eu/S001190811T2/Our_BBC_Values...

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 .

We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from individuals, regardless of , , , , , , socio-economic background, and/or belief. We will consider flexible working requests for all roles, unless operational requirements prevent otherwise.

To find out more about and at the BBC, please visit https://www.bbc.co.uk//

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