Exec Product Manager – CoreData Pla

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

Job summary

A prominent media organization seeks an Executive Product Manager for their Core Data Platform. This role involves leading the product team, defining the vision and roadmap, and ensuring the platform's scalability and effectiveness for analytics and data transformation. Candidates should possess proven product management skills, technical literacy in modern data platforms, and strong communication abilities. This position offers opportunities for flexible working arrangements and contributes significantly to the organization's data strategy.

Qualifications

• Proven product management expertise with a strong track record in both strategy and execution.
• Experience line-managing product managers or extensive coaching of product management craft.
• Demonstrated success in delivering complex technical products in data or platform environments.
• High autonomy and decision-making ability in ambiguous settings.
• Strong technical literacy in modern data platforms and streaming data pipelines.
• Ability to communicate product impact using data.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Define and deliver the vision and roadmap for the BBC's Enterprise Data Platform.
• Work with engineering leads to ensure platform scalability and reliability.
• Translate organisational needs into clear product outcomes.
• Drive platform adoption across the BBC's internal teams.
• Ensure compliance with data quality and governance.
• Integrate external insights into the data platform strategy.

Skills

Time Management

Data Analytics

Analytical

Agile

Requirement Gathering

Strategic thinking

Visio

Communication

Problem Solving

Market Research

UML

Cross Functional Teams

Job description

JOB DETAILS

JOB BAND : E

CONTRACT TYPE : Permanent Full-time

DEPARTMENT : Product - Platform

LOCATION : London or Salford with hybrid working

PROPOSED SALARY RANGE : Up to 100000 depending on relevant skills knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

Were happy to discuss flexible working. If youd like to please indicate your preference in the application though theres 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 underpins how data flows across the organisation. It powers our analytics personalisation and insights for products such as iPlayer Sounds and News.

We are currently undertaking a major transformation programme to modernise how data ingestion and real-time processing work across the BBC. The goal is to build an enterprise data platform that can deliver reliable real-time data at scale and open up new opportunities for analytics personalisation and experimentation.

As Executive Product Manager -CoreData Platform youll lead the PM team and be accountable for the strategy roadmap and delivery for this platform. Youll shape its capabilities and ensure it meets the needs of our internal users as it evolves.

WHY JOIN THE TEAM

This is an opportunity to shape the BBCs future data platform working on large-scale real-time systems with modern cloud technologies. Youll 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 BBCs 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 BBCs internal teams.
• Ensure the platform meets requirements for data quality governance and security.
• Bring external insights and industry best practices into the BBCs 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 wed 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.

Key Skills

• Time Management
• Data Analytics
• Analytical
• Agile
• Requirement Gathering
• Strategic thinking
• Visio
• Communication
• Problem Solving
• Market Research
• UML
• Cross Functional Teams