Director - Product Management, Platform

JOB DETAIL: Director, Product Management of Platform

JOB BAND: SL

CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent, Full-time

DEPARTMENT: Technology, Systems & Delivery

LOCATION: Salford, London, Glasgow, Birmingham, Cardiff, Newcastle - Hybrid

PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

BBC Product Group is looking to appoint a Director, Product Management of Platform who will work closely with the Director of Product & Design, Director, Product Management of Experiences, Product Leadership Team and wider BBC Leadership. As a user-centric Platform Product Leader you'll play a key role in the delivery of BBC's Digital-First ambition, and you will lead the product management community responsible for the Platform product strategy and capabilities that fuel BBC's audience-facing digital experiences.

We need an established senior, technical product leader experienced in delivering transformational product strategies. They will be responsible for accelerating our transition to a platform-first product organisation, unlocking our teams' potential to discover, innovate and deliver at scale best-in-class platform capabilities.

WHY JOIN THE TEAM?

The role is key to accelerating our adoption of product operating model principles in the product management community as well as to championing collaboration and empowered cross-functional teams within the Product Group and with our partners and collaborators across the BBC, and beyond.

YOUR KEY REPSONSIBILITIES AND IMPACT:

Will include but are not limited to:

Product vision, strategy and product go to market

• Lead on the product strategy, outcome-driven product roadmap and data-informed prioritisation for the Platform organisation, in close partnership with cross-functional leadership.
• Ensure buy in and visibility of the Platform product direction and priorities across the product teams and wider BBC.
• Work closely with our Experiences product leadership team to ensure alignment of roadmaps and goals across the product teams in Product Group.
• Deliver results through user-centric experimentation and delivery at scale, ensuring data-informed build/buy/partner product decisions in maturing our digital platform capabilities.

Leadership, Mentoring & Coaching

• Lead change to establish a best-in-class product management organization and actively enable the wider product management community to thrive at the BBC.
• Adopt a mentoring and coaching approach to unlock the full potential of the product leadership team responsible for the Platform capabilities.
• Lead by example as an inclusive leader owning and being accountable for the department's performance against corporate diversity and inclusion, location, and sustainability targets.
• Act as a champion of empowered, cross-functional teams and evangelize adoption of the Agile ways of working and modern, data-informed product management practices.

Stakeholder Relationship

• Engage senior stakeholders around the strategic direction of the BBC and drive collaboration across the business to build alignment on direction and priorities.
• Act as a thought leader and partner, championing Platform-first decisions and mindset across the Product Group and wider BBC.

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

We're looking for an:

• Experienced senior product leader with proven ability to lead large product management teams through transformational change and inspire teams on that journey.
• A seasoned product leader with a demonstrated track record of leading Platform-first product teams and delivering successful Platform products and capabilities.

To succeed in this role, you'll need

• To be a practitioner of modern product management practices and Agile ways of working, and a champion of product operating model principles, with a successful change leadership track record.
• Experience as a Platform Product Leader, highly capable of working effectively with technical and business leaders, and fluent in partnering on decisions about technical architecture and business and user needs alike.

Someone who

• Adopts an open communication style with the experience and ability to communicate the vision and priorities to both internal teams and senior executives with the BBC.
• Demonstrates strong platform product leadership and change leadership experience, seamlessly able to build, motivate and lead high performing Product teams.
• Is passionate about building and leading digital Platform capabilities and product management teams, ensuring users at the heart of everything we do.
• Is adept at managing numerous, diverse senior and executive level stakeholders, often operating under tight timescales and managing numerous competing priorities.
• Has a good technical understanding and highly capable of explaining complex concepts and decisions to a wide group of stakeholders in an approachable fashion.

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

Being a leader at the BBC means putting the organisation's interest, goals and values first, ahead of individual team or function needs. The characteristics of an enterprise leader are: Focuses on outcomes over activity, adapts quickly, and simplifies complexity. They balance short-term actions with long-term impact, take full accountability for actions and decision-making, and prioritise capability development to create teams fit for the future.

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.

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 pension scheme 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.

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:

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