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Phew! As you can see from the above clip, 2022's biggest stories in 74 seconds, what a year 2022 has been! Anyone else let out a massive sigh just reflecting on it?

Well it's now 2023 and we have lots to look forward to. What’s clear is that the nation turns to the BBC for the big moments. BBC News & Sport are at the heart of the BBC’s growth strategy. Our digital service is the UK’s biggest and best-loved News & Sport offerings, drawing together world-class journalism and live coverage that bring the nation together.

The mission and the vision

• The BBC has achieved the highest ever global audience. This brings the BBC’s global audience close to the 500 million people target for 2022, which the BBC is on track to exceed this year. The BBC’s audience has more than doubled in the last ten years.
• Our BBC turned 100 years old and we're working to ensure we stick around for 100 more years and beyond.
• You’ll empower our multi-disciplinary digital teams to design, build, maintain and improve our cross-platform offerings for our amazing national and global audiences and realise the full potential of BBC News/Sport/Weather/ World Service.
• Whilst we understand the legacy, power and pull of our brand, we know we have some work to do in terms of pursuing our Digital First agenda.
• This year we have massive plans for our audiences; to become even more customer focussed than we have been, to enable a powerful product culture focussing on the right things and ensuring a connected and seamless experience. Ensuring our audiences turn to the BBC for all the moments that matter in their lives.
• We’re building our product leadership team with impactful and great product leaders to ensure we have strong product leadership who would be able to empower product teams and further foster a great product culture. We need experienced and capable leaders to help us achieve our aims.

We’re not preoccupied by job titles! In your current role you may have the title of Principle Product Manager and/or Lead Product Manager or Group Product Manager or Head of Product. If you’ve got the passion, drive, and experience, we’d love to hear from you.

As an Executive Product Manager within BBC News & Sport, you will be part of a team transforming the way people enjoy our digital products across our key platforms.

Why you should choose us and join our great mission

We're the BBC News & Sport product team. It's awesome of you to stop by do remember to say hi in your application.

We think this is an amazing opportunity and here's why. The BBC has produced some of the most memorable content that has unified generations of people and has contributed to the culture.

We've got a mandate to create distinctive, high-impact content, transform our digital offer and capability, accelerate commercial and global growth, deliver reform of the BBC, getting closer to audiences across the UK, and strengthen impartiality.

Our teams help make sure that every day our audiences are served with all the top stories and analysis, as well as providing world class coverage.

The main tenets of your role can be categorised as:-

• Product Strategy: responsible for developing and driving the strategy and prioritisation of the News & Sport product area – aligned and complementary to the strategic vision for the overall BBC News & Sport division and wider BBC objectives.
• Data Decision Making & Experimentation: using analytics and audience research to investigate user behaviour; to establish insight into product performance and to use this data to drive experiments – ideas, features and product improvements on hypotheses. Summarise & report outcomes and product performance.
• Collaboration In Product Discovery & Definition: work in close partnership with Editorial, Design (UX/UI), Engineering, Data Science, Product Analytics, Research, Delivery and Marketing, throughout the entire lifecycle of your products.
• Product Roadmap: build and maintain a compelling product roadmap and backlog that drives growth, audience engagement, retention and supports the overall goals of the BBC and BBC News & Sport division.
• Product Champion to Team: a hands-on Product Leader, supporting a team of product managers at various levels, driving world-class Product practice and execution.

• Demonstrable experience of driving growth through the development of strategies to deliver defined business outcomes. Experience gained through expertise in both fast, incremental, iterative experimentation and the delivery of a major consumer-facing products.
• Expert understanding and ability to apply domain knowledge, market awareness, audience research and analytical insights to product strategy and planning.
• Demonstrable experience of making product decisions based on user needs – supported with research, usage data, or predictions of either.
• Experience working in partnership with senior stakeholders with high influence and editorial control.
• Line-management experience and demonstrable evidence of leading teams and individuals - including personal and professional development.
• Significant experience in working within large-scale digital and/or new media B2C organisations Content/Editorial experience
• A genuine and demonstrable passion for the craft of Product Management.

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 document attached below.

Diversity 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 diversity.

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

To find out more about Diversity and Inclusion at the BBC, please click here

Band: E
Contract type: Permanent
Location: London OR Salford

• An employer pension contribution of up to 10%.
• Annual leave 26 days, (based on your working pattern 1 of which is a corporation day) + bank holidays of course with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care, gym and much more.
• Family friendly flexible working arrangements, such as hybrid working, job sharing, flexi-time and compressed hours.
• Learning and development tailored to your role this could include industry recognised qualifications, coaching and mentoring.
• An inclusive and diverse environment with opportunities to join staff networks including: Women’s Network, National Disability Networks and many more.

This job role may be suitable for hybrid working, which is where an employee works part of the week in their BBC office and part of the week from home. This is a voluntary, non-contractual arrangement and your office will be your contractual place of work. The number of days that anyone will be able to work at home will be determined primarily by business need but personal circumstances and other relevant circumstances will also be taken into account. If you are successful, any opportunities for hybrid working, including whether a hybrid working arrangement is suitable for you, will be discussed with you prior to you taking up your post.

What to expect

Stage 1: Application

You will be asked to attach your CV and can submit a supporting statement outlining how your skills, experience and achievements align with the essential criteria below and provide evidence of your suitability for the role.

You’ll fill out some eligibility criteria as well.

Guestimation time for application 10 mins.

Stage 2: Interview

If you’re successful and make it through to interview, you’ll be invited to a video interview via Zoom. There, you will be assessed against the criteria listed in ‘Are you the right candidate?’ section.

You will also be assessed on strengths/competency based questions.

Stage 3: Offer

If we have more successful candidates than roles then a reserve list may be held for a period of 3 months from which further appointments can be made.

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