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• Can you define consumer needs and business objectives and translate them into viable, innovative products?
• Can you own developing, maintaining, and improving multiple features for BBC News and Sport articles to deliver value and the best experience to our audiences?
• Can you become our next Senior Product Manager: Storytelling BBC News & Sports?

We’re always looking for creative, novel thinking. Here @ the BBC we nurture an environment of psychological safety for your multi-disciplinary team and enable the work, and not impose how it's done. You’re an expert in getting the best out of experts.

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"Nearly 90% of adults, and 75% of 16-34s came to the BBC every week, and every month nearly every adult uses us in the UK. These reach numbers have held up well. Over 30 million browses in the UK used the BBC online yesterday, the only online UK brand to really mix it with global players.

When it comes to hours of video watched in the UK, the BBC remains bigger than Netflix, Amazon Prime and Disney Plus, combined."

Tim Davie, Director general of the BBC

Hi! We’re the BBC News and Sport Articles Team and we're coming to you live from the internet. It's awesome of you to stop by. I'm going to inform you about this awesome role and compel you to apply for it.

The vision and the mission

This is about a case for growth, and the choices, as the UK, to own it. Our BBC's legacy is also about our democracy and the answer must be to differentiate and not copy.

Research by the European Broadcasting Union shows that well-funded public service broadcasters goes hand-in-hand with democratic health. The greater their audience, the more citizens tend to trust each other.

That is why the UK’s strong global voice is so precious.

Today the BBC reaches nearly half a billion people weekly, a number that has been growing. We are the best known British cultural export – quite something when you consider the competition, from music to monarchy.

The BBC will focus its effort on the following in the digital world:-

• Nurturing an informed society through impartial, trusted news and information
• Inspiring and supporting people of all ages with trusted knowledge and training
• Engaging audiences with high-quality local British creativity from across the UK

We are focusing on what personalisation means for the BBC both within News and Sport and across the wider BBC online product portfolio.

As our Senior Product Manager you'll add value by helping to define the proposition across the News and Sport portfolio, and developing our new pan-BBC digital article capability for the web, and your focus will be on the reading experience, starting with News and Sport. The team’s current focus is on completing the storytelling feature-set required to bring all our journalists over to writing in the new articles, and once that’s done we have an exciting opportunity to start to redefine what article-based storytelling looks like for the BBC’s diverse audiences.

You’ll empower your multi-disciplinary digital teams in:-

• Defining the strategy and roadmap for reading experiences, working with editorial stakeholders, UX teams, and the wider BBC product community, in line with the BBC’s vision for reaching all audiences
• Using analytics and research to understand audience behaviour and identify unmet needs
• Lead a cross-functional team including business analyst, delivery manager, software engineers, test engineers, and UX designers

• You're so cool: You've got this. You’re a product manager with experience working with editorial stakeholders
• You solve it like Sherlock: Using data, research and informed intuition to make the best decisions
• We've found the next Shakespeare (in spirit): You’re interested in exploring the future of storytelling in a personalised web
• You're charting the course: You’ve worked with a cross-functional team to deliver agile software products

We’re always looking for creative, novel thinking. Show us how you identify real problems, build deep understanding and implement creative and original approaches that span technical and editorial domains, taking appropriate levels of risk.

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

Unfortunately we're unable to consider anyone without the eligibility/right to work in the UK and we cannot offer sponsorship

Band: D
Contract type: 12 month FTC
Location: Flexible location – London, Newcastle, Cardiff, Salford or Glasgow

• 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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