Senior Product Manager

JOB BAND: D
CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent, Full-time
DEPARTMENT: Digital Distribution
LOCATION: London Broadcasting House – Hybrid (1 Day per week)
PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: £65,000 – £75,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

Media Distribution Analytics is the team that knows what your streaming experience was while watching Wimbledon on iPlayer or listening to your favourite podcast on BBC Sounds. The BBC’s future is dependent on delivering content to an ever-growing online audience and setting the industry standard for a world-class on-demand and live streaming experience. That means playing content back flawlessly and offering the best quality media to our audience, so that we continue to deliver news, entertainment and the UK's most prestigious live events that delight our audiences.

To achieve these goals the Media Distribution Analytics team develop the data products and pipelines that ingest, measure and visualise the audience experience and allow us to take action, often in real-time, in addition to informing long term capacity requirements and performance. This is a data engineering team that processes enormous quantities of data, and works closely with device playback and the BBC’s own Content Distribution Network team (BIDI), as well as third party network suppliers, to help make the online streaming experience the best it can possibly be.

WHY JOIN THE TEAM

Joining the Media Distribution Analytics team as a junior software engineer is a chance to work on high-impact, real-time data systems that improve how millions experience BBC content. You’ll collaborate with experienced engineers, learn to build scalable data pipelines, and contribute to cutting-edge streaming analytics. a unique opportunity to grow your skills while shaping the future of online media distribution at the BBC.

YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND IMPACT:

• Work with the engineering team and users to define the roadmap for our Distribution analytics data products
• To champion and be accountable for data quality and operational excellence across all the team's systems, from every-day situations to huge live events
• To build and manage relationships with internal stakeholders across architecture, operations and playback teams, keeping an ear to the ground and proactively seeking out new use cases and user requirements
• Collaborating with external stakeholders from public clouds and CDNs

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA:

• Experience of delivering large scale operational analytics data products
• Ability to work and lead in a technical domain, understanding streaming data pipelines and the challenges of building and managing them
• Experience of using statistical methods to understand and derive meaning from large data sets
• Prioritisation skills balancing cost and performance against new features and requirements for a platform
• Experience working with external vendors in the streaming media domain

DESIRABLE:

• Some hands-on experience (through work, university, or personal projects) with batch or streaming data pipelines and are keen to deepen your knowledge of tools like Spark, Kafka, or Flink.
• Familiarity with cloud services (e.g., AWS, GCP, or Azure)
• Familiarity with using data querying tools, including SQL, to meet evolving user needs
• Exposure to data visualization tools (such as Looker, Grafana, or PowerBI) is a plus, but a willingness to learn how to communicate insights from data is even more important.

Disclaimer

This 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.

For any general queries, please contact: [email protected]