Product Manager

ENGINEERINGUK; Cardiff; Hybrid; GBP 52,000 - 62,000; Full time

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Sector: Project and Program Management

Role: Manager

Contract Type: Permanent

Hours: Full Time

Package Description
Job Reference: 22575
Band: D
Salary: £52,000-£62,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
Contract type: Permanent
Location: Office Base is London, Salford, Glasgow or Cardiff (This is a hybrid role and the successful candidate will balance office working with home working)

We're happy to discuss flexible working. Please indicate your choice under the flexible working question in the application. There is no obligation to raise this at the application stage but if you wish to do so, you are welcome to. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.

Excellent career progression - the BBC offers great opportunities for employees to seek new challenges and work in different areas of the organisation.

Unrivalled training and development opportunities - our in-house Academy hosts a wide range of internal and external courses and certification.

Benefits - We offer a negotiable salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care and gym. You can find out more about working at the BBC by selecting this link to our candidate pack.

If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the interview process please contact [e-mail]. For any general queries, please contact: [e-mail].

Job Introduction
We're looking to appoint a Product Manager to help shape our graphics tooling and content-creation workflows. Graphics and Automation sits within the Production Workflows and Systems group, which is responsible for all of the BBC's production tools technology and workflows for producing content across television, visualised radio and online.

Within the group, we have tools for short-form production, streaming, sport, news, radio, television and more. Graphics and Automation plays an important part of the BBC's digital first strategy for UK and worldwide audiences, building broadcast graphics and studio automation capability for live TV and multiple streams. Our software powers data-driven graphics for live news, elections, sport events and football results shows as well as generating graphics for post-production workflows.

We work closely with news, sport and many other content genres to enable them to provide engaging graphics content and reach new audiences.

Main Responsibilities
This role will see you working with technical and non-technical stakeholders, facilitating idea generation, sharing knowledge and building strong working relationships around a shared set of objectives. To support you in delivering value you will be working with our product management, technical architecture community, a delivery manager, software and system engineers and user experience designers, as well as operational and production colleagues to understand problems, identify opportunities, prioritise initiatives and ensure the right support and operational models are in place.

To carry out this role you will need an excellent balance of technical and communication skills as well as a clear vision of the requirements.

Are you the right candidate?
You will be part of a cross-functional, collaborative and celebrated team. Many bring experiences from other parts of our industry, or new perspectives from outside it. We value our staff, offering regular training and development opportunities, as well as 'innovation time' - allowing dedicated time for self-improvement, learning and innovation. We take the time to reflect and improve on how we are working through team retrospectives and individual mentoring. We are a hard-working, acclaimed team who is supportive, who cares about each other and promotes a healthy work-life balance. We offer opportunities for flexible working and a friendly working environment.

• Knowledge of broadcast graphics workflows, a wide understanding of the modern technologies and operational practices used, and a good understanding of the broadcast graphics strategy in this area.
• You will play a key role in helping the team deliver value quickly, mitigate risk and hit objectives by identifying priorities and planning & managing workload. Working closely with the teams Product Managers to help execute a shared vision into a reality and to ensure there is a coherent solution roadmap.
• Comfortable working with technical and non-technical stakeholders, facilitating idea generation, sharing knowledge and building strong working relationships around a shared set of objectives.
• Experience of leading graphics tools or working as a product manager leading an agile multi-disciplinary team delivering digital products and services is desirable. However, while experience is not essential, it is essential that you have an understanding of product development principles, an agile mindset, and an openness to learn.
• Ability to write user and technical requirements, use data and user feedback to inform priorities based on value/effort and to communicate them effectively with the relevant teams.

We don't expect anyone to have experience of all the above skills, the above just gives an example of the kind of work we do. If you have a high-agency, enthusiastic mindset, you'll fit right in!

About the BBC
The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC for different reasons 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.

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 here.

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.