Bbc Graduate Scheme – Senior Product Manager In Leicester

Overview

Position Title: Senior Product Manager

Company: BBC

Location: Leicester, UK

Job Description:

Working in partnership with BBC iPlayer and BBC Sounds Product Managers, Engineers and a range of internal stakeholders including legal and business development teams, The Senior Product Manager, iPlayer TV Certification is responsible for ensuring that BBC TV apps are available on all UK TV devices to a standard that ensures users get an excellent experience both at launch and in the future.

The successful commercial savvy Product Leader will be responsible for making sure that BBC TV applications are accessible, performant and future proof on the wide range of TV devices available to licence fee payers in the UK. This includes Smart TVs, set-top boxes, streaming devices, games consoles and any other devices that plug into your TV.

Responsibilities:

• Working directly with TV partners to communicate, coordinate and manage the process of device certification. You’ll build trusting relationships with teams locally and overseas.
• Work with BBC Business Development and Legal teams to ensure agreements and relationships with third parties support product requirements and align with product strategy and delivery.
• Representing TV partners throughout the certification process, based upon partner needs, probability of successful pass balanced with the volume of devices. Leading meetings with external partners and acting as a touch point between commercial and our product teams.
• Regular engagement with BBC Joint Venture partnerships to ensure high levels of engagement and coordination.
• Ensuring certification results are accurately and consistently communicated to partner, considering all relevant context and circumstances.
• Jointly responsible for continuous improvement of the TV Certification process, identifying and prioritising enhancements, communicating them to both partners and business as required.
• Listening to, understanding, and representing our TV partners biggest challenges with TV certification such that we can reduce the friction involved in getting BBC TV services.

Requirements:

• A good understanding of TV platforms, applications, and emerging web technologies.
• Demonstrable experience of using analytics and audience research to uncover and investigate user behaviour; to establish insight into product performance and to use this data to drive ideas, features and product improvements.
• Experience working to develop and deliver a digital service that can supports the BBC’s TV device application needs, now and in future.
• Ability to context switch, to adapt quickly to different challenges and priorities.