Director Product Engineering Experience 22279
Director Product Engineering Experience 22279
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Job Introduction
The Director Product Engineering (Experiences) has responsibility for and leads multidisciplinary software engineering teams that enable the delivery of a seamless integrated experience for audiences when interacting with the BBCs digital products across media including Television Mobile and Web.
This role will lead a large highperforming software engineering team that fundamentally create the best services for the audience wherever they are. They will work collaboratively and inclusively with crossfunctional peers in Product Group and across the BBC to achieve the collective goal of driving faster time to value for audiences from the BBCs digital products.
We are flexible on the location of this role as it is hybrid and could be contracted out of any of our major UK locations (Newcastle/ Manchester/ London or Glasgow would be preferable)
Main Responsibilities
- Works closely with counterparts for Enablement Platform Data and Architecture in support of the Director Engineering & Data to lead a high performing engineering organisation
- In partnership with Director of Product Management Experience develop a multiyear roadmap for experience evolution ensuring alignment with audience needs and technological advancement
- Ultimate responsibility for the technical vision and strategy for all of the experiences through which audiences access the BBCs digital include responsibility for:
- the BBCs native mobile and tablet apps
- our websites along with the framework and infrastructure that builds and hosts them
- and all of our onTV experiences (including broadcast interactive) and smart speakers
- You will work to bridge these experiences technologically and organisationally to ensure a seamless and integrated experience for audiences
- Ensures development approach is aligned with the overall BBC engineering and architecture strategy and adheres to standards and principles that ensures engineering excellence
- Ensures teams adhere to software engineering best practice
- Deliver the functions strategy as efficiently as possible; driving maximum value through reducing costs increasing income ensuring appropriate investment to maximise return to the audience/customer
- Continuous improvement and innovation focussed ensuring the BBCs digital products keep pace with technical developments and ahead of competitors ensuring continued compliance and optimisation with new devices
- Foster strong relationships with key leaders across product group technology group and wider business stakeholders to ensure cohesive strategy
- Ensure operational excellence in the products and services delivered and achieve our availability goals
- Drive improvements in the BBCs continuous delivery/integration practices
- Manage resources (financial technological and people) optimally to deliver the strategic goals of Product Group yearonyear
- Contributes to the healthy promotion of engineering culture in software engineering investing in our people and the developer experience
- Provide inspirational leadership support career development and talent retention
- Along with all leaders is accountable for their areas performance against corporate diversity inclusion and location targets. Responsible for creating a diverse inclusive and welcoming environment for staff across Product Group where everybody feels supported to be their authentic self
Are You The Right Candidate
Essential Requirements:
- Extensive demonstrable experience building complex consumer facing digital products and internal facing products across web mobile and TV applications in demanding high eventdriven traffic environments
- Experience working in a media publishing and content production environment would be highly beneficial
- Experience in a senior leadership position responsible for building motivating and leading high performing development teams at scale
- Passionate about software engineering and digital technology with the ability to communicate that passion to largescale distributed teams
- Provides professional leadership and acts as role model to their teams and colleagues alike representing BBC values and high standards of leadership behaviour
- Adept at managing numerous diverse senior and executive level stakeholders often operating under tight timescales and managing numerous competing priorities
- A convincing and persuasive communicator adept at influencing beliefs and opinions of teams as well as senior stakeholders able to establish effective and collaborative relations across BBC departments and external agencies/stakeholders where required
- Act as the conduit to effective communication and influence across the management team
- Strong awareness of the way in which technical initiatives are defined delivered financed and completed successfully
- Excellent commercial and financial acumen including experience of leading highvalue regulated procurements
- Experience in managing significant budgets and understanding key financial drivers
Job Package
Band: SL (Senior Leader)
Contract Type: Permanent
Location: Flexible/ Hybrid (within commuting distance to one of our hubs)
About the BBC
Were 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 inhouse Academy hosts a wide range of internal and external courses and certification.
- Benefits we offer a competitive salary package a flexible 35hour working week for worklife balance and 26 days 1 of which is a corporation day) with the option to buy an extra 5 days a pension scheme and discounted dental health care gym and much more.
We dont 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 youve read about our values and behaviours in the below document: matters at the BBC. We have a working environment where we value and respect every individuals 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 thats to contribute to our programming or our wide range of nonproduction 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 socioeconomic 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 visit Experience:
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