Senior Product Manager - Elections
Senior Product Manager - Elections
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Job Description
JOB PACKAGE
JOB BAND: D
CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent
DEPARTMENT: Product Group
LOCATION:London or Salford Hybrid
PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: 72000 - 82000 depending on relevant skills knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
Were happy to discuss flexible working. If youd like to please indicate your preference in the application though theres no obligation to do so now. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.
PURPOSE OF THE ROLE
Youll lead the transformation of Electionsand the BBCs visual data more broadlyinto a platform capability ensuring our data tools and processes can be applied across our full portfolio of products. Starting with Elections your work will extend to Sport Weather and News enabling trusted accessible and composable digital experiences. Youll define product strategy own outcomes across the full product lifecycle and empower the Elections team to deliver autonomously using agile methodologies.
WHY JOIN THE TEAM
BBC election coverage reaches nearly everyone in the UK: 90% of the population engaged with our 2024 General Election coverage. Youll help move election infrastructure to reduce bespoke work for each event and create a reusable capability powering our journalism across web mobile and TV. Your primary focus will be Elections but youll also contribute to a wider platform strategy that supports trusted scalable coverage across Sport Weather and News. Youll join the Content & Content Metadata product areaa collaborative forward-looking team committed to clear thinking discovery-led planning and cross-functional delivery.
YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND IMPACT
- Set long-term vision and product a clear evolving strategy for election data as a scalable product. Translate technical complexity into clear actionable work for cross-functional teams. Prioritise decisively to maximise audience value and make informed trade-offs where needed.
oull create well-scoped requirements that bridge the gap between third-party data producers and front-end delivery. - Build resilient and reusable systems. Simplify systems and workflows to enhance reliability enable automation and support scalable platform product management. Drive platform adoption by supporting other teams with documentation outreach and practical with BBC-wide metadata standards and reduce manual effort through automation and shared components.
- Deliver measurable impact. Embed continuous discovery and rapid prototyping into team practice using performance metrics to inform product roadmap decisions and data-driven prioritisation. Use value-led prioritisation to focus on what matters most. Define and track KPIs that connect platform performance to audience value. Make impact visible to guide decisions and build accountability.
- Partner to deliver trusted journalism at scale. Work closely with editorial graphics broadcast and product teams to ensure accurate and impartial election results reach all platforms on timeleveraging cross-functional leadership and strong stakeholder management throughout. Stay tightly aligned with newsroom goals while safeguarding platform stability.
- Unify visual data strategy across domains. Extend the platform approach beyond Elections to Sport and Weather applying principles of API strategy and digital transformation to standardise how we manage and distribute visual data. Standardise metadata feed infrastructure and observability. Define success metrics for latency reuse uptime and reachand track performance across editorial and technical needs.
YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
ESSENTIAL CRITERIA
- Proven Product Leadership
- Strategic & Outcome-Oriented
- Data-Driven Decision Making
- Cross-Functional Communication
- Practical Application of Technology
- Familiarity with UK or US elections or public service journalism
- Background in news regulated media (e.g. Ofcom) or live digital events
- Experience designing metadata schemas or knowledge graphs
- Experience with broadcast maps or visualisation workflows
INTERVIEW PROCESS
The interview process will be two stages and held on MS Teams. The first stage will include a short presentation / scenario followed by the second interview where youll demonstrate the required competencies through examples from your experience. Interviews will commence the week of 15 September 2025.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
