Product Manager - Brand Websites - EXTEND Product Manager - Brand Websites - EXTEND

The Branded Websites Product team sits within BBC Studios and plays a major role in developing websites and digital offering for some of its most loved global brands' ranging from children's brand, Bluey to home-grown British brands like Doctor Who. We're looking for a Product Manager to join our team and continuously create value for our web audiences and support the business' commercial goals. You will be a part of a fantastic cross-functional, in-house product development team, including engineers, QA, UX and delivery and report into the Executive Product Manager (EPM) for the portfolio. You'll have full ownership of the day-to-day management of one of the products in the portfolio while also support the rest of the portfolio as the need arises. Responsibilities include:

• Owning the product backlog, ensuring that development tickets contain full detail, ready for development against the quarterly plan and are clearly articulated to the team.
• Providing clear prioritisation and direction to the team of the initiatives and the detailed requirements.
• Working with the development team to prioritise, trouble-shoot and resolve live, urgent issues; and support the EPM and Delivery lead with stakeholder communications.
• Partnering with UX to ensure that we adopt a product-led approach to create experiences that are useful, usable and feasible for our audiences.
• Working with engineering to understand solutions and feasibility and to ensure high standards of quality.
• Communicating and liaising with stakeholders across the business to manage feature and change requests; to gather requirements; and to evangelise the product-led, problem-solving ways of working.
• Measuring the success of our initiatives by working closely with our data and audience teams to perform data analysis and derive actionable insights.
• Identifying opportunities to solve problems or to create value for our audiences and the business;
• Supporting the Executive Product Manager in leading the team from ideation all the way through to delivery.
• Supporting the Executive Product Manager with the portfolio-level product roadmap planning and strategic goals.
  
  A team player with a strong sense of team culture, committed to creating an inclusive working environment and leading by example.
• Good attention to detail applied to the detail of requirements, solutions and data, while being able keep your awareness of the broader context of the roadmap and goals.
• Basic knowledge of agile software development methodologies and tools.
• Basic understanding of product management methods.
• Comfortable using analytics reporting tools to perform product analysis and identify the most meaningful metrics to aid data-informed decision making.
• Managing multiple conflicting priorities simultaneously with strong organisation and methodical skills.
Desirable
• Prior digital experience either working in product management roles or similar/adjacent roles in the product and technology sector.
• Experience applying Agile methodologies and product/project tools, and working in an in-house product team.
• Experience of working in the digital media or publishing space.
  
  BBC Studios is a world-renowned content studio and channels & streaming business, powered by British creativity, with a reach that touches audiences in every corner of the globe.
We work with outstanding creative talent who are responsible for platform-defining shows from Strictly Come Dancing to Bluey, Prehistoric Planet to Planet Earth III. The range and quality of our content is unsurpassed, creating critical and commercial successes and global phenomena. From BAFTAs to RTS Awards, BBC Studios is Britain's most awarded production company and the only producer with three of the top ten shows on IMDB; we're the home of bbc.com, the widest-read English language news website in the world; and the UK's largest distributor of British content.


• We offer a competitive salary package
• Flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance
• 26 days holiday (plus an additional day which is a Corporation Day) with the option to buy an extra 5 days
• A defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care, gym and much more
• Excellent career progression - access to courses, webinars, workshops and the opportunity to work in different areas of the organisation