Silver is the BBC’s live streaming tool, available to all producers in the BBC to control, produce and oversee digital live streams to online destinations across the BBC – including BBC Live pages, iPlayer, connected television and selected social platforms. Our vision is to empower content creators to make engaging live video from anywhere.
Role Responsibility
As the Product Manager for Silver you’ll lead a cross-functional, collaborative and dynamic team. Working in partnership with editorial and production representatives to develop solutions that shape the way live video is produced across the BBC, in line with the BBC’s audience facing objectives and strategies – currently focused on some key areas, including: content targeting <35 year olds, iPlayer as the home of Live video, and tagging of content to allow a personalised BBC.
Silver has enjoyed recent success with production teams and partners including BBC Arts (Dance Passion), BBC NHU (Springwatch), BBC Sport and many more. This is a great opportunity to work on the continued success of an exciting digital-focused production tool.
Are you the right candidate?
You enjoy working collaboratively; you are results focused and have the pragmatism to deliver. You also have experience in:
- Product management for a multi-disciplined agile team to prioritise and shape the delivery of enhancements to an established product
- Idea generation for new product development.
- Introducing and Launching new products into teams with established workflows.
- Setting and tracking Objectives and Keys Results that focuses the team and are aligned across the business.
- Being the voice of the user – ensuring their needs are considered by being involved in user research, user testing, analytics and experiments.
- Working with other teams across software delivery to identify opportunities to align and reuse components.
- Engaging with Stakeholders to understand their priorities and keeping them informed of product developments.
- Good presentation, communication and interpersonal skills and proven ability to communicate complex processes at all levels.
We don’t expect anyone to have experience of all the above skills, they are an example of the kind of work we do and the technologies we use. If you’re great, we want you!
Package Description
Band: D
Contract type: 12 Month Fixed Term Contract
Location: Salford
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 competitive salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 26 days holiday with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care, gym and much more.
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