Senior Product Manager - Elections

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BBC .JOB BAND: DCONTRACT TYPE: PermanentDEPARTMENT: Product GroupLOCATION: London or Salford – HybridPROPOSED SALARY RANGE: £72,000 - £82,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.We''re happy to discuss flexible working. If you''d like to, please indicate your preference in the application – though there''s no obligation to do so now. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.Purpose of the role

You’ll lead the transformation of Elections—and the BBC’s visual data more broadly—into 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. You’ll 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. You’ll 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 you’ll also contribute to a wider platform strategy that supports trusted, scalable coverage across Sport, Weather, and News. You’ll join the Content and Content Metadata product area—a 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 direction. Define 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. You’ll 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 processes. Align 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 time—leveraging 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 reach—and track performance across editorial and technical needs.Essential Criteria

Proven Product LeadershipStrategic and Outcome-OrientedData-Driven Decision MakingCross-Functional CommunicationPractical Application of TechnologyDesirable (Not Required)

Familiarity with UK or US elections, or public service journalismBackground in news, regulated media (e.g. Ofcom), or live digital eventsExperience designing metadata schemas or knowledge graphsExperience with broadcast, maps, or visualisation workflowsInterview 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 you''ll demonstrate the required competencies through examples from your experience. Interviews will commence the week of 15 September 2025.Seniority level

Mid-Senior levelEmployment type

Full-timeJob function

Product Management and MarketingIndustries

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