Head of Product; Data Platform

Job Closing Date: 23:59 Wednesday 28 January 2026

The BBC’s Product Management function is looking to appoint a Head of Product, Data Platform to play a key role in the growth of the BBC’s digital products and a best‑in‑class product culture.

As Head of Product, Data Platform you will have responsibility for a large team of Product Managers leading the product strategy, roadmap prioritisation and development of our core data and quantitative insights platforms. You will be a crucial member of a cross‑functional Senior Leadership Team for your area, and work closely with Product colleagues in our Experience and Platform teams. You will collaborate with editorial, marketing and other peers to ensure the delivery of the BBC’s strategic objectives, while also crafting a culture of excellence.

Your key day‑to‑day responsibilities will include:

• Defining, developing and communicating a ‘platform‑first’ vision and strategy for Data Platform, focusing on scalability, reliability, and extensibility to drive forward the BBC’s product, service and editorial ecosystems
• Building a roadmap for platform development that balances technical innovation, business priorities, and operational excellence, and collaborating closely with Engineering, Data, and Experience and Platform Product peers, and stakeholders from the wider organisation, to ensure alignment and progress against organisational goals and priorities
• Ensuring teams within the Data Platform domain are attuned to the needs of their Platform and Experience colleagues in planning and executing impactful work in an efficient and collaborative way
• Working closely with Engineering colleagues to ensure the platform architecture supports scalability, high availability, and low latency, while proactively identifying and mitigating risks which might compromise organisational objectives, and supporting the Director of Product, Platforms to build and communicate the BBC’s wider platform strategy

• Leading a large team of Product Managers: coaching and mentoring colleagues at a variety of levels to build a high‑performance and collaborative culture. Helping to create a diverse, inclusive, and welcoming environment, where everybody feels supported to be their authentic self
• Undertaking line management and team leadership tasks, such as performance management, resource planning and budget management, recruitment and talent development
• Proactively contributing to the Product Management leadership team and leadership community across Product Group: progressing people, culture and best‑in‑class ways of working across the Group
• Defining, modelling and refining high‑quality Product craft at all stages of the Product Development Lifecycle, with an emphasis on data‑informed decision making, outcome‑focus, experimentation and continuous discovery

• Building and managing the BBC’s data platform, ensuring it provides the foundation for advanced analytics, personalisation, and machine learning to empower other Platform teams and user‑facing Experience colleagues
• Partnering with Data Science and Analytics teams to deliver tools for user behaviour analysis, feature performance tracking, and A/B testing and collaborating with GTM Product Leaders to ensure the data infrastructure supports real‑time insights and marketing automation needs
• Staying ahead of industry trends in cloud computing, Dev Ops, AI/ML, and other platform‑related technologies to future‑proof the organisation
• Evaluating and introducing tools or frameworks that enhance platform capabilities and performance. Defining and tracking leading and lagging metrics for platform performance, such as uptime, latency, and adoption by downstream teams
• Ensuring platform services meet the highest security and compliance standards in partnership with legal and compliance teams

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA:

• Significant & demonstrable experience in Product Management, with specific expertise in platforms, infrastructure and/or technical products. Experience around data ingestion and analytics platforms would…