Principal Data Product Manager

Other
Glasgow
April 26, 2026
Permanent
Urgent

Job Description

Glasgow (G511DA), Newcastle upon Tyne (NE991RN), Salford (M50 2QH)

JOB DETAILS

Job Title: Principal Product Manager – Data Products

Band: E

Salary: £85,000 – £100,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience.

Contract type: Permanent, Full time

Location: Newcastle, Salford, Glasgow. Hybrid role: minimum 1 day office per week.

Flexible working can be discussed in the application.

PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

The Product Group’s Data Products team seeks a Principal Product Manager to improve consistency, quality and usability of behavioural data across digital products. This role drives the development of foundations that enable product and data teams to understand audience behaviour across web, mobile and TV, improving data capture, structure, and availability, and resolving source level inconsistencies in close collaboration with engineering and frontend teams.

The focus is on executing across multiple teams to strengthen the quality and reliability of behavioural data. Success means that data professionals and product teams can confidently use well defined, trusted data – reducing time spent cleaning and reconciling data and increasing insight impact on product decisions across the BBC.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND IMPACT

  • Lead strategy for user behavioural data tracking and own data products that make behavioural data useful, usable and actionable.
  • Collaborate with business stakeholders to build alignment around shared problems and opportunities, and align delivery to meet those needs.
  • Be an expert in a data domain and communicate regularly with product teams on data product strategy and evolution.
  • Define success metrics, KPIs and monitor ongoing product performance, taking action to improve performance when needed.
  • Create and execute the go to market plan for large scale products, ensuring performance is measured and real world user feedback is incorporated.
  • Champion product area in weekly, monthly or quarterly business review meetings.

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

  • Many years experience as a product manager developing products for internal customers.
  • Strong technical expertise in behavioural analytics and client side and server side event data on Web, Mobile and TV.
  • Demonstrable expertise and hands on experience in continuous product discovery and user research in ambiguous environments.
  • Proven ability to align and influence a wide range of stakeholders, including senior executives, around strategy or approach.
  • Demonstrated experience using data to derive insight and drive product/feature decision making.

DESIRED CANDIDATE QUALIFICATIONS

  • Exceptional communication and influencing skills, including experience building one to one relationships with senior business leaders.
  • Ability to communicate complex or technical problems in clear messaging.
  • Experience partnering with multiple teams to provide user value through data product capabilities or services.
  • Background in mission driven organisations or environments with a strong product culture.

Interviews will be conducted over Microsoft Teams and will explore your experience and approach to product management. We will make any required adjustments to ensure full participation.

If you can bring these skills and experience along with transferable strengths, we’d love to hear from you and encourage you to apply.

Before your start date, you may need to disclose any unspent convictions or police charges in line with our Contracts of Employment policy. Failure to disclose may result in withdrawal of your offer.

EEO STATEMENT

The BBC welcomes applications from individuals regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio economic background, religion and/or belief. We are a disability confident employer.

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