Senior Product Manager

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We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Product Owner to join the Commercial and Digital Products team.

It is a truly exciting time to join UKTV Play as we are embarking on an ambitious multi-year plan to expand UKTV Plays position in the UK market. A key component of this expansion is the evolution and iterative user focused development of the UKTV Play digital proposition.

As a Senior Product Manager, your role will be pivotal in driving this UKTV Play evolution. We are looking for someone who is passionate about building digital products, above all has an eternal focus on the user and how they interact and use digital products. The successful candidate will have experience working on digital propositions and ideally VoD/streaming solutions.

An exciting role in a growing team, your initial focus will be on both strategic product design/definition and more hands-on delivery supporting our internal delivery team. The successful candidate will initially take ownership of key experience drivers/capabilities across all supported platforms and have responsibility for the strategic direction, prioritisation and delivery of product evolutions and enhancements.

In this role you will get to:

Be a trusted member of the UKTV Product team with a shared belief and desire to take ownership and make UKTV Play a better user product

Help shape the UKTV Play digital proposition

Have a key role in influencing and building our new UKTV Play proposition from discovery, ideation, scoping, prioritisation and delivery

 We are looking for someone who has:

Experience delivering video products for a fast-moving, consumer-facing audience

An obsession with understanding customers needs and pain points and striving to deliver better

An innate want to take ownership and the responsibility that come with it

The ability to think and act both tactically and strategically about our product, handle ambiguity and changing priorities

 Who you are:

Collaborative, pragmatic and adaptive: able to build strong and effective relationships, internally and externally, and influence others

Ability to think and act both tactically and strategically about our product, handle ambiguity and changing priorities

Able to look at a problem from 10,000ft, break it down to understand and build a strategic solution.

Diplomatic, and a strong negotiator

Technical aptitude: familiarity with different technologies and streaming architectures with an ability to communicate the same to non-technical audiences

Comfortable working in a fast-paced agile environment and willing to support the wider team

What you will do:

Understand the UKTV Play ambition, mission, goals and objectives, supporting the product strategy for customer facing VoD products; articulate and manage priorities, identify opportunities and clearly communicate to the wider company 

Evangelise the user: they are our primary focus and the basis of our success, in every product consideration/decision and in all communications with internal and external stakeholders 

Support the Head of Digital Products to define, prioritise and maintain a strong and innovative product roadmap for the portfolio of VoD products 

Take ownership of one or more key-cross platform experience drivers/capabilities (Discovery, Consumption, Loyalty and Insights) with responsibility and accountability for the identification, definition, prioritisation and delivery of tactical and strategic product enhancements 

Using performance data and insights to develop a deep understanding of our users and target audiences 

Understand user behaviours to drive key decisions, new features and enhancements and improve efficiency 

Develop product definitions for new initiatives, prioritise based on user/business value and write product briefs, EPICs/features/user stories to enable delivery 

Have responsibility for the quality and alignment to product briefs of your initiatives   

Support agile product delivery across our development and delivery teams 

Work closely with Product Owners and delivery teams, ensuring that the product ask and acceptance criteria are understood 

Promote and drive a continuous culture of experimentation and improvement across your experience drivers  

Work closely with the Digital Content and Marketing teams to support content plans and marketing activities whilst championing user experience 

Support regular liaison with platforms, distribution partners and suppliers

Keep abreast of relevant industry news, key digital and VoD trends from a product perspective 

Actively participate in the UKTV product community, sharing and re-applying skills and knowledge amongst the team 

Live, embrace and role model UKTV Values 

Hybrid-Working

At UKTV, we are working in a hybrid environment with a mixture of home and office working. Getting together in the office as a team and a company gives colleagues an opportunity to build and maintain great relationships, encourages our culture of collaboration and creativity while recognising that colleagues need to have a healthy and happy work-life balance. Youll agree with your manager the split of time you spend in the office or at home based on the role that you do, how often you come together as a team and your personal preference.

Diversity & Inclusion Commitment

At UKTV, our inclusion vision is to truly represent society in our workforce and on-screen, and create a culture of fairness and respect where we champion difference so that every person feels included and empowered to do their best work. We are committed to ensuring a level playing field at UKTV where all employees and job applicants are given equal opportunity, and that we have diverse voices at the table in everything we do. We welcome applications from everyone and we want UKTV to be a place where you can be your authentic self, give your best and develop your career free from discrimination of any kind.

About UKTV

UKTV has been at the forefront of branded television for over 25 years, entertaining the nation with programmes they love. Its leading brands - Dave, Gold, W, Drama, Alibi, Eden and Yesterday - span comedy, entertainment, natural history, factual and scripted drama, and are delivered to audiences through UKTV Play, Freeview, Sky, Virgin Media, BT, TalkTalk, YouView, Freesat and Amazon Fire. The broadcaster is a significant investor in British creativity and is committed to working with new and established writers, directors, and programme-makers.

Our Purpose

We are UKTV. We are here to create TV with personality.

In a world where `finding something to watch means searching endless streams of automated sameness, we believe in creating TV experiences with more personality, that champions diversity of talent both on & off screen.

We are here to bring you a more personal type of TV: Channels and services that get you, with programmes that are hand-picked for their quality and available on any device - all crafted by fans for fans.

Our Mission

We are a different kind of broadcaster. One thats on a mission to become the UKs most successful non-PSB network.

The place that fans turn to first for the genres they love. Admired in our industry as the feisty challenger. Powered by brilliant ideas not blockbuster budgets, well push ourselves to build even more engaging brands, to create and curate more imaginative programmes to form powerful partnerships and to use technology in ever more innovative ways.

As the world of TV rapidly evolves so will we; by continuing to support our brilliant people to do their best work in a uniquely diverse, creative, and inclusive culture.

All the spirit of entertaining and growing the communities of fans who love our shows as much as we do.