BBC
Principal Product Analyst
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JOB DETAILS
JOB BAND: D
CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent, Full-time
DEPARTMENT: Product Group
LOCATION: London, Salford, Newcastle - Hybrid
PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: Up to £74,367 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 combine discovery and complex analysis to uncover insights that influence product strategy, prioritisation and iterative development. Acting as a trusted partner to stakeholders, you’ll balance competing requests with a clear understanding of product goals, helping teams move beyond asking what happened to understanding what should we do next. Your work will directly influence the experiences of millions of BBC audiences by ensuring product decisions are driven by evidence, audience needs and measurable outcomes.
WHY JOIN THE TEAM
As a Principal Product Analyst, you will provide strategic analytical leadership across BBC digital products, helping shape product strategy through data-informed decision making.
You will operate at a strategic level, partnering with senior product managers, data scientists, UX and engineers to identify the most impactful opportunities. You will help define where analytical effort should be prioritised, focusing on where it can deliver the greatest impact.
You will combine deep analytical expertise, strong product judgement and proactive strategic thinking to influence prioritisation and long-term product direction. Alongside this, you will champion best practice and help to develop and mentor analysts.
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Working within the Product Analytics team, you will:
- Translate complex data through advanced SQL/python into clear strategic recommendations that influence product direction.
- Partner with senior stakeholders to shape product strategy through data and insight.
- Own significant areas of discovery and experimentation that uncover opportunities for growth.
- Identify and prioritise the highest value analytical opportunities across a portfolio of products and initiatives.
- Ability to use visualisation tools to a high level to support exceptional storytelling through insight. Challenge assumptions and ensure decisions are grounded in evidence and audience value.
- Develop and evolve measurement frameworks that align product outcomes with organisational objectives.
- Champion best practice in product analytics and drive a culture of data-informed decision making. Mentor senior analysts and help develop analytical capability across the organisation, with the capacity to manage more junior team members.
ESSENTIAL YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
- Extensive experience delivering product analytics within large-scale digital products, with Advanced SQL skills and experience working with large, complex datasets.
- Proven experience influencing product strategy and organisational priorities through data.
- Proactive self-starter, comfortable working with a high degree of autonomy, with the ability to identify the highest-value opportunities for analytical investment.
- Experience partnering with senior stakeholders, comfortable influencing and challenging thinking through evidence-based insight.
- Experience leading, mentoring and developing analytical capability across teams, including line management of more junior analysts.
If you can bring some of these skills and experience, along with transferable strengths, we’d love to hear from you and encourage you to apply.
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Before your start date, you may need to disclose any unspent convictions or police charges, in line with our Contracts of Employment policy. This allows us to discuss any support you may need and assess any risks. Failure to disclose may result in the withdrawal of your offer.
DISCLAIMER
This job description is a written statement of the essential characteristics of the job, with its principal accountabilities, incorporating a note of the skills, knowledge and experience required for a satisfactory level of performance. This is not intended to be a complete, detailed account of all aspects of the duties involved.
Please note: If you were to be offered this role, the BBC will conduct Employment screening checks which include Reference checks; Eligibility to work checks; and if applicable to the role, Safeguarding and Adverse media/Social media checks. Any offer made is conditional on these checks being satisfactory.
Before your start date, you may need to disclose any unspent convictions or police charges, in line with our Recruitment policy. This allows us to discuss any support you may need and assess any risks. Failure to disclose may result in the withdrawal of your offer.
For any general queries, please contact: bbchr@bbc.co.uk
We are unable to accept applications via CV and only applications made online will be considered. Please click on the APPLY NOW button to proceed with your application.
REDEPLOYMENT
The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC and they will be given priority consideration ahead of other applicants. Priority consideration means for those employees seeking redeployment their application will be considered alongside anyone else at risk of redundancy, prior to any individuals being considered who are not at risk.
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