Senior Series Developer BBC StoryWorks

Essential Criteria

Your Skills and Experience

• Strong track record in driving business growth, with a proven ability to identify, develop and convert strategic growth opportunities, with a focus on long-term value creation.
• Meaningful experience in content development, research, strategy or business growth roles, ideally within a commercial media environment.
• Project management skills, with the ability to lead multiple complex projects from development through to delivery, ensuring strategic alignment, timely execution, and high-quality output.
• Outstanding written and verbal communication, with the ability to digest complex topics and convey them clearly and concisely. Confident in presenting and leading high-level client and stakeholder conversations, articulating strategic and creative value in a compelling, audience-focused way.
• Experience managing or mentoring team members, with a focus on supporting performance and contributing to overall team leadership and culture.

Desired But Not Required

• Effective collaborator, skilled at interacting with diverse teams and aligning stakeholders across creative and commercial functions.
• Confident and credible when engaging with senior clients, internal leadership and subject matter experts.
• Proactive, solutions-focused and comfortable managing multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Comfortable working with data and insights to inform strategy and storytelling – experience with data analysis or insight tools is an advantage.
• Strong creative judgement with an instinct for what resonates with audiences and drives engagement across platforms.

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.

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.

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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.