Description

Closing Date: 18-Apr-2024

We are seeking an exceptional Lead Product Manager to join the BFI Player team and deliver the BFIs next generation film streaming service. A motivational and driven individual capable of leading the short and long-term strategy.
Key responsibilities include:
Drive and champion the BFI’s digital product strategy, with a particular emphasis on commercially-led creativity and continuous improvement in user engagement.
Define an inspiring and strategic product roadmap for BFI Player and its internal systems, ensuring it’s clearly communicated to relevant product teams so they can align their backlogs accordingly.
To ensure that the team (employed and freelance) are engaged and well informed regarding the Department’s initiatives and the team’s activities and targets and what is expected from them both in delivery of their objectives and behaviours, including when representing the BFI.
We are looking for candidates who have:
Significant experience in product management delivering successful B2C products, with a focus on streaming and media products.
Demonstrable knowledge and understanding of agile development methodologies.
Demonstrable analytical skills that have been used to solve complex software challenges.
Self-motivated and collaborative; able to work both alone and in project teams and be comfortable with uncertainty, speculation and problem-solving.
A full list of responsibilities and minimum requirements can be found in the job description.
About the BFI
We are a cultural charity, a National Lottery distributor, and the UK’s lead organisation for film and the moving image. We believe society needs stories. Film, television and the moving image bring them to life, helping us connect and understand each other better. We share the stories of yesterday, search for the stories of today, and shape the stories of tomorrow.
At the BFI you’ll enjoy benefits such as excellent support for working parents, 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays and additional paid time off at Christmas), tickets to BFI festivals and events plus many others.
We support diversity and inclusion, and as an organisation recognise that we need to address under representation within our teams. As such we strongly welcome and encourage applicants from our under-represented groups; who identify as D/deaf and disabled and/or are Black and Global Majority. We guarantee a first interview to our under-represented groups who meet our minimum requirements.
Further details about the role, the BFI and our benefits can be found in the attachment on the left.