Principal Product Analyst

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.

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.

YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND IMPACT

• 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.

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.

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.

We are unable to accept applications via CV and only applications made online will be considered.

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.

Information at a Glance: At the BBC you can create and innovate in an inclusive environment while contributing to some of the world’s best loved content, and the BBC’s mission to inform, educate and entertain.

Benefits may vary if you are joining on an FTC basis or on an orchestra conditions contract.

You belong: We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, so all our employees feel that they can belong, thrive and achieve their full potential. We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to join us.

The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity. We welcome 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. If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the interview process, or to carry out this role, please contact us via email and we’d be happy to discuss: reasonable.adjustments@bbc.co.uk.