Senior Executive, Digital Product in Woking

At McLaren Racing, we’re not just here to try to take the chequered flag. We’re here to excite our fans, inspire our people and deliver for our partners. And we’re also committed to evolving our sport, our industry, and our technology, too.

Purpose of the role: The Senior Executive, Product plays a pivotal role in delivering world-class digital experiences across our owned platforms - the McLaren Racing website and mobile app. Working across Formula 1, IndyCar, WEC, Gaming and wider business areas, this role ensures our digital ecosystem delivers against the business’s four strategic pillars: Growth, Engagement, Monetisation and Retention. You will own the day-to-day product roadmap and performance optimisation of our platforms, working closely with internal stakeholders and external agency partners to ensure a stable, scalable and high-performing digital experience. This role also forms a key part of the race weekend publishing team, working closely with content teams to deliver real-time coverage to millions of global fans. You will be joining a high-performing, fast-paced environment where digital platforms sit at the core of fan experience and commercial delivery.

Role Dimensions: This role will entail unsocial working hours, including evenings and weekends.

Principal Accountabilities

• Digital platform development & optimisation
• Own and manage the short-term digital product roadmap across McLaren.com/Racing and the McLaren App.
• Prioritise and deliver incremental platform improvements aligned to Growth, Engagement, Monetisation and Retention objectives.
• Act as the primary day-to-day contact for digital agencies and platform suppliers.
• Oversee the performance and optimisation of our CMS, video player, fan engagement tools, SSO, API-powered feeds, and internal asset libraries.
• Analyse user behaviour, platform performance and conversion data to identify opportunities for UX and content improvements.
• Translate insights into actionable platform enhancements.
• Ensure analytics tracking, tagging and reporting frameworks are accurate and aligned to business KPIs.
• Support integration of partner requirements and commercial functionality across digital products.

Cross-functional collaboration

• Work closely with the wider Digital team to ensure product capabilities support content strategy and McLaren Racing Club membership growth.
• Proactively contribute to ideation across the Digital team, including improving fan experience and the creation and execution of content.
• Collaborate closely with our external agency and McLaren IT to ensure robust infrastructure, integrations and performance.
• Liaise with Commercial teams to ensure contractual partner integrations are delivered within platform capabilities.
• Maintain clear documentation of workflows, processes and product updates.

Race weekend delivery

• Deliver a selection of remote real-time race weekend coverage across all series including management of live commentary, session updates, schedule information, imagery, video and results.
• Operate within fast-moving, high-pressure environments, maintaining exceptional accuracy and attention to detail.
• Work flexible hours including evenings, weekends and holidays, in line with the global motorsport calendar.

Job requirements

Knowledge, Skills and Experience:

• Experience working within digital product, platform operations or digital optimisation roles.
• Strong experience managing or working with a modern CMS (Contentful or similar preferred).
• Demonstrable knowledge of website and mobile app ecosystems.
• Experience working with digital agencies, developers and external suppliers.
• Proven ability to interpret analytics and translate data into product improvements.
• Strong understanding of UX principles, conversion optimisation and digital performance metrics.
• Strong writing, editing and proofreading skills.
• Knowledge of API integrations, video platforms and engagement tools is desirable.
• Demonstrable interest and knowledge of Formula 1 and motorsport.
• Ability to work in high-pressure, deadline-driven environments.

Personal Attributes:

• Strategic & commercially aware – Understands how digital platforms drive growth, engagement and revenue.
• Analytical – Data-driven decision maker with strong problem-solving skills.
• Resilient – Thrives in high-pressure race weekend environments.
• Ownership mindset – Takes accountability for platform performance and continuous improvement.
• Collaborative – Builds strong relationships across content, marketing, IT and commercial teams.
• High-performance orientation – Operates with precision, urgency and attention to detail consistent with elite sport.

What can McLaren offer? We constantly strive to be better tomorrow than we are today. Our ambition is to be the most pioneering and exhilarating racing team in the world, and our collective task is to set the standards for high performance in sport. We show up every day with energy and enthusiasm, ready to play our part. We encourage and support diversity, equity and inclusion. We will actively promote a culture that values difference and eliminates discrimination in our workplace. McLaren Racing is based at the iconic McLaren Technology Centre (MTC) near Woking. Here at McLaren, we offer hybrid working with 3 days a week based in the MTC. Our state of the art, sustainable campus offers many facilities including a gym, restaurant and indoor and outdoor break-out areas, as well as direct access to park and common land. The MTC is connected to Woking mainline station via regular shuttle buses, from which London Waterloo is a 30 minute train ride. We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including private healthcare, car schemes, life insurance and generous pension contributions.