Senior Product Manager - New Data Solutions

Job Description

Job Req ID: 58950

Closing Date: 1st June

Location: Manchester or London

About the role

BT is entering a new phase of growth, shifting from large-scale infrastructure investment to unlocking value from data, platforms and AI. This role sits at the centre of that ambition.

As Senior Product Manager, New Data Solutions, you will be accountable for identifying, validating and scaling new data-led product opportunities that deliver measurable commercial growth for BT. You will lead ambiguous, high-impact initiatives where there is no established playbook, shaping strategy, making evidence-based investment decisions, and ensuring successful transition from incubation into BT’s core business.

This role sits within the Data and Developer Solutions division of Etc., BT’s internal innovation organisation. It plays a critical role in turning innovation into repeatable, scalable business opportunities.

What you’ll be doing

Product, portfolio and commercial leadership

• Own the product vision and strategy for a defined portfolio of new data solution opportunities, aligned to BT’s strategic growth priorities, translating customer and commercial needs into clear roadmaps and measurable commercial outcomes.
• Act as the accountable product leader for complex, ambiguous problem domains, making evidence-based decisions to invest, pivot, partner or stop initiatives.
• Define and articulate clear product vision, value propositions and success measures, ensuring alignment to customer needs, market opportunity and BT’s strategic intent.
• Own the commercial logic for new products, including value cases, pricing considerations, investment rationale and performance tracking post-launch.
• Ensure products are commercially viable, operationally scalable and ready for transition into core BT ownership.

Strategy, influence and senior stakeholder leadership

• Shape and influence portfolio-level prioritisation decisions across Data Solutions, balancing customer value, commercial impact and delivery capacity.
• Influence senior stakeholders across business units and partners without direct authority, building alignment and momentum around new growth opportunities.
• Contribute to broader thought leadership and strategy for data and AI-driven products within BT.

Product development and delivery oversight

• Lead multidisciplinary teams across product management, UX, engineering, data science and analysis, ensuring delivery focuses on outcomes rather than outputs.
• Set clear direction for product discovery, experimentation and delivery, using customer insight, market analysis and performance data to guide decisions.
• Ensure appropriate analytics and insight are in place to measure adoption, value and growth, and to inform ongoing optimisation.
• Identify, manage and mitigate delivery, commercial and strategic risks across the product portfolio.

People and capability leadership

• Line manage, mentor and develop product talent, building future-ready capability across product management and adjacent disciplines.
• Lead improvements to product ways of working, raising standards and maturity across discovery, delivery and commercial thinking.
• Role model BT’s leadership behaviours, creating a high-performing, inclusive and outcome-focused culture.

Essential Skills / Experience

• Significant experience leading end-to-end product strategy, discovery, delivery and scale-up in complex, ambiguous environments.
• Proven ability to own product outcomes, including commercial performance, not just delivery milestones.
• Strong judgement and decision-making capability under uncertainty, including making hard trade-offs.
• Experience shaping and influencing senior stakeholders across multiple functions and organisations.
• Deep understanding of modern data platforms, analytics and AI-enabled products, sufficient to guide strategic and architectural decisions.
• Strong commercial acumen, including business case development and performance monitoring.
• Experience leading and developing people, with a track record of building capability and raising standards.

Desirable Skills / Experience

• Experience shaping go-to-market strategies, pricing and packaging for new digital or data products.
• Platform and ecosystem thinking, including partner selection and build/buy/partner decisions.
• Experience working with OKRs or similar outcome-based frameworks at product or portfolio level.
• Experience operating within large, complex or highly regulated organisations.
• Some knowledge of geospatial mobile network data would be helpful but not essential

Our Package

Tailored benefits make a real difference. That’s why we offer a comprehensive range to support your growth, wellbeing, and everyday life. You can design the package to suit you and your lifestyle. Your core benefits include:

• Company car scheme (or cash alternative)
• 15% on target annual bonus
• Private healthcare for you and your family
• Access to an online private GP 24/7 for you and your immediate family
• Market-leading paid carers leave with up to 2 weeks off
• Equalised maternity, paternity, and adoption leave – 18 weeks’ full pay and 8 weeks’ half pay
• Discounted EE and BT products, including mobile and broadband
• Market leading Pension scheme – 5% from you and 10% from us
• Holiday purchase scheme

You can select additional benefits, including healthcare, dental, gym memberships and more when you’re ready.

BT Group is the UK’s leading communications group and the holding company behind some of the country’s most recognised brands – including BT, EE, Openreach and Plusnet. Our purpose is as simple as it is ambitious: we connect for good. Our customers include consumers, small, medium and large businesses, public sector organisations and other communications providers.

BT Group’s role is about setting direction, unlocking value and creating the conditions for our brands and businesses to thrive.

Having come through the most capital-intensive phase of our fibre investment, our focus now is on what comes next – simplifying how we operate, using technology and AI to work smarter, and organising ourselves to serve customers better and grow sustainably. Group teams shape strategy, policy, brand, capital allocation and transformation, helping the whole organisation perform at its best.

We have a singular culture that unites all our people: we are customer-first challengers, who are committed, clear and connected. These behaviours unite us as one team to deliver for our colleagues, our customers, our stakeholders and the country. Joining BT Group means working at the heart of a business that matters to the UK, with the opportunity to shape decisions, influence outcomes and help set the future course of one of the country’s most important companies.