Python Job: Data Analyst

We’re looking to grow our Product Data team and have a number of exciting opportunities at Data Analyst level within both BBC iPlayer and BBC Sounds.

Product Group is responsible for the design, development, and delivery of the BBC’s portfolio of digital products. Our mission comes straight from the BBC’s four priorities: to deliver content that is loved by all audiences, and to extract more from online by joining up the whole of the BBC to connect more deeply with our audiences.

Including iPlayer, Sounds, Bitesize, and the BBC News and BBC Sport apps and website, our portfolio is diverse and contains some of the largest and highest-profile properties on the UK internet. We’re a huge streaming media destination, a news source trusted across the world, a provider of educational and entertaining content to children of all ages, and a sports results, analysis, and commentary service, and much more besides. It's an unparalleled portfolio of products, and our strength is our range and breadth. Working with the BBC’s content divisions, our focus now is on driving engagement across our portfolio so that the BBC online becomes a valued daily habit for all audiences just as television and radio have been over the last century.

Data is fundamental to our future: both in helping us prioritise and shape our work and in creating richer, more personalised experiences for our audiences. And our portfolio means that we’ve got one of the widest, most diverse, and most exciting datasets to work within the UK.

• Working across mobile, web, television and voice platforms supporting Product Managers, Business Analysts and working closely with Software & Data Engineers.
• Providing insight into how our users interact with the product, who they are and how we can make their experience more enjoyable and ensure they return.
• Analysing results of A/B tests and using other causal methodologies.
• Building and maintaining dashboards using Tableau.
• Automating data pipelines using proprietary BBC technology & Airflow
• Getting involved in planning the data the BBC collects online. You will help to develop the BBC’s data collection framework and strategy as well as work with Product and other stakeholders to help resolve any data quality issues.
• Helping non-data oriented colleagues understand where analysis can help them with their day to day roles.
• Researching modern approaches to Data Analysis and making recommendations.
• Supporting analytics colleagues outside the product with their projects.

When it comes to Data Analysts at the BBC we look for these skills:

• Lots of experience manipulating data and delivering findings
• Ability to use data to tell a story
• Some experience coding in SQL, R or Python
• An understanding of how digital products use experimentation
• Comfortable working alongside cross-functional teams
• A good understanding of on-demand audio & visual media products, with a knowledge of key competitors

We don’t focus simply on what we do – we also care how we do it. Our values and the way we behave are important to us. Please make sure you’ve read about our values and behaviours in the document attached below.

Diversity matters at the BBC. We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, enabling all of our employees to thrive and achieve their full potential.

We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to be part of the BBC – whether that’s to contribute to our programming or our wide range of non-production roles. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.

We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief. We will consider flexible working requests for all roles, unless operational requirements prevent otherwise.

To find out more about Diversity and Inclusion at the BBC, please click here

Band: C
Contract type: Permanent
Location: London or Salford

We’re happy to discuss flexible working. Please indicate your choice under the flexible working question in the application. There is no obligation to raise this at the application stage but if you wish to do so, you are welcome to. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.

• Excellent career progression – the BBC offers great opportunities for employees to seek new challenges and work in different areas of the organisation.
• Unrivalled training and development opportunities – our in-house Academy hosts a wide range of internal and external courses and certification.
• Benefits- We offer a competitive salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 26 days (1 of which is a corporation day) with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care, gym and much more.