Your Role: Senior Product Owner – Global:IQ
This role sits in the Global:IQ team, building our next-generation intelligence platform. Global:IQ brings together 1st party and partner data, tools and capabilities to turn data into audience understanding and optimised, data-led media plans across audio and out-of-home.
As the Senior Product Owner, you’ll own the roadmap for our core ad-targeting, creative optimisation and advertising measurement capabilities. You’ll bridge the gap between complex data science and tangible commercial outcomes, leading a large development and data science team to deliver capabilities not yet seen in audio and outdoor media.
Key Responsibilities
- Product Vision & Strategy (30%): Own and evolve the roadmap for automated intelligence products across targeting, creative and measurement. Champion a clear vision and long-term ambition for how Global:IQ transforms our advertising products.
- Data & AI Leadership (30%): Lead data and AI-driven initiatives from concept to deployment, defining what we build and why, and ensuring machine learning solutions solve real advertiser problems.
- Backlog Management (20%): Translate strategic goals into clear, prioritised user stories and acceptance criteria for a large, cross-functional development team.
- Hands-on Analysis (10%): Use SQL (e.g. Snowflake, BigQuery) to interrogate data, validate hypotheses, check success metrics and inform product decisions without always needing an intermediary.
- Innovation (10%): Prototype ideas (including with AI tools), test early concepts with stakeholders and foster a startup mindset focused on experimentation and learning.
What You’ll Love About This Role
Think Big: Pioneer new ground in ad targeting and optimisation, solving complex, unscripted problems in a space where there is no established playbook.
Own It: Take end-to-end responsibility for high-impact AI/data products, from idea through to live performance and iteration.
Keep it Simple: Turn advanced data science and machine learning into simple, usable products that deliver clear value for advertisers and internal teams.
Better Together: Work closely with engineering, data science, commercial and product partners, building deep trust through transparent communication and shared outcomes.
What Success Looks Like
In your first few months, you’ll have:
- Immersed yourself in the advertising domain and current capabilities, identifying the biggest opportunities across targeting, creative and measurement.
- Built strong relationships and feedback loops with development and data science teams, earning trust through clear, technically informed decision-making.
- Demonstrated hands-on capability by using SQL in Snowflake/BigQuery to support at least one key product decision.
- Led a data-driven feature from concept through to deployment, clearly demonstrating the value of Global:IQ to internal and external stakeholders.
What You’ll Need
- Product Experience: Significant experience (around 8+ years) in Product Ownership on complex, data-rich products, ideally within major advertising agencies.
- Domain Passion and knowledge: A strong interest in using data and intelligence to improve ad campaign efficiency and demonstrate media value, with the appetite to specialise in this area over the long term.
- AI/Data Product Skills: Proven experience leading data and AI/ML-powered products from idea to launch, with a good understanding of the end-to-end lifecycle.
- Technical Skills: Strong SQL skills and confidence working with big data environments such as Snowflake or BigQuery.
- Leadership & Collaboration: Experience working with and influencing large development teams, and collaborating effectively across technical and commercial stakeholders.
- Innovation Mindset: Comfortable with ambiguity, experimentation and fast feedback, ideally including experience in “AI-native” or startup-style product environments and quick prototyping using AI tools.
Skills Required
- Around 8 or more years of experience in Product Ownership or Product Management
- Experience with complex, data-rich products
- Proven experience leading data and AI or machine-learning-powered products from idea to launch
- Strong SQL skills
- Experience with big-data environments such as Snowflake or BigQuery
- Experience working with and influencing large development teams
- Ability to collaborate effectively with technical and commercial stakeholders
- Strong interest in data-driven advertising, campaign efficiency, and media value
- Comfort with ambiguity, experimentation, and fast feedback
- Experience in AI-native or startup-style product environments
- Experience with rapid prototyping using AI tools
Global Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Global and has not been reviewed or approved by Global.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — 25 days’ annual leave plus an extra work‑anniversary day, with the option to buy up to five additional days, points to broad time‑off flexibility. Enhanced family and accessibility leave further expand coverage.
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Healthcare Strength — Access to a 24/7 virtual GP, health and dental discount programs, long‑term sickness insurance, and life assurance at 4x salary indicate robust health protection. Free Headspace membership and nutrition coaching complement the core offering.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Discounted gym memberships, cashback benefits, discounted travel insurance, and access to company‑sponsored music events contribute lifestyle value. Feedback suggests these extras add to a fun, wellbeing‑oriented culture.
Global Insights
What We Do
The UK and Europe’s largest Radio & Outdoor company, Global is home to respected, national market-leading media brands broadcasting across the UK on DAB & FM and around the world on Global Player, including Heart, Capital, LBC, Capital XTRA, Capital Dance, Classic FM, Smooth, Radio X and Gold. Global Player allows listeners to enjoy all of Global’s radio brands, award-winning podcasts, and expertly curated playlists, in one place in app, on web and on smart speakers. Global is also one of the leading Outdoor companies in both the UK & Europe, with over 253,000 sites reaching 95% of the UK population. Global’s extensive and diverse outdoor portfolio encompasses Transport for London’s Underground network, almost all major UK airports including Gatwick, the UK’s largest portfolio of roadside posters and premium digital screens in prime locations, as well as the UK’s largest network of buses including all major cities. On-air, on Global Player and with our outdoor platforms combined, Global reaches 51 million individuals across the UK every week, including 26.3 million on the radio alone.
