The posting
Entity:
Technology
Job Family Group:
IT&S Group
Job Description:
Please note that candidates are permitted to apply for only one bp Early Careers opportunity globally within a 180-day period. If multiple applications are submitted within this timeframe, only the first application received will be considered. Any subsequent applications will be withdrawn from the selection process.
Early careers at bp
Looking to turn your career dreams into global impact? Explore graduate opportunities with bp where you get to work on challenging projects, learn from experts and mentors, and be part of a high-performing team from the start. You get the freedom to think boldly, the license to innovate and the chance to keep growing, while being supported, recognized and rewarded along the way.
One Digital graduate program
bp has a bold transformation agenda as it seeks to provide secure, affordable, lower carbon energy to the world. Digital lies at the heart of this transformation and bp is looking to recruit digital talent to help solve the most complex problems of the future. The One Digital early careers program provides a range of foundational career experiences and a gateway to an exciting and rewarding digital career. This is a three-year program, comprised of three, 12-month rotations. As a graduate, you will follow a structured development path to build technical skills, knowledge and experience in a global business setting. Gain capability through challenging development assignments and grow a toolkit of transferable personal and professional skills, with a dedicated network of support and a vibrant early careers community, to help you succeed.
About the discipline: Products and Projects
The digital disciplines in bp Technology facilitate the development of skills and experience, career progression and digital talent. These disciplines include specialist sub-disciplines which focus on enhancing and empowering our digital capability.
Product and projects: We define problems and opportunities, develop solutions, enhance user and customer experiences and deliver work to drive commercial value. This includes:
- Product management (including business analysis)
- Design (service and product design)
- Projects (project / program management, delivery management and change management)
Role and responsibilities
This graduate role will be part of the Products and Projects discipline. During the One Digital program duration, you may be placed in a different role within this discipline at rotation.
A project manager at bp drives the successful delivery of digital products, platforms, and services by applying structured development and execution methods, including Agile. This role ensures alignment with bp’s strategic objectives through comprehensive planning, execution, and delivery oversight. Project managers skillfully balance constraints, manage team members and interdependencies, mitigate risks, and resolve conflicting priorities to deliver successful outcomes.
As a project manager graduate, you may deliver:
- Project and program management: Develop and implement detailed project plans across teams, including schedules, budgets, resource allocation, and delivery roadmaps.
- Delivery oversight in Agile environments: Work within Agile frameworks to coordinate and align project milestones with iterative delivery cycles.
- Risk and change management: Identify, evaluate, and mitigate risks to project success by proactively addressing issues and adapting plans to manage changes effectively.
- Stakeholder alignment and engagement: Build strong relationships with business, technical, and external partners to maintain alignment on goals, requirements, and delivery priorities.
- Continuous improvement and process optimization: Lead efforts to refine project management practices, focusing on repeatable and measurable processes to improve delivery efficiency, reduce risks, and enhance project outcomes.
A product manager at bp is responsible for maximizing the value delivered by digital products, platforms, and services. This role brings together customer needs, business priorities, and technology capabilities to define product strategy, shape roadmaps, and guide delivery. Product managers work closely with stakeholders and delivery teams to ensure solutions solve real problems, deliver measurable outcomes, and support bp's strategic objectives.
As a product manager graduate, you may deliver:
- Product strategy and vision: Define and communicate a clear product vision and roadmap aligned to business goals, customer needs, and strategic priorities.
- Customer and stakeholder engagement: Build strong relationships with customers, users, and stakeholders to understand needs, gather feedback, and ensure alignment on priorities and outcomes.
- Product planning and prioritization: Maintain and prioritize the product backlog, balancing customer value, business impact, risk, and delivery considerations.
- Value delivery and performance: Work with cross-functional teams to deliver product outcomes, measure success, and continuously improve product performance based on insights and feedback.
- Product lifecycle management: Oversee products throughout their lifecycle, ensuring they remain relevant, compliant, sustainable, and aligned to evolving business needs.
Minimum Requirements
- Graduating between December 2026 and May 2027 or have completed your degree in the last three years.
- Current cumulative GPA minimum 3.0
- Eligible to work in the U.S. with no restrictions (bp will not support U.S. Immigration sponsorship for full-time or long-term employment)
- Must be available to start on agreed program start date (June 21, 2027).
- Geographically mobile and willing to relocate to Houston, TX
- Bachelor or Master’s degree in one of the following areas: Communication/Media, Computer Science/Engineering, Energy Business, Economics/Finance, Human Computer Interaction, Management Information Systems, Product/Service Design, Psychology, or a related discipline.
- Structured thinking and strategic problem-solving abilities, with proven examples of project or product management delivery.
- A willingness and ability to learn new technologies, platforms, and ways of working.
- Familiarity with ADO, Adobe Creative Cloud, AI prompting and project management software is a plus
- Strong communications and stakeholder-management skills.
Benefits
- Competitive base salary
- One-time sign-on bonus
- Annual cash bonus opportunity
- Retirement benefits, including 401(k) and pension
- Comprehensive health and welfare benefits
- Relocation and moving assistance, based on eligibility
- Three weeks of paid vacation for new starters
- Structured graduate development, including meaningful assignments, skills development, mentoring and access to the broader bp early careers community
- Hybrid working – please note, bp operates on a 60:40 hybrid working work policy (three days in the office weekly) for most office-based roles.
You may learn more about our generous benefits here Explore Our Benefits.
Travel Requirement
Negligible travel should be expected with this role
Relocation Assistance:
This role is eligible for relocation within country
Remote Type:
This position is a hybrid of office/remote working
Skills:
Agility core practices, AI Prompting, Business modelling, Change Management, Change Management Strategies, Collaborative Communications, Commercial Communications, Communications Consulting, Creativity and Innovation, Critical Communications, Data Analysis, Data Analytics, Design Thinking, Design Thinking Process, Digital Data, Digital Marketing Analytics, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Integration, Problem Solving, Product Engineering, Project Management, Risk Management, Shareholder Communications, Stakeholder Management, UI/UX Design
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