Technical Product Owner - UI/UX Strategy

Join us as a Technical Product Owner- UI/UX Strategy - The Technical Product Owner role is fundamental to executing XDP's defined UI strategy and transforming it into a cohesive, bank-wide design system foundation.

This role will be responsible for:

- Translating strategy into technical roadmap

- Designing the component architecture

- Driving adoption strategy

- Governing design consistency:

As a Technical Product Owner- you could have a front end engineering background or design. You will be positive about change and have growth mindset and embrace the vision of how do we enable Barclays UI.

To be successful as a Technical Product Owner- UI/UX Strategy you should have experience with;

• Design System Product Management- Track record of owning the roadmap for a design system, component library, or developer platform. You'll need to prioritise work across the full platform stack and make hard calls about what gets built when. Comfortable presenting platform investment cases to senior leadership in terms of developer velocity, brand consistency, and reduced compliance risk. Can turn a strategic vision into a sequenced backlog with clear outcomes at each phase.   
• Technical Fluency in Modern Frontend Architecture- Working knowledge of design system internals, component-driven development (React, Tailwind, headless patterns), and API-first platform design. You won't be writing production code, but you need to understand how theming works end-to-end, how schemas power generation tooling, and why a breaking change to a shared API matters to twenty consuming teams. Able to write sharp acceptance criteria and push back on technical proposals with informed questions.
• Cross-Functional Stakeholder Management and Adoption- Experience driving adoption of internal platform products where teams have competing priorities and no obligation to migrate. Skilled at gathering requirements from consuming teams, negotiating scope with design, communicating upgrade paths, and standing up lightweight governance (contribution models, review workflows, deprecation timelines). Has run enablement programmes — docs, training, office hours — that actually move teams from "aware" to "using it daily."

Some other highly valued skills may include;

• Accessibility Standards and Compliance Knowledge- Familiarity with WCAG 2.2 AA and how compliance gets baked into a design system rather than bolted on after audit findings. Understands the regulatory risk angle and can advocate for accessibility as a product priority, not just an engineering checkbox.
• AI/LLM Product Experience (Generative UI, Prompt-to-Code)- Has shaped product requirements for AI-assisted developer tools — code generation, prompt-to-UI, or similar. Understands how structured schemas and validation pipelines keep generated output on-brand and accessible, and can write user stories for generative features with sensible guard rails around output quality.
• Figma and Design Tooling Workflow- Understands how designers and engineers hand off work in practice — Figma libraries, style synchronisation, maintaining parity between design and code. Can spot where friction lives in that loop and define requirements that keep design and implementation aligned without creating process overhead.

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills

Location is Glasgow or Knutsford

Purpose of the role

To collaborate with product owners and other technical teams involved in the product development process and utilise their knowledge of the bank’s technologies to enact the vision defined in the product roadmap. 

Accountabilities

• Provision of subject matter expertise to support the collaboration between the product owner and the technical side of product development.
• Support the development and implementation of the product strategy and vision defined in the product roadmap and communicate them with the relevant stakeholders and the development team.
• Collaboration with internal stakeholders to gather and prioritise product requirements and features based on business value and feasibility that are well defined, measurable and secure.
• Development and implementation of assessments to ensure continuous testing and improvement of product quality and performance.
• Monitoring of product performance to identify opportunities for optimisation that meets the banks performance standards.
• Stay abreast of the latest industry technology trends and technologies, to evaluate and adopt new approaches to improve product development and delivery.

Vice President Expectations

• To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures..
• If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes. They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements..
• If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others..
• OR for an individual contributor, they will be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction. They will lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions..
• Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment.
• Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.
• Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.
• Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
• Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes.
• Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes.

All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.