Product Owner

Join us as a Product Owner at Barclays, where you'll spearhead the evolution of our digital landscape, driving innovation and excellence. You'll harness cutting-edge technology to revolutionize our digital offerings, ensuring unapparelled customer experiences.

To be a successful Product Owner, you should have experience with:

Product Strategy & Vision

• Define and communicate a clear product vision aligned to business objectives and customer needs.

• Develop and maintain a product roadmap that balances strategic initiatives, regulatory commitments, technical debt, and operational priorities.

• Translate organizational goals into actionable product outcomes and measurable success metrics.

• Drive product lifecycle planning from concept through delivery and continuous improvement.

Backlog Ownership & Prioritization

• Own, refine, and prioritize the product backlog to maximize business value.

• Define epics, features, user stories, and acceptance criteria.

• Ensure backlog readiness and alignment with quarterly objectives and delivery plans.

• Make prioritization decisions based on customer value, commercial impact, risk, and technical feasibility.

Stakeholder Management

• Act as the primary point of contact between business stakeholders and delivery teams.

• Build strong relationships across Technology, Operations, Product Management, Risk, Compliance, and Front Office teams.

• Communicate roadmap progress, risks, dependencies, and delivery outcomes to senior stakeholders.

• Facilitate consensus across competing priorities and business demands.

Agile Delivery Leadership

• Partner with Scrum Masters, Engineers, Architects, Business Analysts, and QA teams to deliver high-quality solutions.

• Participate in Agile ceremonies including Sprint Planning, Backlog Refinement, PI Planning, Reviews, and Demos.

• Accept completed work against agreed acceptance criteria and Definition of Done.

• Ensure teams maintain focus on delivering customer and business value.

• Customer & Business Value Focus

• Champion customer outcomes and continuously seek opportunities to enhance user experience.

• Leverage data, customer feedback, and business insights to drive prioritization decisions.

• Define and track KPIs, OKRs, and product performance metrics.

• Identify opportunities for innovation, automation, and process optimization.

Risk, Governance & Controls

• Ensure products comply with regulatory, security, and operational requirements.

• Partner with Risk and Control functions to identify, assess, and mitigate risks.

• Manage delivery dependencies and impediments across teams and programs.

• Support audit, compliance, and governance activities as required.

Essential Skills & Experience

Product Management

• Strong experience owning product vision, roadmaps, and backlog management.

• Proven ability to define and prioritize features based on value and strategic objectives.

• Experience managing products through the full product lifecycle.

Agile & Delivery

• Deep understanding of Agile, Scrum, Kanban, and scaled delivery frameworks.

• Experience working within complex enterprise technology environments.

• Ability to translate business requirements into actionable delivery outcomes.

Stakeholder Management

• Excellent communication and influencing skills.

• Ability to engage effectively with senior business and technology leaders.

• Proven track record of managing competing priorities across multiple stakeholder groups.

Analytical & Strategic Thinking

• Strong problem-solving and decision-making capabilities.

• Experience using data and insights to drive product decisions.

• Ability to balance strategic objectives with tactical delivery needs.

Risk & Control Awareness

• Understanding of operational risk, governance, and regulatory requirements.

• Experience working within controlled and regulated environments.

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Experience within Corporate Banking, Payments, FX, Treasury, Trade Finance, or Transaction Banking domains.

• Experience delivering digital transformation or platform modernization initiatives.

• Familiarity with cloud, APIs, event-driven architectures, and data platforms.

• SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager, Scrum Product Owner, or similar Agile certifications.

You may be assessed on 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.

The role is based out of Pune.

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.