Digital Product Owner

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Join Barclays as a Digital Product Owner, where you'll be at the forefront of delivering client focused digital solutions through agile ways of working. This role requires an ample understanding of agile ceremonies, backlog management, sprint planning, and the ability to translate client needs into clear requirements and acceptance criteria. You'll use your commercial awareness to prioritise the backlog, align delivery with business goals, and maximise value for clients and the organisation.

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

Required Skills

• Agile mindset: deep understanding of agile ceremonies, backlog refinement, sprint planning.
• Client needs: clear articulation of requirements and acceptance criteria.
• Commercial awareness: understands business goals to prioritise backlog.

Highly Valued Skills

• Collaboration: works closely with engineers, BAs, designers within squad.
• KPI driven: uses KPIs/OKRs to drive incremental value delivery.
• Collaboration and prioritisation: tactical prioritisation decisions (value vs effort, dependencies).

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

This role will be based in our London office.

Purpose of the role

The purpose of a Product Owner is to maximize the value of the product by defining a clear product vision, managing and prioritising the product backlog, and ensuring the right things are built to meet user/customer needs. Product Owners are responsible for developing a roadmap and driving execution of their product area or sub journey, applying continuous improvement principles and techniques.

Accountabilities

• Ensure Product Alignment with Business Goals: Align product and feature priorities with broader objectives, using market research, customer feedback and industry trends to identify new product opportunities.
• Communicate Product Vision to Delivery Teams: Clearly articulate the product vision and goals, ensuring alignment and inspiration for the delivery teams.
• Create and Refine User Stories: Write clear, concise user stories with detailed acceptance criteria and refine them to support successful development.
• Agile Events: Participate in sprint planning, daily stand ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives to keep the team aligned and focused.
• Manage the Product Backlog: Prioritise the backlog so that the highest value features are delivered first, balancing risk and future proofing.
• Act as the Voice of the Customer: Continuously gather feedback to ensure the product meets user needs and improves overall experience.
• Acceptance Criteria Definition & Management: Review and accept or reject work completed during sprints, ensuring all delivered features meet agreed criteria.
• Collaborate with Stakeholders: Work with customers, business leaders and marketing teams to gather requirements and align the product vision with business objectives.
• Monitor Product Performance and Iterate: Assess performance using KPIs and customer feedback, adjusting backlog and roadmap accordingly.
• Risk and Control: Identify, mitigate and report risks, ensuring alignment between product management and control functions.

Assistant Vice President Expectations

• Advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and operational effectiveness.
• Lead a team performing complex tasks, coaching employees and setting clear objectives, appraisal and reward outcomes.
• Demonstrate clear leadership behaviours: Listen, Energise, Align, Develop.
• If individual contributor, lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured projects.
• Consult on complex issues, providing advice to support the resolution of escalated matters.
• Identify ways to mitigate risk and develop new policies and procedures to support governance.
• Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in related work.
• Collaborate across functions to support business alignment and strategy.
• Engage in complex analysis of multi source data to solve problems creatively and effectively.
• Communicate complex information clearly, especially when dealing with sensitive content.
• Influence or convince stakeholders to achieve desired 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.