Data Product Manager

8192 Barclays Bank UK PLC; Northampton; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Barclays is seeking a Data Product Manager to lead the strategic direction of our data products, defining vision, market positioning, and competitive edge alongside cross‑functional teams in marketing, engineering, operations and sales.

You will use data insights and market research to prioritise features, drive innovation, and deliver measurable value at scale while maintaining focus on risk, governance and customer outcomes.

Qualifications

• Experience leading data product initiatives and strategies.
• Experience with platforms and data tooling across products.
• Strong user-centered design mindset and process.
• Experience in digital transformation projects and initiatives.
• Solid market understanding and ability to map customer needs to product features.
• Familiarity with data tooling and analytics platforms.

Responsibilities

• Define product strategy aligned with Barclays' vision and goals.
• Lead cross-functional teams to align on product strategy and outcomes.
• Oversee product risk management and governance in line with controls.
• Own end-to-end product lifecycle from concept to launch.
• Deliver clear objectives and measurable outcomes tied to business targets.
• Use data-driven analysis to monitor performance and adjust strategies.

Skills

Data Product Management Experience

Platform Experience

User centered design

Digital Transformation Experience

Market Understanding

Tooling Experience

Job description

Job Description Purpose of the role

Product Managers are responsible for the leading the strategic focus of the product(s), defining the product vision, market strategy, and competitive analysis. They think about the product's future and how it will evolve over time. They work with various teams, including marketing, engineering, operations, and sales, to ensure everyone is aligned on the product strategy. They use data and market research to inform their decisions and prioritize product features.

Accountabilities

Define Product Strategy: Accountable for defining a product strategy that aligns with business vision, managing capabilities, balancing short-term with long-term goals, ensuring that products meet market demands and drive growth.

Cross functional alignment: Leadership of cross functional relationships, working with various cross-functional teams to ensure alignment of product strategy and goals.

Risk and Control: Accountable for overseeing product risk management, including identification of potential risks, development of strategies to mitigate those risks, and maintenance of alignment between the product management and control functions.

Product Development Lifecycle: Own product development lifecycle, from concept to launch, ensuring efficient processes, on-time delivery, and alignment with E2E customer expectations and experience. – working with product owners to drive change objectives.

Deliver Product Goals and Performance: Deliver clear objectives and key outcomes to steer the product vision and ensure alignment with company’s business goals, financial targets, and strategic vision, driving long‑term business success.

Data driven decisions: Monitor product performance through data‑driven analysis and insights, regularly assessing progress against objectives and adjusting the strategies as needed to optimise outcomes and maximise value for both business and customer.

Customer-Centric Focus: Drive a customer ‑first approach across the product vision, ensuring customer insights, feedback, behaviours, and pain points are at the core of the product strategy and decision‑making process.

Business and financial acumen: Understanding pricing models, costs structures, and ROI to make financially grounded decisions regarding product development.

Assistant Vice President Expectations

To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness.

Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions.

Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function.

Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes.

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 lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments.

They will identify new directions for assignments and/ or projects, identifying a combination of cross functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.

Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.

Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.

Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.

Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub‑function.

Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.

Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practises (in other areas, teams, companies, etc).to solve problems creatively and effectively.

Communicate complex information. 'Complex' information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience.

Influence or convince stakeholders 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.

Join Barclays as a Data Product Manager

As a Data Product Manager, you will lead the strategic direction of your product, defining its vision, market positioning, and competitive edge. Working closely with cross‑functional teams across marketing, engineering, operations, and sales, you will ensure alignment on product strategy and delivery. Leveraging data insights and market research, you’ll make informed decisions, prioritise features, and drive innovation to create products that deliver real value at scale.

To be successful as a Data Product Manager, you should have experience with

• Data Product Management Experience
• Platform Experience
• User centered design
• Digital Transformation Experience
• Market Understanding
• Tooling Experience

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.

This role will be based in Northampton and Knutsford.

Our Work Experience is the combination of everything that’s unique about us: our culture, our core values, our company meetings, our commitment to sustainability, our recognition programs, but most importantly, it’s our people. Our employees are self‑disciplined, hard working, curious, trustworthy, humble, and truthful. They make choices according to what is best for the team, they live for opportunities to collaborate and make a difference, and they make us the #1 Top Workplace in the area.