Design System Product Owner - Drive Blueprint Adoption

Barclays; Manchester; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Barclays seeks a Design System Product Owner to shape the Blueprint design system powering customer and colleague experiences across the bank. You will own the vision, strategy and prioritisation, define the roadmap, influence investments and balance demand across tribes to ensure value-driven, accessible digital experiences.

Work alongside design, engineering and platform specialists to champion a product mindset, drive adoption at scale and help shape the future of Blueprint while staying

Qualifications

• Experience defining product strategy, roadmaps and priorities for complex digital products.
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills across a diverse organisation.
• Experience using data, customer insight and business outcomes to inform product decisions.
• Deep understanding of enterprise design systems, accessibility standards and design-to-code workflows.
• Ability to translate demand into clear, actionable backlog items that deliver measurable value.

Responsibilities

• Provision of subject matter expertise to support 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 stakeholders and the development team.
• Collaborate 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 to evaluate and adopt new approaches to improve product development and delivery.

Skills

Product strategy

Stakeholder management

Data-driven decisions

Design systems

Backlog management

Job description

Barclays seeks a Design System Product Owner to shape the Blueprint design system powering customer and colleague experiences across the bank. You will own the vision, strategy and prioritisation, define the roadmap, influence investments and balance demand across tribes to ensure value-driven, accessible digital experiences.

Work alongside design, engineering and platform specialists to champion a product mindset, drive adoption at scale and help shape the future of Blueprint while staying