Design System Product Owner: Drive Scalable UX Blueprint

Barclays Bank Plc; Manchester; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Barclays Bank Plc in Manchester is seeking a Design System Product Owner to shape the Blueprint design system used across customer and colleague experiences. You will own the vision, roadmap and prioritisation of a strategic product across tribes, driving value, evidence and consumer needs.

Collaborating with design, engineering and platform teams, you will champion a product mindset, drive adoption at scale and influence investment decisions, while staying close to the teams and customers it

Qualifications

• Extensive experience defining product strategy, roadmaps and priorities for complex digital products.
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills across a diverse organisation.
• 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

• Provide 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 relevant 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.
• Develop and implement assessments to ensure continuous testing and improvement of product quality and performance.
• Monitor product performance to identify opportunities for optimisation that meets the bank's performance standards.
• Stay abreast of the latest industry technology trends to evaluate and adopt new approaches to improve product development and delivery.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Influencing

Data-driven decisions

Design systems

Accessibility standards

Backlog refinement

Job description

Barclays Bank Plc in Manchester is seeking a Design System Product Owner to shape the Blueprint design system used across customer and colleague experiences. You will own the vision, roadmap and prioritisation of a strategic product across tribes, driving value, evidence and consumer needs.

Collaborating with design, engineering and platform teams, you will champion a product mindset, drive adoption at scale and influence investment decisions, while staying close to the teams and customers it