Product Owner

Barclays Capital; Knutsford; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Barclays Capital in the United Kingdom seeks an AI Product Owner within the Chief Technology Office. You will own the full product lifecycle, collaborate with world-class engineers, and balance innovation with governance in a regulated environment.

You will drive delivery of enterprise AI initiatives, translating business needs into technical roadmaps and ensuring value is delivered safely and responsibly. Leadership and collaboration are essential.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering products in enterprise agile environments.
• Strong understanding of AI capabilities, use cases, and business applications.
• Ability to translate business requirements into technical roadmaps for engineering/data teams.
• Proven track record of managing stakeholder expectations and communicating product vision.

Responsibilities

• Provide subject matter expertise to support collaboration between product owner and technical teams.
• Support development and implementation of product strategy and communicate with stakeholders and development team.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders to gather and prioritise product requirements and features based on value and feasibility.
• Develop and implement assessments to ensure continuous testing and improvement of product quality and performance.
• Monitor product performance to identify opportunities for optimisation against performance standards.
• Stay abreast of industry trends to evaluate and adopt new approaches in product development.

Skills

Scrum/Kanban

AI capabilities

Technical roadmaps

Stakeholder communication

Tools

AWS

Azure

Job description

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.

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 us in Chief Technology Office - AI as a Product Owner driving delivery of enterprise AI initiatives with strategic business impact. You'll collaborate with world-class engineers to develop cutting-edge technology while ensuring meaningful value is delivered safely and responsibly. Own the full product lifecycle from discovery through deployment, balancing innovation with governance in a complex, regulated environment.

Key Skills

• Proven experience delivering products in enterprise agile environments using Scrum or Kanban frameworks.
• Strong understanding of AI capabilities, use cases, and business applications.
• Track record of translating business requirements into technical roadmaps for engineering and data science teams.
• Demonstrated ability to manage stakeholder expectations and communicate product vision clearly.

Desirable Skills

• Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure) and their AI/ML service offerings.
• Background in product management, business analysis, or technical domain expertise.
• Track record of leading agile transformation initiatives an