Product Owner - Data & AI

lloyds banking group; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 59,000 - 67,000; Full time

Job summary

A major banking institution in the UK is seeking a Product Owner for Data & AI to lead the development of transaction data products. This role requires proven experience in AI/Machine Learning and significant product ownership skills. The position offers a hybrid working model with responsibilities that include collaborating cross-functionally and ensuring product compliance. If you are a bold and curious professional ready to make an impact, apply today.

Benefits

Generous pension contribution

Annual performance-related bonus

Free shares in share schemes

Adaptable lifestyle benefits

30 days' holiday

Qualifications

• Experience as Product Owner in an AI/Machine Learning team is essential.
• Able to shape and manage product backlogs effectively.
• Experience in delivering change with technical teams.

Responsibilities

• Work with engineers to build data products on Google Cloud.
• Build a roadmap while collaborating with business units.
• Ensure product compliance and manage data safety.

Skills

Product Owner experience

AI/Machine Learning knowledge

Strong influencing skills

Dependency management

Job description

End Date Thursday 01 January 2026

Salary Range £59,850 - £66,500

We support flexible working – click here for more information on flexible working options

Flexible Working Options Flexibility in when hours are worked, Hybrid Working, Job Share

Job Description Summary

Job Description

JOB TITLE: Product Owner – Data & AI
SALARY: £59,850 - £66,500
LOCATION(S): Bristol, Birmingham or Manchester
HOURS: Full-time - 35 hours per week
WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites.

ABOUT THIS OPPORTUNITY

We’re not just building products - we’re building momentum. The Transaction Classification Lab is where ideas move fast, and outcomes matter. We’re looking for a bold, curious, and action-oriented Product Owner to help us push boundaries and deliver real impact creating a world leading transaction data product.

This is not your typical Product Owner role. Lloyds Banking Group has 28 million customers who are transacting millions of times a day. You’ll be joining a cross-functional team who are passionate about building scalable, ethical, and human-centred AI ready data sources. Our mission? To unlock the vast opportunities generated by our customer data — responsibly, creatively, and at pace.

WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING

• Working with engineers to build data products on Google Cloud to enable our colleagues and business teams to achieve their strategies and goals.

• Building a future looking roadmap whilst ruthlessly prioritising, collaborating with our Business Units and platform teams and always keeping an eye on market trends and opportunities.

• Making sure our products remain compliant, managing the required governance to keep our customer data safe.

• Working with our sister lab teams and wider platforms and AI Centre of Excellence to make sure our data product is front, and centre of all business units plans and strategies.

WHAT YOU’LL NEED

• Previous experience as Product Owner in an AI/Machine Learning team is essential.

• Experience of delivering in teams driving forward a clear product vision, shape and manage product backlogs with a focus on achieving agreed outcomes and deliverables.

• Experience working with technical and cross-functional teams to deliver change.

• Experience tackling complex problems and breaking them out into a roadmap of viable solutions.

• Experience of crafting a phenomenal team environment that attracts and retains talent.

• Strong influencing skills to achieve alignment up, down and across the organisation.

• Strong on dependency management and effective resolution.

ABOUT WORKING FOR US

Like the modern Britain we serve, we’re evolving. Investing billions in our people, data and tech to transform the way we meet the ever-changing needs of our 26 million customers. We’re growing with. Join us on our journey and you will too.

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture. We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative. And it’s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups. We’re disability confident. So if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%

• An annual performance-related bonus

• Share schemes including free shares

• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping

• 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top

• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow and thrive? Apply today and find out more.

At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.

We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person.

We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.