Senior Product Owner

Lloyds Banking Group; Leeds; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A major UK financial services organization seeks an experienced individual to lead product vision and prioritize team tasks effectively. The role emphasizes strong coordination with business partners and requires technical literacy, influencing skills, and a solid understanding of customer service and banking products. Benefits include generous pension contributions, annual bonuses, and a commitment to diversity and inclusion.

Benefits

Generous pension contribution of up to 15%

Annual bonus award, subject to Group performance

Share schemes including free shares

Discounted shopping benefits

30 days’ holiday

Wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Qualifications

• Experience working in an Agile delivery environment at scale.
• Consistent track record in delivering technology change across software and infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Explain team priorities to business partners and stakeholders.
• Accountable for delivery against Objectives and Key Results (OKRs).
• Shape the Product vision to address customer needs.

Skills

Ability to work effectively with technical and cross‑functional teams

Excellent influencing skills and stakeholder engagement

Strong dependency management

Good understanding of customer service and banking products

Technical literacy

Job description

Responsibilities

• Explain the priorities on which the team is working, both to business partners and other Labs. Strong coordination with other POs is required, ensuring dependencies are accounted for and appropriately prioritised in their backlogs.
• Be accountable for delivery against the Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) and / or revision of the OKRs based on new data and findings.
• Shape the Product vision ensuring that the offering and its solution capabilities address customer needs without creating new ones (avoiding failure demand).
• Lead pivotal initiatives, technical releases, customers, and collaborators with dedication.
• Ensure that the non‑functional elements of products are considered (robustness, performance, scalability, usability, extensibility, ease to maintain and configure, ease of integration, etc.).
• Encourage the team to test and learn by producing easy‑to‑use prototypes and MVPs and trialling them in a model office environment.

Curious about how we empower colleagues every day? Energised by delivering complex change? Motivated by helping our customers? This could be the role for you! Experience working in an Agile delivery environment at scale. Consistent track record in delivering technology change across software and infrastructure.

Qualifications

• Ability to work effectively with technical and cross‑functional teams.
• Excellent influencing skills and stakeholder engagement.
• Strong dependency management and effective risk and issue resolution.
• Good understanding of customer service and banking products.
• Technical literacy: Ability to grasp technical concepts and communicate effectively with technical teams.
• And any experience of these would be really useful.

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 purpose.

Our commitment to diversity and inclusion

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. If you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.

Benefits

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance
• 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. We’ll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have been formally 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.