Digital Product Owner in London

Join Barclays as a Digital Product Owner, where you will be at the forefront of delivering client‑focused digital solutions through agile ways of working. This role requires a deep understanding of agile ceremonies, backlog management, and sprint planning, alongside the ability to translate client needs into clear requirements and acceptance criteria. You will use your commercial awareness to prioritise the backlog, align delivery with business goals, and maximise value for clients and the organisation.

To be successful as a Digital Product Owner, you should have experience with:

• Agile mindset: deep understanding of agile ceremonies, backlog refinement, sprint planning.
• Client needs: clear articulation of requirements and acceptance criteria.
• Commercial awareness: understands business goals to prioritise backlog.

Some Other Highly Valued Skills May Include:

• Collaboration: works closely with engineers, BAs, designers within squad.
• KPI driven: uses KPIs/OKRs to drive incremental value delivery.
• Collaboration and prioritisation: tactical prioritisation decisions (value vs effort, dependencies).

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in the role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job‑specific technical skills.

This role will be based in our London office.

Purpose of the role: The purpose of a Product Owner is to maximise the value of the product by defining a clear product vision, managing and prioritising the Product Backlog, and ensuring the right thing is being built. They act as the primary liaison between stakeholders and delivery teams, ensuring the product meets user/customer needs and delivers optimal value. Product Owners must develop a roadmap, drive execution of their product area/sub‑journey, and apply continuous improvement principles.

Accountabilities:

• Ensure Product Alignment with Business Goals: Align the product and its features with broader objectives, using market research, customer feedback, and industry trends to identify new opportunities.
• Communicate Product Vision to Delivery Teams: Clearly articulate the product vision and goals so the delivery teams are inspired and aligned.
• Create and Refine User Stories: Write concise user stories with detailed acceptance criteria and refine them as needed.
• Agile Events: Participate in sprint planning, daily stand‑ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives to keep the team focused.
• Managing the Product Backlog: Maintain and prioritise the backlog, ensuring the highest value features are delivered first.
• Act as the Voice of the Customer: Gather continuous customer feedback to improve the product experience.
• Acceptance Criteria Definition & Management: Review and accept or reject work completed during sprints, ensuring all features meet agreed criteria.
• Collaborate with Stakeholders: Work closely with customers, business leaders, and marketing teams to gather requirements and align the vision.
• Monitor Product Performance and Iterate: Use KPIs and feedback to adjust the backlog and roadmap, and manage ongoing readiness and governance.
• Risk and Control: Identify potential risks, develop mitigation strategies, and coordinate with control functions.

Assistant Vice President Expectations:

• Advise and influence decision‑making, contribute to policy development, and drive operational effectiveness.
• Lead a team performing complex tasks, setting objectives, coaching employees, and managing performance and reward outcomes.
• Demonstrate clear leadership behaviours that create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver excellent standards.
• Lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured tasks, identifying needs for additional specialisation.
• Consult on complex issues, advising People Leaders to resolve escalated matters.
• Identify ways to mitigate risk and develop policies and procedures supporting the control agenda.
• Take ownership of managing risk and strengthening controls related to the work.
• Perform work closely related to other areas, coordinating to achieve organisational objectives.
• Collaborate with other business support areas to stay aligned with strategy.
• Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources to solve problems creatively.
• Communicate complex information clearly, including sensitive content.
• 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 demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.