Job Description:
The purpose of the Band G Product Owner's role is the overall ownership for a single, large and complex product backlog which may contain many features, journeys or technology components. They are typically a Lab Lead (containing multiple Teams), reporting into the Business Platform Lead.
This role aims to provide value to customers and stakeholders by ensuring the teams focus on addressing the right issues. This involves fostering collaborative and empowered teams that take ownership of outcomes, encouraging innovation, and minimizing risk through data-driven testing and learning.
Specific Business Unit Accountability:
Role Responsibilities
• Supports development of Platform or Lab OKRs and provides product performance and
benefits realisation data.
• Inputs into business 4YOP, customer plan and tech roadmap as required
• Defines and prioritises Platform epics, features and stories which support Product
strategy
• Shapes the overall Product Vision
• Owns Product roadmap
• Ensures change compliance of overall Product
• Accountable for overseeing product change governance (e.g., CMIA / SPFIA activities),
business readiness activities (e.g., training and comms)
• Building a capable leadership team while investing in workforce development
• A leader in the Platform with line management responsibilities for more junior Product
Owners
• Leads a team that deliver quality improvements to the products that supports delivery of
the platform OKRs
• Supports the Integrator in the development of dependencies across labs and platforms
Additional responsibilities for Technical Lab Product owners:
• Owns and manages the product backlog for a Group-wide technology asset
• Develops overall technical design for the product
• Delivers against a product budget, performing financial and data analysis
• Manages all product risk
• Defines the segmentation and supplier strategy
• Environment Planning and other technical activities
Skills:
Product Ownership - Accountable for platform backlog through leading cross functional teams to deliver simple and complex tech changes to its products. Ensures
quality performance and innovation to deliver successful products. Demonstrates an excellent level of domain knowledge.
Stakeholder Management - Manages internal and external stakeholder expectations and business sponsorship, quickly establishing credibility and fostering trust
and ongoing collaboration. Anticipates and mitigates conflict and shapes stakeholder views to gain long-term commitment to current and potential future change.
Customer Centricity - Promotes value of customer outcomes with team and peers and ensures work efforts achieve these. Anticipates customer’s needs and uses
customer input and steer to present targeted, integrated, and outcome-focused solutions and opportunities.
Either: Coaching & Feedback (if Team Manager) - Observes and uses active listening and empathy to connect with people, without judging and being self-
focused. Uses experience to provide clear, relevant, constructive, solution-focused, positive and motivating advice which is future focused.
Leadership & Culture - Uses situational judgement and experience to advise on a broad range of cultural topics (e.g., ethical leadership and accountability),
using strategies such as deep listening to ensure the colleagues of the Bank are engaged. Understands the importance of change management in this space and
works with the appropriate function to facilitate this.
Values and Behaviours (See Values & behaviours description)
Job Description:
The purpose of the Band F Product Owner is the overall ownership for a single product backlog which contains 2-3 features, journeys or technology components. They are typically a Lab or Team Lead (containing 2-3 Feature or Component teams), reporting into the Business Platform Lead or Lab Lead.
This role is responsible to oversee the release of incremental value within an overall product, with the primary aim of delivering value to customers and stakeholders by ensuring the team focuses on the right priorities.
Specific Business Unit Accountability:
Role Responsibilities:
• Supports development of Lab or Team OKRs and provides product performance and benefits realisation data
• Defines user-stories at Lab or Team level to meet customer needs
• Works with Customer Journey Manager to analyse user stories for customer journey improvements
• Shapes Product vision and roadmap at Lab or Team level
• Prioritises, refines and manages Lab or Team Product backlog
• Accountable for Product change governance (e.g., CMIA / SPFIA) and Business Readiness activities (e.g., training and comms, testing and readiness for implementation) for their respective features, journeys or technology components.
Note: PO’s are accountable but activities to be delivered by the whole ‘team’.
• Plays a role in developing capabilities within their functional area and invests in
personal and team growth through mentoring and other informal methods
• Works with Integrators when change is particularly large
Additional responsibilities for Technical Lab or Team Product Owners:
• Owns and manages the product backlog for a Group-wide technology asset
• Develops technical design for the product
• Delivers against a product budget, performing financial and data analysis
• Manages all product risk
• Defines the segmentation and supplier strategy
• Environment Planning and other technical activities
Skills
Product Delivery - Leads improvements on product development process and delivery using new methodology, techniques, tools, etc. Shapes the direction for cross-functional teams to deliver products in innovative delivery methods.
Customer Centricity - Promotes value of customer outcomes with team and peers and ensures work efforts achieve these. Anticipates customer’s needs and uses customer input and steer to present targeted, integrated, and outcome-focused solutions and opportunities.
Product Ownership - Takes ownership of a backlog supported by multiple teams. Delivers simple and complex tech changes to a product and is responsible for its success/failure. Leads work across the relevant teams and ensures the right tools and processes implemented. Uses experience to prioritise work and manage backlog efficiently and demonstrates a good level of domain knowledge.
Either : Leadership & Culture - Applies experience in cultural change initiatives to support various agendas in the Bank (e.g., feedback culture). Understands the main barriers to changing culture and the criticality of leadership buy-in.
Or: Coaching & Feedback (if Team manager ) - Observes and uses active listening and empathy to connect with people, without judging and being self- focused. Uses experience to provide clear, relevant, constructive, solution-focused, positive and motivating advice which is future focused.
Job Description:
The purpose of the Band E Product Owner is the overall ownership for a single product which contains 1-2 features, journeys or technology components. They are typically a Team Lead (containing 1-2 Feature or Component Teams), reporting into the Lab Lead.
This role is responsible to oversee the release of incremental value within a single product feature or technology component, with the primary aim of delivering value to customers and stakeholders by ensuring the team focuses on the right priorities.
Role Responsibilities
• Supports development of Team OKRs and provides product performance and benefits realisation data
• Defines user-stories at Team level to meet customer needs
• Works with Customer Journey Manager to analyse user stories for customer journey improvements
• Provides input into overall Product vision and Product roadmap
• Prioritises, refines and manages Team Product backlog
• Accountable for Product change governance (e.g., CMIA / SPFIA) and Business
Readiness activities (e.g., training and comms, testing and readiness for implementation) for their respective features, journeys or technology components.
Note: PO’s are accountable but activities to be delivered by the whole ‘team’.
• Investigates incidents and develops contingency plans
• Implements development frameworks for their area, coach and mentor others in the organisation
• Works with Integrators when change is particularly large
Additional responsibilities for Technical Team Product Owners:
• Owns and manages the product backlog for a Group-wide technology asset Develops technical design for the product
• Manages all product risk
• Defines the segmentation and supplier strategy
• Environment Planning and other technical activities
Skills:
Product Delivery - Uses varied experience to plan and manage the budget and resources and optimise the delivery of great products that continuously create value to the users.
Customer Centricity - Promotes value of customer outcomes with team and peers and ensures work efforts achieve these. Anticipates customer’s needs and uses customer input and steer to present targeted, integrated, and outcome-focused solutions and opportunities.
Product Ownership - Takes ownership of a single backlog supporting simple tech changes to a product and being responsible for its success/failure. Leads work across the feature team. Uses experience to prioritise work and manage backlog. demonstrates a sufficient level of domain knowledge.
Values & Behaviours (See Values & behaviours description)
Skills Cluster Critical Skill Critical Skill Definitions
Products Product Delivery
The ability to manage the product lifecycle, taking product from ideation to release, including research, development, testing and deployment in an agile way, centrally coordinating the product scrum activities. The goal is to create a successful product that meets the needs of the end user.
Business Excellence Customer Centricity
The ability to provide an exceptional customer experience, and to resolve customer problems effectively; using a customer first lens to understand and listen to them, supporting their banking needs in a holistic way.
Managing Projects & Change Product Ownership
The ability to take ownership for products or product elements, understand how they work and optimise them to better serve the needs of the client, colleague or bank. Uses storytelling to articulate the product vision and has the ability to manage a backlog and prioritise items appropriately.
Business Excellence Stakeholder Management The ability to manage and resolve conflicts between stakeholders, and to ensure the right people involved or impacting their work have a joint understanding and expectation of the work, what is happening, the implications and crucially their role in making it successful.
People Management Leadership & Culture The ability to create and maintain a workplace culture and leadership characteristics that support the business' core values.
Leading Teams Coaching & Feedback
The ability to help others learn how to change future professional behaviours and ways of working, by listening and providing positive and motivating advice and guidance, as well as enabling them to reflect and learn from experience. It should support problem solving and performance, raise hopes and empower people to be better.
Product Owner in London employer: Wipro Europe
As a leading employer in the cryptography sector, we offer a dynamic work environment that fosters innovation and collaboration. Our commitment to employee growth is evident through continuous training opportunities and a culture that values expertise in cutting-edge technologies like HSM platforms and PKI architecture. Located in a vibrant tech hub, we provide our team with unique advantages such as access to industry-leading projects and a supportive community that encourages professional development.
