About the Role
Embark on a transformative journey as an Executive Product Manager - VP. At Barclays, our vision is clear – to redefine the future of banking and help craft innovative solutions. In this role, you will shape product strategy, drive innovation at scale, and deliver customer-centric solutions that create meaningful business outcomes across the organization. Working alongside talented colleagues and influential stakeholders, you will have the opportunity to make a visible impact on the future of our products while accelerating your professional growth within a global financial institution. Join us to shape strategic change, embrace innovative technologies, and help build the next generation of banking experiences for our clients and customers.
Responsibilities
- Define Product Strategy: Accountable for defining a product strategy that aligns with business vision, managing capabilities, balancing short-term with long-term goals, ensuring that products meet market demands and drive growth.
- Cross functional alignment: Leadership of cross functional relationships, working with various cross-functional teams to ensure alignment of product strategy and goals.
- Risk and Control: Accountable for overseeing product risk management, including identification of potential risks, development of strategies to mitigate those risks, and maintenance of alignment between the product management and control functions.
- Product Development Lifecycle: Own product development lifecycle, from concept to launch, ensuring efficient processes, on-time delivery, and alignment with E2E customer expectations and experience.
- Deliver Product Goals and Performance: Deliver clear objectives and key outcomes to steer the product vision and ensure alignment with company’s business goals, financial targets, and strategic vision, driving long-term business success.
- Data driven decisions: Monitor product performance through data-driven analysis and insights, regularly assessing progress against objectives and adjusting the strategies as needed to optimise outcomes and maximise value for both business and customer.
- Customer-Centric Focus: Drive a customer -first approach across the product vision, ensuring customer insights, feedback, behaviours, and pain points are at the core of the product strategy and decision-making process.
- Business and financial acumen: Understanding pricing models, costs structures, and ROI to make financially grounded decisions regarding product development.
- Contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change.
- Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures.
- Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.
- Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.
- Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
- Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.
- Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives.
- Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes.
- Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes.
- Define and drive the product strategy, roadmap, and OKRs, ensuring alignment with business targets and customer outcomes.
- Shape and prioritize strategic priorities, epics, and investments, balancing business value, customer impact, and delivery feasibility.
- Partner with senior stakeholders, engineering, architecture, and business teams to align priorities, navigate dependencies, and drive informed decisions.
- Oversee the end-to-end product lifecycle, ensuring successful execution and value delivery across products, platforms, or customer journeys.
- Shape and evolve a portfolio of product capabilities, balancing short-term delivery needs with long-term strategic goals and innovation opportunities.
Requirements
- Define Product Strategy: Accountable for defining a product strategy that aligns with business vision, managing capabilities, balancing short-term with long-term goals, ensuring that products meet market demands and drive growth.
- Cross functional alignment: Leadership of cross functional relationships, working with various cross-functional teams to ensure alignment of product strategy and goals.
- Risk and Control: Accountable for overseeing product risk management, including identification of potential risks, development of strategies to mitigate those risks, and maintenance of alignment between the product management and control functions.
- Product Development Lifecycle: Own product development lifecycle, from concept to launch, ensuring efficient processes, on-time delivery, and alignment with E2E customer expectations and experience.
- Deliver Product Goals and Performance: Deliver clear objectives and key outcomes to steer the product vision and ensure alignment with company’s business goals, financial targets, and strategic vision, driving long-term business success.
- Data driven decisions: Monitor product performance through data-driven analysis and insights, regularly assessing progress against objectives and adjusting the strategies as needed to optimise outcomes and maximise value for both business and customer.
- Customer-Centric Focus: Drive a customer -first approach across the product vision, ensuring customer insights, feedback, behaviours, and pain points are at the core of the product strategy and decision-making process.
- Business and financial acumen: Understanding pricing models, costs structures, and ROI to make financially grounded decisions regarding product development.
- Contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change.
- Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures.
- Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.
- Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.
- Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
- Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.
- Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives.
- Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes.
- Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes.
- Define and drive the product strategy, roadmap, and OKRs, ensuring alignment with business targets and customer outcomes.
- Shape and prioritize strategic priorities, epics, and investments, balancing business value, customer impact, and delivery feasibility.
- Partner with senior stakeholders, engineering, architecture, and business teams to align priorities, navigate dependencies, and drive informed decisions.
- Oversee the end-to-end product lifecycle, ensuring successful execution and value delivery across products, platforms, or customer journeys.
- Shape and evolve a portfolio of product capabilities, balancing short-term delivery needs with long-term strategic goals and innovation opportunities.
Skills
- Product vision
- Market strategy
- Competitive analysis
- Product strategy
- Product development lifecycle
- Data-driven analysis
- Customer insights
- Pricing models
- Cost structures
- ROI
- Risk management
- Strategic thinking
- Commercial acumen
- Stakeholder guidance
- Influencing skills
- Data-driven judgement
- Communication skills
- Presentation skills
- Large-scale transformation programmes
- Innovation
- Customer-centric product culture
- Risk and controls
- Change and transformation
- Business acumen
- Digital and technology
- Job-specific technical skills
Location
- Whippany, NJ
- Wilmington, DE
Work Type
- Onsite
Experience Level
- Vice President
- Executive
Salary/Compensations
- Minimum Salary: $155,000
- Maximum Salary: $200,000
Benefits
- Medical coverage
- Dental coverage
- Vision coverage
- 401(k)
- Life insurance
- Other paid leave for qualifying circumstances
- Incentive award
About the Company
- At Barclays, our vision is clear – to redefine the future of banking and help craft innovative solutions.
- Barclays employees are eligible for a suite of competitive and generous employee benefits, including medical, dental and vision coverage, 401(k), life insurance, and other paid leave for qualifying circumstances.
