About the Role
Lead the strategy, development, and scaling of complex AI-powered products at Barclays UK. Define product vision, identify AI integration opportunities, and ensure solutions align with business goals, regulatory requirements, and market trends. Influence executive audiences, oversee product performance using data insights, and drive innovation across the organization.
Responsibilities
- Manage and develop existing and new products/services.
- Develop product strategy and drive change through execution teams.
- Make key decisions in the product lifecycle and own associated outcomes.
- Develop customer-level strategies and solutions tailored to customer needs.
- Act as a Subject Matter Expert in the Product/Proposition team, guiding stakeholders on product application and journeys.
- Develop product propositions and/or service strategy, defining priorities and leading execution.
- Develop commercial and business models by understanding financial drivers.
- Evaluate technical feasibility, legal compliance, and risks of new product development.
- Monitor market trends and analyze feedback from prototypes, user testing, and beta programs.
- Manage comprehensive launch plans and technical deployments, including timelines, marketing, training, and communication.
- Monitor key metrics like adoption rates, usage patterns, customer satisfaction, and revenue.
- Contribute to 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 policy/procedure breaches.
- Advise key stakeholders on functional and cross-functional areas of impact.
- Manage and mitigate risks through assessment.
- Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls.
- Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of organization functions to achieve business goals.
- Collaborate with other work areas for business-aligned support.
- Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought.
- Adopt and include outcomes of extensive research in problem-solving.
- Build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with stakeholders.
Requirements
- Great Jira competency with experience managing delivery workflows and agile processes.
- Proven product ownership, including defining product vision, managing roadmaps, and driving end-to-end product development.
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to navigate organizational dynamics and influence senior audiences.
- Experience working in highly regulated environments, with a solid understanding of risk, compliance, and governance frameworks.
- Demonstrated ability to lead through expertise and ownership, operating independently to drive product decisions and deliver complex activities.
- Foundational understanding of AI and Machine Learning concepts, including exposure to prompting techniques and prompt engineering principles.
- Great capability in interpreting complex data and analytics, identifying insights, trends, and potential issues.
- Experience in strategic roadmap planning, aligning product direction with business priorities and market opportunities.
- Solid product management expertise, including lifecycle management from ideation through to delivery and optimisation.
- Ability to assess technical feasibility, working closely with engineering teams to ensure viable and scalable solutions.
- Exposure to or working knowledge of model deployment within AI/ML product environments.
- Good project management capabilities, with experience delivering complex activities.
- Solid grounding in statistics, with the ability to interpret performance metrics and evaluate product outcomes.
- Good level of commercial awareness, understanding market dynamics and how products create business value.
- Demonstrate leadership behaviors: Listen and be authentic, Energize and inspire, Align across the enterprise, Develop others.
- Demonstrate Barclays Values: Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence, Stewardship.
- Demonstrate Barclays Mindset: Empower, Challenge, Drive.
Skills
- Product Management
- Agile Processes
- Jira
- Product Vision
- Roadmap Management
- Stakeholder Management
- Communication
- Risk Management
- Compliance
- Governance
- AI Concepts
- Machine Learning Concepts
- Prompting Techniques
- Prompt Engineering
- Data Analysis
- Strategic Planning
- Product Lifecycle Management
- Technical Feasibility Assessment
- Model Deployment
- Project Management
- Statistics
- Commercial Awareness
- Risk and Controls
- Change and Transformation
- Business Acumen
- Strategic Thinking
- Digital and Technology
Location
- London
- Glasgow
- Northampton
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
About the Company
- Barclays is a British universal bank. We are forwards-looking – in everything we do we aim to achieve the 'next art of possible'. We have a long history and are proud of our heritage. We are also a forward-looking organisation, focused on innovation and on building a future that is sustainable and inclusive for all.
