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Lead Product Owner

London, United Kingdom

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Date live: 24/02/2026

Business Area: Global Payment Services

Area of Expertise: Product Development & Management

Contract: Permanent

Reference Code: JR-0000095338

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Barclays Product Development & Management

In a role in Product Development & Management, you'll oversee our entire product lifecycle. Your responsibilities include gathering and prioritising product and customer requirements, defining product vision, and ensuring successful delivery and ongoing performance.

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  • Playing a leading role in the growing digital asset team, with a unique role that considers the full financial eco-system
  • Work across the bank (IB, Corporate, Private Bank, Retail, US Consumer) to identify strategic priorities
  • Work with emerging fintechs, clients, regulators to understand landscape
  • Take ownership of the digital asset product, working with business leads to understand problem statements and map customer journeys to solve these
  • Work closely with tech to stablish necessary foundational and functional requirements to deliver on capabilities

Purpose of the role

Drive the product vision and strategy across the organization ensuring alignment with business objectives and customer needs, inclusive of internal and external customers, clients, or partners. Lead Product Owners ensure delivery of key strategic initiatives to embrace a customer journey led approach and unlock high quality business capabilities that drive business and customer value. They own the development of strategic direction for a specific product or portfolio, including the implementation of up-to-date systems, methodologies and processes. Inspires, leads and supports the product development team in Servant leadership capacity  to deliver high-impact solutions with healthy collaboration. Responsible for defining the product roadmap and prioritising initiatives. Works closely with cross-functional stakeholders, fosters collaboration, champions a customer-centric approach, and leverages market insights and domain expertise to shape and adapt product strategy.

Accountabilities

  • Define & Execute Product Strategy: Accountable for developing, defining & executing a comprehensive product strategy that aligns with the business and company’s overall vision, managing capabilities, balancing short-terms with long-terms strategic goals, ensuring that products meets customer and  market demands and drive growth. 

  • Drive Product Innovation: Lead initiatives to innovate and evolve product offerings by staying ahead of market trends, customer needs, and emerging technologies, ensuring the product remains competitive and forward-thinking.   

  • Oversee Product Development Lifecycle: Accountable for overseeing the entire product development lifecycle, from concept to launch, ensuring efficient processes, on-time delivery, and alignment with E2E customer expectations and experience. Collaborates across other product teams to align and minimize dependencies to meet desired timing. 

  • Oversee Product Goals and Performance: Accountable for defining 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. Monitor product performance through data-driven analysis and insights,  regularly assessing progress against objectives and adjusting the roadmap and backlog as needed to optimise outcomes and maximise value for both business and customer, providing context to the wider cross functional team.

  • 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.  They champion the customer’s voice throughout the development lifecycle ensuring enhancement’s deliver high value, improve satisfaction, and align with evolving customer needs and expectations. 

  • Stakeholder Communication and Management:  Lead  collaboration between cross-functional teams and act as the key liaison between the product organisation and senior leadership, investors, and other stakeholders, ensuring transparent communication about product vision, strategy, and performance. 

  • Manage and Develop Product Teams: Accountable for mentoring, and developing high-performing product teams, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement. 

  • Risk and Control:  Managing risk, including identification of potential risks, development of strategies to resolve or mitigate and escalate as necessary those risks, and alignment between the product management and control functions. 

  • Domain Expertise: Demonstrates deep understanding of relevant domain, with the ability to translate complex concepts to customers and other stakeholders while effectively communicating business requirements to development teams.

Director Expectations

  • To manage a business function, providing significant input to function wide strategic initiatives. Contribute to and influence policy and procedures for the function and plan, manage and consult on multiple complex and critical strategic projects, which may be business wide..

  • They manage the direction of a large team or sub-function, leading other people managers and embedding a performance culture aligned to the values of the business. Or for an individual contributor, they lead organisation wide projects and act as deep technical expert and thought leader, identifying new ways of working and collaborating cross functionally. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions..

  • Provide expert advice to senior functional management and committees to influence decisions made outside of own function, offering significant input to function wide strategic initiatives.

  • Manage, coordinate and enable resourcing, budgeting and policy creation for a significant sub-function.

  • Escalates breaches of policies / procedure appropriately.

  • Foster and guide compliance, ensure regulations are observed that relevant processes in place to facilitate adherence.

  • Focus on the external environment, regulators, or advocacy groups to both monitor and influence on behalf of Barclays, when appropriate.

  • Demonstrate extensive knowledge of how the function integrates with the business division / Group to achieve the overall business objectives.

  • Maintain broad and comprehensive knowledge of industry theories and practices within own discipline alongside up-to-date relevant sector / functional knowledge, and insight into external market developments / initiatives.

  • Use interpretative thinking and advanced analytical skills to solve problems and design solutions in often complex/ sensitive situations.

  • Exercise management authority to make significant decisions and certain strategic decisions or recommendations within own area.

  • Negotiate with and influence stakeholders at a senior level both internally and externally.

  • Act as principal contact point for key clients and counterparts in other functions/ businesses divisions.

  • Mandated as a spokesperson for the function and business division.

All Senior Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others.

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 be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.

Barclays welcomes applications from all candidates and is committed to ensuring reasonable adjustments (accommodations) are put in place to allow for a fair and inclusive recruitment process. For more information and how to request one, please review Adjustments to the recruitment process.

We’re a global, vital and highly respected financial organisation with an inspiring Purpose. Operating in 39 countries and employing around 100,000 people across the world, we help communities, individuals and businesses thrive. And we’ve created financial solutions and technology that the world now takes for granted. A career with us can offer incredible variety, depth and breadth of experience, and the chance to learn from some of the best minds in technology and finance.

To find out more about Barclays' strategy please click here.

We are an equal opportunity employer and opposed to discrimination on any grounds. It is the policy of Barclays to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, colour, creed, religion, national origin, alienage or citizenship status, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital or domestic/civil partnership status, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by law.

Barclays is required by law to confirm that you have the Legal Right to Work in any role that you apply for. If you currently hold a work visa sponsored by Barclays, or you would require sponsorship from Barclays, you must declare this as part of your application. Sponsored visas are role and entity specific and any changes must be reviewed. It is important that you ensure you are working on the correct visa at all times. Failure to accurately disclose your visa status or Legal Right to Work may result in your application or any employment offer being withdrawn at any time.

This is Barclays London

Our global HQ is in Canary Wharf, at the heart of London’s financial district. There are over 10,000 colleagues here – a hugely diverse workforce made up of the world’s best financial and tech talent. If you love the buzz of city life, this is the place to be.

Cycle or run to work? We’ve got everything you need – from cycle hire and parking areas to new showering and changing facilities.

CoSpace is our drop-in co-working space, where networks are built, problems are solved collectively and our community is strengthened.

Our Wellness Suite includes a well-equipped gym and exercise studios, and provides personal training sessions and massage therapy.

Our new trading floors enhance communication, integrate sustainability, and support health and wellbeing through innovative design and British-sourced furniture.

This is Barclays London

Our global HQ is in Canary Wharf, at the heart of London’s financial district. There are over 10,000 colleagues here – a hugely diverse workforce made up of the world’s best financial and tech talent. If you love the buzz of city life, this is the place to be.

Supporting active commuters

Cycle or run to work? We’ve got everything you need – from cycle hire and parking areas to new showering and changing facilities.

Time to connect

CoSpace is our drop-in co-working space, where networks are built, problems are solved collectively and our community is strengthened.

Wellbeing in focus

Our Wellness Suite includes a well-equipped gym and exercise studios, and provides personal training sessions and massage therapy.

Advanced trading floors

Our new trading floors enhance communication, integrate sustainability, and support health and wellbeing through innovative design and British-sourced furniture.

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We celebrate the unique perspectives and experiences each individual brings, believing our differences make us stronger and drive success.

You can learn more about our commitment to our colleague on our Inclusion and Opportunities page.

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Working flexibly

We’re committed to providing a supportive and inclusive culture and environment for you to work in. This environment recognises and supports your personal needs, alongside the professional needs of our business. If you'd like to explore flexible working arrangements, please discuss this with the hiring manager. Your request will be reviewed in-line with the requirements of the role/business needs of the team.

Hybrid working

We have a structured approach to hybrid working, where colleagues work at an onsite location on fixed, ‘anchor’, days, as set by the business area. Please discuss the working pattern requirements for the role you are applying for with the hiring manager. Please note that working arrangements may be subject to change on reasonable notice to ensure we meet the needs of our business.

Barclays is built on an international scale.

Our geographic reach, our wide variety of functions, businesses, roles and locations reflect the rich diversity of our worldwide customer base. All of which means we offer incredible variety, depth and breadth of experience.
And the chance to learn from a globally diverse mix of colleagues, including some of the very best minds in banking, finance, technology and business. Throughout, we’ll encourage you to embrace mobility, exploring every part of our operations as you build your career.

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