Job Title: Product Manager
Location: Pune

About Barclays
Barclays is a British universal bank. We are diversified by business, by different types of customers and clients, and by geography. Our businesses include consumer banking and payments operations around the world, as well as a top-tier, full service, global corporate and investment bank, all of which are supported by our service company which provides technology, operations and functional services across the Group.

Risk and Control Objective
Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work you do.

Working Flexibly
We’re committed to providing a supportive and inclusive culture and environment for you to work in. This environment recognises and supports ways to balance your personal needs, alongside the professional needs of our business. Providing the opportunity for all our employees, globally to work flexibly empowers each of us to work in a way that suits our lives as well as enabling us to better service our customers’ and clients’ needs. Whether you have family commitments or you’re a carer, or whether you need study time or wish to pursue personal interests, our approach to working flexibly is designed to help you balance your life.  If you would like some flexibility, then please discuss this with the hiring manager, and your request will be reviewed subject to business needs.

Hybrid Working 
Structured hybrid role:    
At Barclays, we offer a hybrid working experience that blends the positives of working alongside colleagues at our onsite locations, together with working from home.  We have a structured approach where colleagues work at an onsite location on fixed, ‘anchor’, days of the week, for a minimum of two days a week or more, as set by the business area (or nearest equivalent if working part-time hours). Please discuss the working pattern requirements for the role you are applying for with the hiring manager. Please note that as we continue to embed our hybrid working environment, we remain in a test and learn phase, which means that working arrangements may be subject to change on reasonable notice to ensure we meet the needs of our business.

Introduction 

The Product Owner is accountable for maximizing the value of the product resulting from the work of the Domain Team. In addition, they are accountable for:
•    The Product Roadmap aligned with product vision 
•    Effective Product Backlog management
•    Business engagements for product enhancement, customer pain points 
•    Collaboration with technical delivery team to ensure the new functionality lands seamlessly with our business colleagues 
•    To ensure Lean Control Process is applied throughout the lifecycle of change.
What will you be doing?
•    Engage with other Tech/Business PO’s to discuss work and promote product.
•    Act as face of product to Stakeholders. 
•    Enable build-measure-learn culture
•    Act as customer representative to team and explains the value of the change to the business.
•    Create product Roadmaps to detail feature delivery and timelines.
•    The need to drive metrics to bring to life the delivery of features and associated issues.
•    Help elaborate Epics/ Stories to Tech team where detail needed. 
•    Review and accept of all work completed in Sprint. 
•    Participate in Story Refinement sessions.
•    Participate in Sprint Planning to help team understand the change and ensure priority of work is correct. 
•    Self-initiate new Ideas/ Product features / enhance existing features.
•    Work with the product ownership team, product delivery teams and stakeholders to inspect and adapt the product increment.
•    Seek funding opportunities from Stakeholders/Business Areas for new initiatives. 
•    Work with Projects to exploit their funding to become the vehicle to deliver new features/improve existing as well as their core requirements.
•    Engage with users to understand user patterns / behaviours / potential improvements / pain points. 
•    Analysis prioritisation in collaboration with TDM.
•    Analysis team management. 
•    Prioritise live issue fixes.
•    Explore metrics across the product, collaborate with TDM, Tech Lead and Domain Lead to derive team performance with the aim of increasing efficiency and effectiveness.
•    Sign-off on the content of the production releases 
•    Assist with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information.
•    Ensure that Service Levels are defined and maintained
Role guideline:
•    Execution - Work needs strategic and tactical decision making. Defines product features, strategy including product vision.
•    Breadth of Impact – decision taken impact the business stakeholders, colleagues/user base, and department reputation.  Making decisions for product roadmaps features, quantifiable business benefits, and measurable success criteria.
•    Ambiguity: Define Product roadmap, feature design, process design/ optimisation, rollout & adoption strategy across user base
•    Scope, Influence, and communication: Manages a product or major features, high-impact incident response and issue closure. Influences the strategic direction (business and technology) and works directly with Clients on product delivery. Creates strategic documentation and client facing assets where required. 
•    Domain/Technical: tenured IT professional with significant experience in IAM domain and product management
•    People Management: Prior experience in building high performance team and performance management.

What we’re looking for:
•    Experience in working in large software implementations with many teams delivering technical change across multiple areas. 
•    Experience in rolling out large change across multiple business areas and dealing with business colleagues.
•    Experience of working in a cross-functional Agile team
•    Awareness of various automated testing, continuous integration and deployment tools and practices
•    Strong customer focus (internal / external) and product management/ownership background
•    Ability to coach and facilitate good communication within the team and with stakeholders

Skills that will help you in the role:
•    Driven and motivated with a hunger for delivering quality change at fast pace.
•    Curious and a passion to learn
•    Trained or certified Product Owner
•    Experience in Lean Product discovery
•    Experience with value-based prioritisation practices such as Cost of Delay 

Where will you be working?
Pune

Be More at Barclays
At Barclays, each day is about being more – as a professional, and as a person. ‘Be More @ Barclays’ represents our core promise to all current and future employees. It’s the characteristic that we want to be associated with as an employer, and at the heart of every employee experience. We empower our colleagues to Be More Globally Connected, working on international projects that improve the way millions of customers handle their finances. Be More Inspired by working alongside the most talented people in the industry, and delivering imaginative new solutions that are redefining the future of finance. Be More Impactful by having the opportunity to work on cutting-edge projects, and Be More Valued for who you are.
Interested and want to know more about Barclays? Visit home.barclays/who-we-are/ for more details.
Purpose, Values and Mindset 
We deploy finance responsibly to support people and businesses, acting with empathy and integrity, championing innovation and sustainability, for the common good and the long term.
Our values underpin everything we do: Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship.
Respect
We harness the power of diversity and inclusion in our business, trust those we work with, and value everyone's contribution.
Integrity
We operate with honesty, transparency and fairness in all we do.
Service
We act with empathy and humility, putting the people and businesses we serve at the centre of what we do.
Excellence
We champion innovation, and use our energy, expertise and resources to make a positive difference.
Stewardship
We prize sustainability, and are passionate about leaving things better than we found them.

Our Mindset shapes how we take action, living by our Values, driven by our Purpose, always with our customers and clients at the heart of what we do; our Mindset is to Empower, Challenge and Drive.
Empower
Trust and support each other to deliver. Make decisions with those closest to the topic. Include diverse perspectives. Celebrate success and learn from failure.
Challenge
Question whether things can be done better. Use insights based on data to inform decisions. Be curious about how we can adapt and improve. Speak up and be open to alternative viewpoints.
Drive
Focus on outcomes. Deliver with pace. Be passionate and ambitious about what we do. Take personal responsibility. Actively build collaborative relationships to get things done.