Data Product Manager
hace 3 días
LONDON
Join us as a Data Product Manager within Barclays UK. In this role, you will shape, build and scale data products within the Customer Experience Lab, operating at the intersection of customer outcomes, data, technology and regulation. You will own data products end-to-end from problem discovery through to adoption and value realisation, delivering reusable, governed, high-quality data products that enhance customer experience, enable smarter decision-making, and support regulatory and commercial outcomes across Barclays UK. To be successful as a Data Product Manager, you should have: • Proven experience in Product Management, Data Product Management or Technical Product roles., • Excellent understanding of data-as-a-product concepts (data lifecycle, consumers, contracts, quality, metadata)., • Experience working with data platforms, analytics, or data engineering teams. Demonstrated ability to identify opportunities, build business cases and prioritise based on value., • Solid stakeholder management skills across technology, analytics, risk, privacy and business teams., • Experience working in Agile/Lab/Product‑led delivery models., • Excellent communication and storytelling skills, particularly for senior and non‑technical audiences. Some other highly valued skills may include: • Experience within financial services, particularly regulated environments. Exposure to Customer Experience, customer journeys, complaints, vulnerability or Consumer Duty use cases., • Familiarity with data governance, privacy, data quality and control frameworks. Experience launching reusable, enterprise‑grade data products rather than one‑off analysis., • Awareness of AI (artificial intelligence), automation or advanced analytics and their data dependencies. You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills. This role will be based in London, Knutsford or Northampton. Purpose of the role The purpose of a Product Owner is to maximize the value of the product by defining a clear product vision (are they setting the vision or would this align to ), managing authoring, refining and prioritizing the Product Backlog balancing trade-offs across desirability, viability and feasibility – making sure the right thing is being ‘built’, and prioritising work based on business goals. They act as the primary liaison between stakeholders and delivery teams, ensuring the product meets user/customer needs and delivers optimal value. Product Owners are responsible for developing a roadmap and driving execution of their product area/sub-journey, applying continuous improvement principles and techniques. Accountabilities * Ensure Product Alignment with Business Goals: Ensure that the product & its features are aligned with broader objectives, driving value and contributing to the organization’s overall strategy. Utilisation of market research, analysis of customer feedback and monitoring of industry trends to identify new products, features or enhancements. * Communicate Product Vision to Delivery Teams: Clearly articulate the product vision and goals to the delivery teams, ensuring they understand, align and are inspired to deliver the business value and purpose of each feature or user story. * Create and Refine User Stories: Write clear, concise user stories with detailed acceptance criteria, refining them as needed to ensure the development team has all the necessary information to implement features successfully. * Agile Events: Participate in key Agile events such as sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives to keep the team aligned and focused on delivering the product backlog. * Managing the Product Backlog: Responsible for creating, maintaining, and prioritising the product backlog, ensuring the highest value features are delivered first, based on business needs, customer requirements and organisational impacts, balancing risk migration and future proofing against the product strategy. * Act as the Voice of the Customer: Continuously gather feedback from customers and end-users to understand their pain points and ensure that the product meets their needs and improves their overall experience. * Acceptance Criteria Definition & Management: Review and accept or reject work completed by the development team during sprints, ensuring that all delivered features meet the agreed-upon acceptance criteria and deliver business value. * Collaborate with Stakeholders: Work closely with stakeholders (e.g., customers, business leaders, and marketing teams) to gather requirements, define product goals, and ensure that the product vision aligns with business objectives. * Monitor Product Performance and Iterate: Regularly assess product performance using KPIs and customer feedback, adjusting the product backlog and roadmap to improve functionality and meet evolving customer needs. Manage on-going readiness and 'run' activities of live products including monitoring, governance and approvals. * 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. Assistant Vice President Expectations * To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions. * Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function. Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes * If the position has leadership responsibilities, People 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. * OR for an individual contributor, they will lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will identify new directions for assignments and/ or projects, identifying a combination of cross functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes. * Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues. * Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda. * Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done. * Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function. * Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy. * Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practises (in other areas, teams, companies, etc).to solve problems creatively and effectively. * Communicate complex information. 'Complex' information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience. * Influence or convince stakeholders to achieve outcomes. 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.
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