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Job Description
Purpose of the Role
Product Managers are responsible for leading the strategic focus of the product(s), defining the product vision, market strategy, and competitive analysis. They think about the product's future and how it will evolve over time. They work with various teams, including marketing, engineering, operations, and sales, to ensure everyone is aligned on the product strategy. They use data and market research to inform their decisions and prioritize product features.
Accountabilities
- 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 – working with product owners to drive change objectives.
- 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 optimize outcomes and maximize value for both business and customer.
- Customer-Centric Focus: Drive a customer-first approach across the product vision, ensuring customer insights, feedback, behaviors, and pain points are at the core of the product strategy and decision-making process.
- Business and financial acumen: Understanding pricing models, cost structures, and ROI to make financially grounded decisions regarding product development.
Vice President Expectations
- 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.
- If managing a team, define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counseling employees on performance, and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes. Lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic and tactical priorities, while balancing short and long-term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements.
- If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviors to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviors are:
- L – Listen and be authentic
- E – Energise and inspire
- A – Align across the enterprise
- D – Develop others
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- If an individual contributor, be a subject matter expert within own discipline and guide technical direction. Lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialization to complete assignments. Train, guide, and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long-term profits, organizational risks, and strategic decisions.
- Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross-functional areas of impact and alignment.
- 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 organization 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. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
- 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 to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes.
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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.
Join Us
Join us at Barclays as a Product Manager within BPL, you will play a pivotal role in shaping and delivering innovative financial technology solutions that support core banking and cash management capabilities. You will be responsible for defining product vision, prioritizing delivery through Agile methodologies, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to build scalable, customer-centric solutions and look to the product's future and how it will evolve over time. This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Product Manager with deep FinTech expertise to influence product strategy and drive business outcomes and enhance product delivery.
Essential Skills
To be successful as a Product Manager – BPL, you must have the following essential skills:
- Advanced experience with real-time accounting ledgers, cash management solutions, and banking integrations within a FinTech environment.
- Product management delivery experience, including defining product vision, roadmap development, and execution of delivery strategies.
- Proven experience working in Agile environments with ownership and management of Scrum backlogs.
- Experience working within a product domain-driven organization.
Highly Valued Skills
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to work effectively both independently and collaboratively.
- Experience leveraging AI tools to support backlog management, product prioritization, and delivery activities.
- Experience working with Claude Code or other AI-assisted development tools.
- Self-starter mindset with strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making abilities.
You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in the role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.
Location
This role has the option to work from either:
- London
- Northampton
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