Vice President Expectations

To 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, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counseling employees on performance, and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes. They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as 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

OR for an individual contributor, they will be a subject matter expert within their own discipline and will guide technical direction. They will 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. They will 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 in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills 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.

Join Us

Join us as Product Owner to help shape the future of digital wealth management. In this role, you'll define and deliver digital capabilities and client journeys that make investing and wealth management more intuitive, accessible, and rewarding for clients. The Product Owner is responsible for defining and delivering key digital capabilities and client journeys across Wealth Management. Working within an empowered feature team, the role translates client needs, business priorities, and data-led insight into clear product outcomes and delivery roadmaps. Working closely with Design, Research, Data Science, and Technology, using data science and AI, the Product Owner creates intuitive digital experiences that simplify investing and wealth management, improve client outcomes, and support business growth.

As part of Barclays Wealth Management’s digital transformation, this role contributes to the expansion of digital capability, the application of AI-enabled experiences, and the development of a market-leading Wealth platform. The role is expected to be proactive and curious, identifying opportunities to improve client journeys, challenge assumptions, and shape what Wealth Management becomes next.

Requirements

To be successful as a Product Owner, you should have experience with:

• Significant experience in product management, product ownership, or digital journey leadership.
• Experience delivering client-facing tech products, ideally in financial services, wealth, banking, fintech, or a similarly regulated environment.
• Strong understanding of agile delivery and feature team ways of working.
• Ability to work effectively across business, technology, design, data, and control functions.
• Experience using AI and data science to improve UX, CX, and make complex financial experiences easier for clients.
• Commercial judgement, strong stakeholder management, and ability to influence at senior levels.
• Curiosity about client behavior, digital trends, AI, and future wealth propositions.

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Knowledge of wealth management, investing products, and digital client journeys.
• Experience using data science and AI to improve digital experiences and make complex financial products and services easier for clients to understand and use.
• Interest in user experience and customer experience principles, with a focus on simplifying wealth and investing journeys.
• Curiosity about client behavior, digital innovation, AI-enabled experiences, emerging technologies, and future wealth propositions.
• Commercial awareness and the ability to create clarity in evolving environments, navigate trade-offs, and contribute to digital transformation and platform development.

Leadership Expectations

• Sets clear direction and keeps the team focused on outcomes.
• Demonstrates curiosity and commercial awareness, actively seeking opportunities to improve client and business outcomes.
• Balances pace, quality, risk, and control.
• Creates clarity in ambiguity and makes pragmatic trade-offs.
• Builds strong cross-functional relationships and drives delivery with accountability.

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.

This role is based in London, Knutsford, Northampton, or Glasgow.