VP Product Owner - Demand and Deposit Accounting (DDA)

We are seeking a Vice President Product Owner - Demand and Deposit Accounting to join our Global Transaction Banking team at Barclays.

The purpose of a Product Owner is to maximize the value of the product by defining a clear product vision, 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.

Responsibilities:

• Ensure Product Alignment with Business Goals: Ensure that the product & its features are aligned with broader objectives, driving value and contributing to the organisation’s overall strategy.
• Communicate Product Vision to Delivery Teams: Clearly articulate the product vision and goals to the delivery teams.
• Create and Refine User Stories: Write clear, concise user stories with detailed acceptance criteria.
• Agile Events: Participate in key Agile events such as sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
• Managing the Product Backlog: Responsible for creating, maintaining, and prioritising the product backlog.
• Act as the Voice of the Customer: Continuously gather feedback from customers and end-users.
• Acceptance Criteria Definition & Management: Review and accept or reject work completed by the development team during sprints.
• Collaborate with Stakeholders: Work closely with stakeholders 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.
• Risk and Control: Managing risk, including identification of potential risks, development of strategies to resolve or mitigate and escalate as necessary those risks.

Vice President Expectations:

• To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change.
• If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations.
• If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours.
• OR for an individual contributor, they will be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction.
• 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 organisation 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.
• 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.