Description
We are seeking a Product Manager - Assistant Vice President (AVP) to lead the strategic focus of our products, defining the product vision, market strategy, and competitive analysis.
The successful candidate will work closely with various teams, including marketing, engineering, operations, and sales, to ensure everyone is aligned on the product strategy.
Key Responsibilities:
- Define Product Strategy: Develop a product strategy that aligns with the business vision, managing capabilities, balancing short-term with long-term goals.
- Cross Functional Alignment: Lead cross-functional relationships, working with various teams to ensure alignment of product strategy and goals.
- Risk and Control: Oversee product risk management, including identification of potential risks, development of mitigation strategies, and maintenance of alignment between product management and control functions.
- Product Development Lifecycle: Own the product development lifecycle, from concept to launch, ensuring efficient processes, on-time delivery, and alignment with customer expectations.
- Deliver Product Goals and Performance: Deliver clear objectives and key outcomes to steer the product vision and ensure alignment with company business goals, financial targets, and strategic vision.
- Data-Driven Decisions: Monitor product performance through data-driven analysis and insights, regularly assessing progress against objectives and adjusting strategies as needed.
- Customer-Centric Focus: Drive a customer-first approach across the product vision, ensuring customer insights, feedback, behaviours, and pain points are at the core of the product strategy and decision-making process.
- Business and Financial Acumen: Understand pricing models, cost structures, and ROI to make financially grounded decisions regarding product development.
Requirements:
- Experience with product management, specifically in digital product design and consumer lending.
- Strong analytical skills, with experience in using statistical analysis techniques, data visualisation tools, and SQL.
- Ability to extract and analyse data from BIW2 (Barclays Information Warehouse) and translate complex datasets into clear, insightful, and business-friendly reporting.
- Experience in collaborating with cross-functional teams, including stakeholders across UK and India teams.
- Strong customer journey mindset, with ability to assess journeys end-to-end, identify pain points, and interpret customer/colleague feedback.
- Knowledge of market trends, competitor landscape, and ability to benchmark against set goals.
- Comfortable using AI-enabled tools to improve backlog quality, analysis, insights, and documentation.
- Strong problem-solving capability, with experience in managing cross-skilled teams.
- Considerable commercial acumen, with strong judgement on when to act vs when to align or escalate.
Nice to Have:
- Experience in product management/ownership.
- Experience in digital product design.
- Experience with Agentic AI, Spec Driven Development, Rapid Prototyping, etc.
- Educational Qualification - Graduate/Postgraduate Degree.