Product Owner

About the role

Barclays is looking for a Product Owner in Wilmington, Delaware, within its Product Development & Management business area. You will help define and deliver product capabilities that support business growth and customer experiences, working across business, technology and partner teams in an Agile environment. The role is permanent.

Key responsibilities

• Manage and improve products using Agile methodologies, monitoring metrics such as usage, adoption and customer satisfaction, and developing roadmaps to improve product efficiency and effectiveness.
• Collaborate with stakeholders including traders, salespeople, risk managers and technology teams to align product vision and development process.
• Use market research, customer feedback and industry trend analysis to identify new products, features or enhancements.
• Develop and run reports and presentations to share product updates, requirements, acceptance criteria and success stories with stakeholders, including developers.
• Run user acceptance testing to validate product concepts, identify improvements and iterate on design prototypes.
• Develop and execute go-to-market strategies for new products or features with marketing, sales and customer support.

Required profile

• Experience in Agile or Scaled Agile (SAFe) environments, including backlog management, feature definition and user story creation.
• Support for Program Increment (PI) planning and coordination of priorities across stakeholders and delivery teams.
• Management of product delivery activities such as roadmap planning, risk and dependency management, stakeholder engagement and launch coordination.
• Ability to advise and influence decision-making, collaborate across functions, and lead a team or complex assignments.
• Leadership expectations: listen authentically, energise and inspire, align across the enterprise and develop others; or, for an individual contributor, lead collaborative assignments and consult on complex issues.

Required skills

• Agile and SAFe practices (backlog management, PI planning, user stories)
• Roadmap planning and risk and dependency management
• Use of customer insights, performance metrics and data to inform product decisions
• Clear communication of priorities and product capabilities

The role may involve enhanced governance arrangements and regulatory and compliance obligations, such as disclosing personal trading activities. Flexible working and hybrid working are possible, depending on the hiring manager's requirements.