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.
AccountabilitiesDefine Product Strategy: Accountable for defining a product strategy that aligns with the 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 optimise outcomes and maximise value for both business and customer.
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: Understanding pricing models, costs structures, and ROI to make financially grounded decisions regarding product development.
Vice President ExpectationsTo 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 address breaches of policies/procedures. If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, plan for the department's future needs and operations, counsel employees on performance and contribute to employee pay decisions/changes. They may also lead specialists to influence the operations of a department, balancing short and long term goals and ensuring budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements.
Individuals may also act as subject matter experts within their discipline, guide technical direction, lead collaborative, multi-year assignments, train, guide and coach less experienced specialists, and provide information affecting long-term profits, organisational risks, and strategic decisions.
They advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross-functional areas of impact and alignment. They manage and mitigate risks through assessment, supporting the control and governance agenda, and demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work their team does.
Product Manager Role at BarclaysJoin us as a Product Manager at Barclays, where you will play a key role in shaping and evolving strategic controls technology capabilities across the organisation. You will be responsible for driving the growth and adoption of a Governance and Risk platform, supporting automation initiatives, and identifying opportunities to leverage AI to enhance operational efficiency and control effectiveness.
The role will include defining and managing the product roadmap for governance and risk technology solutions, driving enhancements across the platform including automation and AI capabilities and working closely with engineering and business teams to ensure successful delivery and adoption of new functionality.
To be successful as a Product Manager, you should haveThe four LEAD behaviours are: L - Listen and be authentic, E - Energise and inspire, A - Align across the enterprise, D - Develop others.
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.