Join us as an AI Product Owner for Barclays Private Bank and Wealth Management, where you will play a pivotal role in shaping and delivering the bank’s AI product strategy. You will own the roadmap for AI-driven capabilities, helping translate emerging AI technologies into practical, governed, and high-value business solutions that improve productivity, enhance client experience, and support revenue growth.
The role will include; defining and owning the AI product roadmap across multiple business lines, translating business requirements into clear, buildable AI use cases, and working with engineering and risk teams to ensure solutions are feasible, compliant, and aligned to strategic objectives.
To be successful as an AI Product Owner, you should have:
* AI/ML product literacy – ability to scope, evaluate, and communicate AI capabilities and limitations to both engineers and executives; knows what's buildable vs. what's hype
* Regulatory & risk acumen – deep understanding of model risk management, AI governance frameworks, and how to navigate compliance frameworks.
* Stakeholder alignment across technical and business lines – translating requirements into deliverable product functionality and owning the end-to-end product roadmap
Some other highly valued skills may include:
* Data strategy & architecture awareness – fluency to challenge data quality assumptions, identify lineage gaps, and evaluate whether a proposed AI feature is actually trainable on available data
* Agile delivery in regulated environments – experience adapting sprint cadences, definition-of-done, and release governance to bank change management processes without reducing velocity
* Ability to frame AI investments in terms of measurable business outcomes – translates technical capability into cost-to-serve reduction, revenue uplift, or risk mitigation in language that secures funding and executive sponsorship.
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 capabilities, as well as job‑specific technical skills.
This role will be based in Glasgow.
Purpose of the role
The purpose of a Product Owner is to maximize the value of the product by defining a clear product vision (are they setting the vision or would this align to ), 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. They act as the primary liaison between stakeholders and delivery teams, ensuring the product meets user/customer needs and delivers optimal value. Product Owners are responsible for developing a roadmap and driving execution of their product area/sub-journey, applying continuous improvement principles and techniques.
Accountabilities
* Ensure Product Alignment with Business Goals: Ensure that the product & its features are aligned with broader objectives, driving value and contributing to the organization’s overall strategy. Utilisation of market research, analysis of customer feedback and monitoring of industry trends to identify new products, features or enhancements.
* Communicate Product Vision to Delivery Teams: Clearly articulate the product vision and goals to the delivery teams, ensuring they understand, align and are inspired to deliver the business value and purpose of each feature or user story.
* Create and Refine User Stories: Write clear, concise user stories with detailed acceptance criteria, refining them as needed to ensure the development team has all the necessary information to implement features successfully.
* Agile Events: Participate in key Agile events such as sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews and retrospectives to keep the team aligned and focused on delivering the product backlog.
* Managing the Product Backlog: Responsible for creating, maintaining, and prioritising the product backlog, ensuring the highest value features are delivered first, based on business needs, customer requirements and organisational impacts, balancing risk migration and future proofing against the product strategy.
* Act as the Voice of the Customer: Continuously gather feedback from customers and end‑users to understand their pain points and ensure that the product meets their needs and improves their overall experience.
* Acceptance Criteria Definition & Management: Review and accept or reject work completed by the development team during sprints, ensuring that all delivered features meet the agreed‑upon acceptance criteria and deliver business value.
* Collaborate with Stakeholders: Work closely with stakeholders (e.g., customers, business leaders, and marketing teams) 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, adjusting the product backlog and roadmap to improve functionality and meet evolving customer needs. Manage on‑going readiness and 'run' activities of live products including monitoring, governance and approvals.
* Risk and Control: Managing risk, including identification of potential risks, development of strategies to resolve or mitigate and elevate as necessary those risks, and alignment between the product management and control functions.
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