Senior PO - API Marketplace

JOB TITLE: Senior Product Owner – API Marketplace

SALARY: £76,194 - £89,640

LOCATION(S): Edinburgh

HOURS: Full time

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at our locations.

About this Opportunity

An exciting opportunity has arisen in the API & Digital Services Platform for a Senior Product Owner to join the team. This platform enables the Group to build and make available great APIs. These APIs power the digital banking experiences provided by Lloyds Banking Group to its retail and commercial customers. We are also building the key enablers that are modernising the bank Digital estate. The API lab, in the API & Digital Services platform oversees the API Gateway, API Marketplace and API Compliance for the Bank.

What you’ll be doing

You'll lead on the shaping and delivery of the Lloyds Banking group API Marketplace – this product is key to enable the group to realise its ambitions to distribute and engage via APIs with its numerous customers.

You'll be expected to set and drive the product strategy and execution for the API marketplace and guide junior Product Owners.

As well as working directly with engineering teams to build new features and release them for business consumption, you'll collaborate with Design and Data teams to understand customer problems and ideate the right solution. Aside from this you'll need to work with a diverse range of stakeholders and cross-functional teams to both run and improve your products.

You'll be operating within a complex environment to deliver high quality outputs and challenge the status quo. We're looking for you to develop a culture of innovation and collaboration, always modelling a customer-centric approach, while creating an environment in which people bring out the best in themselves ensuring they feel safe to experiment.

It’s a truly exciting role with scope to grow and develop in your career.

Why Lloyds Banking Group

We’re on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we’re shaping finance for good. We’re focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone. Including you.

What you’ll need

We'll be specifically looking for you to have had experience in some of the following:

• Experience in building and managing a product marketplace or portal.

• Experience implementing self-serve products, especially within a B2B2C context.

• Strong customer focus and evidence of having built products driven by deep customer understanding

• Proficiency in everything APIs and the needs of the customers of APIs (other product owners, engineers and architects)

• Skills in simplifying and streamlining discovery phases and enhancing workflow processes.

• Leadership in guiding business, technical, and cross-functional teams to achieve change.

• Experience in strategic and complex transformations.

• Proficiency in cultivating positive relationships with key partners and understanding business dynamics.

• Strong background in identity and/or authentication and particularly coordinating risk-based authentication solutions is beneficial.

About working for us

Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities and we’re committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop.

We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer Initiative.

We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. And, as a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with a disability, long-term health or neurodivergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme.

We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers. Just let us know what you need.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%

• An annual performance-related bonus

• Share schemes including free shares.

• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping.

• 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top

• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Want to do amazing work, that’s interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey.