Senior Product Owner

JOB TITLE: Senior Product Owner

SALARY: From £76,194

LOCATION(S): Leeds or Birmingham

HOURS: Full time

WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in an office site

About this opportunity

We are looking for a Senior Product owner in our Private Banking & Tech Modernisation Lab. UK Private Banking are on a customer focussed strategic growth and transformation journey, helping the Group’s Affluent and High Net Worth personal customers achieve their financial goals and aspirations across multiple brands. The Private Banking & Tech Modernisation Lab are key to this journey and we’re looking for someone to join the team to help take us forward.

Curious about how we empower colleagues every day? Energised by delivering complex change? Motivated by helping our customers? This could be the role for you!


What you'll be doing...

• Able to explain the priorities on which the team are working, both to business partners and other Labs. Strong coordination with other POs is required ensuring dependencies are accounted for and appropriately prioritised in their backlogs
• Be accountable for delivery against the Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) and / or revision of the OKRs based on new data and findings
• Shape the Product vision ensuring that the offering and its solution capabilities address customer needs without creating new ones (avoiding failure demand)
• Lead pivotal initiatives, technical releases, customers, and collaborators with dedication
• Ensure that the non-functional elements of products are considered (robustness, performance, scalability, usability, extensibility, ease to maintain and configure, ease of integration etc.)
• Encourage team to test and learn by producing easy to use prototypes and MVPs and trialling them in a model office environment

About us

Like the modern Britain we serve, we’re evolving. Investing billions in our people, data and tech to transform the way we meet the ever-changing needs of our 26 million customers. We’re growing with purpose. Join us on our journey and you will too…

What you’ll need

• Experience working in an Agile delivery environment at scale.
• Consistent track record in delivering technology change across software and infrastructure.
• Ability to work effectively with technical and cross-functional teams.
• Excellent influencing skills and stakeholder engagement.
• Strong dependency management and effective risk and issue resolution.

And any experience of these would be really useful

• Good understanding of customer service and banking products.
• Technical Literacy. Ability to grasp technical concepts and communicate effectively with technical teams

About working for us

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms.

We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture.

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.

And it’s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups.

We’re disability confident. So, if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.

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

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance
• 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

Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow and thrive? Apply today and find out more.