Executive Product Manager - VP

About the Role

Embark on a transformative journey as an Executive Product Manager - VP at Barclays, where you will shape product strategy, drive innovation at scale, and deliver customer-centric solutions that create meaningful business outcomes. This role offers the opportunity to make a visible impact on the future of Barclays' products while accelerating your professional growth within a global financial institution. You will work alongside talented colleagues and influential stakeholders to redefine the future of banking and craft innovative solutions.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the product strategy, roadmap, and OKRs, ensuring alignment with business targets and customer outcomes.
• Shape and prioritize strategic priorities, epics, and investments, balancing business value, customer impact, and delivery feasibility.
• Partner with senior stakeholders, engineering, architecture, and business teams to align priorities, navigate dependencies, and drive informed decisions.
• Oversee the end-to-end product lifecycle, ensuring successful execution and value delivery across products, platforms, or customer journeys.
• Shape and evolve a portfolio of product capabilities, balancing short-term delivery needs with long-term strategic goals and innovation opportunities.
• Define a product strategy that aligns with the business vision, managing capabilities and ensuring products meet market demands and drive growth.
• Lead cross-functional relationships to ensure alignment of product strategy and goals.
• Oversee product risk management, including identification of potential risks and development of mitigation strategies.
• Own the product development lifecycle from concept to launch, ensuring efficient processes and on-time delivery.
• Deliver clear objectives and key outcomes to steer the product vision and ensure alignment with company business goals and financial targets.
• Monitor product performance through data-driven analysis and insights, adjusting strategies as needed to optimize outcomes.
• Drive a customer-first approach, ensuring customer insights and feedback are at the core of product strategy and decision-making.
• Understand pricing models, cost structures, and ROI to make financially grounded decisions regarding product development.
• Contribute to or set strategy, drive requirements, and make recommendations for change.
• Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/processes; deliver continuous improvements.
• Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Collaborate with other areas of the business to keep up to speed with business activity and strategies.
• Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought, comparing and selecting complex alternatives.
• Build and maintain trusting relationships with internal and external stakeholders to accomplish key business objectives.

Qualifications and Skills

• Considerable commercial acumen with the ability to translate business strategy into measurable product outcomes.
• Excellent stakeholder guidance and influencing skills, with experience building alignment across senior leaders and cross-functional teams.
• Strong strategic thinking and data-driven judgment capabilities, leveraging insights to prioritize investments and optimize performance.
• Remarkable communication and presentation skills, with the ability to articulate intricate concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience overseeing large-scale transformation programs, driving innovation, and fostering a customer-centric product culture.
• Comprehensive understanding of organizational functions to contribute to achieving business goals.
• Ability to adopt and include outcomes of extensive research in problem-solving processes.

Location

This role is located in our Whippany, NJ or Wilmington, DE offices.

Pay

For Whippany, NJ, the base salary range is $155,000 to $200,000. This position is also eligible for an incentive award.

Benefits

Barclays employees are eligible for a suite of competitive and generous employee benefits, including:

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• 401(k) retirement plan.
• Life insurance.
• Other paid leave for qualifying circumstances.

Vice President Expectations

• If managing a team, define jobs and responsibilities, plan for the department’s future needs, counsel employees on performance, and contribute to employee pay decisions.
• Lead specialists to influence department operations, aligning with strategic and tactical priorities while balancing short and long-term goals.
• For individual contributors, act as a subject matter expert, guiding technical direction and leading collaborative, multi-year assignments.
• Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management, on areas of impact and alignment.
• Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls.
• Demonstrate the Barclays Values: Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence, and Stewardship.
• Demonstrate the Barclays Mindset: Empower, Challenge, and Drive.