Audio Visual Product Manager - Secondment

Join Barclays as an Audio-Visual Product Manager and play a pivotal role in shaping the future of Audio-Visual products and services across the organisation. You will define product direction, drive innovation, and ensure the delivery of customer-focused solutions that create measurable business value while aligning with strategic objectives.

To be successful as an Audio-Visual Product Manager
, you should have experience with:

• Product Strategy & Value Leadership - defining product vision, prioritising roadmaps, and delivering measurable business outcomes
• Customer & Data-Driven Decision Making - leveraging customer insights and data to guide investment decisions and continuous improvement
• Product Leadership & Cross-Functional Influence - driving alignment across stakeholders and leading multidisciplinary teams to successful delivery

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• AV Technology and services knowledge
• SAFe (Scaled Agile) certified
• Product Management Certifications and Community Building

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

This role is based in either Knutsford or Glasgow office .

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.

• 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 to elevate as necessary those risks, and alignment between the product management and control functions.

• To 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 elevate breaches of policies/procedures..
• If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department's future needs and operations, counselling employees on…