Product Manager - AVP

Job Description

Purpose of the role

Product Managers are responsible for the leading the strategic focus of the product(s), defining the product vision, market strategy, and competitive analysis. They think about the product's future and how it will evolve over time. They work with various teams, including marketing, engineering, operations, and sales, to ensure everyone is aligned on the product strategy. They use data and market research to inform their decisions and prioritize product features.

Accountabilities

• Define Product Strategy: Accountable for defining a product strategy that aligns with business vision, managing capabilities, balancing short-term with long-term goals, ensuring that products meet market demands and drive growth.
• Cross functional alignment: Leadership of cross functional relationships, working with various cross-functional teams to ensure alignment of product strategy and goals.
• Risk and Control: Accountable for overseeing product risk management, including identification of potential risks, development of strategies to mitigate those risks, and maintenance of alignment between the product management and control functions.
• Product Development Lifecycle: Own product development lifecycle, from concept to launch, ensuring efficient processes, on-time delivery, and alignment with E2E customer expectations and experience. - working with product owners to drive change objectives.
• Deliver Product Goals and Performance: Deliver clear objectives and key outcomes to steer the product vision and ensure alignment with company’s business goals, financial targets, and strategic vision, driving long-term business success.
• Data driven decisions: Monitor product performance through data-driven analysis and insights, regularly assessing progress against objectives and adjusting the strategies as needed to optimise outcomes and maximise value for both business and customer.
• Customer-Centric Focus: Drive a customer -first approach across the product vision, ensuring customer insights, feedback, behaviours, and pain points are at the core of the product strategy and decision-making process.
• Business and financial acumen: Understanding pricing models, costs structures, and ROI to make financially grounded decisions regarding product development.

Assistant Vice President Expectations

• To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions.
• Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function. Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes
• If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L - Listen and be authentic, E - Energise and inspire, A - Align across the enterprise, D - Develop others.
• OR for an individual contributor, they will lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will identify new directions for assignments and/ or projects, identifying a combination of cross functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.
• Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
• Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
• Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.
• Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practises (in other areas, teams, companies, etc).to solve problems creatively and effectively.
• Communicate complex information. 'Complex' information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience.
• Influence or convince stakeholders to achieve outcomes.

All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship - our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset - to Empower, Challenge and Drive - the operating manual for how we behave.

Join us as a Product Manager - AVP at Barclays, where you'll spearhead the evolution of our digital landscape, driving innovation and excellence. You'll harness cutting-edge technology to revolutionise our digital offerings, ensuring unapparelled customer experiences.

You will work closely with business, operations and cross-functional partners to solve complex problems, shape scalable solutions, and ensure efficient delivery. Acting as the key interface between business and functional stakeholders, you will support the development of product propositions, and/or service strategies-from concept and release.

To be successful as a Product Manager, you should have experience with:

Critical / Essential Skills:

• Delivery discipline - ability to define requirements, use JIRA, support feature teams, manage backlogs, track actions and produce governance-ready packs.

• Ability to extract and analyse data from BIW2 (Barclays Information Warehouse) using SQL, and translate complex datasets into clear, insightful, and business-friendly reporting.

• Analytical skills and experience in using statistical analysis techniques like fragmenting data, transforming into meaningful outcomes.

• Analytical and insight-led decision making - comfort using MI, dashboards, funnel data, complaints, contact drivers and performance trends to identify issues and opportunities.

• Risk, control and governance awareness - understanding of ORACs, issue management, Consumer Duty, control monitoring, evidence gathering and escalation routes.

• Experience in collaborating with other team members

• Stakeholder management across UK and India teams - confidence working with journey owners, product managers, controls teams, technology, risk and partner teams.

• Customer-first thinking; attention to detail; ownership; structured problem solving; strong written communication.

• Strong customer journey mindset - ability to assess journeys end-to-end, identify pain points, interpret customer/colleague feedback, and support journey health checks.

• Knowledge of market trends, competitor landscape and ability to benchmark against set goals

• Comfortable using AI-enabled tools to improve backlog quality, analysis, insights and documentation, while recognizing accountability remains with Product

• Strong problem-solving capability

• Experience of using data to make decisions and recommendations

• As minimum intermediate level of Excel and PowerPoint

• Knowledge and application of agile ways of working methodology including JIRA

• Considerable commercial acumen

• Strong judgement on when to act vs when to align or escalate, particularly where customer harm or regulatory risk may arise.

• Experience in managing cross skilled team.

Desirable skillsets/ good to have:

• Experience in product management/ownership

• Experience in digital product design

• Experience with Agentic AI, Spec Driven Development, Rapid Prototyping etc..

• Experience in consumer lending

• Educational Qualification- Graduate / Post Graduate Degree

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as experience with Product owner, Analytical Skills, Business Acumen, and Stakeholder Management as well as job-specific skillsets.

This role will be based out of Gurugram/Noida.