Lead Product Owner

National Westminster Bank
Edinburgh, UK
20 days ago
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Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Working hours
Regular working hours
Job source

Tech stack

Artificial Intelligence Technical Debt

Job description

This role is based in the United Kingdom and as such all normal working days must be carried out in the United Kingdom.

Join us as a Lead Product Owner

  • Use product, data, analytics, and technology to build capabilities that deliver better customer outcomes and prevent economic crime
  • Set the vision, strategy, and integrated roadmap for economic crime analytics products and platforms aligned to customer outcomes, regulatory commitments, and strategic priorities You’ll be part of an environment that is passionate about your growth, fosters inclusion, and champions your potential for shared success *

What you’ll do

As the Lead Product Owner, you’ll set the product direction for our Economic Crime analytics capabilities. You’ll bring customer, colleague, and business needs to form a clear vision and prioritised roadmap for the bank. Moreover, you’ll lead a team of Product Owners and Business Analysts, creating the focus, decision-making, and ways-of-working needed to turn complex problems into measurable outcomes.

Your responsibilities will include:

  • Leading, coaching, and developing a product function of Product Owners and Business Analysts, driving clear ownership and consistent standards
  • Owning end-to-end product outcomes, ensuring the implementation of proposed solutions and measuring the delivered impact
  • Shaping investment choices and sequencing across run and change, making clear trade-offs between customer value, fraud-loss prevention, risk, technical debt, cost, capacity and dependencies
  • Working across teams to align product strategy and delivery, building scalable and sustainable capabilities

The skills you’ll need

We’re looking for a strategic, outcome-focused product leader with experience in leading complex products, platforms, or portfolios in an agile environment. You’ll be comfortable setting direction and establish clarity across organisational boundaries. Moreover, you’ll hold teams accountable for measurable value, combining strong commercial judgement with excellent communication and people leadership skills.

Requirements

  • Strong knowledge of fraud and financial crime risk, as well as the technology needed to mitigate threats in a financial industry context
  • Experience in translating complex business problems into clear product strategies, roadmaps, outcomes, and prioritised backlogs
  • Strong understanding of data, analytics, technology, and AI-enabled products
  • Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence and challenge senior stakeholders effectively

Benefits & conditions

Here’s a quick look at what your pay package and annual leave could look like if you get accepted for the role. We have a wide range of benefits to support you in your working life and beyond.

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Your pay package

100% Base pay This is your base pay package that you take home every month.

+10% Pension funding This is monthly funding paid towards your pension.

up to +10% Benefit funding This is monthly funding paid towards a range of benefits you can choose from.

Your leave allowance

30 days Annual leave You’ll also have the opportunity to purchase up to 5 additional days off.

3 days Volunteering Take time off to support the causes you’re passionate about.

3 days Training Take time to build the skills you need to grow your career.

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