As Lead Product Owner – Talent Management, you will operate at a strategic level to ensure that multiple talent-related product backlogs and development efforts are aligned with the broader HR and business strategy. You will work closely with senior leadership, HR stakeholders, and cross-functional teams to translate long-term talent goals into actionable product roadmaps. In this role, you will guide and mentor Product Owners, ensuring consistency in prioritisation, delivery, and agile practices across multiple workstreams.
You will act as a central point of coordination, advocating for product direction, driving business value, and tracking key product metrics and outcomes. Your responsibilities will include defining and upholding product ownership standards, improving agile maturity, and fostering collaboration across teams. With a strong focus on employee experience and organisational impact, you will play a critical role in shaping the future of talent management solutions and ensuring they deliver measurable value.

To be successful as a Lead Product Owner – Talent Management – 12 Months Full Time Contract, you should have experience with:

• Extensive experience in product ownership within HR or talent management, with an understanding of agile methodologies.
• Proven ability to lead and coordinate multiple product teams, ensuring alignment with strategic goals and consistent delivery.
• Stakeholder engagement and communication skills, with experience influencing at senior and executive levels.
• Driving product performance through metrics, continuous improvement, and cross-functional collaboration.

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
Your role can be located from our Glasgow or London office.

ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Provision of subject matter expertise to support the collaboration between the product owner and the technical side of product development.
• Support the development and implementation of the product strategy and vision defined in the product roadmap and communicate them with the relevant stakeholders and the development team.
• Collaboration with internal stakeholders to gather and prioritise product requirements and features based on business value and feasibility that are well defined, measurable and secure.
• Development and implementation of assessments to ensure continuous testing and improvement of product quality and performance.
• Monitoring of product performance to identify opportunities for optimisation that meets the banks performance standards.
• Stay abreast of the latest industry technology trends and technologies, to evaluate and adopt new approaches to improve product development and delivery.

To collaborate with product owners and other technical teams involved in the product development process and utilise their knowledge of the bank’s technologies to enact the vision defined in the product roadmap.