Product Owner - Digital Assets

Barclays•Jefferson, CO

1d•$120,000 - $175,000•Onsite

About The Position

Embark on a transformative journey as a Product Owner- Digital Assets. At Barclays, our vision is clear – to redefine the future of banking and help craft innovative solutions. In this role, you’ll partner across teams to shape the roadmap and set engineering priorities, enabling the development of secure, scalable, and compliant digital asset capabilities that deliver meaningful enterprise impact.

Requirements

Have a solid understanding of Digital Asset use cases, including tokenization, settlement, wallet-enabled flows, and network interoperability
Bring good technology product ownership or product management experience in complex technology or platform environments
Be able to translate strategic goals into clear epics, features, stories, priorities, and acceptance criteria for engineering teams
Demonstrate excellent stakeholder management across business, engineering, architecture, operations, legal, compliance, risk, and controls

Nice To Haves

Knowledge of tokenized deposits, bonds, repos, stablecoins, and other institutional digital asset models
Understanding of payments, instant payments, cross-border flows, and digital asset-enabled settlement
Familiarity with capital markets workflows, including issuance, trading, lifecycle events, and DvP/PvP
Exposure to L1/L2 networks, smart contracts, on chain compliance, custody models, and interoperability frameworks
Be confident using AI-enabled product and productivity tooling to enhance prioritization, improve delivery efficiency, support data-driven decision-making, and strategically manage product, operational, and delivery risk

Responsibilities

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 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.
In this role, you’ll partner across teams to shape the roadmap and set engineering priorities, enabling the development of secure, scalable, and compliant digital asset capabilities that deliver meaningful enterprise impact.