Technical Product Owner – UI/UX Strategy

I.T. & Communications
Glasgow
June 7, 2026
Permanent
Urgent

Job Description

Job Purpose

The Technical Product Owner – UI/UX Strategy will collaborate with product owners, technical teams, and stakeholders to enact the vision defined in the product roadmap. The role is responsible for translating strategy into a technical roadmap, designing component architecture, driving adoption, and governing design consistency for Barclays’ UI strategy across multiple platforms.

Accountabilities

  • Provide subject matter expertise to bridge product owners and technical teams.
  • Support development and implementation of the product strategy and vision.
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to gather, prioritise, and communicate product requirements and features based on business value and feasibility.
  • Design assessments to continuously test and improve product quality and performance.
  • Monitor product performance, identify optimisation opportunities, and ensure compliance with banking performance standards.
  • Stay current with industry technology trends, evaluate new approaches, and adopt them to enhance product development and delivery.

Responsibilities

  • Translate strategic vision into a sequenced backlog with clear outcomes.
  • Design and maintain component architecture, ensuring technical consistency and alignment with modern front end practices (React, Tailwind, headless patterns).
  • Drive adoption of internal platform products, negotiating scope, communicating upgrade paths, and establishing governance (contribution models, review workflows, deprecation timelines).
  • Lead enablement programmes-including documentation, training, and office hours-to move teams from awareness to daily usage.

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Key Skills & Qualifications

  • Design System Product Management: Prioritise work across the full platform stack, own the roadmap for a design system or component library, and present investment cases to senior leadership.
  • Technical Fluency in Modern Front End Architecture: Understand theming, schema based generation tooling, APIs, and the impact of breaking changes on consuming teams.
  • Cross Functional Stakeholder Management: Gather requirements, negotiate scope, and maintain governance for platform products.
  • Accessibility Standards and Compliance: Familiarity with WCAG 2.2 AA and ability to embed compliance into the design system from the outset.
  • AI/LLM Product Experience: Experience shaping product requirements for AI assisted developer tools (e.g., code generation, prompt to UI).
  • Figma and Design Tooling Workflow: Ensure smooth hand off between designers and engineers, and keep design and implementation aligned.

Preferred Additional Skills

  • Experience in a leadership or senior technical capacity, demonstrating clear leadership behaviours and the ability to influence cross functional teams.
  • Strong analytical thinking, problem solving skills, and the ability to develop innovative solutions in a bank wide context.

Location

Glasgow or Knutsford

Location

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