Product Owner

End Date

Monday 27 April 2026

Salary Range

£61,344 - £68,160

We support flexible working – click here for more information on flexible working options

Flexible Working Options

Hybrid Working

Job Description Summary

JOB TITLE: Product Owner (12-months FTC)
SALARY: £61,344 - £68,160
LOCATION(S): Halifax and Leeds
HOURS: Full-time
WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites. Colleagues with disabilities can be supported with workplace adjustments including hybrid working expectations in line with our Flexibility Works policy.

Job Description

What you’ll be doing!

The Product Owner has end‑to‑end ownership of delivering features, user journeys, and technology components for new facilities management tooling.

The role is responsible for leading all aspects of the incremental release of a strategic new tool, ensuring delivery is focused on the highest‑value priorities. The primary objective is to deliver meaningful value to customers and stakeholders by guiding the team to focus on what matters most.

Role responsibilities

• Supports development of Team OKRs and provides product performance and benefits realisation data

• Defines user-stories at Team level to meet customer needs

• Works with Customer Journey Manager to analyse user stories for customer journey improvements

• Provides input into overall Product vision and Product roadmap

• Prioritises, refines and manages Team Product backlog

• Accountable for Product change governance (e.g., CMIA / SPFIA) and Business Readiness activities (e.g., training and comms, testing and readiness for implementation) for their respective features, journeys or technology components. Note: PO’s are accountable but activities to be delivered by the whole ‘team’.

Additional responsibilities for Technical Team Product Owners:

• Owns and manages the product backlog for a Group-wide technology asset Develops technical design for the product

• Leads all product risk

• Defines the segmentation and supplier strategy

• Environment Planning and other technical activities

Why join us?

We’re on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we’re shaping finance for good. We’re focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone.

What we’re looking for?

• Product Ownership – you own and handle the product backlog through leading cross functional teams to deliver tech changes ensuring quality performance and excellent ongoing service.

• Leadership - Encourage and motivates teams to deliver high-quality outcomes. Demonstrates accountability and ownership for product success, whilst building trust and fostering collaboration across diverse teams

• Innovation – deliver an ambitious and innovative approach deliver colleague products. A confident problem solver, keeping the people platform moving forwards with emerging technologies

• Design Thinking – collaborating with design colleagues and working through problems using design methodologies to deliver exceptional colleague experiences

• Communication - persuasive storytelling for executives, teams, and colleagues.

• Customer Centricity – promote the value of customer outcomes with your team and peers. Anticipating customer needs and using customer input and steer to present targeted, integrated, and outcome-focused solutions and opportunities

• Technical proficiency – ability to work and collaborate with our suppliers, data and engineering teams on the more technical aspects of the product.

• Performance & Value Realisation - Monitor product performance against OKRs, delivering measurable business value. Uses evidence and data driven insights to inform prioritisation and product improvements.

• Stakeholder Management – anticipate and mitigate conflict and shape views to gain long-term commitment to current and potential future changes.

• Agile methodologies - minimum 2 years proven experience in applying agile methodologies to optimise innovation development and delivery. Experience of working in an agile team and using agile tooling e.g. Jira & Confluence.

We know that great talent comes from many backgrounds. Whilst this job advert may reference specific years of experience, we recognise that skills are developed in many ways, so if you have relevant, transferable experience, we encourage you to apply.

This is a place for you!

We want to ensure all our candidates have the opportunity to shine. Please let us know if there is anything we can do to make the sure the assessment process works for you.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%

• An annual performance-related bonus

• Share schemes including free shares

• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping

• 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top

• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Ready to make an impact? Apply today.

At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.

We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks.  We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person. 

We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.