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.
In addition, we’ll expect you to have:
- 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
Hours
35Job Posting Closing Date:
01/10/2026Ways of Working:HybridSkills Required
- Experience leading complex products, platforms, or portfolios in an agile environment
- Strong knowledge of fraud and financial crime risk
- Knowledge of technology used to mitigate fraud and financial crime threats in a financial industry context
- Experience translating complex business problems into product strategies, roadmaps, outcomes, and prioritized backlogs
- Strong understanding of data, analytics, technology, and AI-enabled products
- Strong stakeholder management and ability to influence and challenge senior stakeholders
- Commercial judgment and people leadership skills
NatWest Group Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about NatWest Group and has not been reviewed or approved by NatWest Group.
-
Flexible Benefits — A flexible ValueAccount structure with pension and benefit funding allows tailoring of health, protection, lifestyle, and savings options, with unused amounts typically paid as cash. This flexibility supports personalisation of coverage, particularly in Great Britain where the framework is most detailed.
-
Retirement Support — Employer-funded pension contributions are provided on top of salary in Great Britain, alongside automatic retirement enrollment and share/save programs. This creates structured long‑term wealth support as part of total reward.
-
Parental & Family Support — UK policies outline extended maternity, adoption and equal partner leave on full pay with a phased return, plus paid neonatal care leave. These provisions are positioned as market‑leading and complement broader flexibility resources.
NatWest Group Insights
What We Do
We’re a business that understands when our customers and people succeed, our communities succeed, and our economy thrives. As part of our purpose, we’re looking at how we can drive change for our communities in enterprise, learning and climate. As one of the leading supporters of UK business, we’re prioritising enterprise as a force of change. We’re focusing on the people and communities who have traditionally faced the highest barriers to entry and figuring out ways to remove these. Learning is also key to our continued growth as a company in an ever changing and increasingly digital world. By setting a dynamic and leading learning culture, our people prosper, and our customers are given the tools to continue to improve their financial capability and confidence. One of the biggest challenges we all face in our future is climate change. That’s why we’ve put it right at the core of our purpose. We want to champion climate solutions with financing and entrepreneurial support, fully embed climate into our culture and decision making, and be climate positive by 2025. We’re committed to using our purpose to break down barriers, drive change and ultimately create a great place to work.
