Product Owner (Data Taxonomies) - Vice President
On-siteBournemouth, England, United Kingdom
Job Summary
Define and maintain a clear product vision and multi-quarter roadmap for taxonomy and reference data capabilities aligned to CIB priorities. Establish outcomes and success metrics, including adoption rates and data quality improvements. Lead discovery for new capabilities through customer interviews, problem framing, and option analysis. Partner with UX and Engineering to design intuitive workflows, ensuring solutions are scalable and consistent. Drive standard data models and taxonomy patterns, including hierarchies, relationships, and naming conventions. Ensure designs support governance needs and consistent downstream consumption across tenants. Define and maintain product documentation and process standards to improve repeatability of requirements capture and design reviews. Lead engagement for complex consumer/tenant requirements, translating needs into product patterns rather than one-off solutions. Provide guidance on edge cases and prioritize enhancements that strengthen the core product. Support refinement, prioritisation forums, and stakeholder communications to enable effective execution.
Required Qualifications
- User-centered, systems-oriented approach to product design— able to translate user needs into scalable designs leveraging existing functionality where possible and if necessary designing additional features with a focus on wider, application level benefit
- Prototype those designs individually & in collaboration with UX teams to deliver a quality user experience
- Extensive experience in product management/product ownership delivering enterprise platforms, data products, or regulated technology capabilities
- Demonstrated ability to develop product strategy and roadmaps, and translate stakeholder needs into clear requirements and outcomes
- Strong knowledge of data concepts including reference data, taxonomies, metadata, data quality, and data governance/stewardship
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills; ability to influence across business, UX, engineering, and governance teams
- Experience working in Agile delivery environments (Scrum/Kanban) with strong backlog management discipline
Desired Qualifications
- Experience with enterprise reference data/taxonomy management tooling (e.g., EBX or similar)
- Financial services and/or capital markets data experience
- Experience defining product standards and operating models that improve onboarding, consistency, and usability at scale
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