Lead Product Owner

With a relentless focus on delivering the current Technology action plan, we're entering the second part of this strategic period with a new focus on Horizon 2 innovation. To support this, we're establishing a new Technology Innovation function to partner with the CTO Emerging Technology & Innovation team. Together, we'll identify, prioritize, and pioneer a limited number of "big bets," advancing them through to MVP. The Lead Product Owner - Technology Innovation role will report to the Director of Technology Innovation. You'll align cross-functional teams, accelerate the delivery of transformative solutions, and embed an innovation attitude across the organisation. You 'll own the Innovation Service and its Operating Model, delivering tools and processes to future-proof the business and democratise innovation capabilities. What you'll do Innovation Product & Portfolio Management

• Lead a portfolio of Horizon 2 "big bet" opportunities, overseeing resource and funding allocation, prioritisation, and performance tracking.
• Collaborate across silos with the Director of Technology Innovation, the CTO Emerging Technology team, and other group functions to identify and experiment with emerging technologies that reimagine customer propositions.
• Drive the delivery of MVPs, ensuring alignment with business value and seamless handover for scaling.
• Define and oversee the strategic priorities, objectives, key results and value realisation metrics for the Incubation Lab.
• Foster a "lean fast" attitude, reducing the risks of future technology disruption through creativity, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
Innovation Service Ownership
• Develop, own, and iterate the vision and roadmap for the end-to-end Innovation Service and Operating Model.
• Embed new industry-leading tools, methods, and governance frameworks to test and scale concepts effectively.
• Drive the design, prototyping, and delivery of innovative solutions within the Incubation Lab, ensuring alignment with strategic priorities and compliance standards.
• Establish mechanisms for business readiness, change governance, and secure adoption of new technologies.
Innovation Strategy & Culture
• Promote an innovation culture into the organisation by promoting a culture of creativity, continuous learning, and adaptability.
• Act as a champion for "outside-in" learning, leveraging partnerships with external innovators todrive new thinking and methodologies.
• Collaborate with internal and external innovation teams to amplify the Group's overall innovation output.
  
  Strong understanding of the financial services industry and emerging technology trends.
• Exceptional collaboration, communication, and stakeholder management skills, with experience working across senior leadership and diverse teams.
• Proven experience in technology, innovation, and leadership roles, with a passion for creativity and continuous improvement.
• Ability to simplify complexity and solve ambiguous challenges using hypothesis-driven, test-and-learn approaches.
• Demonstrated ability to deliver complex initiatives and translate insights into successful outcomes.
• Bold, determined with the confidence to challenge existing thinking and processes.
  
  Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in/all its forms.
We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture. We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative. And it's why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups. We're disability confident. So, if you'd like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know. We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:
• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%.
• An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance.
• Share schemes including free shares.
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping.
• 30 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top.
Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow and thrive? Apply today and find out more! 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.