Product Owner - Data Taxonomies - Vice President

Salary: £100,000 - 100,000 per year

Requirements:

• User-centered, systems-oriented approach to product design, with the ability to translate user needs into scalable designs leveraging existing functionality where possible and designing additional features when needed for wider application-level benefit.
• Ability to prototype designs individually and in collaboration with UX teams to deliver a quality user experience.
• Extensive experience in product management or 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, with the ability to influence across business, UX, engineering, and governance teams.
• Experience working in Agile delivery environments such as Scrum or Kanban, with strong backlog management discipline.
• Experience with enterprise reference data or taxonomy management tooling such as 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.

Responsibilities:

• 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 such as adoption, onboarding efficiency, data quality improvements, and user experience enhancements.
• Lead discovery for new capabilities and enhancements, including customer interviews and workshops, problem framing, and option analysis.
• Partner with UX and Engineering to design intuitive workflows and journeys, ensuring solutions are scalable and consistent.
• Drive standard data models and taxonomy patterns, including hierarchies, relationships, attribute standards, naming conventions, and metadata expectations.
• Ensure designs support governance needs and consistent downstream consumption across tenants and consumer groups.
• Define and maintain product documentation and process standards, including feature documentation, onboarding materials, operating procedures, and decision logs.
• Improve repeatability of product processes such as requirements capture, design reviews, and change management in partnership with Delivery.
• Lead engagement for complex consumer and tenant requirements and onboarding scenarios, translating needs into product patterns rather than one-off solutions.
• Provide guidance on edge cases and prioritise enhancements that strengthen the core product.
• Work with the Product Delivery sub-team to ensure strategy is translated into clear epics, stories, acceptance criteria, and release-ready scope.
• Support refinement, prioritisation forums, and stakeholder communications to enable effective execution.

Technologies:

• Support
• Kanban
• Product Owner
• UX UI Design

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We are J.P. Morgan, a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to corporations, governments, wealthy individuals, and institutional investors. We are hiring for a Vice President Product Owner role within our Data Taxonomies Product Strategy team, focused on shaping the strategic evolution of the Reference Data as a Service (RDaaS) Platform and its taxonomy/reference data capabilities. This role partners closely with Product Delivery, UX, Technology, Architecture, Data Governance, and business stakeholders to translate strategy into executable plans and measurable value. We operate within our Commercial & Investment Bank, a global leader across banking, markets, securities services, and payments, serving clients in more than 100 countries. We value diversity and inclusion and are committed to building trusted, long-term partnerships with our clients.

last updated 35 week of 2026