Job Description
At U.S. Bank, we're on a journey to do our best. Helping the customers and businesses we serve to make better and smarter financial decisions and enabling the communities we support to grow and succeed. We believe it takes all of us to bring our shared ambition to life, and each person is unique in their potential. A career with U.S. Bank gives you a wide, ever-growing range of opportunities to discover what makes you thrive at every stage of your career. Try new things, learn new skills and discover what you excel at-all from Day One.
**Job Description**
Product Managers at U.S. Bank are customer obsessed in driving product visioning, planning and development to deliver on our human + digital product strategy and staying one step ahead of evolving economic, technological, and customer needs.
As a Product Manager, you will:
· Identify, analyze and interpret business data using various kinds of techniques to meet business needs and requirements.
· Activate the connective tissue between U.S. Bank, customer experience, digital, technology, and business line strategy to identify and prioritize product / portfolio opportunities, and establish the product vision, charter and roadmap.
· Defines product outcomes and Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) to prioritize Features/Epics and breaks down work into actionable steps to facilitate product discovery, design, development and delivery.
· Manages the end-to-end product lifecycle and drives the product roadmap leveraging OKRs (Objectives and Key Results). Creates the product in conjunction with agile, experience design, technology and risk partners to achieve business and customer outcomes. In the case of technical products, understands and cares for the technical features, debt reduction and modernization of the technical product with expertise in the technology required of the product.
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills:
· Expertise on the critical interdependencies among product model system elements that help and hinder performance; ability to plan and design solutions that synchronize resources to achieve business results using business metrics, key performance indicators, design systems, service blueprints, and reusability.
· Ability to anticipate shifting market priorities, internal and external customer needs in a manner that consistently adds value.
· Strong customer centricity to implement strategies and techniques used to ensure that customers have a positive experience with the organization's products and services at every touch point.
· Knowledge of technical aspects of software products; ability to design, configure and integrate technical aspects of software products.
· Knowledge of Agile ways of working, knowledge of processes, tools and techniques for assessing and controlling an organization's exposure to risks of various kinds; ability to apply knowledge of risk management appropriately to diverse situations.
· Preferred skills: product PnL, product strategy, vision and planning, product discovery, product development, channel alignment and management, adoption, customer experience research, insight and execution, agile ways of working, go to market and sales channels, performance measurement and optimization, marketing and analytics, customer centricity.
Minimum Qualifications:
· Product management experience.
**About the team/product (s):**
**talech** is searching for a product manager who can help execute our vision for the **talech mobile application** by defining requirements and prioritizing scrum team backlogs.
Success for this role is defined by the ability to provide our customers with a delightful and reliable experience. Your key objectives within this role will be to work with senior product managers to understand customer requirements and break them down into functional requirements. You will work with product designers to define the user interface and experience, write user stories for developers and quality engineers, and prioritize the backlog of scrum teams. You will work with scrum masters and devOps to coordinate sprints, conduct program increments planning, and schedule releases. These activities will feed into a roadmap that you will present to key stakeholders for organizational alignment towards activities to bring key features and functionality into the hands of our customers.
**Expected accountabilities**
+ Work with internal and external customers to analyze the needs and align product roadmap to strategic goals.
+ Develop and maintain an appropriately prioritized backlog of user stories for implementation.
+ Develop appropriately detailed specifications for the product features so they are clearly understood by the development teams.
+ Develop scope and define backlog items (features/user stories) that guide the Agile software development team.
+ Solve product related problems, make decisions, complete trade-off analysis to stay on track towards business deliverable commitments.
+ Perform competitive analysis and usability studies to develop best in class product features.
+ Performs product validation to identify and resolve any issues prior to being released into market.
+ Possess a fundamental understanding of end-to-end customer experience integration and dependencies.
+ Collaborate with stakeholders during the visioning and concept development of a product.
+ Accountable for the created product(s), delivering in the product model and communicating the product needs with business partners.
+ Asses value, develop cases, and prioritize stories and features to ensure work focuses on those with a maximum value that are aligned with product strategy.
+ Act as an ambassador for the product internally and externally and as the primary contact for queries related to the product.
+ A leader on the scrum team.
+ Work closely with product management and senior management in order to create a product that fits the company portfolio.
+ Follow our competitors and the industry
+ Increase an understanding of Agile practices, Lean Startup, new technologies opportunities and other new trends.
**A successful candidate will have:**
+ Proven experience in Scaled Agile Framework
+ Deep understanding and experience with Agile methodologies.
+ Knowledge of payment services and point-of-sale software.
**_The role offers a hybrid/flexible schedule, which means there's an in-office expectation of 3 or more days per week and the flexibility to work outside the office location for the other days._**
If there's anything we can do to accommodate a disability during any portion of the application or hiring process, please refer to our disability accommodations for applicants (https://careers.usbank.com/global/en/disability-accommodations-for-applicants) .
**Benefits:**
Our approach to benefits and total rewards considers our team members' whole selves and what may be needed to thrive in and outside work. That's why our benefits are designed to help you and your family boost your health, protect your financial security and give you peace of mind. Our benefits include the following (some may vary based on role, location or hours):
+ Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)
+ Basic term and optional term life insurance
+ Short-term and long-term disability
+ Pregnancy disability and parental leave
+ 401(k) and employer-funded retirement plan
+ Paid vacation (from two to five weeks depending on salary grade and tenure)
+ Up to 11 paid holiday opportunities
+ Adoption assistance
+ Sick and Safe Leave accruals of one hour for every 30 worked, up to 80 hours per calendar year unless otherwise provided by law
U.S. Bank is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or veteran status, and other factors protected under applicable law.
**E-Verify**
U.S. Bank participates in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security E-Verify program in all facilities located in the United States and certain U.S. territories. The E-Verify program is an Internet-based employment eligibility verification system operated by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Learn more about the E-Verify program (https://careers.usbank.com/verification-of-eligibility-for-employment) .
The salary range reflects figures based on the primary location, which is listed first. The actual range for the role may differ based on the location of the role. In addition to salary, U.S. Bank offers a comprehensive benefits package, including incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase 401(k) contribution and pension (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). Pay Range: $98,175.00 - $115,500.00 - $127,050.00
U.S. Bank will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment. U.S. Bank conducts background checks consistent with applicable local laws, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance and the California Fair Chance Act as well as the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. U.S. Bank is subject to, and conducts background checks consistent with the requirements of Section 19 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act (FDIA). In addition, certain positions may also be subject to the requirements of FINRA, NMLS registration, Reg Z, Reg G, OFAC, the NFA, the FCPA, the Bank Secrecy Act, the SAFE Act, and/or federal guidelines applicable to an agreement, such as those related to ethics, safety, or operational procedures.
Applicants must be able to comply with U.S. Bank policies and procedures including the Code of Ethics and Business Conduct and related workplace conduct and safety policies.