Senior Technical Product Manager (Online Data Platform)

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Job Description

Technical Product Managers at U.S. Bank oversee the strategic product management for an assigned technical product line(s) in support of the Enterprise organization’s goals and market needs.  Engages with key stakeholders to define, document, and prioritize features; ensures delivery of marketable capabilities for all U.S. Bank engineering teams while collaborating with agile teams.

As a Technical Product Manager, you will:

• Aligns the strategic vision with cross-functional stakeholders to shape outcome-based product roadmap, product risk, investment areas and success measures.
• Integrate technical product outcomes to aligned Enterprise and Portfolio objectives.
• Drives product development with ownership of backlog and actively engages cross-functional stakeholders to enable faster speed to market.
• Manages across Enterprise users to define and deliver product performance goals (e.g., outcomes, customer experience, etc.).
• Owns all engagement for assigned technical portfolio regarding the SDLC, e.g., adoption, collaboration.
• Develops, analyses, monitors, and reports on performance metrics from internal and external sources to identify key trends and opportunities for continuous improvement. Uses performance metrics to drive towards progress on identified strategies and initiatives. 
• Leverages OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) to drive roadmap priorities.

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.
• Technical know-how understands the product technical architecture and understands the economics of technical investments.
• Demonstrates deep understanding of target customer through internal/external research (e.g., creation of personas, story maps, product chartering/mapping experience).
• Strong collaboration with software engineers to execute product vision and roadmap.
• Preferred skills: product strategy, vision and planning, product discovery, product development, agile ways of working, enterprise technical alignment and performance measurement and optimization.

Minimum Qualification:

• Technical product management experience.

About the Team:

U.S. Bank is seeking an experienced product manager with strong technical, influential, and strategic abilities to help drive the success of our enterprise technology initiatives. This role will initially sit within the Online Data Platform product management team with a focus on leading our online data processing and streaming technology solutions. The Enterprise Streaming Services layer (ESS) is a high-throughput messaging framework, and the Cloud Digital Artery (CDA), a scalable, flexible, metadata-driven event streaming mechanism by which events are collected and conveyed to downstream data stores for a wide variety of use cases— such as powering Digital experiences, customer profiling marketing analytics, payments, and others.

This role will oversee the end-to-end product management for these twin capabilities (ESS and CDA) and ensure the delivery capabilities while improving the efficiency and quality of our processes. As the key member of our product management team for our Online Data Platform, your role is pivotal to the success of our real-time banking outcomes and collaborate with multiple engineering teams while driving the strategic vision, priorities and roadmap. You will have an opportunity to define platform adoption strategies that keep and grow our customer base while improving our ability to better serve our customers at scale.

You will collaborate closely with customers of the CDA and ESS products/platforms to uncover improvement opportunities, increase adoption rates, address challenges, gather valuable feedback, and leverage data-driven insights to evaluate product usage and engagement.

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