Portfolio Platform Manager

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

Position Summary
We are seeking a dynamic and experienced Operational Platform Management Team Lead to guide a high-performing team responsible for driving platform operations across a diverse product ecosystem. This role is pivotal in delivering agility at scale, fostering innovation, ensuring operational efficiency, and maintaining regulatory compliance.
 
Key Responsibilities

People Leadership
Lead, mentor, and develop a team of platform managers and product owners. Foster a collaborative, inclusive, and high-performance culture that aligns with organizational goals.

Agile Product Operations
Operate within an agile framework using tools such as Jira, Dragonboat, and Concourse to manage product backlogs, prioritize work, and ensure alignment with strategic objectives.

Customer & Client Engagement
Partner closely with internal and external customers to understand needs, gather feedback, and translate insights into actionable product improvements. Experience in customer/client services is a strong plus.

Product Strategy & Execution
Collaborate with Product Management to define release timelines, evaluate trade-offs between scope, schedule, and budget, and communicate delivery plans across the organization.

Backlog & Roadmap Management
Oversee the creation and refinement of user stories and acceptance criteria. Ensure backlog prioritization reflects maximum business value and strategic alignment.

Cross-Functional Collaboration
Act as a liaison between business lines and agile teams, or empower team members to do so. Ensure shared understanding of product vision and execution plans.

Continuous Improvement
Employ product management best practices including customer research, data analytics, and market insights to evolve platform capabilities and drive innovation.

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.

Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree, or equivalent work experience
- Typically six or more years of related experience

Preferred Skills/Experience
- Well-developed ability to collaboratively develop and evolve a product backlog
- Well-developed ability to develop and articulate a product vision that supports outcomes, value and prioritization of work
- Advanced understanding and demonstrated abilities in support of the Lean/Agile mindset
- Demonstrated leadership and interpersonal skills including ability to lead/collaborate with and empower teams
- Well-developed verbal and written communication skills
- Proficient computer navigation skills
- Standard industry certifications such as SAFe, CSPO, or PSPO are preferred

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.

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