Product Owner - Testing Products

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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:

This Product Manager role supports the test automation side of the organization and serves as a strategic bridge between the Business Readiness team and the engineering team. The position is focused on accelerating delivery of high-quality test automation products and will be instrumental in shaping the backlog and automation strategy.

Key responsibilities include:

• Building and prioritizing the test automation backlog based on patterns identified from manual testing efforts.
• Collaborating with the Business Readiness team to understand their testing workflows and determine which processes should be automated.
• Driving regression testing strategy: The Product Manager will analyze the manual regression testing performed by Business Readiness, identify repeatable actions (e.g., button clicks, user flows), and guide engineers on what to automate to improve efficiency and consistency.
• Translating customer-centric testing insights into actionable engineering tasks, ensuring that automation efforts align with real-world user experiences.

This role does not require hands-on engineering but demands a strong understanding of testing strategy, especially regression testing, and the ability to communicate effectively across technical and business teams.

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