About this role:
Wells Fargo is seeking a Lead Product Manager to join the Sales, Marketing, and Customer Experience Transformation Product Team in Home Lending. The Lead Product Manager will help lead the efforts to design, build, launch, and simplify various customer and salespeople-facing apps within Home Lending.
As a Product Manager, you bring a strategic mindset and passion for product development and the customer (internal or external) as you work closely across a variety of teams within the organization to deliver new experiences and improve existing experiences. The delivery of outcomes will be through ownership of the product backlog inclusive of feature prioritization, transparency into upcoming work, setting of product goals, and communication with stakeholders.
In this role, you will:

• Articulate product vision, define scope, prioritize backlog, establish goals, and provide direction for teams to design, develop, and deliver technology
• Identify new product opportunities and features through the analysis of industry trends and customer feedback led by data
• Manage, groom, and prioritize the scrum's backlog and work with the team to plan stories for upcoming sprints. Determines acceptance criteria for final UAT code
• Be accountable for scrum team deliverables and KPIs. Monitor and measure progress on user story delivery and sprint team velocity. Review metrics to measure value and identify opportunities for improvement
• Engage with cross-functional experts in a matrix organization to ensure solutions are business ready from product senior management, risk, legal, compliance, and policy perspectives
• Implement change delivery solutions for the portfolio's technology process work of low to moderate complexity
• Oversee risk management to meet deliverables and drive new initiatives
• Lead projects, teams, or serve as a mentor to less experienced staff

Required Qualifications, US:

• 5 years of Product Management, product development, strategic planning, process management, change delivery experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education

Desired Qualifications:

• 5 years of experience of scrum and agile software development methodology for project management.
• 2 years of experience in control management or applicable line of business (e.g. risk, compliance or audit)
• Knowledge of common risk management framework and methodologies.
• Demonstrated ability to effectively prioritize key deliverables.
• Ability to self-prioritize workload and coordinate with teammates to ensure that deadlines are met.
• Experience in Business Transformation, Data, Analytics, Reporting, Management Consulting, Project Management, Strategic Planning, or Technology experience.
• 2 years of professional experience working directly with Technology teams in managing agile delivery of a product
• Experience in the banking and financial sectors, particularly related to Home Lending, Credit, and/or Risk Management
• Experience leveraging data to design and deliver tech products that help with critical business decision-making

• 2 years of Agile Product Owner Experience and knowledge of Agile strategy and development methodologies
• Self-starter with ability to operate independently with minimal oversight

• Ability to work in conjunction with functional partners to gain consensus on priorities and features needed to implement a project successfully
• Ability to break-down epics into smaller pieces of prioritized features and sequence work based on business value
• Ability to develop business process that encompass risk management, business outcomes, and efficiency
• Ability to assess issues, make quick decisions, implement solutions, and influence strategic initiatives

Job Expectations:

• This position is not eligible for Visa sponsorship.
• This position requires compliance with all mortgages regulatory requirements and Wells Fargo's compliance policies related to these requirements. Successful candidates must also meet ongoing regulatory requirements including additional screening and required reporting of certain incidents.
• This position offers a hybrid work schedule (3 days in office/2 days remote). Preferred Locations listed below. Relocation assistance is not available for this position.

Posting Locations:

• Charlotte, NC -1525 W WT Harris Blvd,
• Des Moines, IA-800 S Jordan Creek Pkwy
• Minneapolis, MN- 600 Wells Fargo
• Irving, TX- 250 E John Carpenter Fwy
• San Antonio, TX- 4101 Wiseman Blvd

• Job Posting may come down early due to volume of applicants : 2/24/2024

Posting End Date:
29 Feb 2024
*Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.
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