Digital Product Manager III

Digital Product Manager III
Birmingham, AL (hybrid- onsite 3 days per week)
8-10 month contract to hire
Pay Rate: $70.00 - $75.00per hr.

Our client is seeking a Digital Product Manager to lead the discovery, development, and performance of digital initiatives, capabilities, and/or products. This role will partner with internal stakeholders to address complex business issues and opportunities to optimize the customer's experience with best-in-class digital offerings. Associates will do this by collecting, analyzing, managing, and reporting on key customer, production, and performance metrics.

Primary Responsibilities

• Defines and owns the long-term strategy, roadmap, and expansion of specified digital products and/or capabilities
• Manages performance information such as usage, sales, fraud, and other key information to provide forecasts and market evolution insights
• Guides other associates to create meaningful research and propose data-driven ideas to close customer experience gaps in customer journeys
• Owns the customer journey for a specific digital product and/or capability
• Quantifies investments in digital products and/or capabilities by creating agile lean business cases, communicating the value of those investments to stakeholders, gaining buy-in, securing prioritization through governance processes, and performing post release analysis
• Prepares and delivers presentations for the bank's senior leadership Identifies and manages both existing and emerging risks associated with an assigned digital product and/or capability and ensures risks are effectively monitored, measured, and controlled in accordance with the bank's overall risk management protocols
• Teams effectively in a matrixed organization of digital channel owners, UX leaders, business leaders, technology associates, and other key stakeholders to advocate for the customer and ensures the execution of strategic goals Prepares and/or provides guidance for front line associates about sales or service tools (e.g. field training and communication)
• Reviews marketing collateral for accuracy and ensures digital products are promoted effectively
• Understands industry research about customer behaviors, new digital offerings, new providers, and regulatory impacts while keeping department and business segment leaders informed
• Manges vendor relationships including responding to and sending requests, managing risk, and ensuring compliance Leads and mentors' others within the department
• Assists senior management in evaluating technical skill level among team as well as curating development plans when necessary

Required Skills:

• Requirements Bachelor's degree and seven (7) years related experience in digital banking, digital product management, business case development, or financial services OR High School Diploma/GED and eleven (11) years related experience in digital banking, digital product management, business case development, financial services, or business requirements/analysis Familiarity or working knowledge of project management and/or software delivery methodologies (i.e. Agile)
• Preferences Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
• Agilist or Product Owner/Manager certification Bank Secrecy Act (BSA), Anti-Money Laundering (AML), Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), or Consumer Due Diligence (CDD) experience Skills and Competencies
• Ability to influence and resolve conflicts
• Ability to work independently, with high level direction Critical thinking and strategic planning
• Demonstrated success in launching digital initiatives and/or major enhancements Excellent organization and project management skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication
• Financial analysis, business case development
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office, JIRA, and Confluence Proven ability to be effective in a shared services organization