Product Manager

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:

• Have working knowledge or familiarity with Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) technologies, including middleware, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) and financial services software.
• 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 (s):

Are you naturally curious?  Do you see the world as it might be and wonder “what if”?  Do you get excited about how technology and software can make things better? Would you like to work in an area that improves the movement of goods in the global economy?  Are you looking to apply your product development, product management, or product marketing skills in unique and impactful ways?  If so, keep reading.

The U.S. Bank Freight Product Team is currently seeking a customer-driven Product Manager to ideate, execute and oversee the strategic product management of transportation related API, EDI, and other data exchange products that support stronger product and financial supply chains and improved data exchange and collaboration between large organizations and their transportation and shipping partners. You’ll need to be a self-starter, self-learner, internal bridge-builder and technology sponge interested in absorbing all that is happening within and outside the Freight Payment industry and transforming that information into insights and ideas for new product and service offerings, product positioning, product development and pricing philosophy.

If you’re not interested in collaborating with sales, operations, finance and technology partners, don’t apply. If you’re not ready to uncover a customer’s unmet needs by combining the voice of the customer with your strategic thinking skills, don’t apply. But if all the above aligns with your hopes and dreams for how you want to contribute to U.S. Bank’s and its customers’ success, we’re excited for you to apply!