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GENERAL FUNCTION:

The Lending Optimization Product Manager will have multiyear strategic product management/road map development responsibility to facilitate the design and implementation of key initiatives for the business. The Lending Optimization Product Manager will be responsible for: 1) coordination across senior leadership for identification, prioritization, and realization of multiyear objectives, 2) identification of appropriate parties required and primary liaison between business, design, technology, and data partners to decompose objectives into executable epics/features (with acceptance criteria and effort estimates) for Agile development, 2) defining and achieving key metrics, and 3) pushing boundaries to introduce new and innovative solutions.

The role is responsible and accountable for risk by openly exchanging ideas and opinions, elevating concerns, and personally following policies and procedures as defined. Accountable for always doing the right thing for customers and colleagues, and ensures that actions and behaviors drive a positive customer experience. While operating within the Bank's risk appetite, achieves results by consistently identifying, assessing, managing, monitoring, and reporting risks of all types.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Establish goals/objectives for products and participate in setting the business strategy for implementation of key initiatives through adoption across 8 lines of business.
• Drives the strategy and develops the product roadmap to improve experiences across the platform including leading a robust, continuous prioritization process to maximize total value, risk mitigation, and other business benefits.
• Responsible for the continual prioritization, design and implementation of functionality across ongoing parallel releases (production, major LOB upcoming, minor monthly/break-fix, and planning 3 years out)
• Collaborates with Product Owners on all new feature development, including building backlog to approving features.
• Leads a highly collaborative process across a wide range of stakeholders and cross-functional teams to get buy-in and execution of product, including lines of business, operations, legal, compliance, IT, information security, testing, change management and related functions.
• Provides transparency and ongoing communications with line of business partners/key stakeholders including identification, escalation, and remediation of risks and issues.
• Identifies, monitor, and communicates on key performance indicators.
• Identify opportunities to broaden product feature/functionality and drive product development based on market and competitive intelligence as well as Business feedback loops.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES:

May be responsible for providing employees timely, candid and constructive performance feedback; developing employees to their fullest potential and provide challenging opportunities that enhance employee career growth; developing the appropriate talent pool to ensure adequate bench strength and succession planning; recognizing and rewarding employees for accomplishments.

MINIMUM KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES REQUIRED:

• Bachelor's degree in finance, business, computer science, management, related field or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years financial services industry experience, Wholesale Credit experience preferred; requires broad knowledge of banking products, services and operations.
• Strong analytical skills with ability to work through complex concepts/data and present well thought-out, simple solutions.
• Proven experience leading change, strategic design, delivery and governance of major cross functional business efforts in a large, complex organization.
• Solid communication skills with the ability to interact and influence at all levels of the organization.
• Excellent organizational skills with demonstrated ability to manage expectations and deliver results.
• Prior Product Management and Agile experience.
• Management experience

All the above duties and responsibilities are essential job functions for which reasonable accommodation will be made. All job requirements listed indicate the minimum level of knowledge, skills and/or ability deemed necessary to perform the job proficiently. This position description is not to be construed as an exhaustive statement of duties, responsibilities or requirements. Employees may be required to perform any other job-related instructions as requested by their supervisor, subject to reasonable accommodation.

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