AI Platform Product Manager

U.S. Bank • Chicago, IL

1d • Onsite

About The Position

At U.S. Bank, we’re on a journey to do our best. Helping the customers and businesses we serve to make better and smarter financial decisions and enabling the communities we support to grow and succeed. We believe it takes all of us to bring our shared ambition to life, and each person is unique in their potential. A career with U.S. Bank gives you a wide, ever-growing range of opportunities to discover what makes you thrive at every stage of your career. Try new things, learn new skills and discover what you excel at—all from Day One. Job Description U.S. Bank is seeking an experienced Product Manager with strong technical, influential, and leadership abilities to help drive the success of our enterprise technology initiatives. This role will focus on defining products and features for the multi-cloud AI Platform, including Gen AI, Agentic AI, and MLP. They will oversee the end-to-end product management for this platform and ensure the delivery capabilities while improving the efficiency and quality of our processes. They will be a key executive to engage with key stakeholders to define, document, and prioritize features and collaborate with multiple engineering teams while they drive the strategic vision, priorities, and roadmap. As a visible U.S. Bank technology executive, you will have an opportunity to directly impact thousands of employees, help us shape, transform our ability to better serve our customers. They will also influence detailed functionality, user experience, and tradeoffs across platform teams. The Product Manager acts as a business engineer rationalizing the use of data, changes to supported processes, and bridging sprints to meet needs of both customers and end users. What does it take to succeed in this role? You love working at enterprise scale. You are not afraid to roll up your sleeves and dive into the details while also balancing the need for acting quickly. You are a thoughtful leader who values diverse teams, knowing that diverse teams have the best chance of having the polite, but vigorous debates required for delivering great engineering solutions. You are curious and dedicated to making our developers enthusiastic about our tooling ecosystem. You make the team room both productive and fun to work in.

Requirements

• Technical Product Management experience
• Experience Should Include Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a similar Engineering discipline, or equivalent work experience
• 10+ years of related experience in product management
• 3 or more years of experience working on technology platforms, microservice architectures, or cloud/SaaS products, or AI/ML - AI / ML is HIGHLY preferred
• At least 2 years of relevant management or leadership experience

Nice To Haves

• Advanced product management skills with a strong product sense and working backwards from customer
• Understanding of different components of the technology stack for a cloud-based application
• Knowledge of open-source technologies relevant to modern web, mobile and microservice standards/best practices
• Strong knowledge of technical product/program development, implementation, and strategic analysis
• Well-developed effective presentation, verbal, and written communication skills
• Strong financial and competitive analysis, ROI calculations, and technical skills

Responsibilities

• Own the creation and evolution of products within the AI platform in partnership with engineering teams, UX/design teams and business stakeholders while driving the strategic vision, priorities, and the roadmap.
• Serves as thought leader in technical platform product management
• Pulls from market and competitive insights, customer needs, and internal business priorities to create the product vision (target customer segments, markets, channels, go to market approach, and value propositions).
• Aligns this strategic vision with cross-functional stakeholders including senior technology and business leaders to identify company-wide priorities that help shape product roadmap, investment areas and success measures.
• Work closely with individual engineering teams and product owners to provide feedback and initiate feature requests; work closely with the engineering team to ensure that product requirements are understood
• Understand larger architecture and technology vision and define how the platform needs to evolve to support thousands of developers and millions of users around the world
• Manage technical considerations, working closely with engineering team to deliver elegant, generalizable solutions to complex problems
• Work within an agile development framework by defining product features, user stories, prioritizing work in sprints and across the quarter, as well as participate in cross team and leadership retrospectives
• Educate and evangelize for technical platform on how tools and technologies are leveraged to impact the product and create business efficiencies
• Creates and leads a small team of dedicated product managers responsible for all aspects of technical platform functionality, user experience and strategic product direction

Benefits

• Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)
• Basic term and optional term life insurance
• Short-term and long-term disability
• Pregnancy disability and parental leave
• 401(k) and employer-funded retirement plan
• Paid vacation (from two to five weeks depending on salary grade and tenure)
• Up to 11 paid holiday opportunities
• Adoption assistance
• Sick and Safe Leave accruals of one hour for every 30 worked, up to 80 hours per calendar year unless otherwise provided by law

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level