Banking Product Owner Senior Principal

Accenture•San Francisco, CA

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

Accountable for defining and delivering the product strategy, vision, and roadmap for the One Financial platform, ensuring alignment with business objectives, customer needs, and enterprise architecture standards. Serve as the primary liaison between business, engineering, and cross-functional teams to maximize platform value and drive adoption across multiple products and business units. Lead the translation of complex financial and operational requirements into scalable platform capabilities, emphasizing reusability, integration, and long-term sustainability and innovation.

Requirements

Minimum 10+ years of strong leadership skills in Financial Services specializing in delivering a wide range of Retirement solutions.
Minimum 7+ years of external consulting/program management experience on large scale programs with a proven track record of successful engagement delivery within the industry.
Bachelor's Degree
Proven ability to work independently and as a team member.
Excellent communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills.
Good organizational, multi-tasking, and time-management skills.
Strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills with the ability to exercise mature judgment.
Strong client relationship development and client management skills.
Demonstrated leadership in professional setting; either military or civilian.
Demonstrated teamwork and collaboration in a professional setting; either military or civilian.
Experience delivering high quality, referenceable work that advances growth areas and supports sales.
Acted as an expert in specific assets or campaigns.
Strong understanding of latest thought capital in field and how to apply it.
Applicants for employment in the US must have work authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the United States.
Candidates who are currently employed by a client of Accenture or an affiliated Accenture business may not be eligible for consideration.
Job candidates will not be obligated to disclose sealed or expunged records of conviction or arrest as part of the hiring process.
Further, at Accenture a criminal conviction history is not an absolute bar to employment.

Nice To Haves

Eagerness to mentor junior staff.
Experience contributing to new business development opportunities.
Experience working with onshore and offshore delivery teams.

Responsibilities

Define and communicate a clear product vision and roadmap, balancing short-term delivery priorities with long-term platform scalability and performance.
Act as the voice of the customer and stakeholders, gathering input across experience, finance, technology, risk, compliance, and operations teams to inform product decisions.
Own and prioritize the product backlog, developing epics and user stories aligned to business value, risk, and technical dependencies.
Partner closely with engineering, architecture, and UX teams to deliver high-quality platform capabilities through Agile/Scrum methodologies.
Establish and enforce platform standards including APIs, data models, and integration patterns to ensure consistency and interoperability.
Drive platform governance, including versioning, lifecycle management, and backward compatibility across releases.
Monitor platform adoption, usage metrics, and value realization, using data-driven insights to inform prioritization and continuous improvement.
Facilitate stakeholder alignment, manage trade-offs, and communicate progress, risks, and outcomes to leadership.
Support financial and business case analysis, including ROI, cost optimization, and platform investment decisions.