Lead Product Manager - API Strategy

Wells Fargo Bank • St Louis, MO

3d • Onsite

About The Position

Wells Fargo is seeking a Lead Product Manager to join their WIM Product Organization with a focus on API strategy, creation, onboarding, and lifecycle management. This role is critical to supporting the current technology landscape while driving a scalable API strategy for continued growth. The position will manage and evolve the API ecosystem that enables third-party application onboarding and integration, enhancing optionality for financial advisors. Additional responsibilities include leading or participating in product management initiatives and deliverables, reviewing and analyzing new API capabilities, integrations, and enhancements, and actively participating in strategic planning and agile ceremonies. The role involves advising experienced leadership to develop or influence business plans, business requirements, product roadmaps, and implementation strategies for complex business and technical needs, including API-based platforms. It requires overseeing overall product management and strategic focus for highly technical, complex, and diverse products and services, with specific ownership of APIs. The position will deliver solutions that are long-term and large-scale, requiring consideration of regulatory requirements, data security, risk management, and external partner dependencies. The Lead Product Manager will define and own the API product vision, including scope, prioritization, roadmap development, and backlog management. This involves partnering with technology, architecture, security, and risk teams to ensure APIs meet enterprise, regulatory, and compliance standards. The role also includes leading teams in designing, developing, and delivering APIs, integration frameworks, and supporting processes that enable third-party onboarding and ongoing support. Engagement with leaders, stakeholders, subject matter experts, scrum masters, project managers, and delivery teams across the company is expected. The role also involves managing API and platform release preparation and post-release business validation testing, and experience resolving and working through escalated and complex integration or partner issues.

Requirements

• 5+ years of Product Management, product development, strategic planning, process management, change delivery experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
• FINRA Background Screening Requirements, including successful completion and clearing of a background check
• Compliance with 17 CFR 240.17f-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and FINRA Bylaws, Article III, Section 3, which states that Associated Persons should not be subject to statutory disqualification
• Meet ongoing regulatory requirements including additional screening and reporting certain incidents
• Adherence to specific compliance policies regarding outside activities or personal investing, and providing information to the Wells Fargo Personal Account Dealing Team and abiding by applicable policy requirements if hired

Nice To Haves

• 3+ years experience managing API products, including lifecycle management, versioning, documentation, and partner enablement
• Ability to develop a deep understanding of the product team’s systems, processes, priorities, and technologies and represent them to all levels of product leadership
• Experience guiding teams outside of the product group to minimize dependencies, bottlenecks, and knowledge silos
• Deep understanding of Agile principles, including iterative delivery, backlog management, and collaboration across engineering, design, and business partners
• Strong ability to establish and maintain effective communication and relationships across product areas, departments, and Centers of Excellence (COEs)
• Ability to exercise independent judgment and apply creative problem-solving techniques
• Highly refined and professional verbal and written communication skills
• Knowledge and understanding of the brokerage industry, including products, services, operational policies, and procedures
• Experience resolving and working through escalated and complex integration or partner issues

Responsibilities

• Advise experienced leadership to develop or influence business plans, business requirements, product roadmaps, and implementation strategies for complex business and technical needs, including API-based platforms
• Oversee overall product management and strategic focus for highly technical, complex, and diverse products and services, with specific ownership of APIs
• Deliver solutions that are long-term and large-scale, requiring consideration of regulatory requirements, data security, risk management, and external partner dependencies
• Define and own the API product vision, including scope, prioritization, roadmap development, and backlog management
• Partner with technology, architecture, security, and risk teams to ensure APIs meet enterprise, regulatory, and compliance standards
• Lead teams in designing, developing, and delivering APIs, integration frameworks, and supporting processes that enable third-party onboarding and ongoing support
• Engage with leaders, stakeholders, subject matter experts, scrum masters, project managers, and delivery teams across the company
• Manage API and platform release preparation and post-release business validation testing
• Resolve and work through escalated and complex integration or partner issues

Benefits

• Equal Opportunity Employer
• Consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected characteristic
• Focus on building strong customer relationships balanced with a strong risk mitigating and compliance-driven culture
• Accountability for execution of all applicable risk programs (Credit, Market, Financial Crimes, Operational, Regulatory Compliance)
• Adherence to applicable Wells Fargo policies and procedures
• Timely and effective escalation and remediation of issues
• Sound risk decisions commensurate with the business unit’s risk appetite and all risk and compliance program requirements
• Proactive monitoring, governance, risk identification and escalation

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees