Product Owner - Vice President
About The Position
SMBC Group is a top-tier global financial group with a 400-year history, headquartered in Tokyo. It offers a diverse range of financial services and has a significant international presence. In the Americas, SMBC Group provides commercial and investment banking services to corporate, institutional, and municipal clients, leveraging its global network. The anticipated salary range for this role is between $127,000.00 and $160,000.00, with the specific salary determined by individual qualifications, experience, and market analysis. The role may also be eligible for an annual discretionary incentive award and offers a competitive portfolio of benefits. The Vice President, Product Owner will be instrumental in supporting the strategy, execution, and continuous enhancement of Treasury Services capabilities. This includes digital channels, payments, liquidity management, reporting, onboarding, servicing, and client administration experiences. The role requires close collaboration with senior Product Owners, Technology, Operations, Risk, Compliance, Legal, UX/UI, and business stakeholders to deliver client-centric, scalable, and secure solutions aligned with the bank's Treasury Services strategy. The Product Owner will translate business objectives, operational requirements, client feedback, and strategic priorities into detailed product requirements, user stories, and delivery plans. Serving as the voice of the business within agile delivery teams, this individual will drive roadmap execution, backlog management, release readiness, and continuous improvement initiatives. Key contributions will include platform modernization, digital transformation, client migrations, process simplification, and product enhancements, while developing deep expertise in Treasury Services products, operational workflows, and digital capabilities.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in product management, product ownership, business analysis, treasury services, transaction banking, payments, liquidity management, cash management, digital banking, or related financial services disciplines.
- Understanding of Agile delivery practices including backlog management, user story creation, prioritization, sprint planning, UAT, and release readiness.
- Experience gathering business requirements and translating stakeholder needs into actionable product requirements.
- Knowledge of Treasury Services products including payments, liquidity management, reporting, account services, onboarding, servicing, or digital banking capabilities.
- Ability to work effectively across Product, Technology, Operations, Risk, Compliance, Legal, Sales, and Servicing organizations.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, organizational, and decision-making skills.
- Effective communication and stakeholder management skills with the ability to present ideas clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Nice To Haves
- Experience supporting digital transformation, modernization, migration, or platform enhancement initiatives preferred.
- Familiarity with client portals, APIs, file-based services, workflow solutions, reporting capabilities, and related Treasury Services technology environments preferred.
Responsibilities
- Own and manage assigned product backlogs, ensuring user stories are prioritized, refined, and ready for delivery.
- Translate business objectives and stakeholder needs into epics, features, user stories, acceptance criteria, process flows, and business requirements.
- Partner with Technology teams to clarify requirements, support solution design discussions, and remove delivery blockers.
- Participate in backlog refinement, sprint planning, sprint reviews, release planning, and production readiness activities.
- Support User Acceptance Testing (UAT), defect management, production validation, and post-release monitoring.
- Track risks, dependencies, assumptions, and implementation considerations throughout the delivery lifecycle.
- Ensure delivered solutions align with business objectives, control requirements, operational processes, and client expectations.
- Support the strategy, roadmap, and delivery of Treasury Services capabilities across payments, liquidity management, reporting, account services, onboarding, administration, and servicing functions.
- Partner with senior Product Owners to define priorities, evaluate opportunities, and execute roadmap initiatives.
- Gather feedback from clients, sales teams, operations partners, and servicing teams to identify enhancement opportunities and improve user experiences.
- Analyze client journeys, operational workflows, business processes, and platform performance to identify opportunities for simplification and optimization.
- Collaborate with Product, Technology, Operations, and control partners to ensure solutions are scalable, supportable, compliant, and operationally efficient.
- Monitor adoption, utilization, client feedback, and business outcomes to inform future prioritization decisions.
- Support business case development, product documentation, release communications, training materials, and stakeholder engagement activities.
Benefits
- Competitive portfolio of benefits
- Annual discretionary incentive award
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
Education Level
No Education Listed
