Senior Manager, IT Product Management
About The Position
At Schwab, the Senior Manager, IT Product Management will help shape the next generation of banking. The Bank Platform team connects business strategy with technology delivery to expand deposit product capabilities, simplify client and employee experiences, and modernize the core platforms that power the bank. The role works closely with Product Management, Bank Technology, business partners, and an Agile team to translate banking core and deposit product priorities and complex business needs into clear, executable work. The position owns and prioritizes the team backlog, guides work from discovery through delivery, and supports delivery of valuable, reliable banking capabilities. Schwab expects the selected candidate to work on site in the specified location(s).
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent relevant experience.
- 5+ years of experience in product ownership, product delivery, business systems analysis, technology delivery, or a related discipline.
- Demonstrated experience owning and prioritizing an Agile team backlog and translating business needs into epics, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
- Experience partnering directly with engineers, architects, analysts, and business stakeholders to deliver technology solutions.
- Ability to analyze complex business and technology needs, identify dependencies, and convert ambiguity into clear, executable work.
- Strong working knowledge of Agile, Scrum, and scaled delivery practices.
- Experience using JIRA, Rally, Confluence, or comparable Agile delivery and collaboration tools.
- Experience applying AI-enabled development lifecycle (AIDLC) practices or AI-assisted tools to accelerate requirements development, analysis, prototyping, testing, documentation, or delivery activities.
- Ability to communicate effectively with employees, peer leaders, senior leaders, and cross-functional partners.
Nice To Haves
- Experience in banking, financial services, deposit products, payments, or core banking.
- Experience supporting platform modernization, new product implementation, or complex enterprise integration.
- Familiarity with PI Planning, Agile Release Trains, backlog readiness, and scaled dependency management.
- Experience with third-party platforms, vendor-supported solutions, APIs, data mapping, or cross-domain integrations.
- Familiarity with regulated environments and the importance of operational readiness, risk management, controls, and clear decision-making.
Responsibilities
- Own, prioritize, and maintain the team backlog in alignment with product strategy, roadmap priorities, and delivery commitments.
- Translate features and business objectives into epics, user stories, acceptance criteria, and supporting requirements that Agile teams can estimate and deliver.
- Partner with Deposit Product Management, business stakeholders, architects, engineers, analysts, operations, risk, and other teams to clarify needs and inform solution decisions.
- Lead backlog refinement and support iteration planning, PI Planning, reviews, demonstrations, and other Agile delivery activities.
- Provide timely clarification and make day-to-day scope and priority decisions to maintain delivery momentum.
- Identify dependencies, risks, assumptions, and decision needs; coordinate with partner teams and escalate when appropriate.
- Ensure work is ready for development, traceable to intended outcomes, and validated against acceptance criteria.
- Partner with testing, operations, and business stakeholders to support user acceptance, implementation readiness, production certification, and post-release follow-up.
- Maintain transparency into backlog health, progress, tradeoffs, and changes for team members and stakeholders.
- Use data, client and employee insights, and feedback to improve requirements, priorities, and delivered solutions.
- Apply AI-enabled tools responsibly to accelerate analysis, requirements development, prototyping, documentation, and team productivity.
- Contribute to Product Owner standards, shared practices, peer learning, and continuous improvement across Bank Platform.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
