Technical Product Owner – Specialty Lending (Commercial Real Estate - Grandbridge)

Truist•Atlanta, GA

3d•Onsite

About The Position

The Technical Product Owner for Specialty Lending is responsible for defining and executing the product strategy, roadmap, and delivery of technology capabilities supporting commercial real estate (CRE) lending and the broader specialty lending ecosystem. This role serves as the primary liaison between business stakeholders, lending teams, operations, credit, risk, and technology partners to modernize and automate the end-to-end lending process, improve client and teammate experiences, and drive operational efficiency through workflow automation and AI-enabled capabilities. The ideal candidate possesses strong product management and Agile delivery experience, deep expertise in commercial real estate lending, and a thorough understanding of the full lending lifecycle, including prospecting, underwriting, financial analysis, credit approval, closing, asset management, servicing, covenant monitoring, and portfolio management.

Requirements

Bachelors’ degree in business, engineering, design, or technology field; or related field or equivalent combination of education and professional experience
Five or more years of banking, financial services, digital, or other relevant work experience
Three or more years of product, analysis, technology, and/or design experience
Three or more years of leading cross functional teams
Experience defining and delivering digital business initiatives to execute on a product roadmap
Demonstrated technical acumen and an ability to work with the technology organization to align product and technology roadmaps
Ability to translate strategic plans into tactical daily actions for execution
Ability to lead cross-functional teams without formal authority
Comfortable managing concurrent projects in a fast-based, results-driven environment
Comfortable with ambiguity, leading work autonomously, and making independent decisions
Strong analytical skills, ability to interpret data and trends, diagnose problems, and recommend action plans to resolve issues
Excellent skills in presentation, facilitation, communication, and negotiation

Nice To Haves

Agile certifications such as Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager (POPM), or SAFe Agilist (SA)
Experience supporting CRE platforms and lending operations
Knowledge of construction lending, income-producing properties, investor-owned real estate, and commercial mortgage products
Expertise in requirements management, business process analysis, and product ownership
Consulting or business transformation experience; and hands-on experience leveraging AI, GenAI, intelligent document processing, automated spreading, financial statement analysis, covenant monitoring, workflow orchestration, and digital lending solutions.
The successful candidate will combine deep lending domain knowledge with modern product management practices to deliver scalable, compliant, and data-driven solutions that accelerate credit decisions, reduce operational complexity, improve portfolio transparency, and support the continued evolution of specialty lending capabilities across the organization.

Responsibilities

Lead their delivery team’s priorities in PI planning, sprint planning, and other agile ceremonies; aligned to larger experience platform priorities and vision defined by product management.
Align with product managers to clearly articulate product strategy to the delivery team.
Deliver new experiences by working directly with delivery, experience design, business, and operations partners to design new products and improvements to existing capabilities.
Author and maintain the team’s backlog of user stories and serve as a subject matter expert on features, user stories, and product capabilities.
Perform triage on critical issues and communicate consistently and clearly with all concerned parties.
Serve as key resource to development team to answer questions, provide clarifications, and conduct and coordinate business validation, focusing on fitness for use.
Update leadership on the epic and feature delivery schedule, including dependencies impacting deliverables, along with recommended solutions.
Partner with solution architects and other technical leads to ensure their solutions effectively address program priorities while balancing client experience and technical integrity.
Facilitate sprint planning with stakeholder groups to drive alignment and visibility for which features will be built when, and to ensure overall adherence to the product roadmap and enterprise strategic themes.
Facilitate sprint demos and provide final acceptance for completed user stories in sprint demos; ensuring that the story meets acceptance criteria and otherwise meets its definition of done.
Co-ordinate the creation of release-specific business documents, such as support model definitions, go/no-go approvals, internal release notes, and release-related living documents.
Risk management: Ensure all Product Management Lifecycle (PML) process & procedures are followed, supporting security, risk, audit, and more, and ensure action items and deadlines are met. Partner with product manager on evidence to support recommendations.