Auto Product Senior Manager

Company: Wells Fargo
Location: Chandler
Posted on: March 12, 2023

Job Description:

About this role: Wells Fargo Auto is seeking a Product Management Senior Manager in our Originations Product team. This position is for the Finance My Car customer journey area for Wells Fargo Auto and is focused on using a Product approach to identify problems and develop solutions to meet Wells Fargo Auto customer needs with new or used auto financing, including subprime lending options. Learn more about our career areas and lines of business divisions at . In this role you will:

• Articulate product vision, define scope, design and prioritize backlog, establish goals, and provide direction for cross-functional teams to design/ develop/ deliver undeveloped, significantly changed, innovative, highly complex, and/or strategic technology and processes or to act as a team-of-teams product owner.
• Work with steering committees, senior leaders, stakeholders, SME, scrum masters, project managers, vendors, and the delivery team to ensure success against stated and not yet stated customer business value.
• Drive requirements, incorporating product expertise and industry/competitor opportunities. Each release, leads backlog prioritization ensuring effective process discovery to create, refine, and prioritize the backlog which typically impacts multiple platforms/ vendors and requires significant outreach, coordination, presentation preparation, and communication to steering committee/ senior executives.
• Establish/optimize relationships with key stakeholders to ensure the business and product strategies are aligned, understood, and communicated. React to and adjust planning/execution in situations with significant risk/ undefined conditions.
• Inspect pre-release progress with complete authority to change/ accept/ reject work, artifacts, and timelines including holistic directional change and termination of work as necessary.
• Ensure cross-functional dependencies are articulated, managed, and addressed by all constituents.
• Develop/monitor key performance indicators requiring significant thought leadership to ensure reporting and analysis that measures value and identifies improvement opportunities while ensuring all regulatory and compliance needs are met. Key indicators may be related to new data and require a new vision of how work should be measured.
• Oversee implementation and post-implementation activities and ensures product/system issues are resolved Required Qualifications:
  • 6+ years of Product Management, product development, strategic planning, process management, change delivery, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
  • 3+ years of Management experience Desired Qualifications:
    • Indirect auto lending experience, with a large financial institution
    • Experience across the credit spectrum (including subprime lending), with specific knowledge of how to manage risk appetite and returns.
    • Knowledge and understanding of indirect auto finance policies, procedures, best practices, and regulatory requirements
    • Experience working in an agile methodology
    • Knowledge and understanding of product management
    • Experience defining key performance metrics
    • Experience in defining key performance metrics
    • Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills
    • Ability to influence, partner, and negotiate with senior business leaders to gain commitment to accomplish business goals
    • Ability to work effectively in a team environment and across all organizational levels, where flexibility, collaboration, and adaptability are important
    • Strong organizational, multi-tasking, and prioritizing skills Job Expectations:
      • Ability to travel up to 20% Job Posting Locations:
        • 6051/6061 N State Highway 161, Irving, TX 75038
        • 2501 S Price Road, Chandler, AZ 85286
        • 401 S Tryon Street, Charlotte, NC 28202 Required locations listed above. Relocation assistance is not available for this position. Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants. We Value Diversity At Wells Fargo, we believe in diversity, equity and inclusion in the workplace; accordingly, we welcome applications for employment from all qualified candidates, regardless of race, color, gender, national origin, religion, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, individuals with disabilities, pregnancy, marital status, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable law. Employees support our focus on building strong customer relationships balanced with a strong risk mitigating and compliance-driven culture which firmly establishes those disciplines as critical to the success of our customers and company. They are accountable for execution of all applicable risk programs (Credit, Market, Financial Crimes, Operational, Regulatory Compliance), which includes effectively following and adhering to applicable Wells Fargo policies and procedures, appropriately fulfilling risk and compliance obligations, timely and effective escalation and remediation of issues, and making sound risk decisions. There is emphasis on proactive monitoring, governance, risk identification and escalation, as well as making sound risk decisions commensurate with the business unit's risk appetite and all risk and compliance program requirements. Candidates applying to job openings posted in US: All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran. Candidates applying to job openings posted in Canada: Applications for employment are encouraged from all qualified candidates, including women, persons with disabilities, aboriginal peoples and visible minorities. Accommodation for applicants with disabilities is available upon request in connection with the recruitment process.

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