About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Lead Product Owner to support the Platform Transformation Data Services team, driving strategic execution and product enablement across the Global Payments & Liquidity, Product & Platform organization. This team focuses on expanding core payments products, enhancing pricing discipline for deposits and fees, and modernizing payments platforms and architecture to build a robust payment ecosystem.

This role involves leading a Payments Data initiative aligning transformation goals with delivery milestones, driving execution in cross-functional teams to deliver impactful omni-channel experiences and measurable business outcomes. The Lead Product Owner will help manage the product roadmap and vision, prioritize and document key requirements, and implement change delivery solutions across technology and process workstreams. Additionally, this role will require collaboration across the enterprise with managers, stakeholders, and delivery teams to plan releases, resolve issues, navigate complex execution challenges, and drive execution of strategic project goals.

In this role, you will:

• Own the Payments Data intake process end‑to‑end, from initial request through follow‑up and feature creation
• Ensure ongoing product backlog quality, completeness, and readiness
• Provide day‑to‑day product coverage across multiple Payments Data platforms to ensure continuity and execution velocity
• Partner with delivery leads, project managers, and scrum masters to ensure progress, decisions, and updates are documented
• Apply strategic thinking to align Payments Data requirements with industry best practices, transformation objectives, and internal data strategy
• Act as a cross‑product execution partner, enabling partner Product Owners to focus on strategic outcomes while ensuring delivery commitments are met
• Clearly translate business requirements for both technical and non‑technical partners and leaders
• Orchestrate cross‑team dependencies across pods, platforms, and program partners
• Collaborate closely and consult with stakeholders at multiple levels (product managers, scrum masters, project managers, technology, operations and delivery team members) to drive execution and report / resolve / escalate issues and risks
• Identify and recommend opportunities for product enhancements and business requirements

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of Product Management, product owner, strategic planning, process management, change delivery experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education

Desired Qualifications:

• Demonstrated experience managing product artifacts in JIRA and confluence
• Proven experience working with payments data, data quality checks, control frameworks, and complex payment architecture
• Expertise in identifying, sourcing, and documenting business-critical and regulatory requirements including associated artifacts.
• Familiarity with implementing controlled and effective Artificial intelligence
• Experience with Large Scale Transformation or Migration initiatives
• SWIFT Wires product management within banking or financial services
• Payment transformation & messaging experience (ACH, FedNow, MT-to-MX, SWIFT, CHIPS, ISO20022, KAFKA)
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with expertise in PowerPoint and storytelling.
• Strong organizational and prioritization abilities, with keen attention to detail.
• Proficient in synthesizing and simplifying complex information from diverse stakeholders.
• Customer-centric mindset, with the ability to think end-to-end, take initiative, and independently track and meet deadlines.

Job Expectations:

• This position offers a hybrid work schedule

• This position is not eligible for Visa Sponsorship

• Specific compliance policies may apply regarding outside activities and/or personal investing; affected employees will be expected to provide information to the Wells Fargo Personal Account Dealing Team and abide by applicable policy requirements if hired. Information will be shared about expectations during the recruitment process.

Posting End Date:

*Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

We Value Equal Opportunity

Wells Fargo is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive 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.

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.

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