Senior API Product Manager

At U.S. Bank, we're passionate about helping customers and the communities where we live and work. The fifth-largest bank in the United States, were one of the country's most respected, innovative and successful financial institutions. U.S. Bank is an equal opportunity employer committed to creating a diverse workforce. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or veteran status, among other factors.

Job Description

Do you have a passion for the convergence of technology and business? Have you worked with APIs? At U.S. Bank we are seeking Sr. API Product Managers to help us build the bridge between the business and technology teams for API Development Platform projects.

At U.S. Bank we treat APIs as products. Our Sr. API Product Managers create API products, ensure product to market fit and work across business lines to deliver marketplace capability. As a candidate, you understand how APIs are accelerating and disrupting markets and you apply that knowledge to create product strategy, business models, and roadmaps. You also balance outside-in thinking with internal gap-oriented thinking, always bringing the customer and market perspective into focus.

Successful candidates will have a blend of technical and product knowledge, youre versed in RESTful API concepts, FDX, Swagger specifications and understand the different personas we deal with. In addition, youre a great team leader and product owner. Youre organized and accomplished in using collaborative tools to drive efficiency and knit teams together.

The Sr. API Product Manager is responsible for creating API products based on U.S. Bank service offerings. You own the product life cycle and ensure API products are built to our high standards. You also crave the best experience for consumers of your API products and are relentlessly focused on quality.

And finally, youre a doer, youre not afraid to jump into complex financial service systems and tools to analyze work flow, understand architecture, document business requirements and propose solutions.

About the Team

The U.S. Bank Open Banking API team contributes significantly to enabling our customer-focused experience through product management, enterprise governance, standardized customer experience and developer portal properties. We combine all those to extend our business lines reach and innovation to bank partners.

Our Sr. Product Managers work across the enterprise to digitally transform legacy processes and products via API product. The team must integrate into varying business line workstreams to provide above the glass experience API products and expose those on our Developer Portal. A top challenge for this team and product managers is to coalesce work between different organizations, with competing priorities, and various capabilities - to effectively influence stakeholders to streamline priority across the enterprise. The senior product manager thrives as a leader and also a do-er whos passion is to turn uncertainties into concreate deliverables to our external partners.

Responsibilities:

o Create a product strategy including persona development, product charters and roadmaps.

o Provide overarching vision for products by understanding the market segments and what best of class looks like.

o Collaborate with other teams including other enterprise platforms, engineering, architecture, and UX.

o Work with and lead product owners and API analyst who translates the user stories into an API specification using Swagger

o Lead journey mapping exercises and synthesize that data into product features and capabilities.

o Manage the product lifecycle using data driven decisions, customer interviews, marketing intelligence. Make product roadmap decisions and have overall ownership of the API as a product.

o Apply product management methodologies, industry, and market expertise to brainstorm and create additional use-cases for the API

o Work with business lines and marketing team to develop a marketing plan for the API

o Contribute to API testing phases when requirement decisions must be made

o Own all API documentation including documents for developer support, security, sales, sales training, marketing

o Create monetization strategy for APIs

Basic Qualifications

o Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience

o Experience working with APIs

o 4 years of experience managing financial service products

o 2 years of Agile experience

o 1 year of JIRA experience

o Demonstrated experience with Developer Portals

o Strong verbal and written communication skills

o High attention to detail and visual presentation

Preferred Qualifications

o 2 years of designing, programming, testing, or supporting APIs (though no API programming will be required for this specific role)

o 4 years of Agile experience

o 2 years of technical writing experience

o Demonstrated leadership and strategy skills

o Excellent presentation skills and comfort presenting complex information to senior leadership

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Benefits:

Take care of yourself and your family with U.S. Bank employee benefits. We know that healthy employees are happy employees, and we believe that work/life balance should be easy to achieve. That's why we share the cost of benefits and offer a variety of programs, resources and support you need to bring your full self to work and stay present and committed to the people who matter most - your family.

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Salary range reflected is an estimate of base pay and is for the primary location. Base pay range may vary if an offer is made for work in a different location. Incentive opportunities are available for eligible positions. Pay Range: $105,230.00 - $123,800.00 - $136,180.00

Due to legal requirements, U.S. Bank requires that the successful candidate hired for some positions be fully-vaccinated for COVID-19, absent being granted an accommodation due to a medical condition, pregnancy, or sincerely held religious belief or other legally required exemption. For these positions, as part of the conditional offer of employment, the successful candidate will be asked to provide proof of vaccination or approval for an accommodation or exemption upon hire.

U.S. Bank will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.

U.S. Bank is an equal opportunity employer committed to creating a diverse workforce. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or veteran status, among other factors.

Salary : $105,230 - $123,800