Data Product Owner

At U.S. Bank, we're on a journey to do our best. Helping the customers and businesses we serve to make better and smarter financial decisions and enabling the communities we support to grow and succeed. We believe it takes all of us to bring our shared ambition to life, and each person is unique in their potential. A career with U.S. Bank gives you a wide, ever-growing range of opportunities to discover what makes you thrive at every stage of your career. Try new things, learn new skills and discover what you excel at-all from Day One. Job Description U.S. Bank is seeking an experienced Data Product Owner to drive the strategy, roadmap, prioritization, and delivery of data products within the Investment Services Data Domain. This role serves as the primary liaison between business stakeholders, governance partners, and technology teams, translating business needs into scalable, governed, and reusable data products that support reporting, analytics, operational decision-making, and AI-enabled use cases. The Data Product Owner is accountable for the full lifecycle of assigned data products, including intake, prioritization, requirements management, adoption, governance, and continuous improvement. While primarily focused on product ownership and stakeholder engagement, this role may also contribute to the design, prototyping, and development of foundational "gold" data products to accelerate delivery, support modernization efforts, and promote consistency across the organization. Essential Functions Develop and maintain product vision, strategy, roadmaps, and priorities for assigned data products, ensuring alignment with business objectives and enterprise data strategy. Partner with business stakeholders to identify opportunities, gather requirements, and translate business needs into user stories, acceptance criteria, and prioritized backlogs. Lead intake, prioritization, and roadmap discussions, balancing business value, strategic objectives, technical dependencies, risk considerations, and available delivery capacity. Collaborate with data engineering, architecture, analytics, and governance teams to design and deliver trusted, scalable, and reusable data products that support reporting, analytics, operational processes, and AI-enabled solutions. Champion data-as-a-product principles, including product ownership, discoverability, documentation, governance, data quality, metadata, lineage, and lifecycle management. Drive adoption and continuous improvement through stakeholder engagement, product performance monitoring, user feedback, and measurement of business outcomes. Support the development and evolution of governed "gold" data products that improve consistency, traceability, scalability, and reuse across business and technology teams. Identify opportunities to simplify, standardize, modernize, and consolidate data assets and reporting solutions, including support for cloud migration and enterprise data initiatives. Contribute to product design, prototyping, data analysis, or development activities when appropriate to accelerate delivery and establish foundational data capabilities. Basic Qualifications Bachelor's degree, or equivalent work experience. Typically eight or more years of experience in data, analytics, product management, business analysis, technology delivery, or related disciplines. Preferred Skills & Experience Experience defining business requirements, user stories, product roadmaps, and prioritization frameworks. Experience working across business and technology organizations to deliver data, analytics, or technology solutions. Demonstrated ability to lead initiatives involving multiple stakeholders, competing priorities, and complex business requirements. Strong communication, facilitation, stakeholder management, and problem-solving skills. Experience managing data products, analytics products, business intelligence solutions, or enterprise data initiatives. Strong understanding of data warehousing, data engineering, data modeling, reporting, analytics, and modern cloud data architectures. Experience with technologies such as Snowflake, Databricks, Azure, SQL Server, Postgres, or similar data platforms. Knowledge of data governance, data quality, metadata management, lineage, stewardship, and data-as-a-product principles. Experience defining product KPIs, adoption metrics, service levels, and business value realization measures. Experience operating within Agile product delivery environments and managing product backlogs. Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences. Experience supporting modernization initiatives, including migration of data assets from on-premises to cloud environments. Experience supporting Investment Services, Fund Services, Custody, Fund Accounting, Transfer Agency, or other financial services organizations preferred. The role offers a hybrid/flexible schedule, which means there's an in-office expectation of 3 or more days per week and the flexibility to work outside the office location for the other days. If there's anything we can do to accommodate a disability during any portion of the application or hiring process, please refer to our disability accommodations for applicants ( . Benefits: Our approach to benefits and total rewards considers our team members' whole selves and what may be needed to thrive in and outside work. That's why our benefits are designed to help you and your family boost your health, protect your financial security and give you peace of mind. Our benefits include the following: Healthcare (medical, dental, vision) Basic term and optional term life insurance Short-term and long-term disability Pregnancy disability and parental leave 401(k) and employer-funded retirement plan Paid vacation (from two to five weeks depending on salary grade and tenure) Up to 11 paid holiday opportunities Adoption assistance Sick and Safe Leave accruals of one hour for every 30 worked, up to 80 hours per calendar year unless otherwise provided by law Review our full benefits available by employment status here ( . U.S. Bank is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or veteran status, and other factors protected under applicable law. E-Verify U.S. Bank participates in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security E-Verify program in all facilities located in the United States and certain U.S. territories. The E-Verify program is an Internet-based employment eligibility verification system operated by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Learn more about the E-Verify program ( . The salary range reflects figures based on the primary location, which is listed first. The actual range for the role may differ based on the location of the role. In addition to salary, U.S. Bank offers a comprehensive benefits package, including incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase 401(k) contribution and pension (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). Pay Range: $119,765.00 - $140,900.00 U.S. Bank will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment. U.S. Bank conducts background checks consistent with applicable local laws, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance and the California Fair Chance Act as well as the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. U.S. Bank is subject to, and conducts background checks consistent with the requirements of Section 19 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act (FDIA). In addition, certain positions may also be subject to the requirements of FINRA, NMLS registration, Reg Z, Reg G, OFAC, the NFA, the FCPA, the Bank Secrecy Act, the SAFE Act, and/or federal guidelines applicable to an agreement, such as those related to ethics, safety, or operational procedures. Applicants must be able to comply with U.S. Bank policies and procedures including the Code of Ethics and Business Conduct and related workplace conduct and safety policies. Posting may be closed earlier due to high volume of applicants. U.S. Bank