Product Owner, Sr

Product Owner, Sr Job Locations: US-MN-St Louis Park | US-IL-Chicago Overview Old National Bank has been serving clients and communities since 1834, with over $70 billion in assets. We focus on helping clients achieve their goals through technology and service. Salary Range Annual salary range: $98,400 – $199,000 plus incentive bonus. Base salary reflects compensation range applicable across the United States. Responsibilities Key Accountability 1: Lead Wealth Digital Product Strategy and Roadmap Own and evolve the product vision, roadmap, and backlog for digital and platform capabilities supporting the Wealth Management line of business. Partner with Wealth leadership and technology stakeholders to identify opportunities that improve client experience, advisor enablement, operational efficiency, and business growth. Translate business priorities into clear product epics, features, and user stories aligned to measurable business outcomes. Ensure roadmap decisions reflect both immediate business needs and long‑term architectural direction. Balance strategic investments, regulatory needs, technical debt, platform constraints, and delivery capacity in prioritization decisions. Key Accountability 2: Drive Wealth Business Capability Maturity Through Technology Develop a strong understanding of Wealth business processes, client journeys, service models, and operating needs across the Wealth footprint. Partner with business stakeholders to identify current‑state gaps and support future‑state target operating models enabled by translation of business needs into capabilities, process flows, functional requirements, and experience designs. Ensure solutions align to broader business architecture, simplify fragmented experiences, and support scalable growth across the Wealth business. Provide technical thought leadership on how digital capabilities can better support planning‑led, team‑based, and relationship‑driven client service models. Key Accountability 3: Provide Technical Product Leadership and Architectural Partnership Lead vendor solution discovery and evaluation, identifying functional fit, architectural alignment, integration complexity, risk considerations, and implementation approach for executive decisioning. Develop solution options, high‑level scope, effort estimates, dependency assessments, and investment rationale for strategic initiatives to support prioritization and approval through the investment committee governance process. Serve as the product lead for complex technical initiatives involving digital platforms, integrations, APIs, data exchange, authentication, workflow orchestration, and third‑party vendor solutions. Work closely with solution architects, engineering teams, infrastructure partners, security teams, and enterprise architecture to define sound and scalable technical approaches. Evaluate solution options and tradeoffs to ensure alignment with architectural standards, platform strategy, risk requirements, and long‑term maintainability. Help shape technical designs that support seamless user experiences across systems, channels, and business functions. Ensure business requirements are translated into technically actionable outcomes that delivery teams can execute with clarity. Key Accountability 4: Own Backlog, Delivery Execution and Agile Product Management Create, maintain, and prioritize the product backlog, including epics, features, user stories, and enablers. Partner with delivery teams to ensure work is well‑defined, sequenced appropriately, and aligned to business value. Lead sprint and release planning activities, backlog refinement, and product decision‑making throughout the delivery lifecycle. Provide clear direction on priority, scope, acceptance criteria, and trade‑off decisions to delivery teams. Serve as the primary decision authority for backlog priority, scope trade‑offs, and delivery sequencing, balancing business value, technical risk, architectural alignment, and delivery capacity. Monitor sprint progress, dependency management, and delivery risks; drive resolution of blockers in partnership with cross‑functional teams. Champion disciplined product management practices and guide others in agile and product ownership concepts. Key Accountability 5: Strengthen Client Experience and Operational Outcomes Advocate for intuitive, seamless, and differentiated digital experiences for Wealth clients and internal users. Use feedback, analytics, and business insights to identify pain points and improvement opportunities across the client and team member journey. Partner across teams to improve usability, adoption, self‑service capabilities, workflow efficiency, and overall service quality. Track and analyze KPIs related to adoption, satisfaction, platform performance, operational efficiency, and business value realization. Ensure delivered solutions create meaningful improvements in experience, performance, and business outcomes. Key Accountability 6: Support Production, Governance and Risk Management Build and maintain strong knowledge of the Wealth technology ecosystem, including current platform capabilities, dependencies, and operating processes. Support issue triage, root cause analysis, and business communications related to incidents or production challenges as needed. Ensure appropriate documentation is produced for technology changes, controls, audits, and regulatory review. Maintain awareness of industry trends, emerging technologies, digital experience patterns, and relevant banking and Wealth regulations. Partner with risk, compliance, and control functions to ensure solutions meet required standards and are implemented responsibly. Key Accountability 7: Builds Strong Partnerships Establish trusted relationships with internal stakeholders across Wealth, product, operations, engineering, architecture, risk, and enterprise technology. Collaborate closely with vendors and third‑party partners to ensure capabilities, integrations, and deliverables meet expectations. Communicate complex business and technical concepts clearly to executive, business, and technical audiences. Influence decisions across cross‑functional teams through strong leadership, partnership, and credibility. Key Competencies for Position Develops Talent – Own development, assess self, leverage strengths, continuously develop skills for current and future roles. Promotes Change – Seek information to understand change rationale, remain agile, act quickly, adjust, and recommend improvements. Strategy in Action – Break down larger goals, anticipate risks, develop contingency plans, identify improvement opportunities. Compelling Communication – Share ideas transparently, tailor delivery to audience, engage others, listen actively. Makes Decisions & Solves Problems – Own problems, collaborate, evaluate implications, recommend solutions, take timely action. Delights Clients – Serve clients with excellence, maintain growth mindset, analyze data, nurture relationships. Leads Inclusively – Seek diverse relationships, gather information, advocate for diverse perspectives, examine biases. Personifies ONB Culture – Demonstrate ONB values, prioritize organization goals, invest in clients and communities. Qualifications and Education Requirements Bachelor’s degree in Computer Information Systems, Computer Science, Information Technology, Business, or equivalent work experience. Minimum 10 years of experience in technical product ownership, product management, business analysis, business architecture, solution architecture, or related technology role. Experience supporting digital products and platforms in banking, wealth management, financial services, or related industry. Strong understanding of software development life cycle, agile delivery frameworks, and product management practices. Demonstrated experience translating complex business requirements into scalable technical solutions. Strong knowledge of digital experience platforms, APIs, integrations, workflows, and enterprise application design. Experience partnering with engineering teams, architects, and third‑party vendors on complex technology initiatives. Ability to define and manage roadmaps, backlogs, KPIs, and delivery priorities across multiple concurrent initiatives. Strong verbal and written communication skills with ability to influence senior leaders, business stakeholders, and technical teams. Ability to create, interpret, and maintain both business and technical documentation. Ability to travel and stay overnight as needed. Preferred Qualifications Experience supporting Wealth Management, Private Banking, Brokerage, Trust, Advisory, or related client and advisor platforms. Experience with business capability mapping, process design, target‑state architecture, or operating model transformation. Familiarity with digital identity, authentication, customer data integration, and self‑service platform capabilities. Experience with Jira or similar agile tooling. Experience with vendor‑led platforms and integration‑heavy delivery models in regulated environments. Old National is proud to be an equal opportunity employer focused on fostering an inclusive workplace and committed to hiring a workforce comprised of diverse backgrounds, cultures and thinking styles. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other characteristic protected by law. #J-18808-Ljbffr Old National Bank