Lead Product Manager- Home Lending

About this role: Wells Fargo is seeking a Lead Product Manager to shape the future of our Home Lending Originations Product experiences. In this role, you will champion an outcome‑driven product strategy that simplifies the home lending journey and delivers meaningful value to millions of customers. As a Lead Product Manager, you will own the vision, roadmap, and results for key digital products - leveraging deep customer understanding, competitive insights, design thinking, and data to uncover the highest‑impact opportunities. You will lead continuous discovery and iterative validation for opportunities and solutions to ensure they are viable for the business, feasible for engineering, desirable for customers, and compliant within a complex regulatory environment. You will operate as a strategic leader who navigates ambiguity, influences executive decision‑making, and aligns diverse partners across Legal, Risk, Compliance, Operations, and the Home Lending Ecosystems. Success requires a strong command of digital analytics, the ability to frame compelling business cases, and a passion for delivering measurable outcomes - not just features - for our customers and the business. In this role, you will: Own outcomes end‑to‑end: identify and shape opportunities and capabilities across a multi‑quarter roadmap; sequencing work to maximize customer and business value. Lead discovery with Human Center Design (HCD): map journeys, blueprint services, and run assumption tests to validate desirability, viability, feasibility, and usability before build. Turn insights into decisions: instrument experiences, define success metrics, and use data and digital analytics to measure impact and guide the roadmap. Influence at the executive level: craft clear business cases, tell data‑driven stories, and drive alignment on strategic investments. Lead across a matrix environment: partner tightly with Design, Engineering, enterprise Digital, and Legal, Risk, Compliance to ship solutions that are compliant, scalable, and customer‑centric. Prioritize and deliver: maintain Jira backlog, balance long‑term strategy with near‑term value, and apply economic prioritization to focus teams on what matters most. Work smarter with GenAI: accelerate research, documentation, and synthesis to increase speed and quality of decision‑making. Lead projects, scrum teams, or serve as a mentor to less experienced staff Required Qualifications: 5+ years of Product Management, product development, 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: Outcome Ownership: Proven track record of taking full accountability for product outcomes, exercising autonomy to discover, validate, and prioritize the most impactful initiatives. Strategic Business Cases: Demonstrated ability to develop and justify robust business cases for strategic investments, clearly articulating ROI and alignment with enterprise goals. Product Discovery & HCD: Mastery of Human-Centered Design (HCD) and discovery techniques—specifically customer journey maps, service blueprints, and assumption testing—to independently navigate ambiguity and validate solutions. Matrixed Leadership: Expertise in leading through influence within a complex environment, effectively partnering with lines of business, enterprise digital teams, Legal, Risk, and Compliance. Data-Driven Storytelling: Proficiency in using data to tell a compelling story that drives executive decision-making; experience with digital analytics is preferred. GenAI Utilization: Experience leveraging Generative AI (GenAI) tools to expedite the product development lifecycle, from accelerating market research and documentation to optimizing workflow efficiency. Agile Execution: Advanced proficiency in Jira for roadmapping and backlog management, with a sharp focus on balancing long-term strategic vision with near-term delivery. Job Expectations: This position requires compliance with all mortgages regulatory requirements and Wells Fargo’s compliance policies related to these requirements. Successful candidates must also meet ongoing regulatory requirements including additional screening and required reporting of certain incidents. This position is not eligible for Visa sponsorship. This position offers a hybrid work schedule. Telework or remote work setting is not available. Preferred location(s) listed below. Relocation assistance is not available for this position. Posting Locations: Charlotte, NC -1525 W WT Harris Blvd Des Moines, IA-800 S Jordan Creek Pkwy Tempe, AZ-1150 W. Washington St Minneapolis, MN- 600 Wells Fargo Irving, TX 401 Los Colinas Blvd Columbus, OH- 3075 Loyalty Circle Wilmington, DE- 2200 Concord Pike San Antonio, TX-4102 Wiseman Blvd Posted Pay Range: Minneapolis, MN: $131,000to $206,000 annual Wilmington, DE: $131,000to $206,000 annual Other Locations: $119,000 to $187,000 annual Pay Range Reflected is the base pay range offered for this position. Pay may vary depending on factors including but not limited to demonstrated examples of prior performance, skills, experience, or work location. Employees may also be eligible for incentive opportunities. $119,000.00 - $206,000.00 Benefits Wells Fargo provides eligible employees with a comprehensive set of benefits, many of which are listed below. Visit Benefits - Wells Fargo Jobs for an overview of the following benefit plans and programs offered to employees. Health benefits 401(k) Plan Paid time off Disability benefits Life insurance, critical illness insurance, and accident insurance Parental leave Critical caregiving leave Discounts and savings Commuter benefits Tuition reimbursement Scholarships for dependent children Adoption reimbursement Posting End Date: 27 Jun 2026 *Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants. We Value Equal Opportunity Wells Fargo is an equal opportunity employer. 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