Product Owner, Sr

Old National Bank has been serving clients and communities since 1834. With over $70 billion in total assets, we are a regional powerhouse deeply rooted in the communities we serve. As a trusted partner, we thrive on helping our clients achieve their goals and dreams, and we are committed to social responsibility and investing in our communities through volunteering and charitable giving.

We continually seek highly motivated and talented individuals as our people are critical to our success. In return, we offer competitive compensation with our salary and incentive program, in addition to medical, dental, and vision insurance. 401K, continuing education opportunities and an employee assistance program are also included in our benefit suite. Old National also offers a variety of Impact Network Groups led by team members who are passionate about driving engagement, creating awareness of diverse backgrounds and experiences, and building inclusion across the organization. We offer a unique opportunity to join a growing, community and client-focused company that is firmly rooted in its core values.

Salary Range

The annual salary range for this position is $98,400-$199,000 plus incentive bonus. The base salary indicated for this position reflects the compensation range applicable to all levels of the role across the United States. Actual salary offers within this range may vary based on a number of factors, including the specific responsibilities of the position, the candidate's relevant skills and professional experience, educational qualifications, and geographic location.

We are seeking a Product Owner, Sr within the IT organization to lead digital product strategy and execution for the Wealth Management line of business. This role is responsible for shaping and delivering modern experiences across the Wealth footprint while serving as a critical bridge between Wealth business objectives and technology execution.

The ideal candidate combines strong product ownership capabilities with deep technical expertise in business architecture and technical architecture. This individual will help define the future-state experience for Wealth clients and team members by translating strategic business objectives into scalable technology solutions, product roadmaps, and prioritized delivery plans.

Working closely with Wealth business leaders, technology teams, enterprise architects, delivery partners, and third-party vendors, this role will lead request intake, solution shaping, backlog prioritization, and execution for complex initiatives that span client experience, platform capabilities, integration patterns, workflow modernization, and operational efficiency. The Senior Technical Product Owner must be equally comfortable discussing client journeys, business capabilities, architecture tradeoffs, integration design, and delivery sequencing.

This is a highly strategic, technically proficient, and hands-on role that requires expertise in client experience platforms, agile delivery, product ownership, business process design, API and integration concepts, data flows, and enterprise architecture alignment. A strong passion for continuous improvement, client-centric innovation, and measurable business outcomes is essential.

Key Accountabilities

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
• Facilitate the 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 (e.g., market scan, demos, option comparisons), synthesizing functional fit, architectural alignment, integration complexity, risk considerations, and implementation approach into a clear recommendation 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 tradeoff decisions to delivery teams.
• Serve as the primary decision authority for backlog priority, scope tradeoffs, 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 help 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 - You Own You -You own your development and career. Actively assesses self by leveraging feedback to enhance knowledge, skills and behavior. Leverages own strengths and those of team members to meet individual and team goals supporting both internal and external client needs. Continuously develops self for current and future roles.
• Promotes Change - Actively seeks information to understand the rationale, implications, and impact for changes. Remains agile by quickly modifying daily behavior, leveraging resources, and trying new approaches to effectively embrace change. Willing to act quickly, learn and adjust as needed. Identifies and recommends changes to leadership to improve performance. Aligns activities to meet individual, team and organizational goals
• Strategy in Action - Breaks down larger goals into smaller achievable goals and communicates how they are contributing to the broader goal. Actively seeks to understand factors and trends that may influence role. Anticipates risks and develops contingency plans to manage risks. Identifies opportunities for improvement and seeks insights from other sources to generate potential solutions. Aligns activities to meet individual, team and organizational goals.
• Compelling Communication - Effectively and transparently shares information and ideas with others. Tailors the delivery of communication in a way that engages the audience and that is easy to understand and retain. Unites others towards common goal. Asks for others' opinions and ideas and listens actively to gain their support when clarifying expectations, agreeing on a solution and checking for satisfaction.
• Makes Decisions & Solves Problems - Takes ownership of the problem while collaborating with others on a resolution with an appropriate level of urgency. Collaborates and seeks to understand the root causes of problems. Evaluates the implications of new information or events and recommends solutions using decisions that are sound based on what is known at the time. Takes action that is consistent with available facts, constraints and probable consequences.
• Delights Clients - . Passionately serves internal/external clients with excellence. Maintains a growth mindset staying current with developments and trends in areas of expertise influencing client satisfaction both internally and externally. Understands data, metrics and/or financial information, and how they tie to client satisfaction and business outcomes related to position, client and/or team. Nurtures client relationships by listening, prioritizing, and acting responsibly to meet client needs, mitigate risk and add shareholder value.
• Leads Inclusively - Seeks diverse relationships to learn more about people from other cultures and backgrounds. Gathers information with curiosity and humility to learn more about people from other cultures and backgrounds including impacts on norms, behaviors and expectations (e.g., social norms, decision-making approaches, and preferences) Advocates for diverse perspectives. Continually examines own biases and behaviors to avoid stereotypical responses.
• Personifies ONB Culture - Consistently demonstrates Old National's culture and values in daily interactions. Models our values -how we show up in the workplace. Places the organization's goals before individual or team goals. Demonstrates the desire to be part of something beyond themselves by investing time, heart, and expertise to help clients and communities thrive.

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 a comparable technology role
• Experience supporting digital products and platforms in banking, wealth management, financial services, or a 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 the 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.

As such, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, protected veteran status, status as a qualified individual with disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other characteristic protected by law.

We do not accept resumes from external staffing agencies or independent recruiters for any of our openings unless we have an agreement signed by the Director of Talent Acquisition, SVP, to fill a specific position.

Our culture is firmly rooted in our core values.

We are optimistic. We are collaborative. We are inclusive. We are agile. We are ethical.

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