Western Alliance Bank is looking to solve the problem of translating vendor roadmaps into applicability and impact to the business from a feature functionality perspective, ensuring vendor understanding of bank requirements, and managing the product development lifecycle for digital products.
Requirements
- Intermediate to advanced experience with the Agile develoopment process and a clear understanding of the digital product development lifecycle.
- Intermediate to advanced knowledge of product development, quality assurance, risk assessment methodologies, and relevant regulations.
- Intermediate to advanced knowledge of data analytics to analyze data and idetnify trends related to product risks.
Responsibilities
- Translate vendor road maps into applicability and impact to the business from a feature functionality perspective.
- Ensure the vendor understands and correctly documents the bank requirements for the requested functionality being developed specifically for the bank.
- Assist the Development and QA team in reviews and make sure all requirements are addressed and updated.
- Define functional and non-functional product requirements and ensure appropriate testing frameworks for product features based on the environments available and limitations of vendors.
- Own and maintain a prioritized work backlog for Agile teams or programs.
- Review and accept output of vendor and/or business development to ensure specified acceptance criteria have been completed.
- Ensure product development efforts comply with the bank's Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) process including approvals and documentation for audit, requirements for IT Change Control.
Other
- 4+ years of related experience in Product Management or similar field.
- Bachelor's degree in related field required; Masters or MBA in related field preferred.
- Intermediate to advanced knowledge of general banking operations, including deposit operations, loan administration, treasury management and/or other commercial banking products and services.
- Intermediate to advanced knowledge of applicable regulatory and legal compliance obligations, rules and regulations, industry standards and practices.
- Build a culture of accountability and ownership by empowering the product management team to make decisions as close to the work as possible.
- Collaborate with product managers to define product requirements and prioritize features based on customer feedback and market analysis.
- Oversee the product development lifecycle, from concept to launch.
