Senior Product Manager – Application Business Owner Governance
About this role:
Wells Fargo is seeking a Senior Product Manager role.
In this role, you will:
- Lead or participate in product management initiatives and deliverables for product lines or services
- Contribute to product analysis across applicable markets, conduct market research and market results-oriented analysis
- Review and analyze marketing programs for new products or enhancements including identification of market segments, product positioning, product bundling, pricing and profitability
- Resolve moderately complex issues and lead team to meet project goals, objectives and deliverables
- Ensure programs adhere to compliance, privacy regulations and policies
- Collaborate and consult with managers, analysts and project teams to ensure that goals are achieved
- Lead projects, teams or serve as a mentor
Required Qualifications:
- 4+ years of Product Management experience, product development experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
Job Expectation:
- 4+ years of Product Management, Technology Governance, Application Ownership, Risk Management, Control Management, Financial Services, or equivalent experience demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, or education.
- Experience supporting business applications, technology platforms, product capabilities, or operational processes in a regulated environment.
- Experience managing cross-functional deliverables across product, technology, risk, control, compliance, or operations teams.
- Experience preparing, reviewing, or validating documentation, evidence, approvals, or governance artifacts for internal review, audit, control, or regulatory purposes.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex information clearly to business, technology, and senior leadership audiences.
Desired Qualifications:
- Experience in banking, payments, treasury services, financial technology, operations, or enterprise platform governance.
- Knowledge of application business ownership, technology risk, information security, identity and access management, records management, privacy, data governance, release management, or operational controls.
- Ability to influence outcomes and lead through ambiguity across matrixed teams without direct authority.
- Strong analytical, organizational, and execution skills, with demonstrated ability to manage competing priorities and deadlines.
- Experience creating governance trackers, operating routines, executive updates, process documentation, playbooks, or control evidence packages.
- Demonstrated ability to identify risk, escalate issues appropriately, drive remediation, and maintain a strong control mindset
- Provide business ownership and governance oversight for assigned applications, platforms, or capabilities in accordance with enterprise policies, standards, and control expectations.
- Lead and coordinate governance activities, including ownership validation, metadata certification, control reviews, risk assessments, evidence collection, and periodic attestations.
- Collaborate with Product, Technology, Risk, Control, Information Security, Privacy, Records Management, Operations, and other stakeholders to ensure governance deliverables are clearly understood and completed on time.
- Assess business impacts related to releases, changes, incidents, defects, data quality issues, control gaps, and operational readiness activities.
- Drive completion of required certifications, approvals, remediation actions, and evidence submissions within assigned scope.
- Support audit, regulatory, self-assurance, and front-line monitoring activities by coordinating accurate, complete, and well-documented evidence.
- Identify process gaps, escalate risks, recommend improvements, and establish repeatable routines, trackers, and playbooks to strengthen efficiency and control discipline.
- Prepare clear communications for senior stakeholders, including concise updates, decision points, issue summaries, and action plans.
Posting End Date:
4 Sep 2026*Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.
We Value Equal Opportunity
Wells Fargo is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected characteristic.
Employees support our focus on building strong customer relationships balanced with a strong risk mitigating and compliance-driven culture which firmly establishes those disciplines as critical to the success of our customers and company. They are accountable for execution of all applicable risk programs (Credit, Market, Financial Crimes, Operational, Regulatory Compliance), which includes effectively following and adhering to applicable Wells Fargo policies and procedures, appropriately fulfilling risk and compliance obligations, timely and effective escalation and remediation of issues, and making sound risk decisions. There is emphasis on proactive monitoring, governance, risk identification and escalation, as well as making sound risk decisions commensurate with the business unit’s risk appetite and all risk and compliance program requirements.
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