Product Owner: Securities and Prime Services Delivery (VP)

About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking an experienced Product Owner (individual contributor) for planning, coordination, and delivering enhancements across Client Reporting, Client Portal, Trade Processing, and Client Billing platforms. The Product Owner manages the backlog, documents requirements, drives Agile delivery, coordinates stakeholders, leads release readiness, and delivers executive reporting to ensure successful execution of strategic, operational, and regulatory initiatives.

In this role, you will:

Lead delivery management activities for assigned product capabilities within the Securities and Prime Services organization, partnering with global product managers and technology teams to manage execution, dependencies, risks, and delivery commitments.

Functional and Technical Skills 

Product Ownership:

• Execute the product roadmap across Client Reporting, Client Portals, Trade Processing, and Client Billing platforms.
• Evaluate business requests, operational needs, client feedback, and regulatory requirements to prioritize the backlog and plan delivery.
• Maintain visibility into product initiatives, dependencies, milestones, and delivery commitments.
• Manage quarterly planning activities, including Big Room Planning (BRP), capacity reviews, dependency management, and roadmap coordination.
• Manage the product demand and intake process, ensuring requests are documented, tracked, and routed appropriately.

Agile Delivery & Product Ownership:

• Create, refine, and maintain Epics, Features, and User Stories in Jira.
• Partner with Business Analysts and Technology teams to translate business requirements into actionable work items.
• Manage backlog grooming, sprint planning, story refinement, and prioritization sessions.
• Lead Agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, retrospectives, backlog reviews, and daily scrum meetings as needed.
• Track delivery progress, identify risks and dependencies, and escalate issues when appropriate.
• Lead user acceptance testing, defect triage, and production validation activities.
• Evaluate solution options and document impacts to operational workflows and client processes.

Stakeholder Coordination & Governance:

• Coordinate Product, Operations, Technology, Client Service, Finance, Risk, and Compliance stakeholders to drive delivery activities.
• Drive communication and coordination across multiple workstreams and delivery teams.
• Maintain action item, decision, and issue logs for key initiatives.
• Drive communication and coordination across multiple workstreams and delivery teams.

Manage business continuity planning (BCP) and operational readiness reviews.

• Lead client readiness planning and implementation activities for new product capabilities and enhancements.
• Lead business continuity planning (BCP) exercises and operational readiness reviews.
• Coordinate stakeholder communications, training materials, and rollout activities.
• Manage and respond to internal and external inquiries related to product capabilities and ongoing initiatives.

Product Domains:

• Client Portal and digital client experience solutions.
• Trade Processing and post-trade operational workflows.
• Client Billing and fee management solutions.
• Regulatory, operational, and client service enhancements across the Securities and Prime Services product suite.

Executive Communication 

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to engage credibly with clients, product specialists, technology teams and senior leaders across global businesses. 

• Create concise, executive-ready presentations and updates that clearly explain outcomes, delivery status, trade-offs, risks and decisions required. 

• Translate complex markets, platform and operational issues into clear, outcome-oriented conversations. 

• Build strong communication channels and trusted relationships across business, operations, control and technology partners. 

• Use AI-supported summaries and narratives judiciously for executive communication, ensuring accuracy, context and appropriate review. 

Change Mindset and Collaboration 

• Work effectively at the intersection of business domain expertise, product ownership and project management. 

• Collaborate across global teams to shape solutions, resolve dependencies and drive decisions through to implementation. 

• Challenge existing processes constructively and identify opportunities to improve efficiency, control and user experience. 

• Demonstrate adaptability, curiosity and continuous learning, including responsible adoption of emerging AI capabilities to increase delivery velocity. 

Risk & Control Mindset 

• Embed risk and control considerations into product design, prioritization, testing and implementation. 

• Ensure product capabilities and delivery processes comply with applicable SEC, FINRA and FRB requirements and Wells Fargo’s risk frameworks. 

• Identify and escalate delivery, operational, conduct, regulatory and technology risks in a timely manner. 

• Ensure responsible AI use with awareness of data privacy, information security, ethical and regulatory requirements. 

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of Business Execution, Implementation, or Strategic Planning experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education

MBA or equivalent relevant experience. ·        

• 5+ years of experience across Securities, Capital Markets, Prime Brokerage, Trade Processing, Client Reporting, or Billing workflows preferred.
• Experience working with Agile delivery methodologies and Jira.
• Strong organizational and project coordination skills.
• Experience collaborating with business, operations, and technology stakeholders.
• Strong communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to create executive-ready presentations and present information to persuade, educate, and enhance understanding at all levels.
• Ability to work effectively in a demanding, fast-paced, dynamic environment, handling multiple tasks and projects concurrently while maintaining quality, accuracy, integrity, accountability, and attention to detail.
• Ability to work in a global team, interact at different levels, and manage deliverables with varying levels of complexity, with a focus on execution and results.
• Advanced Microsoft Office skills, including PowerPoint, Word, and Excel.
• Experience identifying and driving process improvements in complex environments.

Work Arrangement, Shift Timings & Flexibility 

• Work Model: Hybrid working model with a minimum requirement of three (3) days per week from office. 

• Flexibility: The role requires reasonable flexibility to attend stakeholder meetings or calls as needed during US business hours and to provide support for weekend activities, as required, particularly during release and deployment windows. 

Posting End Date:

21 Oct 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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