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Compeer Financial is a member-owned cooperative located in Illinois, Minnesota and Wisconsin. We bring together team members with a variety of backgrounds and experiences to help provide financial services to support agriculture and rural communities. Join us in a culture that not only promotes meaningful work and professional development, but provides a flexible, hybrid work environment and excellent benefits, which empower you to thrive both personally and professionally.
How we support you:
- Hybrid model – up to 50% work from home
- Flexible schedules including ample flexibility in the summer months
- Up to 9% towards 401k (3% fixed Compeer contribution plus up to 6% match)
- Benefits: medical, dental, vision, HSA/FSA, life & AD&D insurance, short-term and long-term disability, wellness program & EAP
- Vacation, sick leave, holidays/floating holidays, parental leave, and volunteer paid time off
- Learning and development programs
- Mentorship programs
- Cross-functional committee opportunities (i.e. Inclusion Council, emerging professional groups, etc.)
- Professional membership/certification reimbursement and more!
Casual/seasonal & intern team members are not eligible for benefits except for state-mandated programs.
To learn more about Compeer Financial visit www.compeer.com/careers.
Where you will work: This position offers a hybrid work option up to 50% and is open to any Compeer office location in Illinois, Minnesota and Wisconsin.
The contributions you will make: AI is rapidly changing what is possible in financial services and we're interested in more than simply adopting new technology. We want to discover where emerging capabilities such as agentic AI can meaningfully improve the experiences of our clients and team members.
As an AI Product Manager within Compeer's Product Enablement team, you'll help us explore that opportunity. You'll identify meaningful problems and jobs-to-be-done, build and prioritize a portfolio of opportunities, and design small, intentional experiments that help us learn quickly. You'll balance discovery with delivery, advancing promising ideas while helping us recognize quickly when an idea isn't worth pursuing.
This isn't a role where you'll be handed a list of AI features to build. You'll help determine where AI should and shouldn't be used. You'll work across product, technology, data, business, risk and other partners to turn promising ideas into safe, valuable experiences while helping Compeer build the practices needed to use AI responsibly and effectively.
A typical day:
- Build and continuously refine a Now / Next / Later portfolio of AI-enabled opportunities grounded in client and business needs.
- Translate problems and jobs-to-be-done into hypotheses that can be discovered, tested and validated.
- Take small bites to learn, designing experiments that reduce uncertainty before significant investment is made.
- Balance discovery and delivery so we're continuously learning while advancing the opportunities with the strongest evidence.
- Define what success looks like and use qualitative and quantitative evidence to determine whether to advance, adapt or stop an idea.
- Explore appropriate levels of AI autonomy, including where humans should remain in the loop and where additional controls are needed.
- Partner closely with technology, data, security, risk, business teams and other product leaders to evaluate feasibility, value and responsible implementation.
- Turn learning into reusable practices, patterns and guidance that help other teams at Compeer confidently explore AI-enabled opportunities.
- Stay curious about emerging AI capabilities while remaining grounded in a simple question: Does this create meaningful value for our clients or team members?
The skills and experience we prefer you have:
- Bachelor’s degree in business or computer science or related field or an equivalent combination of education and experience sufficient to perform the essential functions of the job.
- 3+ years of product management experience.
- Ability to operate effectively in situations where the answer is not yet clear or defined.
- Approach challenges by focusing on the problem itself before considering specific technologies.
- Skilled at transforming ambiguity into actionable hypotheses, experiments, and insights.
- Strong Agile and Lean product instincts, with a preference for iterative, evidence-based progress over large, speculative initiatives.
- Capable of building and managing an opportunity backlog, focusing on business value rather than a traditional feature backlog.
- Comfortable making data-driven decisions, including knowing when to test ideas and when evidence suggests abandoning a pursuit.
- Proficient at translating requirements and perspectives between clients, business stakeholders, and technical teams.
- Understanding, or a strong willingness to learn, the unique aspects of AI products, including data management, evaluation, reliability, security, human oversight, and responsible use.
- A collaborative influencer who can drive organizational learning and change without relying on formal authority.
How we will take care of you:
Our job titles may span more than one career level (associate, senior, principal, etc.). The actual title and base pay offered is dependent upon many factors, such as: training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs and market demands. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. This role is eligible for variable compensation and other benefits.
Compeer Financial is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Must be authorized to work for any employer in the United States. Compeer is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time.
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Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in business, computer science, or a related field, or equivalent education and experience
- 3+ years of product management experience
- Ability to operate effectively in ambiguous or undefined situations
- Problem-focused approach before considering specific technologies
- Ability to transform ambiguity into actionable hypotheses, experiments, and insights
- Strong Agile and Lean product instincts
- Ability to build and manage an opportunity backlog focused on business value
- Ability to make data-driven decisions about testing, advancing, adapting, or abandoning ideas
- Ability to translate requirements between clients, business stakeholders, and technical teams
- Understanding of, or willingness to learn, AI product considerations including data management, evaluation, reliability, security, human oversight, and responsible use
- Collaborative influencing skills to drive organizational learning and change without formal authority
- Authorization to work for any employer in the United States
What We Do
SmartStream is a recognised leader in financial transaction management solutions that enables firms to improve operational control, reduce costs, build new revenue streams, mitigate risk and comply accurately with regulations. By helping its customers through their transformative digital strategies, SmartStream provides a range of solutions for the transaction lifecycle with artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies embedded - which can also be deployed in the cloud or as managed services. As a result, more than 2,000 clients—including 70 of the world’s top 100 banks, rely on SmartStream Transaction Lifecycle Management (TLM®) solutions to deliver greater efficiency to their operations.
