Head of Consumer Checking & Deposit Growth
Are you ready to take your career to the next level?
In this role, you will lead the end-to-end growth strategy and performance for the consumer checking and deposit franchise, with clear accountability for customer acquisition, primacy, engagement, and deposit growth outcomes. You will have the opportunity to define how and where the business wins, translating customer insight, market dynamics, and economic drivers into a clear, actionable path to expand the customer base and deepen relationships.
Operating as the owner of the enterprise growth agenda, you will be responsible to shape product direction, optimize channel and demand generation performance, and ensure a disciplined focus on customer experience and measurable outcomes. Success in this role requires balancing long-term strategic vision with rigorous execution—translating priorities into clear actions, aligned incentives, and sustained business impact.
You will operate with a broad cross-functional influence across Product, Marketing, Digital, Distribution, Finance, Operations, and Technology, ensuring alignment from strategy through delivery. In close partnership with Marketing, Pricing, and Distribution teams, you will drive integrated growth execution—refining the growth roadmap, enabling competitive positioning, and maximizing performance across channels and customer segments.
Does this role speak to you? If so, read on:
Key Responsibilities:
- In this role, you will define and lead the multi-year household and deposit growth strategies aligned to enterprise objectives—identifying target customer segments and relationship opportunities to drive sustainable growth and quality.
- You will optimize performance across existing and growing channels including branch network, affluent relationship coverage models, business banking channels, and digital—defining channel roles, economics, and integration across the customer journey.
- You will influence and advocate for continued positive progress in the customer and product value position, ensuring it reflects customer needs, market opportunities, and business objectives.
- You will translate strategic intent into actionable customer acquisition, engagement, and relationship deepening roadmaps—clearly articulating priorities and desired outcomes for delivery and partner teams.
- You will establish expected outcomes and measurement plans aligned to actions, inclusive of front- and back-book performance including engagement, retention, and other relationship deepening focuses
Skillsets Needed:
- Proven track record of driving customer growth and relationship deepening in consumer financial services.
- Deep understanding of acquisition and portfolio economics, lifecycle management, and customer value creation.
- Strong financial acumen to support trade-off decisions, business case development, and ongoing optimization.
- Strategic thinker with the ability to set vision and direction while actively engaging in execution details.
- Enterprise leader skilled at influencing across a complex, matrixed organization at all levels.
- Builder mindset, comfortable operating in scaling or evolving environments.
- Demonstrated ability to translate strategy into measurable financial outcomes
Hours & Work Schedule
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Skills Required
- Proven track record of driving customer growth in consumer financial services
- Deep understanding of acquisition and portfolio economics
- Strong financial acumen for business case development
- Strategic thinker with the ability to set vision and direction
- Experience influencing across a matrixed organization
- Builder mindset in scaling environments
- Ability to translate strategy into measurable outcomes
Citizens Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Citizens and has not been reviewed or approved by Citizens.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is positioned as comprehensive, with multiple plan options and preventive care highlighted as fully covered. Mental-health support is also emphasized through EAP-style counseling access and app-based support.
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Retirement Support — Retirement benefits are described as meaningful, including an employer match and additional company contributions in some descriptions. Stock purchase features and occasional profit-sharing framing add to the overall retirement-and-wealth picture.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off benefits are described as generous, including a substantial PTO bank, paid holidays, and sizeable parental leave. Adoption assistance and emergency backup care are also presented as part of the leave-related support set.
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What We Do
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