Wells Fargo is seeking a Lead Product Owner to drive strategic initiatives within the Account Opening & Maintenance product organization. This role is responsible for defining product vision, shaping roadmap priorities, and delivering business outcomes through strong stakeholder leadership and execution excellence. The ideal candidate is a strategic thinker and trusted partner who can independently lead initiatives, facilitate alignment across business and technology teams, and translate complex challenges into actionable solutions. Learn more about our career areas and business divisions at wellsfargojobs.com .
In this role, you will:
- Own product outcomes end-to-end by identifying, prioritizing, and delivering capabilities that maximize customer and business value.
- Drive product vision, roadmap, and prioritization across complex initiatives.
- Serve as a trusted liaison among business, technology, operations, Legal, Risk, and Compliance partners.
- Facilitate stakeholder meetings and governance forums, including agendas, decisions, action items, and meeting minutes.
- Develop business cases and executive presentations to support strategic decisions and investments.
- Leverage data, analytics, and insights to guide prioritization and decision-making.
- Manage product roadmaps and Jira backlogs while balancing long-term strategy with near-term delivery.
- Utilize GenAI tools to accelerate research, analysis, documentation, and workflow efficiency.
- Mentor Product Owners and provide leadership across cross-functional teams.
- 5+ years of Product Management, product development, strategic planning, process management, change delivery experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
- End-to-End Product Vision: Ability to define and execute a product vision that aligns business objectives, customer needs, and delivery outcomes.
- Strategic Business Cases: Experience developing business cases that articulate value, ROI, risks, and enterprise alignment.
- Stakeholder Leadership: Proven ability to influence and align business, technology, operations, Legal, Risk, and Compliance partners.
- Meeting & Governance Excellence: Expertise in facilitating stakeholder meetings, developing agendas, documenting decisions, publishing meeting minutes, and driving accountability for action items.
- Executive Presentations: Expertise in developing leadership-ready PowerPoint presentations that communicate strategy, progress, risks, and recommendations.
- Data-Driven Storytelling: Ability to leverage data and insights to influence executive decision-making.
- GenAI Utilization: Experience leveraging Generative AI (GenAI) tools to accelerate research, analysis, documentation, and workflow efficiency.
- Agile Execution: Advanced proficiency with Jira for roadmap planning, backlog management, prioritization, and delivery execution.
- Financial Services Experience: Experience in Wealth Management, Brokerage, Account Opening, Servicing, or related financial services domains.
- 1525 W W T Harris Blvd, Charlotte, NC 28262
- This position is not eligible for Visa sponsorship
- This position offers a hybrid work schedule
28 Jul 2026
*Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.
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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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Skills Required
- 5+ years of Product Management, product development, strategic planning, process management, change delivery experience or equivalent
- Ability to define and execute end-to-end product vision that aligns business objectives and customer needs
- Experience developing business cases that articulate value, ROI, risks, and enterprise alignment
- Proven stakeholder leadership aligning business, technology, operations, Legal, Risk, and Compliance
- Expertise in facilitating meetings and governance, documenting decisions, and driving accountability
- Experience creating executive-ready PowerPoint presentations
- Ability to leverage data and analytics to influence decision-making
- Experience leveraging Generative AI tools to accelerate research, analysis, and documentation
- Advanced proficiency with Jira for roadmap planning, backlog management, and delivery execution
- Financial services experience (Wealth Management, Brokerage, Account Opening, Servicing) preferred
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage begins on day 1 with medical, dental, and vision, and includes mental health, prescription drugs, and preventive care often covered at 100% in-network. Well-being resources such as 24-hour clinical support and an Employee Assistance Program add to the breadth.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave provides up to 16 weeks for a primary caregiver (4 weeks for non-primary) alongside fertility benefits and up to a $35,000 lifetime reimbursement for adoption, surrogacy, and donor expenses. Backup child and adult care further supports family needs.
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Retirement Support — Retirement benefits feature a 401(k) with company matching contributions up to 6% of eligible pay. An employee stock purchase plan adds another avenue for long-term savings.
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