ICG Liquidity Solutions Product Manager

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** Job Description
** Product Managers at U.S. Bank are customer obsessed in driving product planning, visioning, development, management, and customer experience to deliver on our human + digital product strategy and staying one step ahead of evolving economic, technological, and customer needs. We are seeking a Product Manager to support the Money Center product set on the Liquidity Solutions team. The Money Center provides short-term on-and off-balance sheet investment solutions for our clients, including self-directed investments through the Single Point Investment portal.
** Responsibilities of the role include, but are not limited to:
**** PRODUCT PROFITABILITY******- Structure short- and long-term outcomes and business value of product portfolio including connection to roadmap, Objectives and Key Results, and strategic investments.
** PRODUCT STRATEGY, VISION, AND PLANNING******- Understands and communicates the Money Center product set, along with opportunities, to internal partners, in collaboration with Liquidity Solutions Product Leader.

- Has technical know-how, understands the product technical architecture and the economics of technical investments, e.g., buy vs build, total cost of ownership ‘TCO’.
** PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT******- Drives product development and actively engages cross-functional stakeholders to enable faster speed to market and maximize return on spend in decision making for the product roadmap (e.g., issue resolution, MVP definition, ongoing prioritization).

- Prioritizes resources across developing new products and reimagining existing products.
** CHANNEL ALIGNMENT AND MANAGEMENT**- Leverages enterprise platforms and capabilities, to improve speed to market and drive both development and ongoing support cost efficiencies (e.g., provide more functionality for same investment or same amount of functionality for less investment).
** TECHNOLOGY PRODUCT SUPPORT AND OWNERSHIP**- Own relationships between internal Technology teams and external vendors for product enhancements, roadmap, resource allocation, and development.

- Structure RFPs as needed for new vendors, work with procurement on negotiations.

- Collaborate with internal operations teams to ensure program management, handoff support, and organization with any new implementations.

- Stay current on market trends and opportunities for product enhancement and vendor solutions within the wholesale liquidity solution space.
** ADOPTION**- Prove out product-market fit by finding raving fans, co-creating solutions, driving product demand, activation, and engagement.
** CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE RESEARCH, INSIGHT, AND EXECUTION******- Identifies initial and ongoing product-market fit by communicating and incorporating customer/user needs, competitive landscape, business objectives, the bank’s strategic advantage and economic environment to enhance new and existing products.

- Demonstrates deep understanding of target customer through internal/external research (e.g., creation of personas, story maps, product chartering/mapping experience).
** GO TO MARKET AND SALES CHANNELS******- Engages with enabling functions (e.g., marketing, sales, training, operations, go to market, etc.) to position and promote supported and planned products to achieve business goals.

- Evaluate and onboard vendors as needed.
** PERFORMANCE MEASURE AND OPTIMIZATION** - Develops, analyzes, monitors, and reports on performance metrics from internal and external sources to identify key trends and opportunities for continuous improvement. Uses performance metrics to drive towards progress on identified strategies and…