Fintech Acceleration Principal

At U.S. Bank, we’re on a journey to do our best. Helping the customers and businesses we serve to make better and smarter financial decisions and enabling the communities we support to grow and succeed. We believe it takes all of us to bring our shared ambition to life, and each person is unique in their potential. A career with U.S. Bank gives you a wide, ever-growing range of opportunities to discover what makes you thrive at every stage of your career.

Try new things, learn new skills and discover what you excel at—all from Day One.

U.S. Bancorp, with nearly 70,000 employees, is the parent company of U.S. Bank National Association, the fifth-largest bank in the United States. Customers across the country and around the world trust us as a responsible financial partner. This commitment continues to earn us a spot on the Ethisphere Institute’s World’s Most Ethical Companies list and places U.S. Bank in the top 5% of global companies assessed on the CDP “A” List for climate change action.

Be a part of transformational change where integrity matters, success inspires, and great teams collaborate and innovate. We’re one of the United States’ most respected, innovative, ethical, and successful financial institutions. We’re looking for people who want more than just a job – they want to make a difference. We are seeking a technology executive who will contribute to the success of our technology initiatives in our digital transformation and modernization journey.

• At U.S. Bank the Fintech Acceleration team is responsible for managing the discovery, curation and engagement of Financial Technology (Fin Tech) partnerships and investments and all associated compliance and reporting. Working with internal and external stakeholders to ensure that the right strategic partners are effectively found, projects are efficiently executed, the right opportunities are advanced and reported on and the Banks’ Fintech Strategy is positioned to lead it into the future.
• The Fintech Acceleration Lead is part of a team that helps guide Fintech strategy and objectives by assessing business needs and external trends, investment landscape and consumer shifts; responsible for managing the discovery, curation and engagement of Financial Technology (Fin Tech) partnerships and investments for the Bank’s businesses.
• Manages Fintech engagements strategy, sourcing, partnerships, legal, investment and business development for a subset of business lines. Working closely with leaders to build strong relations and flesh out priority areas to focus on. Responsible for products/assignments of highest complexity and/or technological scope. Performs at a highly independent level. Helps project teams to achieve milestones. May manage multiple relationships, with business areas.
  
  Applies expert-level knowledge of professional concepts and established technologies.
• Extensive understanding of consumer trends and markets. Advanced knowledge and experience researching trends, topics and companies. Involvement in extensive, analysis, due diligence, project management, and use of CRM tools. With advanced skills in using CRM tools, running reporting and performing data analysis. Intensive experience collaborating with large teams using effective communication.
• Utilizes a high degree of independence in solving problems and has significant latitude to make decision and take action.
• Makes decisions that are typically only subject to review by senior management. Usually, they have opportunity to affect a substantial portion of revenue or expenses, substantial loss of production or service, or substantial monetary loss with negative impact on goals. Extensive experience developing business cases in new or advanced product lines. Requires a broad understanding and practical application of applicable laws and regulations.

• Research Fin Tech's and be an expert at evaluating and discovering companies that fit with the Banks strategic needs, able to articulate Fin Tech trends and their potential implications to the Banks leadership.
• Keep abreast of trends in relevant landscapes and adjacent industries to…