Product Owner- Digital & Platform Services - Vice President

Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to join a dynamic and growing team in a fast paced and challenging area This is a unique opportunity for you to work in the Product Management team to partner with the Business.

As a Vice President - Product Owner in the Digital & Platform Services team, you will play a key role in leveraging AI and intelligent automation to streamline the end-to-end booking lifecycle-reducing manual touchpoints, accelerating accuracy, and driving business performance. You will collaborate with business and technology leaders to identify AI-driven opportunities, design smart automation solutions, and deliver results that matter to our firm and clients. You will be part of a team that values innovation, transparency, and continuous improvement, harnessing AI as a core enabler to achieve more together

Job responsibilities

• Set product vision/strategy and shape the roadmap through discovery (interviews, process deep-dives, data/controls analysis).
• Own and refine the backlog (epics/features/stories) aligned to priorities and measurable outcomes.
• Track success metrics across cost, functionality, risk posture, and reliability to drive decisions.
• Drive simplification/modernization of commercial lending servicing with engineering partners.
• Deliver scalable capabilities across the lending lifecycle (credit, underwriting, closing, funding and servicing).
• Ensure requirements are clear, testable, and traceable-avoiding one-off solutions.
• Align business, ops, tech, and controls on scope, sequencing, and trade-offs.
• Manage dependencies, risks, and decisions communicate changes clearly.
• Ensure operational readiness and adherence to risk/control and quality standards.
• Lead QA/UAT and support go-live, hypercare, and continuous improvement using feedback and outcomes.
• Identify productivity/efficiency/control improvements via redesign, digitization, and automation and use personas/UX inputs to keep decisions user-centric.

Required qualifications, capabilities and skills

• Bachelor's Degree with 12 years experience including minimum of 5 years of experience or equivalent expertise in product management or a relevant domain area, for commercial lending or experience in a Back office/Financial industry
• Advanced knowledge of the product development life cycle, design, and data analytics
• Proven ability to lead product life cycle activities including discovery, ideation, strategic development, requirements definition, and value management
• Candidates with knowledge of loan systems like Loan IQ, ACBS
• Knowledge of technology standards, industry trends, and emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence.
• Experience writing technical stories using industry-standard tools and notations (e.g., Jira/Confluence).

Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills

• Demonstrated experience applying AI and automation to transform operational workflows
• Knowledge of lending products, credit documentation, and end-to-end loan lifecycle processes
• Solid understanding of project management and business analysis techniques
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills-able to translate between business and technology audiences with clarity
• Commercial awareness with a genuine interest in business development and how technology drives value