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Small Business Relationship Banker - Greater Chicago area
US Bank National Association · 🇺🇸 10 Locations
Sponsorship verdict
Sponsorship possible
One solid signal, not two — worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.
- Employer is on a government sponsor recordUSCIS Data Hub records 294 H-1B approvals for this employer in FY2023. Source: USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub (US Citizenship and Immigration Services).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).
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Sponsor Radar — US Bank National Association
USCIS Data Hub records 294 H-1B approvals for this employer in FY2023. Source: USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub (US Citizenship and Immigration Services).
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About the role
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. Job Description Small Business Relationship Bankers demonstrate excellent customer service in accordance with the U.S. Bank Core Values while serving as the primary Small Business Banking partner for assigned branches and relationships. They provide comprehensive financial solutions to small businesses with annual revenues between $500K and $2.5 million, typically supporting two to three branch locations as a dedicated resource for branch teams. The role builds and deepens client relationships through proactive outreach, structured discovery, consultative selling, disciplined follow-through, and translation of financial information, cash-flow dynamics, client goals, operating cycle considerations, and risk indicators into practical guidance and solution recommendations. This job requires outside prospecting and sales activities to grow revenue and achieve assigned financial targets and growth goals. Bankers identify stated and unstated client priorities, align products and services to growth, efficiency, and risk objectives, and clearly articulate value, trade-offs, and next steps. Solutions may include business deposit products, lending and credit products, treasury management, payment solutions, business credit cards, digital tools, cash-flow tools, and other appropriate small-business solutions. The role collaborates with branch partners, centers of influence, clients, and other business line partners, maintains relationship ownership and coordination through handoff, decision, follow-up, activation, usage, and demonstrated client value, and balances acquisition, deepening, and service while maintaining strong CRM discipline and responsible banking practices. This position requires National Mortgage Licensing Service registration under the terms of the S.A.F.E. Act of 2008 and Regulation Z and ongoing compliance with all legal or regulatory registration requirements, including maintaining a satisfactory criminal and credit record. Basic Qualifications • Bachelor’s degree in Business, Accounting, Finance, equivalent work experience, or a combination of experience and commensurate training. • Typically has three or more years of customer service, consultative sales, networking, prospecting, and/or small-business banking experience. • Demonstrates job-related experience aligned to proficient client discovery, prospecting, solutioning, relationship-building, communication, product knowledge, pipeline management, and risk management behaviors. Preferred Skills/Experience • Proficient ability to conduct structured discovery conversations that uncover stated and unstated client priorities and frame needs in clear business terms. • Ability to interpret basic financial information with occasional guidance, recognize common cash-flow dynamics, and connect client goals to standard solutions. • Experience conducting proactive outreach through outbound calling, networking, referral sources, events, centers of influence, pipeline data, and other business development activities. • Ability to position core small-business products, services, and digital tools that support growth, efficiency, cash-flow optimization, risk mitigation, and scalability. • Ability to engage appropriate partners when revenue