Data Product Owner

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 U.S. Bank is seeking an experienced Data Product Owner to drive the strategy, roadmap, prioritization, and delivery of data products within the Investment Services Data Domain. This role serves as the primary liaison between business stakeholders, governance partners, and technology teams, translating business needs into scalable, governed, and reusable data products that support reporting, analytics, operational decision-making, and AI-enabled use cases. The Data Product Owner is accountable for the full lifecycle of assigned data products, including intake, prioritization, requirements management, adoption, governance, and continuous improvement. While primarily focused on product ownership and stakeholder engagement, this role may also contribute to the design, prototyping, and development of foundational "gold" data products to accelerate delivery, support modernization efforts, and promote consistency across the organization. Essential Functions • Develop and maintain product vision, strategy, roadmaps, and priorities for assigned data products, ensuring alignment with business objectives and enterprise data strategy. • Partner with business stakeholders to identify opportunities, gather requirements, and translate business needs into user stories, acceptance criteria, and prioritized backlogs. • Lead intake, prioritization, and roadmap discussions, balancing business value, strategic objectives, technical dependencies, risk considerations, and available delivery capacity. • Collaborate with data engineering, architecture, analytics, and governance teams to design and deliver trusted, scalable, and reusable data products that support reporting, analytics, operational processes, and AI-enabled solutions. • Champion data-as-a-product principles, including product ownership, discoverability, documentation, governance, data quality, metadata, lineage, and lifecycle management. • Drive adoption and continuous improvement through stakeholder engagement, product performance monitoring, user feedback, and measurement of business outcomes. • Support the development and evolution of governed "gold" data products that improve consistency, traceability, scalability, and reuse across business and technology teams. • Identify opportunities to simplify, standardize, modernize, and consolidate data assets and reporting solutions, including support for cloud migration and enterprise data initiatives. • Contribute to product design, prototyping, data analysis, or development activities when appropriate to accelerate delivery and establish foundational data capabilities.   Basic Qualifications • Bachelor's degree, or equivalent work experience. • Typically eight or more years of experience in data, analytics, product management, business analysis, technology delivery, or related disciplines.   Preferred Skills & Experience • Experience supporting Investment Services, Fund Services, Custody, Fund Accounting, Transfer Agency, or other financial services organizations preferred. • Experience defining business requirements, user stories, product roadmaps, and prioritization frameworks. • Experience working across business and technology organizations to deliver data, analytics, or