Associate Product Owner at Wintrust Financial Corporation in Rosemont, Illinois

Job Description:

Wintrust is a financial holding company with approximately $50 billion assets under management and traded on the NASDAQ:WTFC. Built on the "HAVE IT ALL" model, Wintrust offers sophisticated technology and resources of a large bank while focusing on providing service-based community banking to each and every customer. Wintrust operates fifteen community bank subsidiaries with over 170 banking locations in the greater Chicago and southern Wisconsin market areas. Additionally, Wintrust operates various non-bank business units including commercial and life insurance premium financing, short-term accounts receivable financing, out-sourced administrative services, mortgage origination and purchase, wealth management services and qualified intermediary services for tax-deferred exchanges.

Why join us?

• An award-winning culture! We are rated a Top Workplace by the Chicago Tribune (past 10 years) and Employee Recommended award by the Globe & Mail (past 6 years).




• Competitive pay and discretionary or incentive bonus eligible.




• Comprehensive benefit package including medical, dental, vision, life, a 401k plan with a generous company match and tuition reimbursement to name a few




• Promote from within culture.

Why Join this Team?

• We are a high performing, collaborative, and diverse team focused on transforming the business through engaging work on enterprise-wide product innovation




• You will join a major new Product Implementation that will define the target Lending Experience on a best-in-class Loan Origination Platform for the Enterprise




• Opportunity to work and grow with experienced product owner/managers




• Work across disciplines and departments, with opportunities for exposure to and partnership with management in leading strategic initiatives

Position Summary

The Associate Product Owner (APO) is the agile team member primarily responsible for maximizing the value delivered by the nCino team by ensuring that the team backlog is aligned with customer and stakeholder needs. This team member collaborates with the nCino Center of Excellence (COE) technical team to communicate the product vision, articulate and prioritize the features to be built, and ensures the agile team executes the features. In addition, the APO will provide subject matter support in a tiered platform support system --- opening, prioritizing, and tracking defect resolution work as needed.

What You’ll Do

• Product Requirements Definition: Produce related project documentation to support nCino Loan Origination System (LOS) platform capability enhancement and expansion including: business requirements in the form of JIRA user stories with related current and target state process flows / business architecture diagrams, as well as supporting user acceptance test scripts to drive business validation.




• Product Testing and Validation: Execute User Acceptance Testing and report defects back to IT to resolve issues prior to implementation.




• Product Roll-out and Training: Partner with Manager, Product Management – Enterprise nCino Loan Origination Platform and Learning & Development Partners to define custom training content, participating in end-user training sessions as the Product SME.




• Product Management and Administration: Assist end users with business administration, enhancements, production issues and related projects; work with the Manager, Platform Management – Enterprise nCino Loan Origination Platform to prioritize and align business requests to the Strategic Roadmap, and escalations as required for production hot fix.




• Product Design and Innovation: Liaise with Business Stakeholders and End Users, Enterprise nCino Loan Origination and Salesforce Product Teams, Enterprise nCino Loan Origination and Salesforce Center of Excellence Teams, and IT partners across Wintrust to elicit and assess functional requirements and consult on platform capability enhancement and expansion. 

Qualifications

• 1+ years working in a financial services environment with special emphasis on coordinating business, functional requirements and/or project management across cross-functional teams, programs, or projects – strongly preferred.




• 1+ years familiarity on the Salesforce CRM Platform and/or nCino LOS Platform in support of nCino Platform Product Delivery and Management – strongly preferred.




• 1+ years working in agile software delivery at a large business or institution.




• Ability and disposition to take initiative independently, bring intellectual curiosity to business and technical challenges, objectively identify and raise risks, identify and prioritize work according to value, and contribute to a positive, safe team culture.




• Effectively communicate with both technical and non-technical colleagues and leadership, verbally and in writing.

Benefits

Medical Insurance • Dental • Vision • Life insurance • Accidental death and dismemberment • Short-term and long term Disability Insurance • Parental Leave • Employee Assistance Program (EAP) • Traditional and Roth 401(k) with company match • Flexible Spending Account (FSA) • Employee Stock Purchase Plan at 5% discount • Critical Illness Insurance • Accident Insurance • Transportation and Commuting Benefits • Banking Benefits • Pet Insurance

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From our first day in business, Wintrust has been proud to serve a variety of unique communities and people from all walks of life. To be Chicago’s Bank® and Wisconsin's Bank®, we need to reflect that diversity both in all the communities we serve, the people we employ, the organizations we work with, and our banking and lending practices. Wintrust Financial Corporation, including community banking and financial services subsidiaries, is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expressions, genetic information, marital status, age, disability, or status as a covered veteran or any other characteristic protected by law.