Digital Product Manager - Charles Schwab

OpenTalent; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 86,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Charles Schwab is seeking a Digital Product Manager (individual contributor) to support core trading path experiences on retail web and mobile applications. You will manage backlog, write user stories, and work closely with web and mobile scrum teams in a deadline-driven environment.

The role requires hands-on product lifecycle experience in financial services, ability to elicit requirements, and strong collaboration with design, engineering, and product stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Experience in digital product management for web and mobile
• Ability to elicit and document requirements and stories
• Familiarity with retail trading platforms and tech teams

Responsibilities

• Define and manage product backlog for trading features across web and mobile
• Collaborate with web and mobile scrum teams to deliver enhancements
• Analyze user needs, write user stories, and support feature delivery end-to-end

Skills

Product management

Agile

Backlog ownership

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Pay range: USD $85,500.00 - $150,000.00 / Year Your opportunity At Schwab, you're empowered to make an impact on your career. Here, innovative thought meets creative problem solving, helping us "challenge the status quo" and transform the finance industry together. We believe in the importance of in-office collaboration and fully intend for the selected candidate for this role to work on site in the specified location(s). Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis without employer sponsorship. Charles Schwab's Digital Investing & Trading team is responsible for defining, delivering, and managing retail client-facing trading platforms. We work, think and approach problems differently than your traditional financial services firm, and we drive to change both how Schwab and industry operate to serve investors. We are looking for a D igital Product Manager (individual contributor) to support our existing core trading path experiences on retail web and mobile applications. This role will manage backlog executing on work that may touch key experiences like the trade ticket, order status, options chains and positions. Responsibilities include analysis, elicitation, and documentation of requirements / stories associated with new digital trading features and managing and maintaining a robust backlog augmenting existing POs on potentially multiple teams. This individual contributor will work closely with web and mobile application scrum teams. The role involves hands on full product lifecycle experience to build and grow product management skills and requires financial services knowledge and experience. This role will report to the Director, Digital Trading within the Digital Retail organization.

What you are good at:

• You will drive modern digital product management principles and serve as a core team member and leader across technology, design and product teams
• You are enthusiastic and will motivate the team to leverage individual strengths to move past difficult situations
• You will help foster an environment of trust, effectively communicating within the team and with an ecosystem of stakeholders
• You are comfortable working in a volatile, uncertain, and changing environment where priorities can be fluid
• You will work directly with a hardworking team of digital product and technology professionals
• You will think "horizontally" to deliver an outstanding experience for our clients across points of interaction / channels
• You will champion Agile methodologies, participating where required in the product roles in daily stand-up meetings, sprint planning sessions, backlog prioritization, user story preparation and demos
• You will execute in a deadline-driven environment
• You will at times, when necessary, conduct usability testing and competitive analysis to bring future enhancements to the experience
• Bachelor's degree