Digital Product Owner — Financial Services & Strategy

Ameriprise Financial Services, LLC; Minneapolis (MN); Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 138,000; Full time

Job summary

Ameriprise Financial has a Digital Product Owner opportunity to lead vision and strategy for a digital product, aligning customer insights with business goals. You will balance strategic leadership with agile execution, driving discovery and measurable outcomes in close partnership with design, engineering and stakeholders.

You will manage personas, journeys, value propositions, and success metrics, ensuring a customer-centric approach to backlog prioritization and roadmap planning, while

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
• 5–7 years product management or product owner experience, with at least 3 years in an agile, software-based environment
• Proven ability to lead product discovery and strategy
• Strong experience translating business strategy and customer insights into clear product direction and roadmaps
• Demonstrated success influencing cross-functional partners without direct authority
• Experience using qualitative and quantitative data to inform product decisions
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Strong prioritization and organizational skills across multiple initiatives

Responsibilities

• Lead product vision and strategy by deeply understanding customer needs, business objectives, and market opportunities; translate insights into a clear, outcome-driven digital roadmap.
• Own and evolve personas, user journeys, value propositions, and success metrics, ensuring the team remains anchored in customer-centric problem solving.
• Drive product discovery activities in partnership with UX and business stakeholders, including opportunity identification, hypothesis definition, and validation of solutions before delivery.
• Partner closely with UX Design and Engineering Leads to define roadmap priorities, shape the backlog, and provide context for why work matters - not just what is being built.
• Represent the product to the business as the primary point of contact, facilitating alignment on priorities, tradeoffs, and sequencing to maximize impact.
• Define and track KPIs and measurable outcomes, regularly sharing insights and progress with stakeholders and leadership.
• Identify new opportunities to deepen customer relationships and deliver value through continuous assessment of customer behavior, feedback, analytics, and qualitative research.
• Provide day-to-day leadership for one or more Agile Scrum teams, influencing without authority and ensuring clarity of vision throughout execution.
• Partner with senior product leadership on strategic planning, investment decisions, and annual budgeting, adjusting strategy as learnings evolve.
• Foster strong cross-functional relationships with UX, Engineering, Analytics, Compliance, Security, and business partners to ensure scalable, high-quality digital solutions.

Skills

Product ownership

Product strategy

Agile

Roadmap planning

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Jira

Productboard

Confluence

Job description

Ameriprise Financial has a Digital Product Owner opportunity to lead vision and strategy for a digital product, aligning customer insights with business goals. You will balance strategic leadership with agile execution, driving discovery and measurable outcomes in close partnership with design, engineering and stakeholders.

You will manage personas, journeys, value propositions, and success metrics, ensuring a customer-centric approach to backlog prioritization and roadmap planning, while