Senior IT Product Leader - Bank Platform & Modernization

Charles Schwab; Southlake (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) with company match and Employee

stock purchase plan

Paid time for vacation, volunteering,

28-day sabbatical after every 5 years

Paid parental leave and family

Tuition reimbursement Health, dental,

and vision insurance

Job summary

Charles Schwab, in Texas, seeks a Senior Manager, IT Product Management (PL) to lead Product Owners across multiple Agile teams and drive modernization of core banking capabilities. You will set backlog ownership standards, coach leaders, and ensure delivery aligns with strategic priorities.

You will partner with Bank Platform leadership and cross-functional partners to translate ambitious goals into executable roadmaps, while fostering collaboration and accountability in a large-scale

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent relevant experience.
• 5+ years of experience in product ownership, product delivery, business systems analysis, technology delivery, or a related discipline.
• 3+ years of people-management experience or demonstrated formal leadership of Product Owners or comparable product-delivery professionals.
• Strong working knowledge of Agile, Scrum, and scaled delivery practices.
• Experience using JIRA, Rally, Confluence, or comparable Agile delivery and collaboration tools.
• Experience applying AI-enabled tools or capabilities to improve product ownership, requirements development, analysis, decision-making, or team productivity.
• Strong facilitation, communication, influencing, negotiation, and conflict-resolution skills.
• Ability to understand complex technology-delivery challenges and coach employees toward sound decisions and solutions.
• Ability to communicate effectively with employees, peer leaders, senior leaders, and cross-functional partners.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of Product Owners supporting the growth of deposit products and modernization of core banking capabilities.
• Build a strong Product Owner practice with clear expectations for backlog ownership, prioritization, refinement, story readiness, acceptance criteria, and stakeholder engagement.
• Hire and onboard Product Owner talent, create development plans, provide timely feedback, and build bench strength for a growing organization.
• Align Product Owner assignments and capacity to business priorities, delivery readiness, and employee development opportunities.
• Coordinate closely with our platform intake team to facilitate prioritization, business partner outreach, and execution of requests
• Develop and deliver presentations communicating capacity plans and roadmap information in a clear and concise structure.
• Coordinate and prioritize reported production issues in partnership with platform leadership and Bank production support teams.
• Build trusted partnerships across Product Management, Bank Technology, Operations, Risk, and other enterprise teams.

Skills

Agile

Scrum

Product ownership

Leadership

Stakeholder management

JIRA

Rally

Confluence

AI-enabled tools

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

JIRA

Rally

Confluence

Job description

Charles Schwab, in Texas, seeks a Senior Manager, IT Product Management (PL) to lead Product Owners across multiple Agile teams and drive modernization of core banking capabilities. You will set backlog ownership standards, coach leaders, and ensure delivery aligns with strategic priorities.

You will partner with Bank Platform leadership and cross-functional partners to translate ambitious goals into executable roadmaps, while fostering collaboration and accountability in a large-scale