Lead Digital Product Manager (contract)

Wells Fargo is a financial services company, and they are seeking a Lead Digital Product Manager to drive product strategy and modernization of small-business core banking. This role involves guiding cross-functional teams and managing the end-to-end analysis, data conversion, and process design for banking products.

Responsibilities:

• Own roadmap for small‑business core banking (deposits, servicing, pricing/fees)
• Translate business outcomes into epics, features, and prioritized backlogs
• Lead and mentor Digital PMs, Financial PMs, BSCs, and BAs
• Perform deep functional/non-functional requirements analysis
• Document as‑is core configurations (especially Hogan) and define to‑be designs
• Maintain detailed process flows and system interaction maps
• Lead data conversion strategy and execution (mapping, cleansing, reconciliation, cutover)
• Partner with architecture/engineering on APIs, integration patterns, and data contracts
• Produce configuration workbooks, traceability, conversion rules, and runbooks
• Drive externalization of product/pricing rules and establish governance and versioning
• Ensure scalable, reusable product and pricing configuration models
• Rebuild SME knowledge through playbooks, catalogs, and decision logs
• Embed controls for data quality, auditability, and compliance
• Coordinate with Risk, Compliance, InfoSec, and Audit
• Lead UAT, readiness, cutover, and post‑conversion stabilization
• Manage dependencies across vendors, platform teams, and downstream systems

Requirements:

• Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S. This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship
• Extensive experience in product management or BSC/BA leadership in financial services
• Hands-on experience with mainframe cores (ideally Hogan)
• Proven delivery in core modernization, data conversion, and process engineering
• Strong requirements, process modeling, and traceability expertise
• Experience with small‑business banking products and pricing
• Large-bank experience with Hogan (Wells Fargo, U.S. Bank, Huntington, PNC, etc.)
• Experience externalizing product/pricing rules into catalog/engine-based models
• Familiarity with API-first architectures and eventing/streaming
• Background in cutovers, parallel runs, and post‑migration stabilization
• Knowledge-management and regulatory/audit experience