Branch and Small Business Banking Capability Experience Manager

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Job Description

Join the Branch & Small Business Banking (BSBB) Platforms & Capabilities team to shape the future of banker technology from within the business. This senior individual contributor role provides strategic leadership for banker-facing platforms, tools, equipment, and digital experiences that drive growth, improve efficiency, reduce risk, and enhance both client and employee experiences.

The Capability Experience Manager owns the end-to-end experience for assigned capabilities, defining the future-state vision and multi-year roadmap that connects business strategy to execution while ensuring technology investments deliver measurable business value. This role is responsible for developing the future-state vision that advances fraud controls, strengthens identity verification and modernizes servicing transactions.

Leveraging deep expertise in banker workflows, enablement, and emerging technology, the Capability Experience Manager translates frontline and business needs into actionable strategies and solutions. Through data-driven decision making and cross-functional partnership this individual identifies opportunities, prioritizes investments, and delivers solutions that improve security, reduce risk, and enhance banker effectiveness.

Key Responsibilities

Enterprise Capability Strategy & Experience Leadership

• Define and champion the strategic vision, future-state experience, and long-term evolution of banker-facing platforms, tools, equipment, and capabilities.

• Own the end-to-end colleague experience across assigned domains, ensuring solutions are intuitive, scalable, efficient, and aligned to business and client needs.

• Serve as the business leader and advocate for frontline employees, ensuring their needs are represented

• Identify and evaluate emerging technologies, industry trends, and innovation opportunities to enhance banker effectiveness.

Strategic Roadmap & Investment Planning

• Develop, maintain, and govern 12–36 month capability roadmaps aligned to enterprise priorities and business objectives.

• Translate complex business, operational, compliance, and customer needs into clear demand for Digital and Technology partners.

• Establish success metrics and value realization plans to ensure technology investments deliver measurable business, operational, experience, and financial outcomes.

• Influence investment decisions through development of business cases and value propositions supporting growth, optimization, risk reduction, and experience improvements.

• Partner with leadership teams to evaluate tradeoffs, prioritize opportunities, and align technology investments with strategic goals.

Capability Delivery & Business Stewardship

• Own business requirements and capability outcomes from concept through implementation.

• Lead the definition, documentation, and refinement of business requirements, process flows, and future-state experiences to support solution design and delivery.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including Product, Digital, Technology, Operations, Compliance, Risk, and Analytics to ensure successful execution.

• Provide strategic guidance throughout delivery, helping resolve complex issues, balancing competing priorities, and ensuring solutions achieve intended outcomes.

• Act as the accountable business representative for assigned capabilities during planning, development, testing, implementation, and adoption.

Experience Optimization, Insights & Continuous Improvement

• Analyze experience, operational metrics, usage trends, feedback, and performance data to identify opportunities for improvement.

• Leverage banker feedback, support data, and frontline experience insights to identify and eliminate pain points, reducing friction, and enhancing the colleague and client experience.

• Establish meaningful success measures and track adoption, business results, operational improvements, and experience outcomes.

Innovation & Change Leadership

• Evaluate emerging authentication technologies, digital identity capabilities, and AI-enabled solutions that improve security and user experience, reduce manual effort and improve decision-making.

• Champion a culture of innovation, continuous learning, and data-driven decision making.

• Influence stakeholders across multiple organizations to align priorities, build consensus, and drive enterprise outcomes.

• Serve as a thought leader and trusted advisor on banker technology strategy, capability development, and experience design.

Basic Qualifications

• Master's degree, or equivalent work experience

• 10 or more years of experience in project management activities

• Two or more years of managerial experience

Preferred Skills & Experience

• Significant experience leading business strategy, capability management, product ownership, platform management, or business technology initiatives.

• Deep understanding of branch banking operations, frontline workflows, banker experience, and technology enablement.

• Strong understanding of identity verification, authentication technologies, fraud prevention strategies, and regulatory considerations.

• Proven ability to influence strategic decisions and drive complex cross-functional initiatives without direct authority.

• Experience developing multi-year roadmaps, investment strategies, business cases, and value realization frameworks.

• Strong understanding of artificial intelligence, automation, machine learning, and digital assistant technologies, with the ability to translate emerging capabilities into practical business applications and measurable outcomes.

• Demonstrated success leveraging data, analytics, customer insights, and employee feedback to drive prioritization and decision-making.

• Exceptional communication, facilitation, and executive presentation skills with the ability to influence senior leaders.

• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.

• Proven ability to lead change, manage ambiguity, and deliver results in a highly matrixed environment.

• Demonstrated commitment to U.S. Bank's values of integrity, collaboration, accountability, and respect.

Location expectations:

This role requires working from a U.S. Bank location three (3) or more days per week.

If there’s anything we can do to accommodate a disability during any portion of the application or hiring process, please refer to our disability accommodations for applicants.

Benefits:

Our approach to benefits and total rewards considers our team members’ whole selves and what may be needed to thrive in and outside work. That's why our benefits are designed to help you and your family boost your health, protect your financial security and give you peace of mind. Our benefits include the following:

• Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)

• Basic term and optional term life insurance

• Short-term and long-term disability

• Pregnancy disability and parental leave

• 401(k) and employer-funded retirement plan

• Paid vacation (from two to five weeks depending on salary grade and tenure)

• Up to 11 paid holiday opportunities

• Adoption assistance

• Sick and Safe Leave accruals of one hour for every 30 worked, up to 80 hours per calendar year unless otherwise provided by law

Review our full benefits available by employment status here.

U.S. Bank is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or veteran status, and other factors protected under applicable law.

E-Verify

U.S. Bank participates in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security E-Verify program in all facilities located in the United States and certain U.S. territories. The E-Verify program is an Internet-based employment eligibility verification system operated by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Learn more about the E-Verify program.

The salary range reflects figures based on the primary location, which is listed first. The actual range for the role may differ based on the location of the role. In addition to salary, U.S. Bank offers a comprehensive benefits package, including incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase 401(k) contribution and pension (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). Pay Range: $139,230.00 - $163,800.00

U.S. Bank will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment. U.S. Bank conducts background checks consistent with applicable local laws, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance and the California Fair Chance Act as well as the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. U.S. Bank is subject to, and conducts background checks consistent with the requirements of Section 19 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act (FDIA). In addition, certain positions may also be subject to the requirements of FINRA, NMLS registration, Reg Z, Reg G, OFAC, the NFA, the FCPA, the Bank Secrecy Act, the SAFE Act, and/or federal guidelines applicable to an agreement, such as those related to ethics, safety, or operational procedures.

Applicants must be able to comply with U.S. Bank policies and procedures including the Code of Ethics and Business Conduct and related workplace conduct and safety policies.

Posting may be closed earlier due to high volume of applicants.