Internal Fraud Area Product Owner - Data

Area Product Owner

Wells Fargo is seeking an experienced Area Product Owner to support the creation and delivery of a new enterprise-scale internal fraud data and analytics platform. This individual will be accountable for leading cross-functional teams to define and deliver a robust data ingestion and integration framework that consolidates a wide range of disparate internal data sources into a centralized data-mart. This role will report to the Product Manager for Enterprise Internal Fraud and collaborate closely with another Area Product Owner to ensure seamless integration of data and analytics capabilities. This role will play a critical part in fostering a culture of innovation, ensuring ethical practices, and protecting the bank's reputation through secure and reliable data solutions. This role will focus on the end goal to empower internal fraud stakeholders with advanced analytics and insights to detect, mitigate, and prevent internal fraud more effectively. In this role, you will: Act as the business authority for your product area, aligning with the overall product intent and internal fraud strategic goals. Define and maintain a clear, outcome-oriented product area vision and roadmap, focused on data aggregation and analytic enablement. Collaborate with the product manager, data engineers, and analytics teams to refine and deliver prioritized features and user stories. Collaborate with their product team, other product owners, and delivery teams to experiment, discover and deliver on the product vision. Defining and refining user stories, including business readiness stories, ensuring acceptance criteria is clearly understood by the team. Team product owner writing of clear and concise features. Collaborate with the delivery team to refine features. Maintain a healthy backlog of items that are linked appropriately (story ? feature ? epic). Accepting user stories after they have met the acceptance criteria and the definition of done. Maintaining continuous and cadenced communication with the product manager and delivery teams Coordinating with business analysts, delivery coordinators, POs, and supporting roles that are shared across delivery teams Ensure successful ingestion, normalization, and integration of large-scale internal datasets from across the enterprise. Support development of analytic models and reporting solutions to serve fraud strategy, risk, operations, and compliance stakeholders. Facilitate alignment between internal fraud, compliance, legal, and enterprise data governance teams to ensure proper data usage. Champion agile practices and lead product rituals for up to two delivery teams, including backlog refinement, planning, and review. Identify and resolve prioritization conflicts, risks, and escalations in partnership with delivery, data, and business teams. Lead with a hands-on mindset-collaborating across whiteboards, platforms, and domains to deliver real business value. Required Qualifications: 7+ years of Product Management, product development, strategic planning, process management, change delivery, or agile product owner experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education Desired Qualifications: 7+ years of experience in product management, with direct ownership of complex data platforms or analytics products. Familiarity with data ingestion pipelines, enterprise data platforms, or big data technologies. Knowledge and understanding of Data format and data structures (file types, schema, field types, sample data) Familiarity with data ingestion methods (push, pull, batch, file drop, API call Strong experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies and collaboration tools (e.g., Mural, Jira, Confluence). Demonstrated ability to align technical delivery with business outcomes. Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams and drive solutions in a matrixed, regulated environment. Experience in financial services, particularly in fraud, risk, or compliance. Familiarity with data governance, privacy, and regulatory frameworks. Strong dependency management and risk leadership skills. Proficiency in developing features, user stories backlog management, and defining success metrics. Recognized as a strategic thinker and problem-solver with a bias toward action. Job Expectations: Ability to travel 10% of the time Hybrid role, 3 days in the office, 2 remote Locations: Charlotte NC, Chandler, AZ Posting End Date: 21 Aug 2025