Lead Digital Product Manager
Wells Fargo West Des Moines, Iowa, United States
Financial Services · 10,001+ employees
About the role
The Lead Digital Product Manager will own the vision, strategy, and lifecycle for the enterprise Developer Tools portfolio. They will manage product backlogs, define KPIs, and partner with cross-functional teams to modernize software delivery and enhance engineering productivity.
What they look for
Requirements
Candidates must have at least 5 years of digital product management experience or equivalent professional background. A strong technical foundation in software engineering or platform engineering is preferred, along with experience in developer productivity frameworks.
Full description
About this role:
Wells Fargo is seeking a Lead Digital Product Manager to drive strategy, roadmap, adoption, and business outcomes for the enterprise Developer Tools portfolio within Development Enablement.
This role owns the vision and lifecycle of developer tools and productivity capabilities including AI-assisted software development, integrated development environments (IDEs), developer portals, security tooling used by thousands of engineers across the enterprise.
The ideal candidate brings a combination of product ownership expertise, software engineering knowledge, developer experience (DevEx) principles, and strategic leadership to modernize software delivery and accelerate engineering productivity.
In this role, you will:
- Own the product vision, strategy, roadmap, and lifecycle for Developer Tools product.
- Manage and prioritize the product backlog, ensuring alignment with business objectives, developer needs, modernization goals, and regulatory requirements.
- Define and track product KPIs, adoption metrics, modernization outcomes, developer productivity measures, and customer satisfaction indicators.
- Gather customer feedback from engineering teams and translate insights into product enhancements and roadmap priorities.
- Evaluate emerging technologies, AI-assisted development capabilities, and engineering automation opportunities that can enhance developer productivity.
- Communicate product strategy, roadmap progress, business value, risks, and outcomes to senior technology leaders and executive stakeholders.
- Translate technology strategy, developer needs, and industry trends into measurable product outcomes.
- Partner with Engineering, Architecture, Cyber Security, Infrastructure, Risk, and Operations leaders to align priorities and investments.
- Own and prioritize a portfolio of developer tools, platforms, and services.
- Lead tool rationalization, modernization, and lifecycle management initiatives.
- Manage product investment plans, business cases, vendor relationships, and financial optimization opportunities.
- Continuously improve developer satisfaction, productivity, and onboarding experiences.
- Establish adoption strategies and success metrics across engineering organizations.
- Leverage usage analytics, productivity insights, and developer feedback to guide roadmap decisions.
- Drive change management, communications, training, and enablement programs.
- Manage dependencies across multiple products, platforms, and stakeholder groups.
Required Qualifications:
- 5+ years of digital product management experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
Desired Qualifications:
- Strong product ownership experience with enterprise software platforms, developer Tools, frameworks, or shared technology services.
- Experience defining product vision, strategy, roadmaps, and measurable outcomes aligned to business objectives.
- Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence engineering leaders, architects, developers, and executive leadership without direct authority.
- Strong analytical and data-driven decision-making skills, including definition and tracking of product KPIs, OKRs, and adoption metrics.
- Familiarity with AI-assisted software development, developer productivity platforms, Agent Skills, Copilot, automation tooling, and modern engineering practices is highly desirable.
- Ability to operate effectively in ambiguous environments, remove organizational impediments, and drive alignment across multiple teams and stakeholders.
- Technical background in software engineering, architecture, or platform engineering preferred.
- Experience with software engineering, application development, or platform engineering.
- Knowledge of Developer Experience (DevEx) principles and developer productivity frameworks.
Job Expectations:
- This position offers a hybrid work schedule
- This position is not eligible for Visa sponsorship
- Demonstrate foundational AI literacy by effectively using approved AI tools to support everyday work
- Apply AI tools for activities such as research, summarization, drafting, analysis, and decision support
- Exercise sound judgment when interpreting and using AI‑generated outputs
- Understand basic AI limitations and appropriate use cases within daily workflows
- Adhere to data privacy, security, and data‑handling standards when using AI tools
- Use AI ethically and responsibly, in alignment with company policies and guidelines
Posting End Date:
1 Oct 2026*Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.
We Value Equal Opportunity
Wells Fargo is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected characteristic.
Employees support our focus on building strong customer relationships balanced with a strong risk mitigating and compliance-driven culture which firmly establishes those disciplines as critical to the success of our customers and company. They are accountable for execution of all applicable risk programs (Credit, Market, Financial Crimes, Operational, Regulatory Compliance), which includes effectively following and adhering to applicable Wells Fargo policies and procedures, appropriately fulfilling risk and compliance obligations, timely and effective escalation and remediation of issues, and making sound risk decisions. There is emphasis on proactive monitoring, governance, risk identification and escalation, as well as making sound risk decisions commensurate with the business unit’s risk appetite and all risk and compliance program requirements.
Candidates applying to job openings posted in Canada: Applications for employment are encouraged from all qualified candidates, including women, persons with disabilities, aboriginal peoples and visible minorities. Accommodation for applicants with disabilities is available upon request in connection with the recruitment process.
Applicants with Disabilities
To request a medical accommodation during the application or interview process, visit Disability Inclusion at Wells Fargo.
Drug and Alcohol Policy
Wells Fargo maintains a drug free workplace. Please see our Drug and Alcohol Policy to learn more.
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a. Third-Party recordings are prohibited unless authorized by Wells Fargo.
b. Wells Fargo requires you to directly represent your own experiences during the recruiting and hiring process.
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