Technology Product Management Lead, VP

Overview of the Role
Citi, the leading global bank, has approximately 200 million customer accounts and does business in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions. Citi provides consumers, corporations, governments, and institutions with a broad range of financial products and services, including consumer banking and credit, corporate and investment banking, securities brokerage, transaction services, and wealth management.

As a bank with a brain and a soul, Citi creates economic value that is systemically responsible and in our clients' best interests. As a financial institution that touches every region of the world and every sector that shapes your daily life, our Enterprise Operations & Technology teams are charged with a mission that rivals any large tech company. Our technology solutions are the foundations of everything we do from keeping the bank safe, managing global resources, and providing the technical tools our workers need to be successful to designing our digital architecture and ensuring our platforms provide a first-class customer experience.

We reimagine client and partner experiences to deliver excellence through secure, reliable, and efficient services.

Our commitment to diversity includes a workforce that represents the clients we serve from all walks of life, backgrounds, and origins. We foster an environment where the best people want to work. We value and demand respect for others, promote individuals based on merit, and ensure opportunities for personal development are widely available to all. Ideal candidates are innovators with well‑rounded backgrounds who bring their authentic selves to work and complement our culture of delivering results with pride.

If you are a problem solver who seeks passion in your work, come join us. We’ll enable growth and progress together.

The Technology Product Management Lead Product Owner is a strategic professional who will lead the definition and delivery of product capabilities within the Risk and Controls domain, with a strong focus on Risk Control Self-Assessment (RCSA) and monitoring and testing platforms. The role requires hands‑on experience working in Agile environments, partnering closely with business, risk, compliance, and technology teams to translate control and regulatory requirements into scalable, well‑designed product solutions.

This role operates across multiple Scrum teams, requiring strong dependency management, early identification of risks, and effective coordination across platforms and stakeholders.

Experience with AI‑enabled capabilities is a strong plus, though not a mandatory requirement.

Responsibilities

Own the product / value stream vision which will be the north star for driving strategic outcomes for the Scrum Team(s) supported.

Own and manage the product backlog for risk and control capabilities

Inspire the team to deliver upon the goals.

Lead the product functional design process and story mapping, backlog refinement, sprint planning, and prioritization activities.

Work in an agile environment by continuously reviewing the business needs, refining priorities, outlining milestones and deliverables, and identifying opportunities and risks.

Create features and functionalities which enable achieving business goals by collaborating with stakeholders.

Create and own the product backlog prioritizing features which enable maximizing the business value.

Facilitate backlog decomposition sessions with the technology teams to clearly define requirements from a user perspective, inclusive of acceptance criteria breaking down large stories for the team to consume in one sprint.

Partner with the technology team to break down large stories based on estimation.

Participate in the testing /review sessions and provide support for release.

Accept work completed by the team prior to release to production.

Identify and manage cross-team and cross-platform dependencies early in the delivery lifecycle.

Proactively highlight delivery risks, data dependencies, and integration challenges, and work with stakeholders to drive timely resolution.

Collaborate with engineering and architecture teams to ensure alignment with enterprise standards and…