Accelerated Leadership Track

Description

Who We Are

Five Star Bank is a high performing $4.4 Billion community business bank operating through 9 offices - 4 in the Capital Region, 3 in the North Valley, and 2 in the San Francisco Bay Area region. With an emphasis on commercial real estate and small business we partner with organizations to help them be successful by providing highly customized banking solutions.

Organizations bank with us because of our entrepreneurial and empathetic spirit, speed to serve and deep connection to our market. And they trust us.

At Five Star Bank, we invest in tomorrow’s leaders through the Accelerated Leadership Track (ALT). This interactive, rotational training program is designed for driven graduates, providing relevant experiences from the start. Our goal is to identify individuals who can take on challenging roles early in their careers and nurture their potential to become future leaders.

Starting in January 2026
, ALT participants will collaborate with various teams across the company. Each rotation offers traditional training, hands‑on learning, and strategic insights into growth opportunities. While the rotation order may vary based on business needs, participants will gain a comprehensive understanding of our operations by shadowing employees at all levels. At the conclusion of the program, you will work on an innovation project and present your findings to our Executive Leadership team.

Upon successful completion of The Accelerated Leadership Track, you will take on an entry‑level management position in any function depending on your profile, interest and results. You will also receive a mentor from the executive team when you start in your first position.

Introduction

Induction to the company’s culture, strategy and structure. In this phase, you will get exposure to our CEO, COO, and meet key executives.

Operations

Participants will learn the basics of branch banking and relationship banking during this rotation. Our operational division touches each area of the business and is the foundation of our internal and compliance controls.

This rotation will focus on the basics of branch banking with the following goals and outcomes:

• Learn and understand the basics of being a bank:
  Bank vs. Credit Union, FDIC vs NCUA and Community Bank vs Big Bank
• Branch banking controls, including bank terminology, cash controls, authority limits and how items clear
• Training of security protocols and mitigating fraud with our Fraud 101 program
• Understand and be able to identify regulations and their order of importance

Relationship Banking

Learn the business where it begins – with our customers. Relationship Management creates partnerships with businesses to help grow the communities we serve. During this rotation, you’ll better understand the client experience, learning how to listen to client needs, assess opportunities, and evaluate their growth potential.

The goals and outcomes of this rotation are:

• Utilize our full portfolio of bank products, including opening new accounts and maintenance, E‑Banking products and forms
• Differentiate between ownership basics, formation documents, and manage requirements for CIP, phone and/or faxed transactions
• Training and mastery of our tools and systems
• Be able to quote rates, using terminology, and identifying and understanding different types

Loan Servicing

In this rotation, you’ll learn general loan concepts, transaction processing, and full‑cycle loan processing. As you progress through this rotation, you’ll have hands‑on experience with loan processing.

The goals and outcomes of this rotation are:

• Introduction to general loan concepts (types of loans, interest rates, payment structures, terms, collateral types and direct vs indirect liability)
• Working with our Loan Servicing team, you’ll work through transaction processing (advances and payments), demands and paid loan processing/release of collateral; and, insurance tracking
• You’ll transition to working with our documentation specialists to learn loan types and the documentation package required
• Review and perform collateral perfection sourcing, including title policy reviews; UCC…