VP, Head of Digital
Start a Rewarding Career with Alliant
What makes this role rewarding?
You will beresponsible for leading all aspects of enterprise wide digital strategies, capabilities, and execution to deliver best-in-class experiences for our members. The leader will develop and drive a clearly defined and compelling digital strategy to acquire, onboard and engage Alliant members. Key functional areas will include digital banking, digital product ownership, acquisition/onboarding/engagement strategies, digital innovation, and user experience (UX/UI).
The leader will be accountable for developing and implementing digital banking innovations and enhancements to meet the strategic, financial, and member experience goals of the digital credit union. Also play a critical role in thought leadership around new technologies that will help us meet and exceed consumer expectations around user experience (UX) and easy banking. The incumbent will be responsible for the strategy, planning, and execution of the evolution of mobile and online banking as well as digital product platforms. This leader has a passion for member experience, technology and amazingly simple design. General Direction is received from the Senior Vice President, Chief Digital & Marketing Officer.
Responsibilities
Do you see yourself doing this?
Strategic Responsibilities
- Deliver strategic leadership in the development and implementation of a clear vision of the evolution and impact of digital and mobile banking
- Provide leadership and oversight of the strategy, development, design, implementation, troubleshooting and training of all new features and functionality
- Lead the development and execution of strategies to grow membership and increase relationship depth across all channels
- Increase adoption of mobile banking and increase conversion rates for membership and product openings via digital banking channels
- Drive the strategy for seamless member onboarding and engagement
- Champion human centered design within our member-facing applications and lead the user experience (UX) team
- Ensure that digital initiatives are fully integrated for leadership commitment, resource allocation and execution to deliver strong member outcomes
- Lead agile planning and communications with stakeholders including operations, member contact center, deposit products, lending products, technology, compliance, legal and others
- Track and report against goals and objectives (Key Performance Indicators) to the organization
- Partner with development, data, quality assurance (QA), marketing, security and business intelligence (BI) teams
- Manage all development and design partner and agency relationships
- Conduct ongoing analysis of member-facing systems and releases in order to find areas of opportunity and to measure feature-functionality success
- Conduct financial services market intelligence and competitive landscape analysis
- Follow consumer behavior and usability trends as well as new technologies in the fintech, payments and ecommerce space to design and deliver the best experiences for Alliant members
Leadership and Performance Management Responsibilities
- Lead a high-performing digital product management team, and agile squads to design best in class feature, capabilities, flows and experiences
- Lead and direct digital initiatives that increase member engagement and net promoter score
- Ensure digital innovation and transformation initiatives create value with measurable results
- Optimize existing go-to-market strategies and processes to maximize value and results
- Capture, analyze, and understand the environment, team dynamics, and talent capabilities to address organizational refinement, agility and growth
- Champion Employee/Internal Customer Engagement and development
- Continually assess and provide development opportunities, insightful coaching and talent utilization/optimization for team members
- Apply High Performance Management practices in leading an engaged workforce in order to effectively leverage the full potential and talent of the team
- Provide structural and consistent approach to ensure that individual development plans are in place, performance management is consistent, performance management process is respected and followed, and coaching and feedback are provided on a regular and dynamic basis
Adhere to and ensure compliance of all business transactions with policy and process of the Bank Secrecy Act Ensures compliance with all applicable state and federal laws, company procedures and policies. Maintain integrity and ethics in all actions and conversations with or regarding credit union members and their accounts; comply with privacy act directives.
Qualifications
What makes you a great fit?
You'll be a great fit if in addition to Completion of a Bachelor's degree required, MBA preferred, and you have:
- 15+ year experience in leading/managing digital applications, platforms, or digital products
- Experience in the fintech, ecommerce, product/channel management, product development, or delivery of online, mobile or consumer facing technologies, required
- Experience working on iOS, Android, and other mobile applications/platforms
- Strong relationship skills, emotional intelligence, and ability to communicate clearly
- Ability to set clear and challenging goals
- Comfortable with ambiguity and uncertainty, ability to adapt and lead others through change
- Thought leader in creating best-in-class digital experiences
- Experience coordinating product development cycles and software development schedules
- Strong analytical and quantitative skills
- Ability to analyze data to support decisions, and align across enterprise on digital strategies
- Strategic thinker, and member centric results focused
- High attention to detail and a strong focus on the end user
- Strong verbal and written communication skills with demonstrated experience engaging and influencing senior leaders
- Exceptional follow-through and project management skills
- Must be able to manage multiple, competing priorities; manage tradeoffs; evaluate new opportunities, ideas and partners; and make sound independent decisions
- Ability to attract and recruit top talent, motivate teams, and drive strong performance
When you're happy, we're happy!
As a thank you for joining our team, you'll benefit from:
- Casual dress code
- Competitive medical, dental, and free vision benefits
- On-site massages and contributions towards gym memberships
- Generous PTO and banking holidays off
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