Description

About Northern Trust:

Northern Trust, a Fortune 500 company, is a globally recognized, award-winning financial institution that has been in continuous operation since 1889.

Northern Trust is proud to provide innovative financial services and guidance to the world's most successful individuals, families, and institutions by remaining true to our enduring principles of service, expertise, and integrity. With more than 130 years of financial experience and over 22,000 partners, we serve the world's most sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service.

About the Role

Northern Trust is looking for a strategic and hands-on Product Manager to take ownership of critical business applications during high-impact incidents.

In this individual contributor role, you won't just manage products-you'll lead the charge in ensuring operational resilience, regulatory compliance, and governance excellence across the enterprise.

As the Product Owner, you'll be the go-to leader during incidents-driving rapid response, coordinating with cross-functional teams, and making decisions that protect our business and clients. You'll also shape how access governance and control structures are designed and executed to stay ahead of risk and audit expectations.

Key Responsibilities:

• Incident Product Ownership: Lead business-side ownership of critical applications during incidents. Coordinate impact assessment, recovery prioritization, and status communication.
• Access Governance: Conduct periodic access reviews to ensure alignment with roles and regulatory standards. Maintain access structures that reduce risk.
• Governance Execution: Support governance models defining ownership roles, escalation paths, and control responsibilities. Keep ownership records accurate and accessible.
• Risk & Compliance Integration: Embed ownership into incident workflows and post-incident reviews. Prepare documentation for audits and regulatory exams.
• Performance Metrics: Develop KPIs and dashboards to track incident response, ownership engagement, and control execution.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Partner with business, compliance, and technology teams to ensure consistent governance and resolve access issues.
• Third-Party Oversight: Ensure external application ownership aligns with vendor risk and incident protocols.

Qualifications:

• 7+ years of experience in product management, business application oversight, governance, or incident response-preferably within financial services.
• Strong understanding of application lifecycle management, access governance, and regulatory expectations (e.g., OCC, FFIEC, SOX).
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams and drive governance models across business and technology.
• Experience supporting internal audits and working across departments to drive governance outcomes.
• Excellent communication and documentation skills, with a focus on business impact and stakeholder engagement.
• Familiarity with governance tools, application inventory systems, and risk management platforms.

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Salary Range:
$137,400 - 240,400 USD

Salary range is a good faith estimate of base pay. Northern Trust provides a comprehensive benefits package including retirement benefits (401k and pension), health and welfare benefits (medical, dental, vision, spending accounts and disability), paid time off, parental and caregiver leave, life & accident insurance, and other voluntary and well-being benefits. Northern Trust also provides a discretionary bonus program that may include an equity component.

Working with Us:

As a Northern Trust partner, greater achievements await. You will be part of a flexible and collaborative work culture in an organization where financial strength and stability is an asset that emboldens us to explore new ideas.

Movement within the organization is encouraged, senior leaders are accessible, and you can take pride in working for a company committed to assisting the communities we serve! Join a workplace with a greater purpose.

We'd love to learn more about how your interests and experience could be a fit with one of the world's most admired and sustainable companies! Build your career with us and apply today. #MadeForGreater

Reasonable accommodation

Northern Trust is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please email our HR Service Center at MyHRHelp@ntrs.com .

We hope you're excited about the role and the opportunity to work with us. We value an inclusive workplace and understand flexibility means different things to different people.

Apply today and talk to us about your flexible working requirements and together we can achieve greater.