Senior Product Analyst

About this role: Wells Fargo is seeking a Senior Product Analyst to help lead the transformation of Talent Acquisition products and experiences. This senior individual contributor will lead complex product workstreams, translate strategic objectives and user needs into executable solutions, and bring together Product, Talent Acquisition, Technology, Operations, Risk, and vendor partners. The role will contribute to a multi-year transformation of Talent Acquisition capabilities. The Senior Product Analyst will lead defined workstreams from discovery through implementation and stabilization while helping shape scalable, integrated experiences across the recruiting lifecycle. In this role, you will: • Lead complex product and transformation of workstreams involving multiple business, technology, risk, operational, data, and vendor dependencies. • Partner with Product Owners and stakeholders to frame business problems, clarify desired outcomes, and translate strategy into actionable product requirements and delivery plans. • Lead discovery and requirements discussions, using candidate, recruiter, hiring manager, operational, and business perspectives to inform solution design. • Create clarity from ambiguity by analyzing options, identifying tradeoffs, challenging assumptions constructively, and recommending a path forward. • Translate business and user needs into experience and process designs, features, user stories, acceptance criteria, data and integration requirements, test scenarios, and implementation plans. • Influence priorities and decisions across Product, Talent Acquisition, Technology, Operations, Risk, and other enterprise partners without relying on direct authority. • Facilitate tradeoff and decision discussions; identify unresolved issues, establish clear owners, and escalate material risks, constraints, and dependencies when needed. • Anticipate delivery of risks and interdependencies and drive cross-functional action before they affect outcomes. • Lead or facilitate backlog refinement, sprint planning, product demonstrations, release planning, and workstream-level readiness activities. • Own implementation of readiness for assigned capabilities, including business readiness, communications, training, support processes, operational handoffs, deployment validation, and stabilization. • Lead cross-functional defect triage and resolution, confirming delivered functionality meets requirements and acceptance criteria. • Define success measures with Product and analytics partners and use adoption, experience, operational, quality, and business insights to inform ongoing improvement. • Evaluate solution options across process, configuration, integration, data, build, and vendor capabilities with consideration for user value, feasibility, risk, cost, scalability, and long-term sustainability. • For AI-enabled and automated capabilities, translate opportunities into clear user, business, data, risk, control, testing, and human-oversight requirements in partnership with appropriate governance teams. • Represent assigned product capabilities in leadership, governance, vendor, and implementation discussions; communicate recommendations, decisions, risks, dependencies, and progress to technical and nontechnical audiences. • Promote disciplined product practices across discovery, prioritization, delivery, measurement, and continuous improvement. • Provide guidance and coaching to analysts and cross-functional partners, sharing practices that strengthen product analysis and delivery quality. Required Qualifications: • 4+ years of Business Execution, Product Analysis, Business Analysis, Implementation, Technology Delivery, Strategic Planning or equivalent experience demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education. Desired Qualifications: • Experience with enterprise Talent Acquisition Transformation or HR technology products. • Experience with candidate engagement, recruiting CRM, career sites, interview scheduling, recruiting automation, assessments, or AI-enabled recruiting capabilities. • Experience with Workday Recruiting, Workday Candidate Engagement, Beamery, HireVue, HackerRank, ServiceNow, or comparable enterprise platforms. • Experience gathering, analyzing, documenting, and validating business, user, or system requirements. • Experience translating business needs into features, user stories, acceptance criteria, process flows, or comparable product delivery artifacts. • Experience working in an Agile product or technology delivery environment. • Demonstrated experience leading a complex product, technology, implementation, or transformation workstream from problem definition through launch and stabilization. • Experience developing recommendations and communicating clearly with product, business, and technology leaders. • Strong analytical, problem-solving, facilitation, communication, and organizational skills. • Experience supporting software development, application delivery, engineering, integrations, data, or technical product teams. • Experience with product discovery, journey mapping, service design, user research, or experience measurement. • Experience defining success measures and using data, user feedback, or operational insights to guide product decisions and continuous improvement. • Experience with application testing, defect management, release readiness, and implementation stabilization. • Experience with Jira, Confluence, Azure DevOps, or similar product delivery tools. • Experience working with third-party vendors, implementation partners, or enterprise platform providers. • Experience working in a regulated environment and partnering with risk, privacy, compliance, legal, data, or governance teams. • Experience contributing to AI-enabled or automated products, including consideration of controls, testing, responsible use, and human oversight. • Experience guiding or mentoring analysts