MANLEY TRISTAN

Describe your role.

“Being a product leader is all about empowering my teams to solve our customer’s problems in innovative ways that they love, yet that work for our business. To do this we must first identify a problem to solve and then paint the target for the outcome we want to achieve. Then we work to develop solutions to those problems, ensuring they are valuable and usable for our customers, feasible for our engineers to build, and viable to our business model.”

What’s a future goal?

“I believe in the crawl, walk, run approach, knowing that big things start small. Long term, I’m working toward becoming a Chief Product Officer. Recently I’ve started working with an executive coach to help me develop into the leader that I want to be, and taken on an expanded role, leading a larger team that oversees many products at the bank. I’m working to deeply understand those new products, our customers who leverage them, and our teams who support them.”