About Us
Live Oak Bank is a digital bank that serves small business owners across the country. Our groundbreaking spin on service and technology has fueled our mission to be Americas Small Business Bank. Our products help customers buy build and expand their business and our high-yield savings and CD products help them grow their hard-earned money. At Live Oak we never lose sight of the well-being of our people. We believe our employees are the heart of our company. Our commitment to our customers and culture is intertwined and we seek those who embody and embrace what it takes to empower the American dream.
How This Role Impacts Live Oak and its People
In todays fast-paced business environment technology plays a critical role in driving success requiring seamless collaboration between business and technology teams. As a Technology Business Partner youll lead through influence rather than authority ensuring that technology investments create maximum business value through strategic alignment deep analysis and collaborative partnership. Your role will be crucial in helping business teams leverage technology to deliver customer value meet business goals and maintain a competitive edge.
Youll help:
Shape technology strategy aligned with business objectives.
Identify opportunities for technology-driven innovation.
Enable data-driven decision-making for technology investments.
Foster strategic collaboration and communication between business and technology teams.
What Youll Do
Be a Strategic Advisor to Drive Business Success
Are you passionate about understanding business strategy and identifying opportunities where technology can create transformative value Do you excel at building deep relationships understanding complex problems and leading through influence to ensure successful delivery of technology-enabled solutions Were looking for a strategic thinker who can partner with our business teams to shape and execute their technology vision effectively efficiently and drive meaningful business outcomes.
The Opportunity
As a Technology Business Partner youll be the primary liaison between our business units and technology teams ensuring clear communication efficient delivery and strong alignment with business goals. Youll develop a deep understanding of their business strategy objectives and goals. Youll build deep relationships with business stakeholders while orchestrating technology delivery to meet their needs. Through clear communication efficient delivery and strong alignment with the business and technology teams youll help them to achieve their strategic vision.
What Makes This Role Different
This is a strategic leadership role that transcends traditional operational boundaries. Rather than managing daily development tasks you will lead through influenceserving as the critical orchestrator between technology and the business. You will represent all facets of technology to business stakeholders and in turn articulate the business needs to technology teams. By unifying diverse functions such as engineering data digital operations IT and InfoSec you will act as the essential integrator who ensures cohesive collaboration drives high-level strategy and unlocks transformational value for the organization.
Strategic Partner: As the primary strategic connector dedicated to the business youll serve as their go-to person within technology driving collaboration communication and awareness across our technology teams to ensure business needs are met. Youll join their team meetings and deeply learn their business and day-to-day operations helping them leverage technology as a strategic enabler
Business Immersion: Youll shadow business leaders and their teams to develop a deep understanding of their processes tools and challenges to identify opportunities for technology enabled solutions
Relationship Focus: Youll build strong connections across the organization enabling awareness collaboration and communication cross functionally to ensure delivery of business outcomes
Impact Measurement: Youll develop frameworks to measure and communicate broadly the business value of technology initiatives
Influential Leadership: Youll inspire and guide teams by leveraging expertise empathy and communication to align others around a shared vision driving collaboration and results without relying on formal authority
How Youll Do It
Business Understanding & Support
Attend business team meetings to stay attuned to new challenges and opportunities that may shift business strategy or impact priorities
Shadow business operations to develop deep understanding of processes and needs
Build strong relationships with business stakeholders at all levels
Foster and maintain clear cross functional collaboration and communication channels between business and technology teams
Facilitate alignment between business needs and technology capabilities
Provide thought leadership on technology trends and opportunities
Identify and evaluate emerging technologies that could benefit the business
Coordination & Delivery
Coordinate technology initiatives from conception through delivery
Facilitate cross-functional collaboration and bring together key stakeholders from both business and technology teams using your influential leadership to ensure the effective gathering of requirements and alignment on solutions that drive optimal business and technology outcomes
Enable direct communication between engineers and business users
Support testing and deployment activities
Help manage vendor relationships and deliverables
Create high-level technology roadmaps aligned with business objectives
Collaborate with technology teams to validate feasibility and approach for initiatives
Process Improvement
Identify opportunities to streamline business processes through technology
Support the implementation of new solutions and process improvements
Help track and measure the impact of technology initiatives
Facilitate post-implementation reviews and feedback collection
Identify opportunities to scale successful solutions across the organization
Team Collaboration
Work closely with engineering teams to ensure clear understanding of business needs
Partner with design teams to validate solutions meet business requirements
Coordinate with tiger teams on prioritization and roadmap planning
Impact & Influence
Direct impact on business unit efficiency and effectiveness
Key role in ensuring successful technology delivery
Opportunity to shape how business and technology teams work together
Influence how technology investments create business value to drive meaningful positive change
Foster innovation and strategic thinking across the organization
Enable data-driven decision making about technology initiatives
Accelerate the delivery of technology solutions that drive business outcomes
Build strong relationships across the organization to ensure alignment and success
Required and Preferred Experience
Essential Experience
5 years of experience in technology-related roles
Track record of successfully coordinating technology projects
Experience working directly with business stakeholders across all levels
Understanding of software development processes
Understanding of technology capabilities and market trends
Critical Capabilities
Strong analytical and strategic thinking skills
Excellence in business analysis and research
Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills
Strong organizational and project management abilities
Ability to understand and document business processes
Translate complex technical concepts for business audiences
Talent for building and maintaining trusted advisory relationships
Key Attributes
Natural ability to build trust and rapport
Strong service orientation
Strategic mindset with strong analytical capabilities
Detail-oriented and well-organized
Proactive and collaborative problem-solving mindset
Insatiable curiosity about business operations and challenges
Comfort with ambiguity and evolving environments
Our Values
Dedication:Possess a deep commitment to Live Oak Banks mission and core values exemplified through a strong work ethic adaptability and pride in your work.
Ownership:Take initiative to deliver positive results by proactively and creatively solving problems while maintaining a high degree of quality.
Respect:Treat everyone with courtesy politeness and kindness.
Innovation:Embrace fresh ideas and fearlessly contribute new solutions to emerging or existing problems.
Teamwork: Foster collaboration accountability and trust with others and understand that together we do more
For a detailed overview of our employee benefits please visit: Oak Bank is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer Minorities/Women/Veterans/Disabled. We consider applicants for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin age genetic information veteran status or disability. Equal access to programs service and employment is available to all persons. Those applicants requiring reasonable accommodation to the application and/or interview process should notify human resources at.
The base pay range for this position is $140000.00 - $200000.00 per year. Compensation may also include annual bonuses and long-term incentives subject to various metrics and company policy. A candidates salary is determined by several factors including travel relevant work experience or skills and expertise.Please note that we provide at least the minimum requirement of paid sick leave to our employees who reside in states that require employer-paid sick leave including but not limited to Arizona California Colorado District of Columbia Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Nevada New Jersey New Mexico New York Oregon Rhode Island Vermont and Washington.
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