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CSI

Core banking processing for community banks

Product Manager - CRM & Customer Engagement Solutions

Full-TimePosted on 10/20/2026
No salary listed
Mid
Remote in USA
RemoteRemote in the USA; travel up to 10%. Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship, now or in the future.
ProductProduct Management
No H1B Sponsorship

About the job

Requirements
  • At least 4 years of product management experience.
  • Experience in banking, financial services, fintech, or a related industry.
  • Strong understanding of customer relationship management concepts and customer lifecycle management.
  • Experience supporting solutions related to account opening, onboarding, customer engagement, referrals, sales workflows, marketing campaigns, or relationship management.
  • Ability to prioritize competing initiatives and balance customer needs with business objectives.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills.
  • Experience gathering requirements and translating business needs into product enhancements.
  • Experience writing user stories, acceptance criteria, requirements, or product documentation.
  • Experience collaborating with engineering and development teams throughout the delivery lifecycle.
Responsibilities
  • Execute product strategy and roadmap initiatives within the CRM and customer engagement portfolio.
  • Evaluate market opportunities, customer feedback, competitive trends, and business priorities.
  • Identify gaps in existing products and define enhancements that increase customer value.
  • Manage product backlogs and prioritize initiatives based on business impact and customer needs.
  • Partner with leadership to align product investments with strategic goals.
  • Conduct customer interviews and discovery sessions.
  • Gather feedback from banks, prospects, sales teams, and implementation teams.
  • Analyze customer behaviors, onboarding experiences, referral programs, and relationship management workflows.
  • Identify opportunities to improve customer acquisition, retention, and cross-selling capabilities.
  • Represent the voice of the customer throughout the product development lifecycle.
  • Create product requirements, user stories, epics, acceptance criteria, and feature documentation.
  • Collaborate with software engineering and technical product teams to deliver solutions.
  • Support sprint planning, backlog refinement, user acceptance testing, and release activities.
  • Monitor delivery progress and ensure successful execution of roadmap initiatives.
  • Serve as the product subject matter expert for assigned solutions.
  • Partner with Engineering, QA, Marketing, Sales, Customer Support, and Implementations.
  • Communicate priorities, requirements, and product direction across multiple stakeholder groups.
  • Assist Product Marketing with sales enablement and product positioning activities.
  • Support customer demonstrations, strategic discussions, and industry events.
  • Use AI tools such as Microsoft Copilot and Claude to improve productivity and product development.
  • Convert customer and engineering meeting recordings into actionable insights, notes, requirements, and follow-up activities.
  • Leverage AI-assisted workflows to enhance product documentation, feature definition, and user experience design.
Desired Qualifications
  • Commercial banking experience.
  • Experience with CRM platforms, customer intelligence solutions, segmentation, campaign management, or customer analytics.
  • Experience creating detailed epics, features, and acceptance criteria.
  • Prior collaboration with QA and user acceptance testing processes.
  • Experience with Agile product development methodologies.
  • Pragmatic Certified Level II certification or equivalent product management training.
  • Experience utilizing AI tools within product management workflows.
  • Familiarity with Aha!, Azure DevOps, Jira Product Discovery, Microsoft Copilot, and Claude AI.

About the company

CSI provides core processing technology for community banks, acting as the backbone that runs customer accounts, deposits, loans, and regulatory reporting. It does this through an integrated platform that processes transactions, stores data, and generates compliance and management reports, typically delivered with strong customer support and can be hosted on-site or in managed environments. It stands out through a long track record, dependable service, deep industry know-how, and close relationships with regional banks rather than flashy product features. Its goal under private equity ownership is to accelerate product innovation and expand services to help more community banks modernize operations while preserving reliable core processing.

Company Size

N/A

Company Stage

Acquired

Total Funding

$1.6B

Headquarters

Paducah, Kentucky

Founded

1965

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What believers are saying

  • Forte Bank chose CSI in April 2026, validating new-logo momentum.
  • CSI’s CashPlease surpassed 1 million loans on August 6, 2026, showing distribution strength.
  • Carefull and AI fraud tools address elder-fraud demand and deepen stickiness with bank clients.

What critics are saying

  • Customer Intelligence Suite stays in pilot until Q4 2026, delaying revenue conversion.
  • Qolo and Apiture integrations create execution risk across payments, digital banking, and core workflows.
  • Fiserv, FIS, and Jack Henry pressure CSI’s community-bank wedge; losing conversions undermines the franchise.

What makes CSI unique

  • CSI NuPoint won Best Core Banking System at the 2026 Banking Tech Awards USA.
  • CSI sells integrated core, digital banking, AI, AML, and fintech orchestration for community banks.
  • CSI’s Open Integration Hub and developer portal reduce fintech hookup friction for banks.

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Benefits

  • Remote Work Options
  • Performance Bonus

Company News

Associated Press
Jul 14th, 2026
CSI acquires Qolo to expand commercial banking and embedded finance for community banks

CSI, a financial software provider, has acquired Qolo, a fintech specialising in treasury solutions and payments infrastructure. The acquisition strengthens CSI's commercial banking offerings, helping community financial institutions provide flexible deposit structures, intelligent money movement, and expanded card programmes. The deal extends CSI's reach across the fintech and payments ecosystem. Together, the companies aim to help community banks compete with larger institutions by offering modern commercial banking capabilities. Qolo's technology will serve as an orchestration layer across payments, accounts, and workflows, integrating with CSI's existing platforms. The acquisition advances CSI's vertical banking strategy, enabling community banks to deliver industry-tailored solutions. Qolo also serves fintech and B2B payments providers, which will benefit from CSI's scale and compliance expertise. Patricia Montesi, Qolo's co-founder and CEO, noted the blurring line between traditional banking and embedded finance as a key industry challenge the combined entity will address.

Business Wire
May 6th, 2026
CSI launches AI-powered Customer Intelligence Suite to deepen financial institution customer relationships

CSI, a financial software provider, has launched Customer Intelligence Suite, an AI-powered solution designed to help financial institutions deepen customer relationships through data-driven insights. The platform synthesizes information from core banking, digital channels, payments and third-party sources to identify meaningful changes in customers' financial lives. The suite uses AI-driven signals to surface opportunities in real time, such as detecting recent graduates needing savings accounts or businesses requiring working capital. For commercial clients, it identifies cash flow trends and readiness for treasury services or lending products. Integrating data from CSI's portfolio, including Apiture and Velocity analytics, the insights are embedded directly into CSI NuPoint CRM and banking channels. CSI will enroll customers in a pilot programme in Q3 2025, with general availability planned for Q4 2026.

Yahoo Finance
Mar 26th, 2026
CSI partners with Carefull to combat elder fraud after Americans 60+ lost $4.86B in 2024

CSI, a financial software provider, has partnered with Carefull to help banks and credit unions protect older account holders from fraud and scams. The collaboration will provide AI-powered tools that detect elder fraud patterns before funds leave financial institutions. Americans aged 60 and over lost $4.86 billion to fraud in 2024, with average losses exceeding $33,000 per victim, according to the FBI. Carefull's platform detects more than 70 unique elder fraud patterns, including suspicious transactions and behavioural changes. The platform offers senior-specific fraud detection, caregiver access with role-based permissions, plain-language alerts and aggregated reporting for financial institutions. CSI's bank and credit union clients can deploy the solution quickly through online and mobile channels, offering simplified enrollment to account holders.

Business Wire
Jan 29th, 2026
CSI appoints Abe Kuruvilla as chief information and technology officer

CSI, a financial software and technology provider, has appointed Abe Kuruvilla as chief information and technology officer. He will oversee architecture, engineering and platform operations, focusing on modernising CSI's ecosystem for community and regional financial institutions. Kuruvilla brings over 20 years of experience leading technology organisations. Most recently, he served as chief technology officer at ACI Worldwide, delivering mission-critical payments solutions globally. Previously, he was chief information officer at CoreLogic, where he led cloud migration and platform modernisation, earning the 2021 HousingWire Tech Trendsetter Award. The appointment follows CSI's acquisition of digital banking provider Apiture and a strategic reorganisation to enhance its integrated platform spanning deposits, lending, digital banking and customer engagement.

Business Wire
Aug 20th, 2025
CSI to Acquire Apiture, Integrating Premier Business and Consumer Digital Banking Capabilities into Unified Platform

CSI acquires Apiture to power every stage of the account holder lifecycle from digital banking to customer engagement and lending.