Chief Banking Officer

About Us:

Columbia Bank is one of the largest regional banking institutions headquartered in the Western United States. Columbia operates over 400 branches across nine Western states, serving individuals, businesses, and institutional clients throughout the Pacific Northwest, California, and the Mountain West.

Columbia embraces the philosophy of being a “community bank at scale,” combining the personalized service, local market knowledge, and relationship-driven approach of community banking with the balance sheet strength, technology, sophisticated product capabilities, and geographic reach of a major regional financial institution. This combination enables Columbia to serve clients with the responsiveness of a local banking partner while delivering the comprehensive financial solutions required by businesses of increasing size and complexity.

Columbia's strategic vision is centered on becoming the Business Bank of Choice, combining disciplined commercial production with strong deposit gathering, expanded treasury management relationships, and comprehensive financial solutions. This approach emphasizes building primary banking relationships rather than pursuing individual transactions, creating opportunities to deepen client engagement, strengthen recurring revenue, and improve long-term profitability.

About the Role:

The Chief Banking Officer (CBO) is a newly established enterprise leadership position central to Columbia Bank's next phase of growth. Reporting to the CEO, the CBO will lead the Bank's primary revenue-generating banking organization, bringing together commercial and retail banking production, regional and market leadership, and specialized commercial businesses under a coordinated growth strategy.

• Execute the company's revenue strategy across commercial banking, retail banking production, and specialized commercial businesses.
• Translate enterprise objectives into regional and market business plans with clear expectations for revenue growth, loan and deposit production, fee income and profitability.
• Drive the successful implementation of the new regional and market operating model, establish clear performance accountability, and strengthen coordination across commercial banking, retail sales, and business banking.
• Empower regional and market leaders to exercise appropriate local decision-making authority while maintaining alignment with enterprise-wide priorities.
• Provide strategic and performance leadership to Institutional Commercial Real Estate, Global Payments and Deposits and Commercial Verticals.
• Strengthen the integration of specialized capabilities with regional markets to support client acquisition, relationship expansion, and the Business Bank of Choice strategy.
• Drive disciplined growth in commercial lending, core deposits, treasury management, payments, wealth management, and other fee-generating businesses.
• Promote a relationship-oriented sales culture focused on primary banking relationships, deeper client penetration, and attractive risk-adjusted returns.
• Lead a high-performing team of regional, market and specialized business executives.
• Establish clear performance expectations, strengthen succession planning, and build organizational capabilities aligned with the Bank's growth ambitions.
• Lead collaboration across regional banking, retail and wealth management sales, business banking, and specialized commercial businesses to deliver a coordinated approach to serving clients and driving profitable growth.
• Partner closely with Retail Banking leadership to align market-level revenue accountability with retail operations, staffing and functional support.
• Work with Credit, Risk, Finance, Operations, Technology, and other enterprise leaders to ensure growth initiatives are support by appropriate resources, sound underwriting, regulatory compliance and disciplined risk management.

About You:

Columbia seeks an accomplished, enterprise-minded banking executive with a demonstrated ability to lead large, geographically dispersed revenue organizations and deliver sustained organic growth.

The successful candidate will bring deep commercial banking credibility, a broad understanding of retail, wealth and business banking, and the leadership maturity to manage a diversified banking franchise through experienced senior executives.

• 10+ years of progressive leadership experience in commercial banking, including commercial lending, relationship management, credit, and deposit generation.
• Significant experience in leading retail banking, including branch performance, sales and production, and customer experience.
• Proven experience leading large, geographically dispersed revenue organizations across multiple markets, with direct accountability for growth and financial performance.
• Experience leading accomplished regional, market, or business line executives, with the judgement to establish clear expectations, delegate authority, and hold leaders accountable without unnecessary centralization.
• Demonstrated ability to develop and execute growth strategies that drive measurable improvements in revenue, loan and deposit production, relationship profitability, and market share.
• Proven ability to assess talent, build effective leadership teams, and develop successors.
• Experience partnering effectively across Credit, Risk, Finance, Operations, and Technology while maintaining a strong focus on customer relationships, revenue performance, and prudent risk management.
• Strong strategic orientation with a demonstrated ability to translate long-term priorities into disciplined execution and measurable results.

Travel Requirements

• Frequent

The pay rate for the selected candidate is dependent upon a variety of non-discriminatory factors including, but not limited to, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience, education, and geographic location. The role may be eligible for performance-based incentive compensation, and those details will be provided during the recruitment process.

Primary Location: Ability to work fully onsite at posted location(s).

8501 N Scottsdale Rd Scottsdale AZ 85253

Our Benefits:

We are proud to offer a competitive total rewards package including base wages and comprehensive benefits.

 

We offer eligible associates comprehensive healthcare coverage (medical, dental, and vision plans), a 401(k)-retirement savings plan with employer match for qualifying associate contributions, an employee assistance program, life insurance, disability insurance, tuition assistance, mental health resources, identity theft protection, legal support, auto and home insurance, pet insurance, access to an online discount marketplace, and paid vacation, sick days, volunteer days, and holidays. Benefit eligibility begins the first day of the month following the date of hire for associates who are regularly scheduled to work at least thirty hours weekly.

Our Commitment to Diversity:

Columbia Bank is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer committed to employing, engaging, and developing a diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, protected veteran status, disability, or any other applicable protected status or characteristics. If you require an accommodation to complete the application or interview(s), please let us know by email: careers@columbiabank.com.

To Staffing and Recruiting Agencies:

Our posted job opportunities are only intended for individuals seeking employment at Columbia Bank. Columbia Bank does not accept unsolicited resumes or applications from agencies and Columbia Bank will not be responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resume submissions. Staffing and recruiting agencies are not authorized to submit profiles, applications, or resumes to this site or to any Columbia Bank employee and any such submissions will be considered unsolicited unless requested directly by a member of the Talent Acquisition team.