Chief Banking Officer - First Foundation Bank : Job Details

Summary : This role is responsible for driving enterprise-wide deposit growth through strategic oversight of Retail Banking, Private Banking, Small Business, and Business Banking. This role leads the development and execution of integrated strategies to attract, grow, and retain deposit relationships across diverse client segments. With a strong focus on innovation, market responsiveness, and client-centric solutions, this position partners with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable deposit initiatives, optimize product performance, and ensure alignment with the organization's long-term growth objectives and regulatory standards.

Duties and Responsibilities :

• Leads the strategic direction and execution of deposit growth initiatives across Retail Banking, Private Banking, Small Business, and Business Banking, ensuring alignment with enterprise goals and market opportunities.
• Oversees the performance, profitability, and operational effectiveness of the Retail Banking network, including branch optimization, staffing strategies, sales execution, and service delivery.
• Develops and implements multi-channel strategies to attract, grow, and retain core deposit relationships, leveraging data analytics, market intelligence, and customer segmentation.
• Champions a customer-centric culture by driving innovation in retail banking products, services, and experiences that meet evolving consumer expectations and enhance client loyalty.
• Provides executive leadership to the Private Banking team, ensuring high-touch service delivery and tailored financial solutions for affluent and high-net-worth clients.
• Directs the full lifecycle of deposit products, including ideation, design, development, enhancement, and rationalization, ensuring offerings are competitive, compliant, and aligned with profitability goals.
• Collaborates with Marketing, Digital, Treasury, Risk, Compliance, and Technology teams to ensure successful product launches, regulatory adherence, and operational readiness.
• Guides the development of targeted marketing campaigns, promotional strategies, and financial wellness initiatives to increase wallet share and deepen client relationships.
• Utilizes performance metrics and KPIs to monitor and optimize deposit growth, customer satisfaction, and operational efficiency across all banking segments.
• Conducts ongoing market research and competitive analysis to identify emerging trends, customer behaviors, and product opportunities, translating insights into actionable strategies.
• Serves as a senior relationship manager for key clients and centers of influence, reinforcing the bank's reputation as a trusted financial partner and advisor.

Supervisory Responsibilities : This position has direct supervisory responsibilities.

Compensation Disclosure :

The base pay range for this role is available upon request, in accordance with California's Pay Transparency Law. Final compensation will be determined based on experience, skills, and alignment with internal equity.

Qualifications :

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and / or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education and / or Experience :

Physical Demands :

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit for long periods of time; use hands and fingers to operate controls on a computer; reach with hands and arms for phone and computer work; communicate on the phone wearing a headset for extended periods. The employee must occasionally lift and / or move up to 5 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, and the ability to adjust focus. This job description is subject to change at any time.

First Foundation is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, protected veteran status, status as a qualified individual with a disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other characteristic protected by law.