Lead Digital Product Manager - Field Career

Lead Digital Product Manager

As a Lead Digital Product Manager, you will create tools and experiences that empower our Field leaders and advisors to attract and onboard top talent into impactful careers. Collaborating with a skilled team of product professionals, engineers, designers, data scientists, and financial experts, you will define product vision and strategy to deliver experiences that help clients achieve financial security.

We are looking for a Lead Digital Product Manager to shape the future of our contract and licensing system supporting the Northwestern Mutual distribution network. This leader will develop a modern, integrated solution focused on reducing contract time, enabling new financial advisors to start their careers swiftly and confidently.

This role offers an exciting leadership opportunity for a product manager who excels in detail-oriented work, appreciates the precision required in contracting and onboarding processes, and can effectively lead a cross-functional team through complex transformations. Success will require both strategic product vision and the ability to navigate the intricacies of workflows, data flows, and compliance requirements.

Primary Duties & Responsibilities

• Set Product Vision : Accountable for the vision CLR inclusive of visions primarily within a single domain ensuring cohesive connections where applicable.
• Develop Roadmap : Define roadmaps and collaboration across key stakeholders to ensure roadmaps are synced and not duplicative.
• Define and track KPIs for measure of success across multiple products and stakeholders.
• Gather Requirements : Gather higher level, more complex product requirements with a general understanding of products in remit.
• Review and validate requirements gathered within team.
• Defines Product : Responsible for multiple medium to high complexity products and product features from start to finish.
• Stakeholdering : Deliver key messages, marketing and communications about products in their domain.
• Design Partnership : Partner with design to ensure cohesive future state user visions and experiences are aligned through a one-year vision with an understanding of the Design process.
• Author User Stories : Translate requirements to technical details to build and validate use cases and user stories around a product and communicate them effectively.
• Feature Prioritization : Develop and maintain multiple prioritized backlog of user stories for implementation according to business value or ROI.
• Data & Customer Research : Inform product decisions with both qualitative and quantitative data on our behavior and experimentation.
• Facilitates Ceremonies : Facilitate daily Scrums, Sprint Planning Meetings and Sprint Reviews and Retrospectives.

Qualifications

Compensation Range : Pay Range - Start : $112,210.00 Pay Range - End : $208,390.00 Geographic Specific Pay Structure : 215 - Structure 110 : 123,410.00 USD - 229,190.00 USD 215 - Structure 115 : 129,010.00 USD - 239,590.00 USD

Northwestern Mutual is an equal opportunity employer who welcomes and encourages diversity in the workforce. We are committed to creating and maintaining an environment in which each employee can contribute creative ideas, seek challenges, assume leadership and continue to focus on meeting and exceeding business and personal objectives.