Sr Product Manager

At Northwestern Mutual, we are strong, innovative and growing. We invest in our people. We care and make a positive difference.

What is the Role?

We are seeking a hard-working Sr. Product Manager who will help build the tools and experiences that empower our advisors and help our clients achieve those dreams.

Work with a talented team of engineers, designers, data scientists and financial experts to define product vision, strategy and deliver experiences to enable clients to achieve financial security.

Primary Duties & Responsibilities

• Set Product Vision : Responsible for product vision and appropriate positioning with key stakeholders across the organization.
• Develop Roadmap : Foster the development, acceptance and communication of roadmap.
• Define and track KPIs for measure of success.
• Gather Requirements : Participate in cross functional work to solicit key requirements relative to the accountable product.
• Define the product : Responsible for multiple low to medium complexity products and product features from start to finish.
• Stakeholdering : Maintain the awareness and ability to articulate the product story to a broader audience outside the internal team with additional experience and maturity in the domain.
• Design Partnership : Partner with design to ensure cohesive future state user visions and experiences that are aligned with a quarterly vision with an understanding of the total 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.
• Data & Customer Research : Inform product decisions with both qualitative and quantitative data on behavior and experimentation.
• Feature Prioritization : Develop and maintain multiple prioritized backlog of user stories for implementation according to business value or ROI.
• Facilitate ceremonies : Facilitate the daily Scrums, Sprint Planning Meetings and Sprint Reviews and Retrospectives.

Bring your best! What this role needs?

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience
• 4-5 Years of prior experience with at least 4 working in a Product Management Role, with agile team experience.
• Knowledge Preferred : Formal business analyst, DevOps or SRE experience, Engineering or testing experience, Knowledge of the financial services industry, familiar with reporting tools (ie : PowerBI) and in depth familiarity with work tracking tools (ie : Jira, Jira Align)
• Certification or experience with Product Owner or Scrum Master role
• Technical experience in observability Application Performance Monitoring (APM) space
• Must have demonstrated cross functional work in previous experience along with strong communication skills, time management, project management skills, business acumen and high self-awareness / EQ.
• Demonstrated previous research experience, influence skills, initial leadership exposure, ability to translate product requirements into technical requirements, and work in ambiguity and solutioning.
• Solves complex problems; take a new perspective on existing solutions; exercise judgment based on the analysis of multiple sources of information.
• Demonstrate previous experience with(metrics, events, logging, tracing)

Our Benefits!

• Tons of room for career growth.
• We offer highly competitive compensation, including annual bonus opportunities
• Medical / Dental / Vision plans, 401(k), pension program
• We provide tuition reimbursement, PTO, and Holiday Pay
• We provide extensive Professional Training Opportunities
• We offer an excellent Work / Life Balance

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Compensation Range : Pay Range - Start :

Pay Range - Start : $100,030.00

$100,030.00

Pay Range - End : $185,770.00

$185,770.00

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