Lead Digital Product Manager - Service Transformation

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At Northwestern Mutual, we’re changing the way people think about financial planning with the scale of a Fortune 100 company.

We’re redefining and disrupting the industry while changing people’s financial lives with better experiences and better technology.

We believe in building inclusive and diverse workplaces, where every voice is heard. Come help us build for the future!

Summary

Manage large work programs that empower advisors and help clients achieve those dreams. Work with a hard-working team of engineers, designers, data scientists and financial experts to define product vision, strategy and deliver experiences that drive business outcomes!

Primary Duties & Responsibilities

• Set Product Vision : Accountable for multiple products' visions primarily within a single domain ensuring cohesive connections where applicable.
• Develop Roadmap : Define roadmaps and collaboration across essential team members to ensure roadmaps are synced and not duplicative.
• Define and track critical metrics for measure of success across multiple products and stakeholders.
• Gather Requirements : Gather higher level, more complex product requirements with a general understanding / knowledge of products in remit.
• Review and validate requirements captured 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 optimally.
• Feature Prioritization : Develop and maintain multiple prioritized backlog of user stories for implementation according to business value or return on investment.
• Data & Customer Research : Advise 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

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• 6-8 Years of prior experience with at least 6 working in a Product Management Role, with agile team experience.
• Knowledge Preferred : formal business analyst, engineering or testing experience, knowledge of the financial services industry, familiar with BI tools, certification or experience with Product Owner or Scrum Master role, experience in leadership or mentorship of a team.
• Proven demonstrated cross functional work in previous experience along with strong communication skills, time management, project management skills, eye for business and high self awareness / EQ.
• Must have previous research experience, influence skills, initial leadership exposure, ability to translate product requirements into technical requirements, and work in ambiguity.
• Solves outstanding problems with broad impact on the business; requires conceptual and innovative thinking to develop solutions.

LI-Hybrid

Compensation Range : Pay Range - Start :

Pay Range - Start : $110,040.00

$110,040.00

Pay Range - End : $204,360.00

$204,360.00

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