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At Northwestern Mutual, we are strong, innovative and growing. We invest in our people. We care and make a positive difference.
There is not one American Dream - there are 300 million of them. At Northwestern Mutual, we're changing the way people think about financial planning. We're redefining and disrupting the industry and changing people's financial lives with better experiences, better design, and better technology. We believe in and build inclusive workplaces, where every voice is heard, and diverse perspectives are welcomed. We are looking for someone like you.What's the role?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 and 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.As a Senior Product Manager you will own the product vision, strategy, and delivery for our rapidly growing wealth management business. You will focus on building a user-experience led set of wealth management capabilities, modernize our legacy systems and enhance experiences for our Field, Client and Home Office users. You will influence and partner with a cross-functional team of Financial Advisors/ Field Leaders, Software Engineers, Designers, Technology Vendors, and Business Partners in an agile framework to deliver user value and business outcomes. Strong product fundamental, accompanied by wealth management experience will need to be supplemented by effectively communicating vision and aligning teams around shared goals. For the right candidate, this role presents an opportunity to build game-changing technology for Northwestern Mutual's Financial Advisors and Clients.Primary Duties & Responsibilities:- Set Product Vision: Responsible for product vision and appropriate positioning with key stakeholders across the organization.
- Build Roadmaps: Accountable for development, acceptance, and communication of roadmap.
- Gather Requirements: Able to participate in cross functional work to solicit key requirements and drive the product definition.
- Engage Stakeholders: Awareness and ability to articulate the product story to a broader audience across the organization.
- Partner with Design: Bring experiences to life through co-creation, design-thinking workshops, and design-led experience development.
- Author User Stories: Translate requirements to technical details to build and validate use cases around a product and communicate them effectively to engineering teams.
- Data-Driven Decision Making: Inform product decisions with both qualitative and quantitative data on behavior and experimentation. Define and track KPIs for measure of success.
- 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.
- Education. Bachelor's degree
- 4-5 Years of prior experience with at least 4 working in a Product Management Role
- Agile Experience: experience working with SAFe and driving key agile ceremonies and workflows.
- Wealth Domain Knowledge: Knowledge of the financial services industry and the complete wealth management lifecycle a major plus.
- Hands-on Experience Preferred: formal business analyst, engineering or testing experience.
- Certification or experience with Product Owner or Scrum Master role.
- 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. 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; takes a new perspective on existing solutions; exercises judgment based on the analysis of multiple sources of information