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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.SummaryAs a Product Manager, you'll build the tools and experiences that empower our advisors and help our clients achieve those dreams. You'll work with a hardworking team of engineers, designers, data scientists and financial specialists to discover, build and launch features that enable clients to achieve financial security. We are looking for a Product Manager who is passionate about their craft. It is a fast-paced environment where decisions are data-driven, collaborative, and iterative. The organization deeply values a client first approach and design thinking.This role leads the Account Aggregation Digital Product team. Our company's strategy is focused on driving deep and life-long relationships with our clients. Helping clients aggregate their accounts is a key ingredient to our consumer product strategy.Primary Duties & Responsibilities- Set Product Vision: Ability to independently, and in some cases co-create with a Sr. PM, the foundational vision of the product and what it is trying to solve for.
- Develop Roadmap: Responsible for ingesting new items on the roadmap per documented prioritization framework(s). Define and track KPIs for measure of success.
- Gather Requirements: Focused on understanding the problem state and unmet needs of the client for the objective of defining the product.
- Define the product & Stakeholdering: Work with technology, design, customers/users, to shape and test the product and communicate why this is the right product, how it will work, and what defines metrics for success.
- Design Partnership: Partner with design to ensure cohesive future state user visions and experiences are aligned.
- 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 a prioritized backlog of user stories for implementation according to business value or ROI.
- Facilitate Ceremonies: Participate in the daily Scrums, Sprint Planning Meetings and Sprint Reviews and Retrospectives.
- 1-3 Years of prior experience with at least 1 working in a Product Management role.
- Knowledge Preferred: formal business analyst, engineering or testing experience, knowledge of the financial services industry, familiar with BI tools, previous research experience, familiar with Agile and Scrum framework.
- Candidate will demonstrate some cross functional work in previous experience
- Strong communication skills, strong time management, project management skills, business acumen, and high self awareness and EQ.
- Ability to translate product requirements into technical requirements and work in ambiguity and solution.
- Solve problems in straightforward situations; analyze possible solutions using technical experience and judgment and precedent.
- Education: Bachelor's degree preferred
- Opportunities for career growth and advancement
- Highly competitive salary plus bonuses
- Outstanding Benefits- paid holidays and generous paid time off, medical benefits, retirement plans, volunteer opportunities, and more!