Jobs at Northwestern Mutual

Provide expert consultation on complex financial services compliance and supervision matters. Analyze issues, support solution design, drive consistent execution across field offices, deliver targeted training, and contribute to policy and process improvements. Partner with compliance, supervision, and business stakeholders to support annual compliance initiatives and transaction reviews.

The Senior Manager of Enterprise Insights will lead a new insight capability, drive field research, mentor teams, and utilize AI tools to enhance research capabilities, focusing on financial advisors' insights to inform business strategy and decision-making.

Lead records and information management, transparency/consent, and privacy incident response programs. Advise the CPO and stakeholders on privacy strategy, embed privacy controls into products and processes, manage a team, develop policies and roadmaps, partner with legal and IT, and monitor compliance with privacy laws while enabling responsible data use to drive business outcomes.

The Technical Business Analyst II partners with business, product, engineering, design, and subject matter experts to analyze current and future processes, identify gaps, gather technical requirements, and author user stories or features. The role supports development, reviews test plans, performs UAT and checkout testing, and applies project management principles to deliver outcomes in an agile environment.

Investigate, contain, and respond to anomalous or malicious activity across network and host environments. Triage and correlate log sources, analyze system artifacts and memory, conduct threat hunting, document incident timelines, improve response procedures, and collaborate with detection engineering and red teams to enhance monitoring and automate response. Participate in an incident response on-call rotation.

Leads financial strategy and execution for managing partner appointments, office capitalization, ownership transitions, and complex business changes. Advises executives and leadership candidates, structures financial arrangements, supports M&A and transaction analysis, and oversees transition programs. Develops financial models, valuations, due diligence, and recommendations for governance committees while leading a team and improving financial processes, tools, and reporting.

Leads enterprise change management initiatives focused on people, process, technology, culture, and behavior. Develops integrated change strategies, identifies resistance risks, coaches executives and project teams, oversees change execution, measures adoption and benefits, and promotes standardized organizational change management practices across the company.

Supports planning, testing, and reporting for IT, cybersecurity, and integrated audits. Evaluates technology controls, documents evidence and conclusions, identifies control gaps, drafts audit observations, and communicates risks and recommendations to technical and business stakeholders. The role manages concurrent audit assignments, applies audit frameworks and risk concepts, and uses data and reporting tools to improve testing and insight.

Provide legal advice and transaction support for Northwestern Mutual's 720 East CLO platform and general account investments. Review offering memorandums, indentures, engagement and warehouse agreements, collateral management and control agreements; handle amendments, restructurings, bankruptcies, realizations, regulatory matters, and liability management. Collaborate across teams, offer practical legal solutions, and manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced in-house environment.

Leads a software engineering team supporting electronic communications compliance technology. Responsibilities include people management, vendor coordination, production issue response, Agile planning, delivery execution, platform reliability, risk identification, and partnership with Compliance, Risk, Legal, and Enterprise Technology teams. The role supports communications surveillance, records retention, regulatory obligations, operational health, and continuous improvement across a complex enterprise technology portfolio.

Leads enterprise consumer and client insights, research strategy, brand tracking, segmentation, positioning, and communications research. Builds and manages a high-performing research team, oversees budgets and vendors, translates quantitative and qualitative data into compelling narratives, and advises marketing, product, digital, communications, and executive stakeholders. The role drives actionable recommendations across the consumer decision journey and manages large-scale longitudinal research programs and project pipelines.

Leads small to medium change management initiatives focused on the people side of organizational, process, technology, and cultural change. Develops and executes communication, training, sponsorship, adoption, and resistance-management plans. Partners with leaders, stakeholders, sponsors, and project teams to assess impacts, identify risks, align change strategies, and achieve business outcomes. Coaches stakeholders, tracks adoption and performance measures, escalates gaps, and promotes enterprise change management methodologies.

Provide legal counsel on design, implementation, and administration of employee benefit programs (retirement, health, welfare), ensuring ERISA and tax compliance; draft and review plan documents and filings; identify and mitigate legal risks; support employment law matters (wage/hour, leave, investigations, terminations, restrictive covenants); collaborate with HR and other legal specialists; monitor regulatory developments.

Lead development of reusable cross-domain analytical data products, certify enterprise metrics, enforce data lineage and quality, and enable governed analytics. Partner with business stakeholders to translate requirements into scalable semantic models, monitor data quality and drift, catalog assets in Atlan, and mentor peers to drive adoption and trusted, enterprise-wide analytical solutions and AI-enabled decision support.

Lead analytics for the Risk Product team: analyze data, build KPI frameworks, dashboards, forecasts, and reports; translate insights into recommendations; partner with stakeholders; perform root-cause analysis and support continuous improvement to inform strategic decisions.

Manage research intake and workflows in Jira, enforce sharing and archival standards in SharePoint/Research Hub, leverage AI for tagging and discoverability, prevent redundant research, produce quarterly insight digests, standardize naming and folder structures, and support quantitative and qualitative analysis while managing budgets and vendors.

The Family Wealth Strategist leads and integrates wealth management strategies for high-net-worth families, aligning financial plans with family values and objectives while coordinating with advisors and partners.

Lead and manage the second-line IT SOX/MAR program, integrate IT SOX/MAR with state cybersecurity regulations, liaise with first-, second-, and third-line stakeholders, drive automation and continuous controls assurance using the GRC platform, provide technical guidance, resolve control and scoping issues, and lead/jointly manage team members on compliance and remediation efforts.

Provide in-house legal counsel for Northwestern Mutual's $60+ billion real estate portfolio, leading structuring, negotiation and documentation of commercial mortgage loans, acquisitions, joint ventures and development transactions. Support asset management and loan servicing activities including amendments, consents, leasing, and management agreements, working closely with investment professionals.

Provide day-to-day technical support for investment account opening operations, train and mentor staff, resolve complex account issues, design and execute quality assurance, and lead process and system improvements to ensure timely, compliant service to subscribers.