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Summary
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.
As our Field and Client Services area transforms how they provide service to our Financial Reps, their staff and our Clients, the way they leverage Case Management has to also transform. Seeking an experienced Lead Product Manager to define the product vision, strategy and deliver outstanding service-related experiences for Servicing Case Management. You will work across a hard-working team of business partners, engineers, designers, and business analysts and cross-functionally with other Product Managers to achieve the outcomes. You will cultivate relationships with key team members to ensure alignment with departmental/enterprise strategies and create effective internal workflow processes.
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 key stakeholders to ensure roadmaps are synced and not duplicative.
- Define and track KPIs 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 gathered 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 effectively.
- Feature Prioritization: Develop and maintain multiple prioritized backlog of user stories for implementation according to business value or ROI.
- Data & Customer Research: Inform 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.
- 6-8 Years of prior experience with at least 6 years 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.
- 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.
- Must have previous research experience, influence skills, initial leadership exposure, ability to translate product requirements into technical requirements, and work in ambiguity.
- Solves unique problems with broad impact on the business; requires conceptual and innovative thinking to develop solutions.
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Compensation Range:
Pay Range - Start:
$110,040.00
Pay Range - End:
$204,360.00
Northwestern Mutual pays on a geographic-specific salary structure and placement in the salary range for this position will be determined by a number of factors including the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate; the scope, complexity as well as the cost of labor in the market; and other conditions of employment. At Northwestern Mutual, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. Please note that the salary range listed in the posting is the standard pay structure. Positions in certain locations (such as California) may provide an increase on the standard pay structure based on the location. Please click here for additiona l information relating to location-based pay structures.
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We are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age or status as a protected veteran, or any other characteristic protected by law.
If you work or would be working in California, Colorado, New York City, Washington or outside of a Corporate location, please click here for information pertaining to compensation and benefits.
FIND YOUR FUTURE
We're excited about the potential people bring to Northwestern Mutual. You can grow your career here while enjoying first-class perks, benefits, and commitment to diversity and inclusion.
- Flexible work schedules
- Concierge service
- Comprehensive benefits
- Employee resource groups
What We Do
You’ll Like It Here
At Northwestern Mutual, we believe that our lives and our work matter. And that doing what’s right is good for everyone. We follow through by designing tech that improves the community and cultivating creative ways to make finance accessible anywhere. These guiding principles have allowed our company to grow for more than 160 years.
Here, you’ll be with a team who emphasizes integrity and prioritizes security to design experiences that better everyone. You’ll work in cross functional teams to create optimal solutions that are rooted in innovative strategy and thoughtful execution. And you’re provided development tools and opportunities to become a leader all with the support of a collaborative team. You’ll be surrounded in a culture that values innovation and works to always evolve to stay ahead of trends and client needs.
We are intentional in seeking out team members who will challenge us. Our employees choose us for the career opportunities, commitment to philanthropy and desire to have a meaningful impact in the lives of our clients. You have career passions and goals. We have ambition and opportunity for you to grow your future in tech. Discover today: https://careers.northwesternmutual.com/
Why Work With Us
We invest in our people. We know careers are about choices, so we provide intentional opportunity. Here you can build creative ways to make finance accessible anywhere and revolutionize traditional processes. As a mutual company, our focus is our people — whether professional development or investments in the community.
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Hybrid Workspace
Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.
We offer a flexible, hybrid approach for our employees . Teams are in the office a few days a week and work from home the others.