Product Manager II

At Northwestern Mutual, we are strong, innovative and growing. We invest in our people. We care and make a positive difference.
Summary
Build the tools and experiences that empower advisors and help clients achieve their dreams. Work with a talented team of engineers, designers, data scientists and financial experts to discover, build and launch features that enable clients to achieve financial security.
Primary Duties & Responsibilities

• Set Product Vision: 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. Define and track KPIs for measure of success.
• 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: Understand 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.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree.
• 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.
• Must have demonstrated 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.
• Ability to solve problems in straightforward situations; analyze possible solutions using technical experience and judgment and precedent.

Compensation Range:
Pay Range - Start:
$95,130.00
Pay Range - End:
$176,670.00
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 c lick here for additional information relating to location-based pay structures.
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