Digital Product Manager - Field Rewards
At Northwestern Mutual, we are strong, innovative and growing. We invest in our people. We care and make a positive difference.
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!
What's this role?
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 professionals 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 critical metrics.
Develop Roadmap: Responsible for ingesting new items on the roadmap per documented prioritization framework(s).
Gather Requirements: Recognize the problem state and unmet needs of the client for the objective of defining the product.
Define the Product & Stakeholders: Work with technology, design and end users, to shape and test for communicating 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 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 return on investment.
Facilitate Agile Ceremonies: Participate in the daily Scrums, Sprint Planning Meetings and Sprint Reviews and Retrospectives.
Bring Your Best! What this role needs
- 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, , familiar with BI tools, previous research experience, familiar with Agile and Scrum framework.
- Knowledge of financial services industry is a plus
- Proven 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.
- Ability to solve problems in a straightforward manner while facing ambiguity to analyze possible solutions using technical experience, judgment and precedent.
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This job is not covered by the existing Collective Bargaining Agreement.
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