At Northwestern Mutual, we are strong, innovative and growing. We invest in our people. We care and make a positive difference.
What's the role?
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.
As a Lead Product Manager in Digital Product, you will own the product vision, strategy, and delivery for a new strategic initiative, a comprehensive Financial Advisor digital workstation. You will lead a team of Product Managers and Business Analysts focused on building a user-experience led platform that integrates standalone digital applications into a singular digital experience for our Financial Advisors. You will influence and partner with a cross-functional team of Financial Advisors, Software Engineers, Designers, Technology Vendors, and Business Partners in an agile framework to deliver user value and business outcomes. Strong product fundamentals will need to be supplemented with effectively communicating vision and aligning teams around shared goals. For the right candidate, this role presents an opportunity to build a game-changing technology for Northwestern Mutual's Financial Advisors.
Primary Duties & Responsibilities:

• Set Product Vision : Accountable for multiple products' visions primarily within a single domain ensuring cohesive connections where applicable.
• Develop Roadmap : Accountable for defining 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 partners.
• Gather Requirements : Accountable for gathering higher level, more complex product requirements - 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 : Ability to 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 return-on-investment.
• 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.

Bring Your Best! What this role needs:

• 6-8 years of prior experience with at least 6 working in a Product Management Role, with agile team experience.
• Experience building investment-specific products, and leading the builds of digital tooling.
• Demonstrated cross-functional work in previous experience along with strong communication skills, time management, project management skills, business acumen and high self awareness/EQ are needed. We are also seeking previous research experience, influence skills, initial leadership exposure, ability to translate product requirements into technical requirements, and work in ambiguity and solution.
• Solves unique problems with broad impact on the business; requires conceptual and innovative thinking to develop solutions.
• Knowledge Preferred: Knowledge of the financial services industry in particular retirement planning and distribution, familiar with BI tools, Certification or experience with Product Owner or Scrum Master role, experience in leadership or mentorship of a cross functional team.
• Education: Bachelor's degree preferred or equivalent knowledge.

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