Product Manager
At Northwestern Mutual, we are strong, innovative and growing. We invest in our people. We care and make a positive difference.
Summary
Work with an enthusiastic team of product owners, UX designers and engineers to define product vision, strategy and delivery experiences that drive business outcomes. As a member of the Meetings Solutions team, you will have both an internal and external focus. You will define the vision for building out an innovative modern meeting experience using human centered and experience design principles, methodologies, and frameworks.
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 team members to ensure roadmaps are synced and not duplicative. Define and track critical metrics for measure of success across multiple products and partners.
- 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 return on investment.
- Data & Customer Research: Inform product decisions with both qualitative and quantitative data on our behavior and experimentation.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree.
- 6-8 Years of prior experience with at least 6 working in a Product Management Role, with agile team experience.
- Knowledge Preferred: formal experience with innovation methods, including human-centered and experience design; formal business analyst, engineering or testing experience, knowledge of the financial services industry, familiar with BI tools, familiarity with Agile product management processes and ceremonies, experience in leadership or mentorship of a team.
- Identifies and solves unique problems with broad impact on the business; requires conceptual and innovative thinking to develop solutions.
- Robust knowledge of and experience with current and emerging technologies to support digital innovative efforts: experience in financial services or insurance industry a plus.
- Demonstrated cross functional work in previous experience along with strong communication skills, time management, project management skills, business knowledge and high self awareness/EQ.
- Previous experience working with senior leaders, research experience, influence skills, ability to translate product requirements into technical requirements, and work in ambiguity.
Our Benefits!
- Highly competitive compensation, including annual bonus opportunities
- Medical/Dental/Vision plans, 401(k), pension program
- Tuition reimbursement, commuter plans, and paid time off
- Extensive Professional Training Opportunities
- Excellent Work/Life Balance
- Hackathons/Dedication to Innovation
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