Job Description

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, were changing the way people think about financial planning. Were redefining and disrupting the industry and changing peoples 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.

Come join our digital product management team - part of the Risk Servicing division that focuses on Life and Disability Insurance! We are responsible for the vision and development of a suite of digital products (front and back-end) that help our financial advisors grow and manage their business from strategy, sales, operations, financials, marketing to learning and development. Were seeking a hardworking and experienced Digital Product Manager to focus on digital tools.

Youll work with a team of engineers, designers, and financial experts to define product vision, strategy and deliver experiences to enable clients to achieve financial security. The ideal candidate has a desire to learn the business, understand the end-to-end processes and be part of contributing to multiple strategic initiatives to enhance the Client, Home Office and Field experiences.

Primary Duties & Responsibilities:

* Set Product Vision: Responsible for product vision and appropriate positioning with key stakeholders across the organization.

* Develop Roadmap: Accountable for development, acceptance and communication of roadmap. Define and track KPIs for measure of success

* Gather Requirements: Able to participate in cross-functional work to solicit key requirements relative to the accountable product

* Define the product: Responsible for multiple low to medium complexity products and product features from start to finish

* Stakeholdering: Awareness and ability to articulate the product story to a broader audience outside the internal team - additional experience and maturity in the domain

* Author User Stories: Translate requirements to technical details to build and validate use cases and user stories around a product and communicate them effectively

* Data & Customer Research: Inform product decisions with both qualitative and quantitative data on behavior and experimentation

* Feature Prioritization: Develop and maintain multiple prioritized backlog of user stories for implementation according to business value or return on investment

* Facilitate ceremonies: Facilitate the daily Scrums, Sprint Planning Meetings and Sprint Reviews and Retrospectives

Bring Your Best! What this role needs:

* 4-5 years of prior experience with ideally at least 4 years working in a Product Management Role, with agile team experience preferred.

* Knowledge Preferred: formal business analyst, engineering or testing experience desired. Knowledge of the financial services industry, familiar. Certification or experience with Product Owner or Scrum Master role is ideal.

* Proven cross-functional work in previous experience along with strong communication skills, time management, project management skills, business acumen and high self-awareness/EQ. Previous research experience, influence skills, initial leadership exposure, ability to translate product requirements into technical requirements, and work in ambiguity and solutioning.

* Solves complex problems; takes a new perspective on existing solutions; exercises judgment based on the analysis of multiple sources of information

* Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

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This job is not covered by the existing Collective Bargaining Agreement.

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