Our Mission

Northwestern Mutual has 160 years of history providing financial security to millions of people. Continuing that tradition means changing to meet the needs of our clients and financial advisors. We are a strong, innovative, and growing company that invests in people who care and make a positive impact!

At Northwestern Mutual, we truly believe in internal growth and career development. We're very excited that you are interested in growing your career with us!

Summary

Join the Client Communications team as a Senior Product Manager to help build the systems and capabilities that enable Northwestern Mutual to deliver an outstanding client experience at every touchpoint.

The Digital Forms team within Client Communications serves as the custodians of digital forms for nearly every department within the organization. Partner with a hard-working team of engineers, designers, data scientists and financial experts to lead product features across a wide variety of initiatives. Support nearly all portfolios across the organization to drive impactful solutions and influence the strategy to evolve forms management.

Primary Duties & Responsibilities

• Set Product Vision: Responsible for product vision and appropriate positioning with key team members across the organization.

• Develop Roadmap: Champion the development, acceptance and communication of roadmap.

• Define and track critical metrics for measure of success.

• Gather Requirements: 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: Maintain the awareness and ability to articulate the product story to a broader audience outside the internal team with additional experience and maturity in the domain.

• Design Partnership: Partner with design to ensure cohesive future state user visions and experiences that are aligned with a quarterly vision with an understanding of the total 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 optimally.

• Data & Customer Research: Advise 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.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.

• 4-5 Years of prior experience with at least 4 working in a Product Management Role, with agile team experience.

• Knowledge Preferred: formal business analyst, engineering or testing experience, knowledge of the financial services industry, familiar with BI tools, certification or experience with Product Owner or Scrum Master role.

• Must have demonstrated cross functional work in previous experience along with strong communication skills, time management, project management skills, eye for business and high self-awareness/EQ.

• Demonstrated 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; take a new point of view on existing solutions; exercise judgment based on the analysis of multiple sources of information.

$100,030.00

$185,770.00

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 click here for additional information relating to location-based pay structures.

We are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age or status as a protected veteran, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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