About the Job 

At Northwestern Mutual, the Field Solutions team delivers tools and experiences that empower our advisors and help our clients achieve their dreams. The Field Rewards Product team is seeking a Product Manager to manage the strategy, roadmap and delivery for suite of product technologies and capabilities.   

In this role, you'll work with cross-functional engineers, designers, data scientists, and financial experts to define product vision, strategy, and deliver experiences to enable clients to achieve financial security.  
 
What You’ll Do 

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

• Develop Roadmap: Foster the development, acceptance and communication of roadmap across multiple delivery teams.   

• Gather and Document 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.  

• Requirement Documentation: Lead the gathering, analysis, and detailed documentation of complex business requirements from business partners and leadership and translate those into technical, functional specifications for engineering teams. 

• Feature Writing & Prioritization: Write, develop, and maintain a prioritized backlog of features with adequate level of technical detail and acceptance criteria.   

• 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.  

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

Skills You Have: 

• Adaptive Communication: Formulates strategies to be used to convey complex information about services, products, systems, or processes to targeted audiences; communicates and liaises between technical and non-technical audiences. 

• Agile Product Ownership: Conducts the specific activities of Product Owner as part of the agile process in product development. Maximizes output delivered by the team, clears backlogs. Manages assignments of priorities to different tasks based on alignment to business and strategic goals. 

• Cross Functional Partnering & Planning: Facilitates collaboration, communication, coordination, and planning with individuals and teams from different functions within the organization, and who have different areas of expertise, to achieve common goals. 

• Product Lifecycle: Utilizes an understanding of the product lifecycle and a product's vision to manage a product throughout its complete lifecycle, from introduction to launch to post-launch assessment. 

• Product Roadmap: Plans and manages processes and procedures to develop, refine, and finalize products under the time and financial constraints. 

• Root Cause Analysis & Decision Quality: Assists and applies problem solving methods to understand the fundamental reasons of faults and problems; makes timely, data-driven decisions by understanding the probability of success, identifying customer risks, gathering business requirements, and developing value statements. 

• Stakeholder Relationship: Organizes, influences, monitors, and improves relationships with key stakeholders; systematically identifies stakeholders and analyzes their needs and expectations to support in planning and decision making while implementing various tasks to engage with them. 

• User Story: Translates requirements to technical details to build and validate use cases around a product and communicates them effectively. 

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