Lead Product Manager

Hitec - Milwaukee, WI

Full-time - Mid Level

Milwaukee, WI

Merchant Wholesalers, Durable Goods

About the position

The Lead Product Manager at Northwestern Mutual will play a crucial role in the Law and Public Affairs Compliance Product and Engineering team. This position is responsible for driving strategic initiatives, managing multiple product visions, and ensuring effective collaboration across teams. The role requires a strong focus on stakeholder engagement, product definition, and agile methodologies to meet regulatory standards and enhance business operations.

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.
• Gather Requirements: Gather higher level, more complex product requirements with a general understanding/knowledge of products in remit.
• Defines Product: Responsible for multiple medium to high complexity products and product features from start to finish.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Deliver key messages, 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.
• Author User Stories: Translate requirements to technical details to build and validate use cases and user stories around a product.
• Feature Prioritization: Develop and maintain multiple prioritized backlogs of user stories for implementation according to business value or return on investment.
• Data and Industry Practices/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.

Requirements

• 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 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, experience in leadership or mentorship of a team.
• Demonstrated experience with cross functional work in previous roles with strong communication skills, time management, project management skills, eye for business 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.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience in leadership or mentorship of a team.
• Certification or experience with Product Owner or Scrum Master role.

Benefits

• Competitive salary range from $110,040 to $204,360 based on experience and location.
• Opportunities for career growth and development within a best-in-class company.