Lead Technical Product Manager

$110,040 - $204,360/Yr

Northwestern Mutual - Milwaukee, WI

Full-time - Mid Level

Milwaukee, WI

1,001-5,000 employees

Insurance Carriers and Related Activities

About the position

At Northwestern Mutual, we are strong, innovative, and growing. We invest in our people and care about making a positive difference. We are currently seeking a Lead Technical Product Manager for our Test Data Capabilities engineering team. This role is crucial in enhancing the developer experience by focusing on simplification, standardization, and automation. The individual will be dedicated to solving problems at scale for the entire company, facilitating a smoother approach to building, operating, deploying, and maintaining applications for our engineering delivery teams. As a Lead Technical Product Manager, you will be accountable for engaging with internal customers in Application Development teams to understand their challenges and formulate solutions that enable our Product Delivery teams to be faster, more efficient, and produce higher quality products that can be maintained effectively over time. This role will involve providing enterprise capabilities including Data De-Identification, AI Test Generation, Synthetic Data Creation, and more. Your primary duties will include leading voice of customer sessions to understand customer needs, building strong relationships with enterprise partners, contributing to the delivery roadmap for enterprise capabilities, and influencing prioritization of work through effective planning. You will design, organize, and implement high-impact solutions for use across teams within and outside your division, while establishing and sharing enterprise standards and best practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead voice of customer sessions in both small and large group forums to understand customer needs and problems.
• Build strong relationships with enterprise partners.
• Contribute to delivery roadmap for enterprise capabilities by prioritizing needs in alignment with company, technology, and department strategies.
• Contribute to planning for the organization including yearly, program increment (PI), and sprint planning to influence prioritization of work and drive strong delivery outcomes through key results and metrics.
• Design, organize, and implement high impact solutions for use across teams within and outside their division.
• Establish, aggregate, and share enterprise standards and best practices.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience.
• 6-8 years of professional experience required in product owner, product management, or engineering delivery role.
• Experience developing and leading solution delivery using agile methods including experience with test automation and varying test data solutions.
• Ability to synthesize information from many sources and make recommendations on solutions and next steps while balancing conflicting needs and priorities.
• Ability to effectively communicate to both technical and non-technical audiences in varying forms and levels of detail.
• Experience with data architecture, data engineering, and data integration patterns.
• Experience with the various phases of software development with a focus on development and testing.
• Solid understanding of design patterns and architecture.
• Proven track record of successfully designing and delivering significant and impactful technology solutions.

Benefits

• Flexible schedule
• Comprehensive benefits
• Concierge service
• Employee resource groups