Senior Product Owner/Technical Product Manager Managed Investments

Northwestern Mutual - Wauwatosa, WI

Full-time - Mid Level

Wauwatosa, WI

5,001-10,000 employees

Insurance Carriers and Related Activities

About the position

As a Product Owner for Managed Investments at Northwestern Mutual, you will be responsible for overseeing the product vision and roadmap for multiple products within a single domain. This role involves collaborating with business partners to understand their needs, managing the product backlog, and ensuring that the team delivers on its commitments. You will work closely with various tech teams to manage dependencies and facilitate agile ceremonies, all while ensuring that product requirements are effectively translated into actionable user stories.

Responsibilities

• Set Product Vision: Accountable for multiple products' visions primarily within a single domain ensuring cohesive connections where applicable.
• Develop Roadmap: Define roadmaps and collaborate across key stakeholders to ensure roadmaps are synced and not duplicative.
• Define and track KPIs for measure of success across multiple products and stakeholders.
• Gather Requirements: Gather higher level, more complex product requirements with a general understanding/knowledge of products in remit.
• Review and validate requirements gathered within team.
• Defines Product: Responsible for multiple medium to high complexity products and product features from start to finish.
• Stakeholdering: Deliver key messages, marketing and 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 with an understanding of the 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 effectively.
• Feature Prioritization: Develop and maintain multiple prioritized backlog of user stories for implementation according to business value or ROI.
• Data & Customer 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.
• 4-5 Years of prior experience with at least 4 working in a Product Management Role, with agile team 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 cross functional work in previous experience.
• 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.

Nice-to-haves

• Formal business analyst, engineering or testing experience.
• Experience solving unique problems with broad impact on the business; requires conceptual and innovative thinking to develop solutions.

Benefits

• Competitive salary range from $100,030 to $185,770 based on experience and location.
• Opportunities for career growth and development.
• Diverse and inclusive workplace culture.