Lead Product Manager

At Northwestern Mutual, we are proud of our regulatory reputation and believe that our compliance experiences create a competitive advantage. Our compliance function enables Northwestern Mutual to earn and maintain the trust of our clients while meeting our regulatory obligations.

We believe in building inclusive, and diverse workplaces, where every voice is heard. Come help us build for the future! We are looking for a Lead Product Manager to join our Law and Public Affairs Compliance Product and Engineering team. The role will help drive strategic work forward, straddling the realm of managing large program efforts as well as keeping the persistent teams humming.

We believe in strong business partner engagement​, seamless product and engineering collaboration, healthy prioritization conversations and ensuring strategic and operational outcomes are consistently met​. This role requires an agile engineering mindset, patience and persistence to solve complex problems, ability to get things done quickly but thoughtfully!

The focus of Enterprise Compliance is to ensure that our company’s business conduct is in line with regulatory standards and our company’s policies. The business teams for Supervision (centralized, field, and home office) provide operational high touch supervision for network offices.
 

Primary Duties & 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. Define and track critical metrics for measure of success across multiple products and collaborators.

• 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.

• 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 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 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.

Qualifications

• 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.

• Solves unique problems with broad impact on the business; requires conceptual and innovative thinking to develop solutions.

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