Description
About the Role:
At Northwestern Mutual, we’re transforming how product and policy data powers modern digital experiences at the scale and complexity of a Fortune 100 mutual company. As we continue to modernize our technology ecosystem, the Product Contract domain plays a foundational role in how experiences across NM access and update risk product policy data. As a Senior Product Manager supporting the Product Contract domain, you will own and evolve critical digital assets that sit at the core of our enterprise. Your focus will be on delivering high‑quality, performant APIs that enable consistency, reliability, and speed for teams modernizing advisor, client, and operational experiences across the company. In this role, you will partner closely with engineers, architects, data partners, business analysts and other product managers to deliver capabilities that unlock value across many downstream experiences. You’ll collaborate across domains to align with enterprise strategy, establish clear product expectations, and create effective ways of working that help teams move faster together while maintaining the rigor and quality required of systems at the heart of policy administration. A foundation of business and technical fundamentals should be complemented by soft skills in building relationships, effectively eliciting and documenting requirements, critical problem-solving skills, project management and working toward shared goals.
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.
- Define and track KPIs for measure of success.
- Gather 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.
- 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.
- Feature Prioritization: Develop and maintain multiple prioritized backlog of user stories for implementation according to business value or ROI.
- Facilitate ceremonies: Facilitate the daily Scrums, Sprint Planning Meetings and Sprint Reviews and Retrospectives.
What You'll Bring to the Role:
- Bachelor's degree.
- 4-5 Years of prior experience with at least 4 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.
- Must have demonstrated cross functional work in previous experience along with strong communication skills, time management, project management skills, business acumen and high self-awareness/EQ.
- Demonstrated previous research experience, influence skills, initial leadership exposure, ability to translate product requirements into technical requirements, and work in ambiguity and solutioning.
- Solves complex problems; take a new perspective on existing solutions; exercise judgment based on the analysis of multiple sources of information.
What Sets you apart:
- Adaptive Communication
- Attention To Detail
- Cross Functional Partnering
- Customer Analysis
- Escalation Tracking
- Stakeholder Relationship
- Technical Digital Acumen
- User story
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Compensation Range:
Pay Range - Start:
$118,960.00Pay Range - End:
$178,440.00Geographic Specific Pay Structure:
Structure 110:
$130,880.00 USD - $196,320.00 USDStructure 115:
$136,800.00 USD - $205,200.00 USDWe believe in fairness and transparency. It’s why we share the salary range for most of our roles. However, final salaries are based on a number of factors, including the skills and experience of the candidate; the current market; location of the candidate; and other factors uncovered in the hiring process. The standard pay structure is listed but if you’re living in California, New York City or other eligible location, geographic specific pay structures, compensation and benefits could be applicable, click here to learn more.
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Northwestern Mutual is an equal opportunity employer who welcomes and encourages diversity in the workforce. We are committed to creating and maintaining an environment in which each employee can contribute creative ideas, seek challenges, assume leadership and continue to focus on meeting and exceeding business and personal objectives.
Skills
Continuous Improvement (NM) - Intermediate, Technical & Digital Acumen (NM) - Intermediate, Business Acumen (NM) - Intermediate, Cross Functional Partnering & Planning (NM) - Intermediate, User Story (NM) - Intermediate, Strategic Thinking (NM) - Intermediate, Customer Centricity (NM) - Intermediate, Analytical Thinking (NM) - Intermediate, Adaptive Communication (NM) - Intermediate, Customer Analysis (NM) - Intermediate, Solution Design Oriented Thinking (NM) - Intermediate, Root Cause Analysis & Decision Quality (NM) - Intermediate, Escalation Tracking (NM) - Intermediate, Client Advocacy (NM) - Intermediate, Attention to Detail (NM) - Intermediate, Competitive Benchmarking (NM) - Intermediate, Agile Results Delivery (NM) - Intermediate, Product Lifecycle (NM) - Intermediate, Stakeholder Relationship (NM) - Intermediate
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