Senior Technical Product Manager - Field Data
Northwestern Mutual
Milwaukee, WI
About the Job
Build the tools and experiences that empower our advisors and help our clients achieve those dreams. Our data product services internal and external stakeholders in the financial services industry. Work with a talented team of engineers, designers, data scientists and financial experts to define product vision, strategy and deliver experiences to enable clients to achieve financial security. What You’ll Do
Set Product Vision: Responsible for product vision and appropriate positioning with key stakeholders across the organization.
Develop Roadmap: Foster 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 awareness and ability to articulate the product story to a broader audience outside the internal team with additional experience and maturity in the domain.
Design Partnership: Partner with design to ensure cohesive future state user visions and experiences that are aligned with a quarterly vision with an understanding of the total 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.
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 experience in designing, implementing, and managing data lakes and data mesh architectures.
Proven experience in managing a catalog of data attributes, including metadata management and data governance.
Strong understanding and hands-on experience with domain APIs and their integration within a data ecosystem.
Ability to work closely with data consumers to understand their needs and ensure the right data patterns are used.
Solves complex problems; take a new perspective on existing solutions; exercise judgment based on the analysis of multiple sources of information.
Skills You Have
Adaptive Communication: Formulates strategies to be used to convey complex information about services, products, systems, or processes to targeted audiences; communicates and liaises between technical and non-technical audiences.
Analytical Thinking: Organizes and compares various aspects of a situation to comprehend and identify key or underlying complex issues through the use of quantitative data and analysis; leverages strong business acumen, problem solving, and interpersonal skills to think critically about situations from multiple perspectives and consistently seeks ways to improve processes.
Continuous Improvement: Utilizes available methods to identify opportunities, executes solutions and measures impact to improve existing practices and processes. Implements feedback and lessons learned. Leverages the ability to identify and experiment assumptions and hypothesis for products to be able to refine and improve them at any stage of the life cycle.
Customer Centricity: Applies a customer first mindset to design and continuously improve solutions, systems, processes, and services that support enterprise strategy, impact critical business outcomes, and drive organizational success.
Learning Agility & Critical Thinking: Pursues learning and obtains knowledge continuously in relevant fields, methods, or technologies in current and future practices; continuously utilizes critical thinking to identify opportunities, execute solutions, and measure impact to constantly improve existing practices and processes based on feedback, lessons learned, and market trends.
User Story: Translates requirements to technical details to build and validate use cases around a product and communicates them effectively.
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Compensation Range:
Pay Range - Start:
$104,090.00Pay Range - End:
$193,310.00Geographic Specific Pay Structure:
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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
Customer Centricity (NM) - Advanced, Performance Analysis (NM) - Advanced, Cross Functional Partnering & Planning (NM) - Intermediate, Continuous Improvement (NM) - Advanced, Technical & Digital Acumen (NM) - Advanced, Strategic Thinking (NM) - Intermediate, Analytical Thinking (NM) - Intermediate, Agile Product Ownership (NM) - Intermediate, Customer Analysis (NM) - Intermediate, Root Cause Analysis & Decision Quality (NM) - Intermediate, Vision Setting (NM) - Advanced, Adaptive Communication (NM) - Advanced, Business Acumen (NM) - Advanced, Competitive Benchmarking (NM) - Intermediate, Product Lifecycle (NM) - Advanced, Product Roadmap (NM) - Advanced, Learning Agility & Critical Thinking (NM) - Advanced, Agile Results Delivery (NM) - Intermediate, Stakeholder Relationship (NM) - Intermediate, User Story (NM) - Advanced, Production Reporting & Metrics (NM) - Advanced, Solution Design Oriented Thinking (NM) - Advanced
FIND YOUR FUTURE
We’re excited about the potential people bring to Northwestern Mutual. You can grow your career here while enjoying first-class perks, benefits, and our commitment to a culture of belonging.
- Flexible work schedules
- Concierge service
- Comprehensive benefits
- Employee resource groups
About the Company
Northwestern Mutual
Who We Are
What we believe.We believe relationships are built on trust. That our lives and our work matter. And that doing what’s right is good for everyone — our clients, our employees, our financial representatives and our communities.
These beliefs launched our company nearly 160 years ago. Today, they’re just a few of the reasons why people choose to build careers at Northwestern Mutual.
That means we’ll be here for the millions of people who are counting on us—our clients, our employees, our financial representatives and our communities.
We care.We make a positive difference in our communities. Nationally, thousands have benefited from our support of research and programs to fight childhood cancer. Each year, our Foundation, employees and financial representatives donate time, talent and financial support to causes they’re passionate about.
Why Work Here
We’re strong and growing.In a company with such a long and storied history, this may be the most exciting and important time to be a part of Northwestern Mutual. We’re strong, innovative and growing. And we want you to grow with us.
We invest in our people.We provide opportunities for employees to grow themselves, their careers, and, in turn, our business. Movement around the company is encouraged and we help our people build meaningful, long-term careers.
Be part of building our future.We’re expanding our campus in downtown Milwaukee overlooking Lake Michigan. The Northwestern Mutual Tower and Commons will include a state-of-the-art employee Learning Institute, and will feature a natural light-filled, 21st century work environment. This signature development reinforces our commitment to job growth, attracting top talent and drawing new business to Milwaukee.
Enjoy Milwaukee.Located on beautiful Lake Michigan, Milwaukee offers a perfect balance of big city and small town living. Home to Summerfest, the world’s largest music festival, Milwaukee has a thriving music scene, a celebrated annual film festival and vibrant performing arts community. Professional sports teams include the Milwaukee Brewers, Milwaukee Bucks and other major teams. And outdoor family fun is easy here. An extensive urban bike path network links our lakefront parks, beaches and other recreational hotspots.
Our Culture
We are always evolving.At Northwestern Mutual, our employees, and our business, are always evolving. We are agile and continuously learning and improving. We have a work environment that empowers problem solving and encourages innovation—you will make an impact here.
We do what’s right.Our “do-what’s-right” value is pervasive. We ask ourselves: “Is this in the best interest of our clients? Our employees? Our financial representatives?” Acting on this value improves our clients’ experience, and makes Northwestern Mutual a better place to work.
We recognize and develop possibilities in our people.Onsite training and leadership development programs help employees succeed and grow. We also sponsor learning opportunities outside the company to help employees stay current in their fields, network with peers and gain external perspective.
Diversity makes us better.We believe diversity and inclusion cultivate creativity, innovation and a better experience for our clients. That’s why we recruit and grow people who bring unique perspectives, ideas, beliefs and cultural backgrounds.