Lead Technical Product Manager

Summary:

We are looking for a Lead Product Manager to join our Engineering Solution Delivery team that supports our Managed Investments department. The role will help drive strategic work forward and provide opportunities to build strong business partner relationships while being a part of a dynamic and talented engineering team.  This role requires an analytical mindset, persistence to solve complex problems, ability to get things done quickly but thoughtfully!

Primary Duties & Responsibilities

• 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.
• Business Expertise: Use knowledge and experience to provide expertise in multiple business areas and domains. Articulate recommendations based on analytics.
• Current State, Future State and Gap Analysis: Begin to assess, exercise judgement, and document current state across moderately complex processes and business areas. Use analytics and experience to resolve issues and to provide solutions.
• Test Plan Review: Assist with coordinating and solution delivery test plans for medium complex efforts by participating in and ensuring business sign-off of testing processes for medium and large efforts.
• Project Management: Use project management skills to successfully complete and advance work.
• 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, familiar with BI tools, certification or experience with Product Owner or Scrum Master role, experience in leadership or mentorship of a team.
• Knowledge of institutional investment or financial services industry strongly preferred.
• 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, initial leadership exposure, ability to translate product requirements into technical requirements, and work in ambiguity.
• Ability to leverage strong communication skills and relationships to influence outcomes while navigating conflict and decision making.
• Solves moderately complicated problems with broad impact on the business; requires conceptual and innovative thinking to develop solutions.
• Must have 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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Northwestern Mutual pays on a geographic-specific salary structure and placement in the salary range for this position will be determined by a number of factors including the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate; the scope, complexity as well as the cost of labor in the market; and other conditions of employment. At Northwestern Mutual, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. Please note that the salary range listed in the posting is the standard pay structure. Positions in certain locations (such as California) may provide an increase on the standard pay structure based on the location. Please click here for additional information relating to location-based pay structures.

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