Product Mgr III

Northwestern Mutual

7d • Hybrid

About The Position

About the Job Build the tools and experiences that empower our advisors and help our clients achieve those dreams. Work with a talented team of engineers, designers, data scientists and financial experts to analyze product features, inform, and initiate product vision to enable clients to achieve financial security. What You'll Do Set Product Vision: Co-create and review with PM and Sr PM, the vision of the product. Analyze KPI's for measures of success and provide recommendations to Sr PM Develop Roadmap: Develop and determine course of action for roadmap based off of reporting and metrics and work closely with Sr PM. Analyze KPI's for measures of success Gather Requirements: Understand and evaluate the problem state and work with key partners on existing approaches to resolve issues Define the product & stakeholder relationship management: Responsible for low complex products and product features and analyze and recommend based on metrics. Strengthen relationships with business partners and knowledge share as needed Design Partnership: Partner with design to ensure cohesive future state user visions and experiences are aligned 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 a prioritized backlog of user stories for implementation according to business value or ROI Facilitate ceremonies: Participate in and sometimes facilitate the daily Scrums, Sprint Planning Meetings and Sprint Reviews and Retrospectives

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree
• 2-4 Years of prior experience with at least 2 working in a Product Management 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
• Previous experience with research, analysis, and providing recommendations.
• Ability to translate product requirements into technical requirements and work in ambiguity and solutioning
• Ability to analyze and navigate through complex problems; exercise judgment based on the analysis of multiple sources of information
• Agile Product Ownership: Conducts the specific activities of Product Owner as part of the agile process in product development. Maximizes output delivered by the team, clears backlogs. Manages assignments of priorities to different tasks based on alignment to business and strategic goals
• 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
• Business Acumen: Applies knowledge of both general and organization-specific business issues/financial implications for the organization to problem solve
• Cross Functional Partnering & Planning: Facilitates collaboration, communication, coordination, and planning with individuals and teams from different functions within the organization, and who have different areas of expertise, to achieve common goals
• Stakeholder Relationship: Organizes, influences, monitors, and improves relationships with key stakeholders; systematically identifies stakeholders and analyzes their needs and expectations to support in planning and decision making while implementing various tasks to engage with them
• Technical & Digital Acumen: Leverages knowledge and approaches of digital products and technologies to solve problems, complete tasks and accomplish goals. Demonstrates effective adaptability to new and emerging technologies
• User Story: Translates requirements to technical details to build and validate use cases around a product and communicates them effectively

Nice To Haves

• formal business analyst, engineering or testing experience
• knowledge of the financial services industry
• familiar with BI tools
• knowledgeable expertise or experience with Scrum Framework

Responsibilities

• Set Product Vision: Co-create and review with PM and Sr PM, the vision of the product. Analyze KPI's for measures of success and provide recommendations to Sr PM
• Develop Roadmap: Develop and determine course of action for roadmap based off of reporting and metrics and work closely with Sr PM. Analyze KPI's for measures of success
• Gather Requirements: Understand and evaluate the problem state and work with key partners on existing approaches to resolve issues
• Define the product & stakeholder relationship management: Responsible for low complex products and product features and analyze and recommend based on metrics. Strengthen relationships with business partners and knowledge share as needed
• Design Partnership: Partner with design to ensure cohesive future state user visions and experiences are aligned
• 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 a prioritized backlog of user stories for implementation according to business value or ROI
• Facilitate ceremonies: Participate in and sometimes facilitate the daily Scrums, Sprint Planning Meetings and Sprint Reviews and Retrospectives

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level