Data Product Manager

At Northwestern Mutual, were changing the way people think about financial planning with the scale of a Fortune 100 company. Were redefining and disrupting the industry while changing peoples financial lives with better experiences and better technology. We believe in building inclusive and diverse workplaces, where every voice is heard. Come help us build for the future!

Build the tools and experiences that empower our advisors and help our clients achieve those dreams. Work with a hardworking 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.

• 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 & customer: 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.
• Author User Stories: Translate requirements to technical details to build and validate use cases and user stories around a product and communicate them optimally.
• Data & Customer Research: Advise 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 return on investment.
• Facilitate ceremonies: Participate in and sometimes facilitate the daily Scrums, Sprint Planning Meetings and Sprint Reviews and Retrospectives.
• Resolution: Identify potential issues and help resolve those that may impair the ability to meet strategic, financial, and/or technical goals.

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience.
• 2-4 Years of prior experience with at least 2 working in a Product Management role.
• Knowledge Preferred: formal business analyst, engineering or testing experience, knowledge of the financial services industry, familiar with BI tools, knowledgeable expertise or experience with Scrum Framework.
• Must have demonstrated cross functional work in previous experience along with strong communication skills, time management, project management skills, eye for business, 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 sophisticated problems; exercise judgment based on the analysis of multiple sources of information.

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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 additiona l information relating to location-based pay structures.

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