Senior Product Manager

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Summary

This Senior Product Manager will be accountable for the strategic vision, roadmap development, requirement gathering, strategy partnering with the Senior Leadership and SME's of CEE and other business leaders across NM. In addition, partnership with Technology CEE Lead Product Manager, Lead Engineer, and the Software Engineers on the team for the workplace of the future leading up to and beyond the opening of New North. Campus Event & Experiences is growing in the need for technical development and support with new vendors and technologies being driven by our Workplace of the future and eventually opening of New North with support of campuses in Milwaukee and New York.

Primary Duties & Responsibilities

• Business Expertise: Partners with peer group, business partners and product management to learn business area/domain, while continuing to learn and grow knowledge across the enterprise
• Current State, Future State and Gap Analysis: Document and assess current state in a few processes, or single business area / domain. Assist with task-based work items in more complex situations
• Gather Requirements: Responsible for fact-based requirement gathering, including all system, cross enterprise, technical and intake requests
• Author User Stories and/or Features: Author user stories and/or features independently with low to medium complexity while participating in some task-based work in higher complexity situations. Assist throughout the development process as needs arise
• Project Management: Ability to use project management principles to successfully complete and advance work
• Define the product: Responsible for multiple low to medium complexity products and product features from start to finish
• Stakeholder Relationship Management: 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
• 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: In partnership with Product Manager Leads 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

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree
• 4-6 Years of prior experience with at least 4 working in a Product Management Role, with agile team experience
• Knowledge Preferred: formal business analyst, or engineering, knowledge of the financial services industry, certification or experience with Product Owner 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
• Ability to lean on strong communication skills to influence outcomes while approaching conflict with organizational savviness
• Solves problems in straightforward situations; analyzes possible solutions using technical experience and judgment and precedents

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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 c lick for additional information relating to location-based pay structures.

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• Comprehensive benefits
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