Senior Technical Product Manager - Milwaukee Wisconsin

Company: Northwestern Mutual Investment Services, LLC
Location: Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Posted On: 04/03/2025

At Northwestern Mutual, we are strong, innovative and growing. We invest in our people. We care and make a positive difference.SummaryDo you have a passion for building and delivering common/shared product solutions? Our Horizontal Engineering team at Northwestern Mutual is seeking a dedicated individual to join our team.As a member of our team, you will play a crucial role in enhancing the developer experience by focusing on simplification, standardization, and automation. We are dedicated to solving problems at scale for the entire company - facilitating a smoother approach to building, operating, deploying, and maintaining applications for our engineering delivery teams.About the roleAs a Technical Product Manager for Horizontal Engineering you will be accountable for engaging internal customers in Application Development and Digital Product and understanding their problems while formulating solutions that enable our Product Delivery teams to be faster, more efficient, and turn out higher quality products that can be maintained effectively over time.Activities such as formal voice of customer sessions, synthesizing that feedback into Value Stream Maps, Epic Creation, and objectives and key results/Success Metrics will be a large part of the role.Primary Duties & Responsibilities

• Set Product Vision: Responsible for product vision and appropriate positioning with key stakeholders across the organization.
• Develop Roadmap: Foster the 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 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.
• 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.
• Best Practices: establish, aggregate, and share enterprise standards and best practices.Qualifications
  • Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience
  • 4-5 Years of prior experience with Product Management Role and/or Engineering background.
  • 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 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 effectively communicate to both technical and non-technical audiences in varying forms and levels of detail.
  • Solid understanding of design patterns and architecture.Compensation Range:Pay Range - Start: $102,060.00Pay Range - End: $189,540.00Northwestern 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.We are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age or status as a protected veteran, or any other characteristic protected by law.
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