Hobbsnews
Senior Product Owner/Technical Product Manager – Managed Investments
Hobbsnews, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States, 53244
At Northwestern Mutual, we are strong, innovative and growing. We invest in our people. We care and make a positive difference.
SummaryAs a “Product Owner” for Managed Investments, work across one or multiple teams. Hold responsibility for the product(s) that team delivers. This includes working with business partners, understanding what they need (current and potential future needs). Creating roadmaps for corresponding teams, foreseeing how the future looks for the product(s). Plan things according and prioritize with business teams.
In addition, own the backlog for the team, ensuring the next set of duties are lined up in backlog and backlog is properly groomed. Ensure there is regular refinement.
Work across different tech teams to manage dependencies – helping them deliver on their features. Current team may also have dependencies on other teams. Coordinate and prioritize for engineers for clear vision.
Primary Duties & ResponsibilitiesSet Product Vision: Accountable for multiple products' visions primarily within a single domain ensuring cohesive connections where applicable.Develop Roadmap: Define roadmaps and collaboration across key stakeholders to ensure roadmaps are synced and not duplicative.Define and track KPIs for measure of success across multiple products and stakeholders.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.Stakeholdering: Deliver key messages, marketing and 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 backlog of user stories for implementation according to business value or ROI.Data & Customer Research: Inform product decisions with both qualitative and quantitative data on our behavior and experimentation.Facilitates Ceremonies: Facilitate daily Scrums, Sprint Planning Meetings and Sprint Reviews and Retrospectives.QualificationsBachelor's degree.4-5 Years of prior experience with at least 4 working in a Product Management Role, with agile team experience.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, experience in leadership or mentorship of a team.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.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.Compensation Range:Pay Range - Start: $100,030.00Pay Range - End: $185,770.00Northwestern 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. 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
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for additional information relating to location-based pay structures.Grow your career with a best-in-class company that puts our client’s interests at the center of all we do. Get started now!
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.If you work or would be working in California, Colorado, New York City, Washington or outside of a Corporate location, please click
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SummaryAs a “Product Owner” for Managed Investments, work across one or multiple teams. Hold responsibility for the product(s) that team delivers. This includes working with business partners, understanding what they need (current and potential future needs). Creating roadmaps for corresponding teams, foreseeing how the future looks for the product(s). Plan things according and prioritize with business teams.
In addition, own the backlog for the team, ensuring the next set of duties are lined up in backlog and backlog is properly groomed. Ensure there is regular refinement.
Work across different tech teams to manage dependencies – helping them deliver on their features. Current team may also have dependencies on other teams. Coordinate and prioritize for engineers for clear vision.
Primary Duties & ResponsibilitiesSet Product Vision: Accountable for multiple products' visions primarily within a single domain ensuring cohesive connections where applicable.Develop Roadmap: Define roadmaps and collaboration across key stakeholders to ensure roadmaps are synced and not duplicative.Define and track KPIs for measure of success across multiple products and stakeholders.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.Stakeholdering: Deliver key messages, marketing and 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 backlog of user stories for implementation according to business value or ROI.Data & Customer Research: Inform product decisions with both qualitative and quantitative data on our behavior and experimentation.Facilitates Ceremonies: Facilitate daily Scrums, Sprint Planning Meetings and Sprint Reviews and Retrospectives.QualificationsBachelor's degree.4-5 Years of prior experience with at least 4 working in a Product Management Role, with agile team experience.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, experience in leadership or mentorship of a team.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.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.Compensation Range:Pay Range - Start: $100,030.00Pay Range - End: $185,770.00Northwestern 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. 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.Grow your career with a best-in-class company that puts our client’s interests at the center of all we do. Get started now!
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.If you work or would be working in California, Colorado, New York City, Washington or outside of a Corporate location, please click
here
for information pertaining to compensation and benefits.
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