Lead Technical Product Manager
Company: Hobbsnews
Location: Milwaukee
Posted on: October 31, 2024
Job Description:
At Northwestern Mutual, we are strong, innovative and growing.
We invest in our people. We care and make a positive difference.
Summary: We are looking for a Lead Product Manager to join our
Engineering Solution Delivery team that supports our Managed
Investments department. The role will help drive strategic work
forward and provide opportunities to build strong business partner
relationships while being a part of a dynamic and talented
engineering team. This role requires an analytical mindset,
persistence to solve complex problems, ability to get things done
quickly but thoughtfully! Primary Duties & Responsibilities
- Develop Roadmap: Define roadmaps and collaboration across key
team members to ensure roadmaps are synced and not duplicative.
Define and track critical metrics for measure of success across
multiple products and collaborators.
- 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.
- Stakeholder Engagement: Deliver key messages, 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 backlogs of user stories for implementation according
to business value or return on investment.
- Data and Industry Practices/Research: Inform product decisions
with both qualitative and quantitative data on our behavior and
experimentation.
- Business Expertise: Use knowledge and experience to provide
expertise in multiple business areas and domains. Articulate
recommendations based on analytics.
- Current State, Future State and Gap Analysis: Begin to assess,
exercise judgement, and document current state across moderately
complex processes and business areas. Use analytics and experience
to resolve issues and to provide solutions.
- Test Plan Review: Assist with coordinating and solution
delivery test plans for medium complex efforts by participating in
and ensuring business sign-off of testing processes for medium and
large efforts.
- Project Management: Use project management skills to
successfully complete and advance work.
- Facilitates Ceremonies: Facilitate daily Scrums, Sprint
Planning Meetings and Sprint Reviews and Retrospectives.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree.
- 6 - 8 years of prior experience with at least 6 working in a
Product Management Role, with agile team experience.
- Knowledge Preferred: formal business analyst, engineering or
testing experience, familiar with BI tools, certification or
experience with Product Owner or Scrum Master role, experience in
leadership or mentorship of a team.
- Knowledge of institutional investment or financial services
industry strongly preferred.
- Demonstrated experience with cross functional work in previous
roles with strong communication skills, time management, project
management skills, eye for business and high
self-awareness/EQ.
- Previous research experience, initial leadership exposure,
ability to translate product requirements into technical
requirements, and work in ambiguity.
- Ability to leverage strong communication skills and
relationships to influence outcomes while navigating conflict and
decision making.
- Solves moderately complicated problems with broad impact on the
business; requires conceptual and innovative thinking to develop
solutions.
- 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: $110,040.00 Pay Range - End:
$204,360.00 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. 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 for information pertaining to compensation
and benefits.
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Keywords: Hobbsnews, Milwaukee , Lead Technical Product Manager, IT / Software / Systems , Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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