Senior Product Manager - Field Data

Northwestern Mutual•Milwaukee, WI

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

About the Job Build the tools and experiences that empower our advisors and help our clients achieve those dreams. Our data product services internal and external stakeholders in the financial services industry. Work with a talented team of engineers, designers, data scientists and financial experts to define product vision, strategy and deliver experiences to enable clients to achieve financial security. What You’ll Do Set Product Vision: Responsible for product vision and appropriate positioning with key stakeholders across the organization. Develop Roadmap: Foster 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 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: 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.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree.
4-5 Years of prior experience with at least 4 working in a Product Management Role, with agile team experience.
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 experience in designing, implementing, and managing data lakes and data mesh architectures.
Proven experience in managing a catalog of data attributes, including metadata management and data governance.
Strong understanding and hands-on experience with domain APIs and their integration within a data ecosystem.
Ability to work closely with data consumers to understand their needs and ensure the right data patterns are used.
Solves complex problems; take a new perspective on existing solutions; exercise judgment based on the analysis of multiple sources of information.
Adaptive Communication: Formulates strategies to be used to convey complex information about services, products, systems, or processes to targeted audiences; communicates and liaises between technical and non-technical audiences.
Analytical Thinking: Organizes and compares various aspects of a situation to comprehend and identify key or underlying complex issues through the use of quantitative data and analysis; leverages strong business acumen, problem solving, and interpersonal skills to think critically about situations from multiple perspectives and consistently seeks ways to improve processes.
Continuous Improvement: Utilizes available methods to identify opportunities, executes solutions and measures impact to improve existing practices and processes. Implements feedback and lessons learned. Leverages the ability to identify and experiment assumptions and hypothesis for products to be able to refine and improve them at any stage of the life cycle.
Customer Centricity: Applies a customer first mindset to design and continuously improve solutions, systems, processes, and services that support enterprise strategy, impact critical business outcomes, and drive organizational success.
Learning Agility & Critical Thinking: Pursues learning and obtains knowledge continuously in relevant fields, methods, or technologies in current and future practices; continuously utilizes critical thinking to identify opportunities, execute solutions, and measure impact to constantly improve existing practices and processes based on feedback, lessons learned, and market trends.
User Story: Translates requirements to technical details to build and validate use cases around a product and communicates them effectively.

Nice To Haves

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.

Responsibilities

Set Product Vision: Responsible for product vision and appropriate positioning with key stakeholders across the organization.
Develop Roadmap: Foster 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 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: 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.