Product Manager Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• Deep knowledge of product management principles, roadmap development, product lifecycle management, and Agile delivery methodologies.
• Strong understanding of wealth management, financial planning, advisory workflows, and goals-based advice concepts.
• Experience working with enterprise platforms, cloud-native architectures, APIs, data integrations, and shared services ecosystems.
• Demonstrated ability to translate business strategy into scalable product capabilities and measurable outcomes.
• Expertise in defining business requirements, product backlogs, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Experience leveraging analytics, business metrics, and user research to guide product decisions and prioritization.
• Strong stakeholder management, communication, facilitation, and influencing skills across technical and non-technical audiences.
• Knowledge of risk, compliance, audit, privacy, and security requirements within regulated financial services environments.
• Proven ability to lead complex, cross-functional initiatives involving multiple teams, dependencies, and stakeholder groups.
• Familiarity with Azure DevOps or similar Agile planning and delivery tools.
• 7+ years of Product Management experience, preferably within financial services, wealth management, or digital platforms.
• Demonstrated experience leading complex platforms, shared capabilities, or enterprise product initiatives.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and experience required.
• Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for employment-based visa sponsorship now or in the future. Northern Trust will not sponsor applicants for U.S. work visa status for this opportunity (no sponsorship is available for H-1B, L-1, TN, O-1, E-3, H-1B1, F-1, J-1, OPT, CPT or any other employment-based visa).

Nice To Haves

• Advanced product management, Agile, or financial services certifications preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead roadmap planning and execution for the Goals Powered Solutions platform and its supporting capabilities.
• Partner with business stakeholders to define and prioritize capabilities that strengthen goals-based advice, financial planning, advisor workflows, and client engagement.
• Drive delivery across multiple agile teams and shared platform domains, ensuring alignment of priorities, dependencies, and outcomes.
• Collaborate with product, engineering, UX, data, and architecture teams to design and deliver scalable, modern solutions.
• Define product requirements, epics, features, and user stories to support Agile delivery and strategic business objectives.
• Establish and maintain platform governance, business capability ownership, and product standards to ensure consistency, quality, and operational excellence.
• Partner with enterprise teams to integrate shared data, services, and platforms that enable seamless advisor and client experiences.
• Leverage advisor feedback, client insights, analytics, and market trends to identify opportunities and inform investment decisions.
• Monitor platform health, adoption, performance, and business outcomes through KPIs and operational metrics, driving continuous improvement.
• Lead cross-functional initiatives, organizational change efforts, and go-to-market activities related to new platform capabilities and enhancements.
• Support strategic planning, investment funding requests, and executive communications related to the platform roadmap and vision.
• Serve as a subject matter expert and advocate for goals-driven wealth management across the organization.

Benefits

• retirement benefits (401k and pension)
• health and welfare benefits (medical, dental, vision, spending accounts and disability)
• paid time off
• parental and caregiver leave
• life & accident insurance
• other voluntary and well-being benefits
• discretionary bonus program that may include an equity component