Senior Technical Product Manager

Summary

Do 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 role

As 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. A technical background is preferred as this role will be responsible for driving the vision & strategy of engineering facing products.

Activities such as voice of customer sessions, synthesizing that feedback into Value Stream Maps, Roadmaps, Epic Creation, and OKRs/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
• 4-6+ years of prior experience with Product Management Role and/or Engineering background
• Knowledge Preferred: engineering or testing experience, 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

#LI-Hybrid

Compensation Range:

Pay Range - End:

We believe in fairness and transparency. It's why we share the salary range for most of our roles. However, final salaries are based on a number of factors, including the skills and experience of the candidate; the current market; location of the candidate; and other factors uncovered in the hiring process. The standard pay structure is listed but if you're living in California, New York City or other eligible location, geographic specific pay structures, compensation and benefits could be applicable, click here to learn more.

Grow your career with a best-in-class company that puts our clients' interests at the center of all we do. Get started now!

Northwestern Mutual is an equal opportunity employer who welcomes and encourages diversity in the workforce. We are committed to creating and maintaining an environment in which each employee can contribute creative ideas, seek challenges, assume leadership and continue to focus on meeting and exceeding business and personal objectives.

We're excited about the potential people bring to Northwestern Mutual. You can grow your career here while enjoying first-class perks, benefits, and our commitment to a culture of belonging.

• Flexible work schedules
• Concierge service
• Comprehensive benefits
• Employee resource groups