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Senior Product Manager – Risk Servicing
| Company | Northwestern Mutual |
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| Location | Greendale, WI, USA |
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| Salary | $102060 – $189540 |
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| Type | Full-Time |
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| Degrees | Bachelor’s |
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| Experience Level | Senior |
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Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
- 4-5 Years of prior experience with at least 4 working in a Product Management Role, with agile team experience
- Demonstrated cross functional work in previous experience along with strong communication skills, time management, project management skills, eye for business 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
- Accountability for high quality, value-driven work; place the user in the center of decision making, embrace continuous learning, curious and voice opinions, and take personal accountability.
Responsibilities
- Ensuring the planning for and prioritization of the Jira backlog for our engineering partner team
- Managing multiple concurrent investable structure, KTLO and compliance efforts
- Supporting LNSR, NMC Loans back end, CAS Loans, CAS applications and Reinstatement systems
- Provide leadership and coaching to the product team, empowering team members to excel and drive impactful business solutions
- Lead and partner on cross-functional efforts, working collaboratively with product managers, engineers, designers, and subject matter experts
- 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 and delivery.
- Gather Requirements: Participate in cross-functional work to flesh-out key requirements to ensure quality, value and feature integrity.
- Stakeholdering: Awareness and ability to articulate the product and feature stories to a broader audience (outside the internal digital product or engineering teams).
- Engineering Partnership: Partner with engineering to ensure backlog and roadmap is understood and aligned with capacity, new product program offices, HX user experience roadmaps.
- Author Jira Stories: Translate requirements to technical details to build and validate use cases and stories.
- Test Plan Review: Assist with coordinating and reviewing test plans for efforts. Independently provide execution on testing as needed (UAT, checkouts, etc.).
- Feature Prioritization: Develops and maintains prioritized backlog of user stories for implementation according to business value or ROI.
- Facilitates ceremonies: Facilitates the Daily Scrums, Sprint Planning Meetings and Sprint Reviews and Retrospectives.
- Project Management: Use project management principles to successfully complete and advance work.
Preferred Qualifications
No preferred qualifications provided.
