Digital Product Owner: Investments

Company Description

You and Northwestern Mutual. We believe relationships are built on trust. That our lives and our work matter. And we’re much stronger together than we are apart. These beliefs launched our company nearly 160 years ago. Today, they’re just a few of the reasons why people choose to build careers at Northwestern Mutual.

Our business is about helping people secure their financial futures, and that starts with putting people first – our clients, our employees and our field representatives. Northwestern Mutual is known for financial strength. We’re strong, innovative and growing. Come grow with us.

Job Description

At Northwestern Mutual, we believe relationships are built on trust. That our lives and our work matter. These beliefs launched our company nearly 160 years ago. Today, they're just a few of the reasons why people choose to build careers at Northwestern Mutual.

We're strong and growing. In a company with such a long and storied history, this may be the most exciting and important time to be a part of Northwestern Mutual. We're strong, innovative and growing.

We invest in our people. We provide opportunities for employees to grow themselves, their career and in turn, our business.

We care.  We make a positive difference in our communities. Nationally, thousands have benefitted from our support of research and programs to fight childhood cancer. Each year, our Foundation, employees and financial representatives donate time, talent and financial support to causes they're passionate about.

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.

What's the role?

As the Product Owner of Performance Reporting for Investment Products and Services, you are the expert on the platform and you work closely with IPS business stakeholders, IPS engineering, third party vendors, and other enterprise product/engineering teams in an agile mindset understanding the concepts of MVP, continuous improvement, and Plan Do Check Adjust. You deal with ambiguity and have the skills to pivot and swarm when necessary to align with business needs and strategy. A strategic thinker, you move between diverse tasks with cooperation and persistence, helping to bring out the best in those around you. You have the ability to collaborate with a diverse cross section of talented business, product, and engineering associates and provide a team first approach.

1. Partner with the Product Manager to understand the long range IPS Performance Reporting vision
2. Represents and engages with IPS business partners
3. Creates and maintains the product backlog supporting the IPS Performance Reporting vision
4. Prioritizes and sequences the backlog according to business value, strategy. Understands both the engineering and business side of the product released and is ultimately responsible for representing the end-users’ needs.
5. Assists with the elaboration of Epics, Themes, and Features into user stories. Experience with Jira is a plus.
6. Responsible for the product and product features from start to finish.  Key decision maker on priorities and design decisions, and works to ensure that all stakeholders are aligned.  Inspects product progress and has complete authority to accept or reject work done. Elaboration of Epics, Themes and Features can be presented into user stories that are granular enough to be achieved in a single sprint.
7. Participates in the daily Scrums, Sprint Planning Meetings and Sprint Reviews and Retrospectives.
8. Can change the course of the project at the end of every Sprint including terminating a Sprint if it determined that a drastic change in direction is required.

Bring Your Best! What this role needs:

• Exhibits customer/client orientation.
• Ability to work as part of a team and build collaborative relationships.
• Possesses strong decision making ability.
• Excellent communicator both oral and written.
• Good at dealing with ambiguity with strong analytical skills.
• Experience in agile methodologies (experience in product management).
• Experience in financial services with emphasis in securities products, advisory products,
• 4-8 years of experience.

Req ID: 16509
Position Type: Regular Full Time
Education Experience: Bachelor's Desired
Employment Experience: 6-8 years
Licenses/Certifications:
FLSA Status: Exempt
Posting Date: 08/18/2017