Northwestern Mutual

Northwestern Mutual

Product Strategist - Innovation

New York, NY Corporate

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 6 days ago
A/B TestingProduct ManagementProduct StrategyProject ManagementAgileResearchLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationProblem SolvingCritical ThinkingTime ManagementPublic Speaking

About the role

  • About The Job Variable is an innovation team within a Fortune 100 company.
  • 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.

Responsibilities

  • Develop Roadmap: Lead the development and socialization of a program roadmap that reflects stakeholder priorities, strategic bets, and a realistic path to value
  • Define and Track KPIs: Establish measures of success for innovation experiments and use outcome data to validate strategic direction and inform go or no-go decisions
  • Validate the Right Solution: Drive the discovery and definition phase of innovation programs, using research, stakeholder input, and experimentation to validate that proposed solutions address the right problems before committing to build
  • Gather and Synthesize Requirements: Lead cross-functional work to identify, pressure-test, and prioritize requirements, translating ambiguous opportunity spaces into well-scoped program definitions
  • Stakeholdering: Build and manage relationships with executive partners, business leaders, and technology stakeholders, proactively bringing strategic recommendations and leading conversations that shape program direction
  • Executive Communication: Develop and deliver executive-ready briefings, narratives, and decision-support materials that make complex innovation work accessible and actionable for senior audiences
  • User Insights: Anchor program decisions in qualitative and quantitative research, customer insight, and experimentation results, and synthesize findings into a clear strategic point of view and working with design partners to ensure concepts are grounded in this insight.
  • Strong executive communication and storytelling skills, with experience developing materials for and presenting to senior leadership
  • Strategic Thinking - Uses critical thinking and knowledge of business demand to plan, design, prioritize and execute high impact initiatives and programs
  • Attention to Detail - Focuses on specific details to spot and correct errors in advance of them being found and surpass quality expectations. Performs work with thorough proofreading for presentation, content, accuracy, and overall quality

Requirements

  • Emerging Technology: Evaluate AI and other emerging technologies for strategic fit and enterprise applicability, leveraging a working knowledge of how these capabilities are evolving
  • Bachelor's degree
  • 5+ Years of prior experience with at least 4 working in a Product Management Role or innovation consulting, with agile team experience

Nice to have

  • Working knowledge of AI and its practical enterprise applications, with an understanding of how capabilities are evolving and where the technology is heading
  • 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
  • Facilitates collaboration, communication, coordination, and planning with individuals and teams from different functions within the organization, and who have different areas of expertise, to achieve common goals

Skills

  • Cross Functional Partnering & Planning
  • Strategic Thinking
  • Attention to Detail
  • Adaptive Communication
  • Analytical Thinking
  • Customer Centricity

Compensation

  • Pay Range - Start:
  • Pay Range - End:
  • Geographic Specific Pay Structure:
  • $130,880.00 USD - $196,320.00 USD
  • $136,800.00 USD - $205,200.00 USD
  • It's why we share the salary range for most of our roles.

Benefits

  • The Innovation Strategist is an entrepreneurial who leads work at the intersection of strategy and execution.
  • 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.
  • Collaboratively define and communicate a clear vision for innovation experiments and new solutions, grounded in business strategy, customer insight, and emerging technology opportunity

Company info

  • Our mission is to experiment with new technologies and ideas to understand the future.
  • We are committed to encouraging a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment where innovation thrives.

Equal opportunity

  • Northwestern Mutual is an equal opportunity employer that welcomes talented individuals of all backgrounds.
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