Consultant, Technology Product Analyst
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Job summary
Nationwide's Technology team is seeking a Consultant, Technology Product Analyst to translate needs into actionable insights and recommendations. This role partners with business leaders, Product Managers, UX, Technology, and Architecture to assess performance and shape decisions.
You will develop multi-year roadmaps, connect strategy to capabilities, and guide initiatives from concept to delivery, while not owning the roadmap or backlog.
Qualifications
- Eight to ten years delivering technology-enabled business solutions.
- Experience in insurance/financial services or as a management consultant.
- Experience shaping roadmaps and business cases with IT delivery.
- Experience with data solutions or data products is a plus.
Responsibilities
- Serve as a trusted technology consulting partner to business and product leaders.
- Lead discovery sessions to define goals and success metrics.
- Frame ambiguous problems and align stakeholders on opportunity and decisions.
- Guide initiatives from concept to scoped work with clear outcomes and dependencies.
- Translate complex tech topics into clear business implications and options.
- Partner with Architects to evaluate trade-offs and connect needs to tech capabilities.
- Help shape data solutions by connecting questions to data products and analytics.
- Develop and maintain multi-year roadmaps with partners and stakeholders.
- Translate strategic goals into sequenced capabilities and milestones.
- Help leaders understand priorities and funding implications.
- Move well-shaped work into executable plans while preserving outcomes.
- Clarify ownership, dependencies, risks, and communicate progress.
- Contribute to consistent consulting practices and reusable artifacts.
Skills
Education
Job description
If you’re passionate about being part of a dynamic organization that enables a Fortune 100 company with nearly $70 billion in annual sales to drive innovation and adopt new technologies that deliver business results, then Nationwide’s Technology team could be the place for you! At Nationwide®, “on your side” goes beyond just words. Our customers are at the center of everything we do and we’re looking for associates who are passionate about delivering extraordinary care.
The Consultant, Technology Product Analyst is a portfolio-facing technology consultant within DOTS — Data, Operations, Technology, and Solutions. The role partners with business and technology leaders, particularly Data Solutions stakeholders, to turn complex opportunities and problems into clear direction, actionable plans, and value‑focused technology solutions.
As a lead consulting partner, this role facilitates discovery, frames problems, guides initiative elaboration, shapes solution options, and helps move strategic intent into executable work. The consultant works closely with business stakeholders, partner BSAs, Architects, Software Engineering Product Managers (SEPMs), and delivery leaders to clarify outcomes, evaluate trade‑offs, manage dependencies, sequence work, and build practical delivery plans.
A key focus is developing and maintaining multi‑year business and technology roadmaps that connect strategy, capabilities, initiatives, dependencies, investments, and delivery horizons.
If you’re enthusiastic about delivering secure technology solutions to support a company providing extraordinary care to its customers, then Nationwide Technology is the place for you. Nationwide's industry‑leading technology workforce embraces an agile work environment and a collaborative culture to deliver outstanding solutions and results. If that sounds like something you aspire to, we want to hear from you!
As a Consultant, Technology Product Analyst, you’ll translate customer, business, and technology needs into actionable insights, clearly defined capability recommendations, and analysis that supports product and technology decisions. The role partners closely with business leaders, Product Managers, UX, Technology, and Architecture to assess product performance, evaluate solution options, clarify trade‑offs, and develop evidence‑based recommendations. Through data‑driven discovery, industry and competitor analysis, and structured problem solving, the Consultant helps inform product strategy, scope decisions, and delivery planning while not owning the roadmap, product vision, or backlog prioritization.
- Serve as a trusted technology consulting partner to assigned business leaders, product leaders, and partner BSAs.
- Lead discovery sessions to understand business goals, user and operational needs, current‑state challenges, desired outcomes, constraints, and measures of success.
- Frame ambiguous problems so stakeholders can align on the opportunity, outcomes, key questions, and decisions needed.
- Guide initiatives from early concepts to well‑shaped work with clear scope, outcomes, capabilities, assumptions, risks, dependencies, and decision points.
- Translate complex technology topics into clear business implications, options, recommendations, and decisions.
- Partner with Architects to explore solution options, evaluate trade‑offs, and connect business needs to products, platforms, data, integrations, and technology capabilities.
- Help shape Data Solutions by connecting business questions and operational needs to data products, information flows, analytics, platforms, and solution options.
- Develop and maintain multi‑year roadmaps with business partners, Architects, SEPMs, product leaders, and portfolio stakeholders.
- Translate strategic goals into sequenced views of capabilities, initiatives, outcomes, dependencies, milestones, investment considerations, and delivery timing.
- Help leaders understand priorities, trade‑offs, capacity or funding implications, organizational readiness needs, and the impact of changing direction.
- Partner with SEPMs and delivery leaders to move well‑shaped work into executable plans while preserving the intended business outcome.
- Clarify ownership, dependencies, risks, and decision needs as work progresses, and communicate progress, issues, changes, and decisions clearly.
- Contribute to consistent consulting practices, reusable artifacts, and improved ways of working across the team.
May perform other responsibilities as assigned.
Reports to a Technology Manager or above.
Education: Undergraduate studies in computer science, management information systems, or a related field are preferred.
Technology certifications or designations are not required but encouraged.
Eight to ten years of experience delivering technology‑enabled business solutions and transformational change across industries, platforms and lines of business within the insurance and/or financial services industries or equivalent experience as a management consultant for a mid‑to‑top‑tier consulting firm (i.e., Accenture, Deloitte, etc.). Wide career experience as a consultant in operations or within proximity to operations, with a 30:70 ratio of business to technology experience, working with the technology lifecycle, including delivery and cost of ownership and experience developing roadmaps and business cases and executing projects through to completion.
Strong analytical and communication skills and planning knowledge. Ability to influence, build relationships, negotiate, and set priorities. Solid executive presence. Insurance/financial services industry knowledge is a plus.
Other criteria, including leadership skills, competencies and experiences may take precedence.
Staffing exceptions to the above must be approved by the hiring manager’s leader and HR Business Partner.
Regularly and consistently demonstrates the Nationwide Values.
Overtime Eligibility: Exempt (Not Eligible)
Working Conditions: Hybrid to normal office environment. Some travel may be required.
ADA: The above statements cover what are generally believed to be principal and essential functions of this job. Specific circumstances may allow or require some people assigned to the job to perform a somewhat different combination of duties.
We have an array of benefits to fit your needs, including: medical/dental/vision, life insurance, short and long term disability coverage, paid time off with newly hired associates receiving a minimum of 18 days paid time off each full calendar year pro‑rated quarterly based on hire date, nine paid holidays, 8 hours of Lifetime paid time off, 8 hours of Unity Day paid time off, 401(k) with company match, company‑paid pension plan, business casual attire, and more. To learn more about the benefits we offer, click here.
Nationwide is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive culture where everyone feels challenged, appreciated, respected and engaged. Nationwide prohibits discrimination and harassment and affords equal employment opportunities to employees and applicants without regard to any characteristic (or classification) protected by applicable law.
Smoke-Free Iowa Statement: Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company, its affiliates and subsidiaries comply with the Iowa Smokefree Air Act. Smoking is prohibited in all enclosed areas on or around company premises as well as company issued vehicles. The company offers designated smoking areas in which smoking is permitted at each individual location. The Act prohibits retaliation for reporting complaints or violations. For more information on the Iowa Smokefree Air Act, individuals may contact the Smokefree Air Act Helpline at 888-944-2247.
Nationwide pays on a geographic-specific salary structure and placement within the actual starting salary range for this position will be determined by a number of factors including the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate; the scope, complexity and location of the role as well as the cost of labor in the market; and other conditions of employment. If a Sales job, Sales Incentives, based on performance goals are possible in addition to this range. Note on Compensation for Part‑Time Roles: Please be aware that the salary ranges listed below reflect full-time compensation. Actual compensation may be prorated based on the number of hours worked relative to a full-time schedule.
The national salary range for Consultant, Technology Product Analyst : $118,000.00-$222,000.00 The expected starting salary range for Consultant, Technology Product Analyst : $118,000.00 - $178,000.00
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