Data Platform PM: Modernization & Analytics Lead

Northwestern Mutual; Milwaukee (WI); On-site; USD 108,000 - 162,000; Full time

Job summary

Northwestern Mutual seeks a Product Manager III to own field-data and data platform workstreams, shaping the roadmap and delivery outcomes for platform migration, data modernization, governance, and operational capabilities.

You will translate needs into features, write user stories with acceptance criteria, and coordinate with engineering, data, security, and business stakeholders to move cross-team work forward while maintaining delivery health and quality.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience in product management, business analysis, data platforms, analytics, technology delivery, or a related field.
• 2-4 years of experience in product management, product ownership, business analysis, or technology delivery, preferably supporting data, analytics, reporting, platform, or modernization initiatives.
• Experience owning or contributing to product roadmaps for data, analytics, platform, or modernization workstreams, translating business and technical needs into clear product outcomes and priorities.

Responsibilities

• Own product direction for field-data and data platform workstreams, aligning product vision, roadmap priorities, and delivery outcomes to platform readiness, data-product maturity, and modernization goals.
• Develop and maintain product roadmaps for platform migration, data modernization, governance, and operational capabilities.
• Translate modernization, governance, security, data quality, and consumer enablement needs into clear features, user stories, acceptance criteria, test expectations, and planning-ready backlog items.
• Partner across engineering, data platform, architecture, security, audit, reporting, and business stakeholder groups to clarify scope, resolve dependencies, communicate tradeoffs.
• Maintain healthy delivery execution by prioritizing the backlog, preparing work for upcoming planning cycles and sprints, tracking risks and blockers, and ensuring commitments are visible.
• Support operational stability and quality by partnering with teams on testing readiness, monitoring, defect prevention, vulnerability remediation, and audit-related follow-through.
• Use data, platform metrics, stakeholder feedback, and delivery health indicators to identify opportunities for process improvement, automation, standardization, and better data consumer experiences.
• Facilitate agile ceremonies, roadmap reviews, dependency discussions, and status communications so business and technology partners understand progress, decisions, risks, and next steps.

Skills

Cross Functional Partnering & Planning

Stakeholder Relationship

Product Roadmap

Business Acumen

User Story

Customer Centricity

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Tools

Databricks

Data Mesh

Data catalogs

BI tools

Monitoring tools

Job description

Northwestern Mutual seeks a Product Manager III to own field-data and data platform workstreams, shaping the roadmap and delivery outcomes for platform migration, data modernization, governance, and operational capabilities.

You will translate needs into features, write user stories with acceptance criteria, and coordinate with engineering, data, security, and business stakeholders to move cross-team work forward while maintaining delivery health and quality.