Lead Technical Product Manager

Northwestern Mutual; Milwaukee (WI); Hybrid; USD 131,000 - 196,000; Full time

Job summary

Northwestern Mutual in Milwaukee, WI seeks a Lead Technical Product Manager to define scope, objectives, deliverables, and success criteria while coordinating cross-functional teams through initiation, development, testing, deployment, and closure. The role requires translating business needs into formal artifacts and managing backlogs with agile practices.

You will drive data discovery, governance, quality, dashboards, and analytics, coordinating with legal/compliance and security to meet

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer/Engineering or related field with 6 years in product engineering or related area in financial services.
• Experience with agile delivery methodologies (Scrum/Kanban) and data analysis with BI tools.
• Translate product requirements into technical requirements and collaborate with cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Define project scope, objectives, deliverables, schedule, budget, and risks; lead cross-functional teams through lifecycle.
• Author/maintain product backlogs and ensure stories are ready for development; decompose features into sprint-sized tasks.
• Lead data discovery, governance, and KPI tracking; create dashboards and analytic reports to drive decisions.

Skills

Agile delivery

Data analysis

Stakeholder leadership

User story writing

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or related field

Tools

Power BI

Tableau

Looker

Job description

Job Description: The Lead Technical Product Manager at Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company in Milwaukee, WI will define project scope, objectives, deliverables, success criteria, schedule, budget, resource needs, and risk mitigation plans. Coordinate and lead cross functional teams (engineering, data, QA, design, finance, operations) through project initiation, development, testing, deployment, and closure. Facilitate risk identification, assessment, mitigation planning, and issue resolution throughout the project lifecycle. Translate business needs into formal artifacts. Author, prioritize, and maintain product and feature backlogs. Collaborate with engineering and QA to decompose large features into sprint sized stories and ensure readiness for development. Lead data discovery and profiling activities to source, validate, and reconcile data from systems. Define data requirements, mapping rules, transformation logic, and validation checks. Coordinate with engineers to implement transformations and QA tests. Create and deliver dashboards, visualizations, and analytic reports to present findings, drive decisions, and measure data quality. Oversee data migration planning and coordination including sample sets, cutover criteria, reconciliation processes and monitor reconciliation and remediation of exceptions. Define, document, and monitor data quality KPIs and SLA adherence; drive corrective action for data anomalies affecting downstream consumers. Define product vision and multi-year roadmap for multiple related products. Facilitate agile ceremonies including daily standups, sprint planning, sprint reviews, retrospectives and coach teams on agile best practices to ensure predictable delivery. Author and validate user stories, acceptance criteria, and test cases. Mentor and guide cross functional team members, provide technical/product guidance, and act as escalation point for complex functional and technical issues. Define and enforce data governance standards including data lineage, ownership, metadata, retention. Coordinate with legal, compliance, and security teams to ensure data handling meets regulatory and internal policy requirements. Telecommuting permitted 2 days per week. Salary $130,800- $196,200 per year.

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering or a related field and 6 years of experience as a product engineer (or related occupation) in the institutional investment or financial services industry.
• Experience must include 6 years of experience with each of the following: (1) working within agile teams and applying agile delivery methodologies including Scrum and Kanban; (2) data analysis, validation, reconciliation, and reporting with hands‑on use of BI tools including Power BI, Tableau, Looker and data management platforms; and (3) translating product requirements into technical requirements.

We believe in fairness and transparency. 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. If noted, this is standard pay structure for this position. Grow your career with a best-in-class company that puts our clients' interests at the center of all we do. Northwestern Mutual is an equal opportunity employer that welcomes talented individuals of all backgrounds. We are committed to creating and maintaining an environment in which each employee can contribute creative ideas, seek challenges, assume leadership and continue to focus on meeting and exceeding business and personal objectives. If you work or would be working in California, Colorado, New York City, Washington or outside of a Corporate location. Northwestern Mutual is an equal opportunity employer that welcomes talented individuals of all backgrounds. We are committed to creating and maintaining an environment in which each employee can contribute creative ideas, seek challenges, assume leadership and continue to focus on meeting and exceeding business and personal objectives.