Mgr, Product - Engineering Productivity

Thrivent Financial; Minneapolis (MN); On-site; USD 146,000 - 198,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonuses

Health benefits

Health Savings Account

Flexible Spending Account

401k

Pension

Life Insurance

Disability Insurance

Paid Time Off

Volunteer Time Off

Parental Leave

EAP

Well-being Benefits

Job summary

Thrivent Financial is seeking a Manager, Product to define strategy and drive outcomes for engineering productivity platforms. As a player-coach, you will blend senior product management with people leadership to develop scalable, self-service capabilities for engineers across Thrivent.

You will partner with Engineering Managers, Principal Engineers, Architects, and stakeholders to translate insights into product plans, balancing customer needs, data, and constraints to deliver durable leverage

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.
• 10+ years relevant business experience including product manager/owner roles.
• Understanding of iterative development and software delivery processes.
• Expertise in Agile Product Management, stakeholder management, market/user research, and process design.
• Strong communication and facilitation skills.

Responsibilities

• Owns long-term product roadmap as part of a larger business strategy.
• Develops compelling product strategy through personas, use cases, and value propositions.
• Leads collaboration to manage roadmaps and releases across multiple products.
• Engages with customers to uncover needs and translate into testable hypotheses.
• Tracks KPIs and ensures outcomes align with business goals.
• Builds a high-performing team and promotes a culture of accountability and excellence.

Skills

Product strategy

Stakeholder management

Agile product management

Executive communications

Team leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Data-driven decisions

User experience

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

A Mgr, Product is a product leader responsible for defining strategy, driving outcomes, and developing product talent for one or more complex engineering platforms. In this player-coach role, the Manager, Product combines deep product management expertise with people leadership to help teams build scalable, self-service capabilities that improve how engineers build, deliver, secure, and operate software across Thrivent. The Mgr, Product is accountable for the long-term vision, strategy, adoption, and measurable outcomes of their products. In Engineering Productivity, this means helping create the platforms, practices, automation, insights, and developer experiences that enable engineering teams to deliver software faster, more safely, and with less friction. Success is measured not only by feature delivery, but by improving developer experience, reducing cognitive load, simplifying software delivery, and enabling teams to operate independently through well-designed product experiences and paved-road solutions. This leader partners closely with Engineering Managers, Principal Engineers, Architects, and stakeholders across the enterprise to identify systemic challenges, understand customer needs, and translate those insights into product strategy and execution plans. They are expected to balance customer feedback, business outcomes, data, engineering constraints, and organizational priorities to make informed product decisions that create durable leverage across the software development lifecycle.

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

• Responsible for the long-term product roadmap as part of a larger business strategy.
• Develops a compelling product strategy through analysis of personas, use cases, customer benefits, and solution value propositions.
• Consistently and iteratively ensures that business strategies are being executed through product roadmaps.
• Leads team collaboration to manage and prioritize product roadmap and releases across multiple products.
• Collaborates to resolve conflicts in a constructive manner when they arise.
• Accountable to ensure that product teams understand the business outcomes needed, and that business outcomes are tied to a broader business goal or objective.
• Identifies and tracks performance metrics both evergreen key performance indicators to monitor the overall health of the product and objectives to focus efforts on making specific, measurable improvements to experiences that drive positive outcomes.
• Facilitates conversations and coaching with product teams and relevant stakeholders to address gaps and necessary improvements to delivering specific improvements.
• Identifies and tracks Key Performance Metrics; accountable to ensure that KPIs are delivering the necessary business value.
• Ensures outcomes on the roadmap fit within capacity constraints and are prioritized and sequenced in order to maximize value to the customer.
• Engages with customers and users on a regular basis to uncover implicit and explicit needs and translate to product hypothesis which are tested and refined to deliver solutions.
• Collaborates across product teams to develop and roll out operational plans.
• Researches and identifies industry best practices and trends to increase effectiveness.
• Acquires, maintains and applies advanced knowledge of the business, its products and processes, and an academic understanding of Product Management.
• Recruits, develops, and sustains a high-performing team while promoting a culture of shared accountability, operational excellence, and partnership across the organization.
• Models Thrivent’s leadership competencies – Model the Way, Rally the Team, and Deliver Outcomes.
• Supports and/or develops an environment in which Thrivent employees and colleagues are focused on continuous improvement, exceptional employee engagement, and an unwavering commitment to our clients.
• Shapes and/or supports a culture that represents the Thrivent purpose, promise and values, ensuring that Thrivent’s trust and reputation remain strong with its clients.

QUALIFICATIONS & SKILLS

• Required: Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.
• 10+ years relevant business experience, including in product manager role, product owner role or similar.
• Understand fundamentals of iterative development, software development process and procedures.
• Expertise in the principles of Agile Product Management, stakeholder management, market and user research, technology management, and process design.
• High-level of organization and attention to detail.
• Passion and understanding of new technology and trends.
• Excellent communication, collaboration and influence skills among all organizational levels; strong facilitation and executive communications skills.
• Preferred: Certified Product Manager or similar certification.
• May have prior supervisory experience.
• Strong ability to effectively manage and resolve conflicting priorities.
• Experience in developing and delivering product strategy, articulated in terms of value and outcomes with relevant and compelling metrics and measurements.
• Expertise with foundational product management tools, techniques and principles across discovery, design, build, release, and measure cycle.
• Proven experience in leading and influencing cross-functional teams.
• Demonstrated experience with user interface design and best practices for usability.
• Experience working in large, complex organizational initiatives.
• Advanced skills in MS Office Suite with particular emphasis on Excel and Powerpoint.
• Adept at financial management to administer budgets across multiple products and ensure the product meets its requirements for return on investment.

Pay Transparency

Thrivent’s long-term growth depends on attracting, rewarding, and retaining people who are committed to helping others thrive with purpose. We accomplish this by offering a wide variety of market competitive compensation programs to attract, reward, and retain top talent.

The applicable salary or hourly wage range for this full-time role is $146,428.00 - $198,108.00 per year, which factors in various geographic regions. The base pay actually offered will be determined by a variety of factors including, but not limited to, location, relevant experience, skills, and knowledge, business needs, market demand, and other factors Thrivent deems important.

Benefits

• various bonuses (including, for example, annual or long-term incentives)
• medical, dental, and vision insurance
• health savings account
• flexible spending account
• 401k
• pension
• life and accidental death and dismemberment insurance
• disability insurance
• supplemental protection insurance
• 20 days of Paid Time Off each year
• Sick and Safe Time
• 10 paid company holidays
• Volunteer Time Off
• paid parental leave
• EAP
• well-being benefits
• other employee benefits

Eligibility for receipt of these benefits is subject to the applicable plan/policy documents. Thrivent’s plans/policies are subject to change at any time at Thrivent’s discretion.

Thrivent provides Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) without regard to race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, pregnancy, national origin, age, disability, marital status, citizenship status, military or veteran status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable local, state, or federal law. This policy applies to all employees and job applicants.

Thrivent is committed to providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation, please let us know by sending an email to [e-mail] or call 800-847-4836 and request Human Resources.

#Remote At Thrivent, we believe money is a tool, not a goal. Driven by a higher purpose at our core, we are committed to providing financial advice, investments, insurance, banking and generosity programs to help people make the most of all they’ve been given. At our heart, we are a membership-owned fraternal organization, as well as a holistic financial services organization, dedicated to serving the unique needs of our customers. We focus on their goals and priorities, guiding them toward financial choices that will help them live the life they want today—and tomorrow. For over 100 years, Thrivent has been helping people build their financial futures and live more generous lives. Today, it’s a Fortune 500 company that offers a full range of expert financial solutions, serving more than 2 million customers, as well as the communities in which they live and work. Thrivent fosters a diverse workforce to serve our diverse clientele, reflecting a wide range of backgrounds and experiences. If you’re intrigued about our work and the possibility of becoming part of it, we invite you to visit Thrivent.com to learn more. You won’t just build a career; you’ll be part of an organization focused on growing, innovating, and serving.