Strategic Tech Product Analyst (Hybrid)

Nationwide; Columbus (OH); Hybrid; USD 118,000 - 222,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/dental/vision

Paid time off and holidays

401(k) with company match

Job summary

Nationwide is seeking a Consultant, Technology Product Analyst to translate customer, business, and technology needs into actionable insights and recommendations. You will partner with business leaders, Product Managers, UX, Technology, and Architecture to assess product performance and develop evidence-based recommendations without owning roadmaps or backlog prioritization.

The role focuses on developing multi-year roadmaps and connecting business questions to data products, information flows,

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• Analyzes customer, business, and product information to identify needs, trends, pain points, risks, and opportunities, and translates findings into clear recommendations for product and technology partners.
• Supports the definition of technology capabilities and incremental product changes by documenting needs, mapping outcomes to capabilities, and applying shared analysis frameworks and artifacts.
• Partners with Product Managers, UX, Technology, and Architecture to evaluate solution options, clarify tradeoffs, and assess alignment with target architecture, technical guardrails, and business intent.
• Conducts data-driven discovery and outcome analysis by using usage, performance, and outcome data to identify opportunities, measure results, and generate actionable insights and recommendations.
• Collaborates on experiments, validation activities, and discovery work to help assess customer needs, business value, and product performance.
• Conducts ongoing analysis of industry trends, competitor activity, and emerging technologies, translating findings into recommendations, business cases, and decision support materials.
• Supports alignment between technology direction and business strategy by helping connect business objectives to product, capability, and technology considerations.
• Decomposes business plans and strategic objectives into outcomes, value drivers, capabilities, and analysis artifacts that support product and technology decision-making.
• Supports strategic planning and early discovery by gathering high-level business requirements, organizing inputs, and helping define scope through meetings, workshops, and cross-functional sessions.
• Evaluates and helps prioritize business requests by assessing business value, impacts, dependencies, risks, and alignment to existing plans and delivery sequencing.
• Plans and collaborates with business and technology partners to conduct moderate-complexity analysis and build artifacts that support recommendations and deliverables.
• Quantifies potential benefits, impacts, risks and considerations associated with transformation efforts, innovation initiatives, and proposed product or capability changes.
• Executes defined work within medium- to lower-complexity projects or engagements that result in recommendations, analysis, and business-case support.
• Applies emerging technology knowledge to assess use cases, analyze feasibility and value, and support ethically sound, data-informed recommendations.
• Maintains working knowledge of relevant business functions, technology developments, and initiatives to identify where conflicts and synergies exist across products, capabilities, and business needs.
• Partners with vendors and external parties, as needed, to gather information and evaluate whether products or capabilities may meet business and technology requirements.
• Responsible for applying secure software and systems engineering practices throughout the delivery lifecycle to ensure our data and technology solutions are protected from threats and vulnerabilities.

Job description

Nationwide is seeking a Consultant, Technology Product Analyst to translate customer, business, and technology needs into actionable insights and recommendations. You will partner with business leaders, Product Managers, UX, Technology, and Architecture to assess product performance and develop evidence-based recommendations without owning roadmaps or backlog prioritization.

The role focuses on developing multi-year roadmaps and connecting business questions to data products, information flows,