Assistant Director Digital Product

• Vision: Define a 1-2-year product vision for a portfolio of products including how they deliver measurable business outcomes
  Vision: Define a 1-2-year product vision for a portfolio of products including how they deliver measurable business outcomes
• Talent & Growth: Lead mentor and develop Product Managers and Business Analysts; provide career mapping coaching and opportunities to grow domain expertise and skills
  Talent & Growth: Lead mentor and develop Product Managers and Business Analysts; provide career mapping coaching and opportunities to grow domain expertise and skills
• Product Lifecycle: Manage the full product life cycle from strategic planning build and execution maintenance/support through end-of-life retirement.
  Product Lifecycle: Manage the full product life cycle from strategic planning build and execution maintenance/support through end-of-life retirement.
• Goals: Set product objectives and key results for a product and drive teams to achieve them
  Goals: Set product objectives and key results for a product and drive teams to achieve them
• Roadmap: Provide high-level direction and support your teams across the product portfolio mapping epics and features and showing integration points with cross-functional partners
  Roadmap: Provide high-level direction and support your teams across the product portfolio mapping epics and features and showing integration points with cross-functional partners
• Defines the Product: Identify and validate problems and/or opportunities across multiple user groups and scenarios
  Defines the Product: Identify and validate problems and/or opportunities across multiple user groups and scenarios
• Cross-Functional Communication: Collaborate with engineering design actuarial and other partners to ensure alignment and achieve desired outcomes
  Cross-Functional Communication: Collaborate with engineering design actuarial and other partners to ensure alignment and achieve desired outcomes
• Prioritization: Set short- and long-term priorities for products and team development balancing tactical work with strategic initiatives
  Prioritization: Set short- and long-term priorities for products and team development balancing tactical work with strategic initiatives
• Requirements: Accountable for gathering higher level more complex product requirements and maintain a broad understanding of products in the portfolio; review and validate team-gathered requirements as needed
  Requirements: Accountable for gathering higher level more complex product requirements and maintain a broad understanding of products in the portfolio; review and validate team-gathered requirements as needed
• Stakeholder Alignment: Aligns stakeholders document high-level business requirements and manage vendor relationships RFPs or POCs as required
  Stakeholder Alignment: Aligns stakeholders document high-level business requirements and manage vendor relationships RFPs or POCs as required
• Performance Tracking: Help teams track progress against Key Results and balance priorities with corporate strategy and new product introductions
  Performance Tracking: Help teams track progress against Key Results and balance priorities with corporate strategy and new product introductions
• Execution: Partner with engineering and design to translate strategy into prioritized requirements user experiences and scalable solutions through your teams
  Execution: Partner with engineering and design to translate strategy into prioritized requirements user experiences and scalable solutions through your teams
• Quality & Compliance: Oversee delivery and lifecycle management to ensure products meet quality regulatory and performance expectations through your teams
  Quality & Compliance: Oversee delivery and lifecycle management to ensure products meet quality regulatory and performance expectations through your teams
• Governance & Engagement: Manage stakeholder engagement and governance with business owners compliance and enterprise leadership
  Governance & Engagement: Manage stakeholder engagement and governance with business owners compliance and enterprise leadership
• Data Driven Decision Making: Promote use of data and user research to inform decisions iterate on solutions and continuously improve outcomes
  Data Driven Decision Making: Promote use of data and user research to inform decisions iterate on solutions and continuously improve outcomes
• Culture & Leadership: Build a high-performance customer-centric culture that models NM behaviors and brings out the best in people
  Culture & Leadership: Build a high-performance customer-centric culture that models NM behaviors and brings out the best in people
• Change Leadership: Navigate organizational changes in reporting and operating models while maintaining team stability morale and delivery quality
  Change Leadership: Navigate organizational changes in reporting and operating models while maintaining team stability morale and delivery quality
• Ownership & Urgency: Demonstrate and instill a strong sense of ownership urgency and accountability across the team
  Ownership & Urgency: Demonstrate and instill a strong sense of ownership urgency and accountability across the team

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or an equivalent technical business or financial field
• 9+ years of working as a product manager on technology-powered product teams
• Deep business acumen with strong understanding of NM's insurance product offerings (Life DI LTC Annuities) is desired but not required
• Working knowledge in modern product discovery and delivery methodologies (e.g. Agile Lean Design Thinking)
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills - able to tailor messages to both technical and non-technical audiences
• 3+ years of formal people management experience managing other product managers and business analysts
• Proven ability to operate and influence effectively within a complex matrixed organization

• Accountability: Holds self and their direct reports accountable for measurable high-quality timely and cost-effective results delivery and execution. Determines objectives sets priorities delegates work to direct reports and accepts responsibility for mistakes.
  Accountability: Holds self and their direct reports accountable for measurable high-quality timely and cost-effective results delivery and execution. Determines objectives sets priorities delegates work to direct reports and accepts responsibility for mistakes.
• Adaptive Communication: Formulates strategies to be used to convey complex information about services products systems or processes to targeted audiences; communicates and liaises between technical and non-technical audiences.
  Adaptive Communication: Formulates strategies to be used to convey complex information about services products systems or processes to targeted audiences; communicates and liaises between technical and non-technical audiences.
• Coaching & Mentoring: Develops others by providing actionable constructive feedback through the lens of technical expertise and offers guidance to others on how to leverage prioritize and develop skills to achieve one's goals and objectives.
  Coaching & Mentoring: Develops others by providing actionable constructive feedback through the lens of technical expertise and offers guidance to others on how to leverage prioritize and develop skills to achieve one's goals and objectives.
• Cross Functional Partnering & Planning: Facilitates collaboration communication coordination and planning with individuals and teams from different functions within the organization and who have different areas of expertise to achieve common goals.
  Cross Functional Partnering & Planning: Facilitates collaboration communication coordination and planning with individuals and teams from different functions within the organization and who have different areas of expertise to achieve common goals.
• Talent Development & Planning: Develops direct reports' skills based on organizational objectives evaluates skill gaps and manages succession planning to develop more capable direct reports diverse strong teams and better organizational performance in an equitable and inclusive manner.
  Talent Development & Planning: Develops direct reports' skills based on organizational objectives evaluates skill gaps and manages succession planning to develop more capable direct reports diverse strong teams and better organizational performance in an equitable and inclusive manner.

• Flexible work schedules
• Concierge service
• Comprehensive benefits
• Employee resource groups

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