Manager, Product - Marketing Technology

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Minnesota.

📋 Description

• Oversee the long-term product roadmap in alignment with a comprehensive business strategy.

• Formulate product strategies by analyzing personas, use cases, customer advantages, and solution value propositions.

• Ensure the execution of business strategies through effective product roadmaps.

• Lead collaborative efforts to manage and prioritize product roadmaps and releases across various products.

• Constructively resolve conflicts as they arise.

• Guarantee that product teams comprehend the necessary business outcomes and align them with wider business objectives.

• Identify and monitor evergreen KPIs and performance metrics.

• Facilitate discussions and provide coaching to product teams and stakeholders to identify gaps and enhance delivery.

• Ensure that KPIs yield essential business value.

• Prioritize and arrange roadmap outcomes within capacity constraints to optimize customer value.

• Regularly engage with customers and users to discover their needs and translate these into tested and refined product hypotheses.

• Collaborate with product teams to devise and implement operational plans.

• Investigate industry best practices and emerging trends.

• Acquire, maintain, and apply in-depth knowledge of the business, products, and processes.

• Recruit, nurture, and maintain a high-performing team.

• Encourage shared accountability, operational excellence, and organizational collaboration.

• Exemplify Thrivent’s leadership competencies: Model the Way, Rally the Team, and Deliver Outcomes.

• Support ongoing improvement, employee engagement, client commitment, and uphold Thrivent’s purpose, promise, values, trust, and reputation.

• Directly supervise approximately 1–4 product owners.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience.

• 10+ years of relevant business experience, including roles such as product manager, product owner, or a similar position.

• Understanding of iterative development fundamentals and software development processes and methodologies.

• Proficiency in Agile Product Management, stakeholder management, market and user research, technology management, and process design.

• High level of organization and meticulous attention to detail.

• Passionate about and knowledgeable in new technology and trends.

• Exceptional communication, collaboration, and influencing skills across all organizational levels.

• Strong facilitation and executive communication abilities.

• Certified Product Manager or equivalent certification preferred.

• Previous supervisory experience preferred.

• Capability to manage and resolve conflicting priorities.

• Experience in developing and executing product strategy based on value, outcomes, metrics, and measurements.

• Expertise in product management tools, techniques, and principles throughout discovery, design, build, release, and measurement cycles.

• Experience leading and influencing cross-functional teams.

• Familiarity with user interface design and usability best practices.

• Experience working on large, complex organizational initiatives.

• Advanced skills in MS Office Suite, especially Excel and PowerPoint.

• Financial management capabilities to oversee budgets for multiple products and ensure return on investment.

🏝️ Benefits

• Various bonuses, including annual or long-term incentives.

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.

• Health savings account.

• Flexible spending account.

• 401(k) plan.

• Pension plan.

• 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.

• Employee Assistance Program (EAP).

• Well-being benefits.

• Additional employee benefits.