Product Manager – Client Product

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

📋 Description

• Take ownership of the long-term product roadmap as part of an overarching business strategy.

• Formulate product strategy by analyzing personas, use cases, customer benefits, and solution value propositions.

• Ensure that business strategies are implemented through product roadmaps.

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

• Constructively resolve conflicts.

• Ensure that product teams comprehend required business outcomes and connect them to broader organizational goals.

• Identify and monitor key performance metrics, ensuring KPIs deliver tangible business value.

• Ensure that roadmap outcomes align with capacity constraints and are prioritized to enhance customer value.

• Engage consistently with customers and users to uncover needs and translate them into validated and refined product hypotheses.

• Collaborate across product teams to create and implement operational plans.

• Research industry best practices and trends.

• Apply advanced knowledge of the business, products, processes, and Product Management.

• Mentor and guide Product Owners.

• Exemplify Thrivent’s leadership competencies: courage, collaboration, and commitment.

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

• Supervise large, complex cross-functional product teams without direct personnel supervisory responsibilities.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience.

• 7-9 years of relevant business experience, including in a product owner role or a similar position.

• Understanding of iterative development principles and software development processes and procedures.

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

• High level of organization and 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 skills.

• Preferred: Certified Product Manager or a similar certification.

• Preferred: Previous experience leading projects.

• Preferred: Experience in developing business cases, roadmaps, and business unit strategies.

• Preferred: Ability to manage and resolve conflicting priorities.

• Preferred: Experience in formulating and delivering product strategy using value, outcomes, metrics, and measurements.

• Preferred: Familiarity with product management tools, techniques, and principles across discovery, design, build, release, and measure cycles.

• Preferred: Experience in leading projects or initiatives.

• Preferred: Experience with user interface design and usability best practices.

• Preferred: Experience working within large, complex organizational initiatives.

• Preferred: Proficiency with MS Office Suite, particularly Excel and PowerPoint.

• Preferred: Experience with product management tools for roadmaps, backlogs, and customer feedback.

• Preferred: Financial management experience overseeing budgets across multiple products and ensuring 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).

• 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.

• Employee Assistance Program (EAP).

• Well-being benefits.

• Other employee benefits.