Thrivent is enhancing the digital experience for our financial advisors, and we are seeking a Senior Product Owner to join our growing Thrivent Advisor Network technology team.
As a Senior Product Owner, you will play a critical role in translating strategic product direction into actionable features and delivering high-impact solutions that simplify and streamline advisor experiences. You will own the direction-setting, discovery, and prioritization of advisors wants and needs. This includes all of the technology products supporting Thrivent Advisor Network advisors and their teams.
You will work cross-functionally with Product Managers, UX Designers, Engineers, Architects, and key business stakeholders to ensure that advisor needs are clearly understood, prioritized, and delivered through high-quality digital experiences. This role requires a strong ability to balance strategic alignment with day-to-day execution, ensuring that the product vision is realized through iterative development and continuous feedback.
This is a unique opportunity to bring leading product practices and work with a high degree of autonomy and influence to make an impact.
DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:
Works as a key team member on a cross functional team, responsible for continuous delivery of value to the customer through compelling and empowering customer experiences
Collaborate with product team and stakeholders to ensure work prioritization is aligned with Thrivent’s priorities and overall product roadmap as well as to provide product development feedback and direction. Leans into the work of developing and socializing the product strategy with senior leaders across the company
Continuously innovates and evolves the product in alignment with strategic priorities. Is responsible for creating, maintaining, and evolving the product roadmap
Maintain and refine product backlog: Create user stories and acceptance criteria and prioritize all stories to ensure work focuses on those with maximum business value that align with product strategy
Ensure stories clearly communicate the customer and stakeholder needs to meet key business objectives and strategies for the product. Is available for consultation during agile team planning and grooming sessions as needed. Coaches team members on effective product management and agile techniques to help mature the abilities of the entire team
Facilitates efforts across other product teams to align product roadmaps and sprint plans, in an effort to focus on delivering the maximum business value to the organization
As a functional leader of an agile team, ensures the team is aligned around similar goals and objectives and attending all team meetings
Engages with customers and users on a regular basis to uncover implicit and explicit needs
Develop and track key value drivers that measure effectiveness of product discovery and overall product performance, and communicate these to stakeholders and business leaders on a regular basis
Foster a sense of urgency to achieve goals and leverage resources to overcome unexpected obstacles.
Inspire others to achieve challenging goals and high standards of performance while committing to the organization’s direction (Product/Agile/DevOps)
Models Thrivent’s leadership competencies – courage, collaboration, and commitment by demonstrating resiliency, working together to make the best decisions, and holding yourself and others accountable
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
No direct personnel supervisory responsibility, however, supervises large complex product teams with cross-functional team members.
QUALIFICATIONS & SKILLS:
Required:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience
- 5-7 years relevant business experience - – including experience in Wealth Management, Investment Advisory Services, or Portfolio Management platforms
- 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 Owner or similar certification
- Proven success developing business cases, roadmaps, product execution strategies for complex or large-scope products
- Ability to prioritize work against enterprise, division, and product strategies. Can effectively communicate rationale and impact for prioritization choices
- Expert in defining high-quality business requirements and proficient in Agile story writing
- Expertise with foundational product management tools, techniques and principles across discovery, design, build, release, and measure cycle
- Strong leadership skills to coordinate and motivate product teams, even outside direct reporting relationships
- 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
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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 [email protected] or call 800-847-4836 and request Human Resources.
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