Sr Product Manager - Enterprise Data
Thrivent · United States · 2d ago
SeniorOn-siteProduct Management
The Sr. Product Manager is responsible for the long-term strategy and vision for a set of products as part of a broader portfolio. Sr. Product Managers collaborate heavily across other products, and with business stakeholders to prioritize and sequence work to optimize the customer experience. Product Managers are accountable for ensuring the product roadmap is in line with customer and stakeholder expectations and has measurable KPIs. They are also accountable to ensure that business outcomes and KPIs are achieved.
Sr. Product Managers work closely with several key partners including business capability owners, other Product Managers and Product Owners within their product group who articulate, translate, and execute the product strategy and vision through tactical strategies and solutions. Product Managers are expected to mentor and guide Product Owners in developing their skills. A strong collaborative relationship, including the right alignment and regular, transparent communication between Product Manager and Product Owner, will help ensure both roles deliver on their goals.
The Sr Product Manager typically has more experience in product management, and as such likely manages a complex product portfolio with greater scope and impact. The play a key role across product stakeholders to actively engage, develop, coach, and influence product team operations and practices.
This role is part of Thrivent's Enterprise Data Products organization and is responsible for defining strategy and vision for a portfolio of enterprise data products supporting Corporate Functions including Operations, Risk, Compliance, HR, Legal, and other shared services. The Sr Product Manager partners across business and technology organizations to identify opportunities, prioritize investments, define measurable outcomes, and ensure data products deliver meaningful business value through analytics, operational decision-making, governance, and AI-enabled experiences.
Enterprise Data Products at Thrivent are focused on creating trusted, reusable, and measurable data products that enable analytics, operational decision-making, governance, and AI-powered experiences across the enterprise.
Pay TransparencyThrivent’s long-term growth depends on attracting, rewarding, and retaining people who are committed to helping others thrive with purpose. We accomplish this by offering a wide variety of market competitive compensation programs to attract, reward, and retain top talent. The applicable salary or hourly wage range for this full-time role is $139,455.00 - $188,676.00 per year, which factors in various geographic regions. The base pay actually offered will be determined by a variety of factors including, but not limited to, location, relevant experience, skills, and knowledge, business needs, market demand, and other factors Thrivent deems important.Thrivent is unique in our commitment to helping people to be wise with money and live balanced and generous lives. That extends to our benefits.The following benefits may be offered: various bonuses (including, for example, annual or long-term incentives); medical, dental, and vision insurance; health savings account; flexible spending account; 401k; 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; EAP; well-being benefits, and other employee benefits. Eligibility for receipt of these benefits is subject to the applicable plan/policy documents. Thrivent’s plans/policies are subject to change at any time at Thrivent’s discretion.
Sr. Product Managers work closely with several key partners including business capability owners, other Product Managers and Product Owners within their product group who articulate, translate, and execute the product strategy and vision through tactical strategies and solutions. Product Managers are expected to mentor and guide Product Owners in developing their skills. A strong collaborative relationship, including the right alignment and regular, transparent communication between Product Manager and Product Owner, will help ensure both roles deliver on their goals.
The Sr Product Manager typically has more experience in product management, and as such likely manages a complex product portfolio with greater scope and impact. The play a key role across product stakeholders to actively engage, develop, coach, and influence product team operations and practices.
This role is part of Thrivent's Enterprise Data Products organization and is responsible for defining strategy and vision for a portfolio of enterprise data products supporting Corporate Functions including Operations, Risk, Compliance, HR, Legal, and other shared services. The Sr Product Manager partners across business and technology organizations to identify opportunities, prioritize investments, define measurable outcomes, and ensure data products deliver meaningful business value through analytics, operational decision-making, governance, and AI-enabled experiences.
Enterprise Data Products at Thrivent are focused on creating trusted, reusable, and measurable data products that enable analytics, operational decision-making, governance, and AI-powered experiences across the enterprise.
DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Responsible for the long-term product roadmap as part of a larger business strategy. Develops a compelling product strategy through analysis of personas, use cases, customer benefits, and solution value propositions
- Consistently and iteratively ensures that business strategies are being executed through product roadmaps
- Leads team collaboration to manage and prioritize product roadmap and releases across multiple products
- Collaborates to resolve conflicts in a constructive manner when they arise
- Accountable to ensure that product teams understand the business outcomes needed, and that business outcomes are tied to a broader business goal or objective
- Identifies and tracks Key Performance Metrics; accountable to ensure that KPIs are delivering the necessary business value. Facilitates conversations and coaching with product teams and relevant stakeholders to address gaps and necessary improvements to delivering specific KPIs
- Ensures outcomes on the roadmap fit within capacity constraints and are prioritized and sequenced in order to maximize value to the customer. Is available to consult on broader roadmap objectives with business and technology partners. Leans into prioritization and tradeoff discussions across stakeholder groups to effectively manage decisions associated with product roadmaps
- Engages with customers and users on a regular basis to uncover implicit and explicit needs, and translate to product hypothesis which are tested and refined to deliver solutions
- Collaborates across product teams to develop and roll out operational plans. Facilitates conversations across product teams to ensure alignment. Coaches team members on effective product management and agile techniques to help mature the abilities of the entire team
- Researches and identifies industry best practices and trends to increase effectiveness
- Acquires, maintains and applies advanced knowledge of the business, its products and processes, and an academic understanding of Product Management. Leverages knowledge to coach product teams to operate effectively
- 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
- 10+ years relevant business experience, including in product owner role or similar
- Experience working with enterprise data products, analytics, reporting, governance, or data platform initiatives within financial services or other highly regulated industries.
- Demonstrated experience defining product strategy, roadmaps, and measurable business outcomes for enterprise products or platforms.
- Experience partnering with business leaders, data engineers, architects, and technical delivery teams.
- Experience leading product discovery activities and translating business needs into product investments and roadmap priorities.
- Strong prioritization and tradeoff-management skills across competing stakeholder needs.
- Ability to influence without direct authority across business and technology teams.
- Expertise in the principles of Agile Product Management, stakeholder management, market and user research, technology management, and process design
Preferred:
- Certified Product Manager or similar certification
- Experience with modern data platforms such as Databricks, Snowflake, Power BI, Azure, or similar technologies.
- Experience with data governance, metadata management, data quality, lineage, or master data management
- Financial services experience supporting enterprise functions, regulatory, compliance, operational, or risk-related domains.
- Proven success developing business cases, roadmaps, and business unit strategy
- Expertise in developing and delivering product strategy, articulated in terms of value and outcomes with relevant and compelling metrics and measurements
- Expertise with foundational product management tools, techniques and principles across discovery, design, build, release, and measure cycle. Proven success in developing and leading product teams in multiple contexts
- Adept at financial management to administer budgets across multiple products and ensure the product meets its requirements for return on investment
Pay TransparencyThrivent’s long-term growth depends on attracting, rewarding, and retaining people who are committed to helping others thrive with purpose. We accomplish this by offering a wide variety of market competitive compensation programs to attract, reward, and retain top talent. The applicable salary or hourly wage range for this full-time role is $139,455.00 - $188,676.00 per year, which factors in various geographic regions. The base pay actually offered will be determined by a variety of factors including, but not limited to, location, relevant experience, skills, and knowledge, business needs, market demand, and other factors Thrivent deems important.Thrivent is unique in our commitment to helping people to be wise with money and live balanced and generous lives. That extends to our benefits.The following benefits may be offered: various bonuses (including, for example, annual or long-term incentives); medical, dental, and vision insurance; health savings account; flexible spending account; 401k; 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; EAP; well-being benefits, and other employee benefits. Eligibility for receipt of these benefits is subject to the applicable plan/policy documents. Thrivent’s plans/policies are subject to change at any time at Thrivent’s discretion.
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