Sr Product Manager - Enterprise Data

Thrivent is seeking a Senior Product Manager to lead strategy and vision for a portfolio of enterprise data products supporting corporate functions. The role prioritizes investments, defines measurable outcomes, partners across business and technology teams, and ensures data products deliver value through analytics, operational decision-making, governance, and AI-enabled experiences.

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

Requirements:

• 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
• 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