Product Manager- Financial Planning Algorithm

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About LearnVest

LearnVest is redefining the American approach to personal finance. Our planners leverage financial technology to create simple, affordable, realistic plans for anyone who wants to feel confident about their money and optimistic about the future. 

Since launching in 2010, LearnVest has been one of the premier financial technology companies in the country, helping thousands of people make progress on their financial goals. LearnVest was acquired by Northwestern Mutual in 2015 and is now scaling its technology and personal finance approach to help millions of people across both the LearnVest and Northwestern Mutual brands. 

Description:

LearnVest is looking for a Product Manager to join the Financial Planning Algorithm team. We are on mission to re-imagine financial planning and it all starts with the tools that our planners use everyday to deliver advice that moves clients to action.

The role requires ownership of solving complex problems, ability to get things done, and strong product, relationship and stakeholder management skills.

What you’ll do:


  • Work cross functionally with engineers, designers, and stakeholders to get requirements ready for upcoming sprints and ship software


  • Build use cases and user stories around a product and communicate them effectively


  • Know your users, drive research to make our features align with problems


  • Analyze competitors, evaluate vendors, and come to the table to solve problems.


  • Define roadmap for engagement tools, approach in MVP mentality


  • Inform product decisions with quantitative data and experimentation.


  • Develop and maintain strong working relationships and strategic partnerships with external and internal key stakeholders/customers across groups and/or business units to maximize effectiveness and influence.


  • Drive user driven design, identify problems, formulate hypotheses, test and learn

What you have:


  • Product Management Experience - driven product development for 5+ years with cross functional teams, you know how to write effective product specs and drive projects to completion.


  • Product Intuition - strong instincts about what makes great product, simple is better


  • Technical Chops - don’t need to code, but should be able to gauge what technologies work best for the job, what’s easy or difficult to implement, degree in Computer Science or a related field is plus, Financial Services experience another plus


  • Experience with successfully managing existing products and optimizing their performance (preferably in the financial algorithms space).


  • Data-Driven - You know how to leverage data to make good decisions when confronted by ambiguity. You may not have all the answers upfront but you know how to find them


  • Highly Effective Communication Skills - presenting to large groups, convincing people to run towards goals, and managing multiple stakeholders.

  • Degree on CompSci or related discipline.
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41 East 11th Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10003

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