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Job Description

Northwestern Mutual is seeking a Product Specialist - Communications to help us lead the conversation around financial planning, insurance and investing. This individual will work with the product managers, marketing teams, and financial advisors to bring Northwestern Mutual's social outlets for product management to life, leveraging them as platforms to educate, inspire and grow our followers, comprising of advisors and employees.

Key Responsibilities 

• Deeply have a passion and yearn to understand and translate product roadmap and strategy to clients, advisors, and employees
• Develop inspiring and meaningful product content to leverage in internal and external media outlets
• Influence social strategy using insights: What’s resonating with our audience and what’s not? What should we do more of? What are our blind spots?
• Coordinate with product teams to create exciting social and community buzz around product launches
• Publish compelling articles, videos, and graphics across social channels
• Work closely with product leadership on development of inspiring material for keynotes, regional meetings, and focus group sessions
• Partner with key influencers and marketing to create an interactive dialogue worth following
• Report on social metrics and trends in daily and monthly meetings
• Analyze reach and performance data to grow our followers and engagement
• Develop social-first content ideas and copy that compels individuals and influencers to join the conversation
• Liaise with customer service, tech, and product teams to evangelize our user experience

Desired Skills and Experience 

• Bachelor’s Degree in product management, product marketing, or technology
• 3+ years experience in Content Management and Product Management
• A keen understanding of social media platforms and community management
• Knowledge of how content is shared and consumed differently across digital, social and mobile platforms
• Ability to use analytics to help drive daily decisions
• Ability to work in a fast-paced team and multi-task
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written

Benefits

• Tuition reimbursement, commuter plans, and paid time off
• Highly competitive compensation that includes base salary plus bonus
• Medical/Dental/Vision plans, Matching 401(k), pension program