Innovation Product Manager (Innovation NF)

If you're passionate about helping a Fortune 100 company drive their strategy forward through innovative product development and advancing strategic partnerships to protect customers (and their pets), then Nationwide's Strategy and Corporate Development Office might be the place for you! Areas of focus will include the following: Partnering with our core financial services businesses to launch new, innovative digital experiences and products to drive user engagement and conversion into related financial products. This will include recommending initial scope of products and experiences and developing new product roadmaps. Support our Senior Product manager on a large scale product pilot/launch related to financial wellness by developing and owning specific feature testing and development. This includes developing user personas, creating product requirements, and shepherding development, marketing, and operational partners. Compensation Grade: G4 #LI-MS2 #LI-REMOTE Job Description Summary Are you agile across all stages of product development - initiation, solution design, launch, and ongoing maintenance of products? Can you balance strategy, design, profitability and growth? If so, then we want to know more about you! As a Consultant, Product Manager, you’ll be a member of a cross-functional team, identifying strategically attractive opportunities for commercialization and delivering opportunity assessments that balance desirability, feasibility, and viability. You will coordinate research and concept design and, under the direction of your Team Lead, shepherd the opportunity through build and incubate. You will make recommendations and influence decision making on feature set, scope, go-to-market plans, pricing and design features. Throughout the entire innovation process, you will coordinate across the enterprise, including technology and design resources as well as Legal, Compliance and Marketing. Job Description Key Responsibilities: Contributes to the identification of strategically attractive opportunities in partnership with cross-functional team. Supports the development of simple, and intuitive solutions. Provides opportunity assessment, balancing desirability, feasibility, viability, in collaboration with the business lead. Manages research, concept design and execution. Leads the overall pitch and adds to the opportunity business case. Develops product/feature strategy, roadmap and requirements with a cross-functional team, including technology, designers, business development and partner managers. Recommends appropriate metrics and is responsible for reporting on the offering. Uses metrics to deep-dive into issues and uncover business-driving trends and patterns. In collaboration with the team, recommends appropriate course corrections. Helps prioritize initiatives and work across teams to drive value for Nationwide. Communicates frequently and clearly with other teams and leaders. May perform other responsibilities as assigned. Reporting Relationships: Reports into Team Lead Typical Skills and Experiences: Education: Undergraduate degree, MBA preferred. Experience: Generally, five to seven years of customer-facing consumer or business product development and product management experience, including defining, launching, and/or optimizing products and services. Experience with either front-end (explore and design) or back-end (build and commercial launch / incubate) for customer-facing products Knowledge, Abilities and Skills: Proven general knowledge of product development and lifecycle management processes, the ability to execute methodically, and deep customer empathy and curiosity that’s paired with knowledge in how to capture and synthesize consumer needs. Outstanding written and verbal communication. Demonstrated experience in analytical and quantitative skills with the ability to use data and metrics to back up assumptions, recommendations and drive actions. Other criteria, including leadership skills, competencies and experiences may take precedence. Staffing exceptions to the above must be approved by the hiring manager’s leader and Human Resources Business Partner. Values: Regularly and consistently demonstrates the Nationwide Values. Job Conditions: Overtime Eligibility: Exempt (Not eligible) Working Conditions: Normal office environment ADA: The above statements cover what are generally believed to be principal and essential functions of this job. Specific circumstances may allow or require some people assigned to the job to perform a somewhat different combination of duties. Credit/Background Check: Due to the fiduciary accountability of this job, a valid credit and/or background check will be required as part of the selection process Safety Sensitive: This job has been identified as a Safety Sensitive (SS) position and in accordance with our substance free work place program may be subject to random alcohol and other drug testing. #marketing Nationwide utilizes a geographic-specific salary structure. For the salary range in Colorado, email taproces@nationwide.com.