Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Empower is a company focused on transforming financial lives and promoting a flexible work environment. They are seeking a Senior Product Manager to identify, develop, and deliver strategic product initiatives related to retirement solutions, ensuring alignment with business growth and client success.
Responsibilities
- Partner with leadership to define and execute product strategy aligned with short- and long-term business objectives
- Own and prioritize the product roadmap by balancing business goals, client needs, competitive insights, organizational commitments, and development timelines
- Lead cross-functional collaboration across Product, Technology, Operations, Sales, Service, Marketing, Legal, Compliance, Risk, and Product Deployment to align priorities, evaluate tradeoffs, and deliver successful outcomes
- Define product vision, business requirements, epics, features, and development scope, ensuring clear requirements and effective communication with development teams
- Drive the end-to-end product lifecycle from concept through launch and ongoing enhancement, ensuring timely, high-quality delivery
- Establish and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs), evaluate product performance, and recommend enhancements to improve business and client outcomes
- Partner with Product Deployment and Marketing to develop go-to-market strategies, launch plans, client communications, sales collateral, RFP content, and product documentation
- Ensure products comply with applicable regulatory, legal, compliance, and risk requirements throughout the product lifecycle
- Analyze market trends, competitive offerings, and client feedback to identify product enhancements and new market opportunities
- Partner with Sales, Service, and Product Deployment teams to drive product adoption, client value, and business impact
Skills
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and relevant experience
- 7+ years of product management, product development, or related experience within the financial services industry
- Strong product strategy, roadmap, and product lifecycle management experience
- Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills with the ability to communicate effectively across all levels of the organization
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and strategic thinking skills
- Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams in a matrixed environment
- Experience supporting digital communication channels and digital product capabilities
- FINRA fingerprinting required upon hire
- Experience with defined contribution retirement products
- Direct experience with Multiple Employer Plans (MEPs), Pooled Employer Plans (PEPs), and Professional Employer Organization (PEO) partner relationships
- Experience managing strategic product initiatives and cross-functional projects
- Experience managing vendor and partner relationships
- Experience working in Agile, Scrum, or similar product development methodologies
- Experience using product management and collaboration tools such as Jira, Confluence, Azure DevOps, or Aha!
- Strong understanding of the retirement marketplace, including employers, employees, and intermediaries
- Demonstrated ability to influence internal and external stakeholders and build collaborative relationships across all levels of the organization
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision and life insurance
- Retirement savings – 401(k) plan with generous company matching contributions (up to 6%), financial advisory services, potential company discretionary contribution, and a broad investment lineup
- Tuition reimbursement up to $5,250/year
- Business-casual environment that includes the option to wear jeans
- Generous paid time off upon hire – including a paid time off program plus ten paid company holidays and three floating holidays each calendar year
- Paid volunteer time — 16 hours per calendar year
- Leave of absence programs – including paid parental leave, paid short- and long-term disability, and Family and Medical Leave (FMLA)
- Business Resource Groups (BRGs) – BRGs facilitate inclusion and collaboration across our business internally and throughout the communities where we live, work and play. BRGs are open to all.
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