JOB REQUIREMENTS: At Northwestern Mutual, we are strong, innovative and growing. We invest in our people. We care and make a positive difference. What\'s the role? Drive Middleware infrastructure platform product innovation as an expert in your field. The focus of the role will be to enhance the product management capabilities and drive the strategic direction of the app runtime, messaging and integration platforms. Work with a talented team of engineers & developers to define product vision, strategy and deliver experiences that drive business outcomes. Primary Duties & Responsibilities Vision setting: Accountable for mid-term term vision for the middleware product portfolio outlining how it aligns with business outcomes and developer needs. Goal setting: Establish clear product objectives and key results, fostering alignment among the engineering, developer, and architecture teams. Roadmap development: Craft a comprehensive product roadmap that effectively meets developer needs and aligns with other cross-functional initiatives. Requirements gathering: Gather complex product requirements, demonstrating a comprehensive understanding of the platform under your responsibility. Review and validate requirements collected within the team, ensuring they align with the overall product vision. Prioritization: Define long-term goals for products and team members, balance priorities considering engineering resiliency, security, cost, and customer feature requests. Align product engineering efforts with corporate strategies and new product introductions. Stakeholdering: Proactive communication and marketing of domain products with stakeholders to ensure product strategy and vision is clear and accepted by the organization. Messaging and integration platforms expertise: Leverage your subject matter expertise in API gateways, and messaging platforms such as MQ, and Kafka to guide the development of innovative and technically sound solutions. Market research and strategy: Understand market trends in middleware platforms and prioritize pilots/no-regret work for architects and engineers to support business needs. Use data and market research to prioritize and develop product strategies that cater to developer needs. Go-to-market approach: Develop effective go-to-market and release methodologies for products within the middleware, messaging and integration space and ensure successful product launches and adoption. Resolution: Identify and resolve issues that may impair the ability to meet strategic, financial, and/or technical goals. Bring your best! what this role needs: Infrastructure, DevOps, SRE or Platform Engineering experience 5-7 Years of prior experience with at least 2 working in a Product Management Role, with agile team experience. Knowledge Preferred: knowledge of the financial services industry, familiar with BI tools, certification or experience with Product Owner or... For full info follow application link. EEO/AA Employer/Vets/Disability ***** APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: Apply Online: ipc.us/t/787BE7546E644255 Qualified females, minorities, and special disabled veterans and other veterans are encouraged to apply.