As a Sr. Product Owner on the product team supporting Enterprise Marketing, you will help deliver a best-in-class experience to our users & customers leveraging modern technologies & platforms (e.g. Salesforce). You will own the tactical execution of our initiatives, experiments, and new features while strategically working with Product leadership to develop the product strategy and roadmap that helps answer the 'What' and 'Why'.

This role is unique in that it requires you to think like a digital marketer and drive end-to-end delivery like a product owner. As the ideal candidate, you bring a blend of creativity, technical and product fluency, strategic thinking, and marketing experience (ideally in a Salesforce ecosystem). You have superb cross-functional collaboration skills and are comfortable working closely with both designers and developers; a proven ability to translate customer and market insights into product requirements and a prioritized product backlog; a passion for scaling and streamlining processes; and a results-oriented, user-centric approach. Experience in digital or growth marketing to help standup & execute multi-channel campaigns, data needs, and analytics is a strong plus.

The Sr. Product Owner will work closely with cross-functional teams such as Marketing, Engineering, Operations, and Data, to create and build experiences that allow our users to drive growth and engagement with our prospects and clients. You own the direction-setting, discovery, and prioritization of customer wants and needs. You will act as a strategic thought partner alongside the Product Manager to articulate, translate, and execute the Product Manager's long-term strategy and vision through tactical strategies and solutions that drive necessary business outcomes. This requires the right alignment and regular, transparent communication to ensure both roles deliver on their goals. Additionally, the Sr. Product Owner works closely with stakeholders, end users, and functional and technical team members to rapidly deliver quality solutions to customers.

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

Works as a key team member on a cross functional team, responsible for continuous delivery of value to the customer through compelling and empowering customer experiences
Collaborate with Product Manager and stakeholders to ensure work prioritization is aligned with Thrivent's priorities and overall product roadmap as well as to provide product development feedback and direction. Leans into the work of developing and socializing the product strategy with senior leaders across the company
Continuously innovates and evolves the product in alignment with strategic priorities. Is responsible for creating, maintaining, and evolving the product roadmap
Maintain and refine product backlog: Create user stories and acceptance criteria and prioritize all stories to ensure work focuses on those with maximum business value that align with product strategy
Ensure stories clearly communicate the customer and stakeholder needs to meet key business objectives and strategies for the product. Is available for consultation during agile team planning and grooming sessions as needed. Coaches team members on effective product management and agile techniques to help mature the abilities of the entire team
Facilitates efforts across other product teams to align product roadmaps and sprint plans, in an effort to focus on delivering the maximum business value to the organization
As a functional leader of an agile team, ensures the team is aligned around similar goals and objectives and attending all team meetings
Engages with customers and users on a regular basis to uncover implicit and explicit needs
Develop and track key value drivers that measure effectiveness of product discovery and overall product performance, and communicate these to stakeholders and business leaders on a regular basis
Foster a sense of urgency to achieve goals and leverage resources to overcome unexpected obstacles.
Inspire others to achieve challenging goals and high standards of performance while committing to the organization's direction (Product/Agile/DevOps)
Models Thrivent's leadership competencies - Model the Way, Rally the Team and Deliver Outcomes
Supports and/or develops an environment in which Thrivent employees and colleagues are focused on continuous improvement, exceptional employee engagement, and an unwavering commitment to our clients. Shapes and/or supports a culture that represents the Thrivent purpose, promise and values, ensuring that Thrivent's trust and reputation remain strong with its clients
No direct personnel supervisory responsibility, however, supervises large complex product teams with cross-functional team members

QUALIFICATIONS & SKILLS:

Required:

Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience
5-7 years relevant business experience, including at least 2-3 years in a B2C product role where your work has been key to driving growth capabilities leveraging the Salesforce platform
Understand fundamentals of iterative development, software development process and procedures
Expertise in the principles of Agile Product Management, stakeholder management, market and user research, technology management, and process design
High level of organization and attention to detail
Passion and understanding of new technology and trends
Excellent communication, collaboration, and influence skills among all organizational levels; strong facilitation and executive communications skills

Preferred:

Certified Product Owner or similar certification
Salesforce Marketing Cloud or similar Salesforce certification
Entrepreneurial mindset, and comfort with ambiguity
Proven success developing business cases, roadmaps, product execution strategies for complex or large-scope products
Ability to prioritize work against enterprise, division, and product strategies. Can effectively communicate rationale and impact for prioritization choices
Expert in defining high-quality business requirements and proficient in Agile story writing
Expertise with foundational product management tools, techniques and principles across discovery, design, build, release, and measure cycle
Strong leadership and influential skills to coordinate and motivate product teams, even outside direct reporting relationships
Demonstrated experience with user interface design and best practices for usability
Experience working in large, complex organizational initiatives
Advanced skills in MS Office Suite with particular emphasis on Excel and PowerPoint

Pay Transparency

Thrivent's long-term growth depends on attracting, rewarding, and retaining people who are committed to helping others thrive with purpose. We accomplish this by offering a wide variety of market competitive compensation programs to attract, reward, and retain top talent. The applicable salary or hourly wage range for this full-time role is $127,034.00 - $171,870.00 per year, which factors in various geographic regions. The base pay actually offered will be determined by a variety of factors including, but not limited to, location, relevant experience, skills, and knowledge, business needs, market demand, and other factors Thrivent deems important.

Thrivent is unique in our commitment to helping people to be wise with money and live balanced and generous lives. That extends to our benefits.

The following benefits may be offered: various bonuses (including, for example, annual or long-term incentives); medical, dental, and vision insurance; health savings account; flexible spending account; 401k; pension; life and accidental death and dismemberment insurance; disability insurance; supplemental protection insurance; 20 days of Paid Time Off each year; Sick and Safe Time; 10 paid company holidays; Volunteer Time Off; paid parental leave; EAP; well-being benefits, and other employee benefits. Eligibility for receipt of these benefits is subject to the applicable plan/policy documents. Thrivent's plans/policies are subject to change at any time at Thrivent's discretion.

Thrivent provides Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) without regard to race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, pregnancy, national origin, age, disability, marital status, citizenship status, military or veteran status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable local, state, or federal law. This policy applies to all employees and job applicants.

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