National Life Group is looking to solve the problem of end-to-end execution of the product development process for Annuity products, ensuring timely progression through all product development stages and stakeholder alignment.
Requirements
- Strong understanding of Annuity product design, development, and implementation
- Proficient in Microsoft Office suite
- Experience with Annuity operations, product pricing, or product systems requirements and development.
- Experience working within a structured product development lifecycle or stage-gate process
- Experience with collaborative tools like Confluence, Jira, and/or Teams is a plus.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with a diverse set of stakeholders in L&A Solutions, operations, IT, project management office, legal, marketing, finance, and distribution.
- Accountable for the end-to-end execution of assigned product initiatives by ensuring clarity of scope, stakeholder alignment, and timely progression through all product development stages.
- Presents content of deliverable packages to the committees to move product initiatives through the various stages of product development.
- Lead the planning and execution of workshops that bring together stakeholders to accelerate the design and definition of products in development.
- Prioritize post-launch features and enhancements for initiatives and communicate rationale to key stakeholders.
- Continuously assess and share feedback on what is working well and what can be improved across the product development process;
Other
- Minimum 10 years of relevant experience with Annuity Products development
- Has clear communication skills to be able to explain complex product topics to nontechnical audiences, ability to communicate to senior leaders and individuals at various levels in the organization.
- Self-motivated and results focused.
- Highly organized and detail-oriented, with the ability to manage multiple initiatives and workstreams against tight deadlines.
- Must be in the office four (4) days per week during onsite core days.
