IT Senior Manager – Product Owner Northmarq – Minneapolis, MN (Bloomington, MN)   At Northmarq, you can be part of something special. Northmarq is a unique capital markets resource for commercial real estate investors, providing our clients access to experts in debt, equity, investment sales, loan servicing, and fund management. We offer you a career path with best-in-class training, and we foster inclusive teams committed to collaboration, mentoring, and growth. At Northmarq, we will help you unlock your potential – whether you are an industry veteran or you’re just getting started. Your new career is waiting. Start something special today. Northmarq was voted by Real Estate Forum as one of The Best Places to Work in Commercial Real Estate!    We are transforming the way our customers interact with Northmarq, so we are looking for a charismatic, technically savvy product owner to help us drive the change required to be an industry leader.   In this role, you will work with leaders from across our business, enabling new ways to communicate and inspire greatness. You will have the opportunity help us build the future of our digital platforms – our website, email marketing, and other digital customer-facing capabilities, working iteratively to deliver value to our customers and drive a common approach. The ability to take complex issues and break them into easy-to-use deliverables, empower others through your work, and inspire are key attributes. A key mentor and trainer to the business who must be able to lead the room and drive change.   *This position offers a flexible work environment and is available for an immediate start.   Position Responsibilities:

• Develop deep understanding of how we connect to our customers – the commercial real estate business, user personas and needs, success outcomes.
• Bring experience in digital best practices, including email marketing platforms, web site development/optimization, SEO, and integration with CRM platforms.
• Supports the implementation of Agile methodology, identifying opportunities to advance Agile principles at the team and program level
• Concise documentation and communication of personas, story maps, roadmaps, integration points.
• Partner with Digital Marketing team as they evaluate and prioritize digital initiatives to drive organizational growth and collaborate in the development of roadmaps and delivery plans to execute the plans across multiple stakeholders
• Collaborate with business operations, other Product Owners, UX, development teams and digital marketing agencies on design and iterative delivery
• Demonstrate broad solutions technical leadership, impacting significant technical direction, exerting influence outside of the immediate team and driving change
• Technical and system architecture design of digital platforms
• Integrate architecture to connect multiple types of technology systems across an enterprise including Salesforce and Snowflake

What We're Looking For:

• 7+ years of experience in managing large complex initiatives in positions of increasing responsibility in product management
• 3+ years of experience working on digital platforms with demonstrated experience with marketing technology solutions, marketing automation platforms, CRM and data solutions.
• Certified Scrum Product Owner preferred
• Experience working with a distributed team and external agencies
• Leadership and team management experience with ability to provide strategic planning and oversight
• Ability to organize and lead discovery sessions that result in clear outcomes, features and stories
   
• Technical:
  • Proven ability to design, optimize and integrate business processes across disparate systems
  • Skilled in all aspects of system design including story mapping, integration design, business process implementation, etc.
  • Have a solid understanding of delivery methodology and lead teams in iterative, agile solution implementation
  • Fluent and current on architecture trends with an eye on market and technical conditions and future direction
     
• Delivery:
  • Excellent analysis skills and the ability to develop roadmaps, features, capabilities and processes
  • Prior experience delivering solutions involving multiple stakeholders ensuring successful and coordinated outcomes
  • Outcome-focused, with a record of defining, tracking and delivering meaningful business results
  • Detail-oriented individual with the ability to rapidly learn and take advantage of new concepts, business models and technologies
  • Demonstrate success in leading complex and/or large concurrent initiatives
  • Excellent problem-solving skills
  • Be independent and self-driven
     
• Communication:
  • Extraordinary customer-facing skills with the ability to solve business problems and manage scope in a positive way
  • Ability to elicit requirements and communicate goals and plans clearly with non-technical individuals, development teams, digital marketing agencies and other ancillary project members
  • Desire to mentor team members and develop their skills

Northmarq offers a highly competitive benefits package including: medical, dental, vision, paid time off, 401K match and an annual discretionary contribution based on business performance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance, education assistance, volunteer paid time off, charitable contribution match and so much more!PDN-9e24d53b-36f1-4ac0-9195-1646dffe5b75