Associate Product Manager
Morningstar seeks an Associate Product Manager to work with the Product Manager on Morningstar Plan Advantage (MPA), an online platform that helps advisors more effectively onboard and service retirement plans. We are distributing the platform through broker dealer firms so that their generalist and specialist retirement advisors can more easily obtain and compare pricing proposals from recordkeepers, access Morningstar’s or the broker dealer’s 3(38) and 3(21) fiduciary service, and offer clients a suite of Morningstar’s compliance, fund, and plan-level reports.
Responsibilities
- Act as Product Owner of an Agile scrum team(s)
- Write detailed user stories to explain a change to the product from a user’s perspective
- Identify relevant business or technical requirements related to a particular user story
- Closely collaborate with engineering, design, and UI/UX to deliver a best-in-class user experience and drive implementation of new product functionality
- Understand how the business strategy relates to product strategy and execution
- Support the prioritization of product changes and the creation of the product roadmap
- Help support the operational aspects of the product, including client and user support
Required Skills and Requirements
- A passion for retirement planning and helping investors
- Ability to communicate and work cross-functionally
- Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a fast-paced environment
- Technical experience or the willingness to gain technical knowledge to effectively communicate with scrum team engineers
- Knowledge and experience in working with the Agile development framework, including writing user stories
- Previous knowledge of the retirement industry would be considered a plus
- A bachelor’s degree is required