[Hiring] Product Leader, Digital Planning @Thrivent

Role Description

Thrivent is incubating a new digital planning offering designed to make financial advice accessible to more people by:

• Lowering traditional barriers such as high asset minimums and costly planning fees
• Making financial guidance simpler and more actionable
• Rethinking the cost structure and delivery model that limits who can be served efficiently.

We are hiring a Senior Product Manager to define and deliver the minimum viable product (MVP), turning an early-stage concept into a focused, shippable offering. This role combines strategic ownership with hands-on execution. You will work directly with engineers and designers to test assumptions, make tradeoffs, and accelerate learning around customer desirability, technical feasibility, and the business model. This is not a mature product with an established roadmap. You will operate in a startup-like environment with limited structure, evolving scope, and imperfect information.

What You’ll Do

• Own MVP definition and delivery from concept through launch
• Translate an evolving vision into a clear roadmap, sequenced backlog, and release plan
• Determine what is essential for launch, what can wait, and where the team should make tradeoffs
• Set product direction while staying close to day-to-day execution
• Work side-by-side with engineering and design to balance customer experience, technical feasibility, speed, and business value
• Engage with customers and users to uncover needs and turn insights into testable product hypotheses
• Use prototypes, early builds, customer feedback, and product data to validate assumptions and refine the offering
• Define product outcomes and key performance indicators that connect to broader business goals
• Identify practical opportunities to use emerging technologies, including AI, to improve the product and accelerate learning
• Align stakeholders, resolve competing priorities, and keep the team moving through ambiguity

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience
• 10 or more years of relevant business experience, including experience as a product manager, product owner, or similar product leader
• Demonstrated success launching a digital product or significant product capability
• Experience defining and delivering an MVP in an ambiguous or rapidly evolving environment
• Strong understanding of Agile product management, iterative development, and the software-development lifecycle
• Experience working directly with engineering and design teams
• Strong business acumen and the ability to balance customer, business, and technical considerations
• Excellent communication, facilitation, collaboration, and influencing skills

Requirements

• Experience in a startup, scale-up, incubation team, innovation lab, or other entrepreneurial environment
• Experience in financial planning, wealth management, fintech, or consumer financial services
• Experience applying AI or other emerging technologies to digital products
• Experience developing product strategies, roadmaps, business cases, and measurable product outcomes
• Product management or Agile certification

Benefits

• 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
• Other employee benefits

Company Description

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.

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.

Thrivent is committed to providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation, please let us know by sending an email to [email protected] or call 800-847-4836 and request Human Resources.