Drives long-term strategy by researching and designing retirement products for from inception to launch. Manages existing product portfolios to ensure profitable sales.

Responsibilities

  • Analyze market trends and competitive landscape to discern product opportunities and translate market conditions into valid value positions.
  • Research potential market opportunities; build the business case for product innovations by gathering distribution and consumer feedback, reviewing industry sales trends, and understanding demographic shifts/consumer preferences.
  • Make recommendations to the product leader and team on product features, competitiveness, profitability, sales goals and launch date.
  • Conduct feasibility studies, research and development, and participate in labs to evaluate ideas. Collaborate with sales and margin analytics team and other business groups to conduct hypothesis testing and opportunity sizing; develop capabilities based assessments (CBA) and execution approach.
  • Partner with distributors, Marketing, Finance, IT and other key stakeholders to recommend product features, competitiveness, profitability, sales goals and launch dates.
  • Negotiate needs and bring consensus/closure to issues, and facilitate decisions on new business portfolio issues.
  • Develop product specification documents, product guides and other product documentation.
  • Serve as a subject matter expert to functional areas on product information required during the product development process.


Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in a business related field or equivalent experience.
  • Two years of product development experience in the retirement industry.
  • Understanding of retirement product features and riders.
  • Understanding of retirement and marketing techniques.
  • Analytical skills and attention to detail to perform market analysis, customer research, opportunity sizing, profitability assessments, and risk/legal/compliance assessments.
  • Communication and interpersonal skills to educate audience and advocate recommendations with team members and stakeholders at all levels of the organization.
  • Decision making skills to create scope and content for consumer market research, and use insights to develop product design and features.
  • Strategic thinker and facilitation skills.
  • Advanced proficiency in MS Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word).


Preferred Qualifications

  • Pooled plan experience for retirement products

    Working Conditions

    • Hybrid office environment: 3 days in office (Baltimore, Cedar Rapids, Philadelphia, Denver)

    The Salary for this position generally ranges between $78,000-$88,000 annually.  Please note that the salary range is a good faith estimate for this position and actual starting pay is determined by several factors including qualifications, experience, geography, work location designation (in-office, hybrid, remote) and operational needs. Salary may vary above and below the stated amounts, as permitted by applicable law.

    Additionally, this position is typically eligible for an Annual Bonus of 12.5% based on the Company Bonus Plan/Individual Performance and is at the Company’s discretion. 

    • We will never request personal information such as ID or payment for equipment upfront.
    • Official offers are sent via DocuSign following a verbal offer—not through text or email


    This job description is not a contract of employment nor for any specific job responsibilities. The Company may change, add to, remove, or revoke the terms of this job description at its discretion. Managers may assign other duties and responsibilities as needed. In the event an employee or applicant requests or requires an accommodation to perform job functions, the applicable HR Business Partner should be contacted to evaluate the accommodation request.