Product Leader, Digital Planning

## Product Leader, Digital Planning Apply locations:
United Statestime type:
Full time posted on:
Posted Todayjob requisition :
REQ-47652

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
** Who You Are
*** Strategic and decisive—you can set direction and make clear calls without perfect information
* Entrepreneurial—you are comfortable building within an environment of limited structure and evolving scope
* Proven in delivery—you have taken digital products or meaningful product capabilities from concept through launch
* Hands-on and low-ego—you are willing to do both the thinking and the execution
* Technically fluent—you can work closely with engineers and engage thoughtfully in technical tradeoffs
* Customer-driven—you use research, experimentation, and feedback to guide decisions
* AI-curious or experienced—you are interested in how AI can improve product development and the customer experience
* A strong collaborator—you can influence across functions and organizational levels without relying on formal authority
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* QUALIFICATIONS & SKILLS:

**** Required
* ** 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
** Preferred
* ** Experience in a startup, scale-up, incubation team, innovation lab, or…