Sales Enablement Product Owner

Securian Financial Group

Lakeville, MN 55044, USA

Published: 9/16/2023

Application Development

As a Product Owner, you will oversee the strategic management of our Sales Enablement technology stack, including primarily Salesforce and integrated sales technologies. You will assist with the evaluation, integration, and utilization of new and existing capabilities to improve sales effectiveness and efficiency while ensuring that all tools are running safely and securely. This position requires someone who is passionate about driving sales outcomes and leading the technology supporting those outcomes, who can bring creative and bold new ideas to life, and who will deliver superior results consistently.

In this role you will:

Drive day-to-day product management decisions, build relationships with key stakeholders, meet deadlines and communicate priorities and updates.

Transform business objectives and product strategies, together with the needs of stakeholders, into specific actionable requirements for technology teams.

Ensure that the backlog is up-to-date and prioritized to keep team effective and focused on delivering the highest priorities. Create and refine backlog, stories, acceptance criteria. Prioritize with input from various stakeholders.

Evaluate emerging sales technologies and trends to keep our tech stack competitive.

Develop roadmaps, goals, strategic platform governance, project plans and recommendations

Ensure tools are running safely and securely, in alignment with privacy and compliance guidelines.

Monitor performance of existing tech stack, troubleshoot issues.

Develop relationships with enterprise-wide stakeholders to better understand the market, customers and products.

Partner with stakeholders to articulate project/enhancement needs, capturing the value and clearly defining KPIs/success metrics that align with product vision and business goals.

Job Qualifications:  

Expert-level understanding of sales process and sales technologies.

Experience managing SaaS vendor relationships, and ideally Salesforce.

Familiarity with agile models and scrum processes.

Ability to communicate complex concepts in easy-to-understand terminology.

A team-mindset and penchant for collaboration.

Know how to influence teams to deliver great customer experience without authority.

*The internal Securian Financial job title for this position is Product Consultant

Securian Financial believes in hybrid work as an integral part of our culture. Associates get the benefit of working both virtually and in our offices. If you’re in a commutable distance (90 minutes) you’ll join us 2-3 days each week in our offices to collaborate and build relationships. Our policy allows flexibility for the reality of business and personal schedules. When working in our offices at least two days per week isn’t feasible (vacations, illness, travel, etc.), an eight day per month standard is an option.

Physical job requirements:

Ability to utilize keyboard, mouse and computer for up to 8 hours per day

Ability to work at least 40 hours per week

Ability to utilize telephone for up to 8 hours per day

The physical job requirements described above are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Securian Financial has been around for 140 years. We’re committed to giving back to our community, donating 15,000 employee volunteer hours this past year. We also provide extensive resources to our employees for professional development and growth and a number of diverse professional and social opportunities throughout the company. There’s a reason our employees have voted us as a best place to work year after year! In addition:

Generous paid time off. We want you to take time off for whatever matters most to you!

Tuition reimbursement program. We value continuous learning at Securian!

Company-funded pension plan as well as 401K retirement plan – great resources to secure your financial future.

Continuous opportunities for new challenges.

Variety of health plan options as well as dental and vision plans.

Paid maternity/paternity leaves.

Securian Financial Group, Inc. does not discriminate based on race, color, religion, national origin, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital or familial status, pregnancy, disability, genetic information, political affiliation, veteran status, status in regard to public assistance or any other protected status. If you are a job seeker with a disability and require an accommodation to apply for one of our jobs, please contact us by email at Employment@Securian.com, by telephone 651-655-5522 (voice), or 711 (Relay/TTY).

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