Northwestern Mutual

Manager

• Responsible for leading a team of learning strategists, learning designers, and training coordinators.
• Design, develop, and deliver a portfolio of learning solutions for operational roles.
• Reports to the Senior Director of UW Learning & Development.
• Partners with UW leaders, SMEs, and stakeholder groups to understand skill gaps.
• Conducts performance conversations with team members including annual performance reviews.
• Guides the team through department and team-level changes.
• Identifies and manages through interpersonal and/or team conflicts quickly.

Manager, Learning Experience

Artificial Intelligence

• Lead the People function’s AI platform strategy, including the architectural design of AI-enabled employee and leader experiences.
• Own platform selection and evaluation for the People AI assistant ecosystem (orchestration layers or agent communication protocol, RAG, agent frameworks, workflow engines).
• Define the modular AI architecture required for secure integrations with Workday, ServiceNow, intranet platforms, and other data sources.
• Establish standards for model usage, retrieval patterns, data access, versioning, logging, and system reliability.
• Serve as the People function’s primary partner with IT, Enterprise Architecture, Cybersecurity, Legal and Risk for all AI-related technology and governance decisions.
• Negotiate and align on data access patterns, authorization models, and integration pathways.
• Represent the People function in enterprise-level AI forums, steering groups, and architecture reviews.
• Ensure the People function’s AI strategy aligns to enterprise roadmaps while enabling innovative pilot opportunities.
• Maintain the People function’s AI governance framework, including compliance standards, auditability requirements, safety guardrails, and escalation pathways.
• Define guardrails for automated actions, system boundaries, fail-safes, and human-in-the-loop patterns.
• Partner with Legal and Cyber to assess and mitigate risk associated with new use cases and vendor capabilities.
• Establish monitoring mechanisms for reliability, performance, and ethical deployment.
• Lead technical evaluation of AI vendors and platforms; establish architecture requirements for onboarding and implementation.
• Partner with Digital Experience and Enablement Architecture teams to ensure platforms adhere to design, workflow, and content standards.
• Define integration expectations, data flows, and technical constraints.
• Oversee technical specialists and AI engineering resources supporting the platform.
• Partner with Experience Architecture on workflow logic, triage patterns, decision boundaries, and human-machine interaction standards.
• Support Workday/VNDLY, ServiceNow, and digital platform teams in AI-enablement opportunities, while ensuring integrity of system-of-record logic.
• Provide technical guidance and architectural oversight for AI-enabled processes and cross-system workflows.
• Build a multi-year AI roadmap for the People Function, including platform evolution, capability expansion, and integration milestones.
• Evaluate emerging technologies, enterprise AI investments, and new architectural patterns to inform strategic decision-making.
• Ensure the People function’s AI ecosystem evolves toward greater automation, personalization, and employee experience quality.

Senior Director, AI Strategy – Architecture

Public Relations

• Lead highly effective and innovative PR initiatives that proactively spotlight Northwestern Mutual’s suite of insurance offerings.
• Consistently pursue influential accolades, awards, and profile opportunities for the company’s insurance business, while actively monitoring for related ratings and rankings.
• Strategically merchandise positive news coverage and third-party recognition of Northwestern Mutual’s leadership within the insurance industry.
• Work closely with senior leaders, providing counsel, supporting media interviews, and crafting compelling messages that expand their thought leadership profiles and the company’s relevance.
• Have the flexibility and adaptability to take on additional PR responsibilities in support of other priority workstreams and enterprise functions.
• Effectively team with existing agency partners, providing strategic guidance and budgetary oversight while ensuring that all deliverables are met and work is executed with the highest degree of quality and impact.

Assistant Director, Media & Public Relations

Full-stack Engineer

• Demonstrates technical leadership to the team.
• Establishes, aggregates, and shares team standards and best practices within the department.
• Utilizes working relationships across teams within their division.
• Assesses and provides solutions to system-wide architectural problems.
• Lead design, development, and support of end-to-end analytics.
• Build and optimize batch and streaming ETL pipelines.
• Ensure data governance and security.
• Coordinate and mentor offshore and cross-team resources.
• Maintain platform reliability.
• Implement CI/CD for notebooks, SQL, models, and reports.

Senior Engineer – Software Engineering

Director

• Support definition and articulate the strategic vision for the future ways of working including: Domains, practices, and operations, ensuring alignment with enterprise strategy and program objectives
• Develop and lead initiatives that drive business transformation, articulating the 'How' and guiding strategic direction
• Support the development of updates for leadership regarding the overall new ways of working program
• Embrace a progress over perfection mindset to iteratively test and learn
• Assist in execution through development and oversight of operating rhythms, scorecards, and accountability mechanisms to sustain momentum
• Operationalize new ways of working alongside teams, utilizing data-driven decision-making through metrics, KPIs, and insights to measure value, course-correct, and guide decisions
• Implement best practices to improve the operating efficiency of the organization
• Manage cross-functional orchestration of stakeholders including business, technology, data, and finance, etc.
• Support change management efforts and communicate progress across levels of the organization
• Manage teams of professionals through vertical and horizontal relationships.
• Lead with and promote test-and-learn and iterative approaches
• Support development of talent through coaching and fluency-building programs to build a bench of transformation-ready talent.

Senior Director, Enterprise Portfolio Strategy – Advancement

Marketing

• Develop multi-year strategies and programs that deepen client relationships with existing clients
• Assist team in the development and execution of client program strategy
• Leverage data-driven approach to develop recommendations for program optimization
• Partner with Consumer Insights to shape consumer research
• Coordinate with measurement partners to evaluate and provide business perspective
• Assist in development of annual contact strategy for clients
• Partner with data, activation, Martech, and engineering teams to execute campaigns
• Identify process and artifacts improvements allowing teams to efficiently develop strategies
• Represent team’s work to peers and leadership
• Foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, and accountability

Assistant Director, Client Marketing

Engineer

• Engineer and support enterprise identity solutions across Entra ID, Active Directory, SSO, and federated identity platforms (OAuth/OIDC, SAML, WS‑Fed).
• Design and maintain policies for MFA, Conditional Access, workload identities, and modern authentication protocols.
• Develop automated IAM workflows using PowerShell, Python, Terraform, GitLab/GitHub CI/CD, and other IaC frameworks.
• Create predictable and repeatable deployment patterns for identity services through CI/CD pipelines.
• Identify opportunities for automation and help evolve an “automate first” engineering culture.
• Use tools such as Splunk, Crowdstrike Identity Protection, Bloodhound and other monitoring platforms to analyze identity logs, detect anomalies, and drive resolution.
• Work with product and engineering leaders to assess and pilot AI-driven identity technologies.
• Lead complex problem resolution and support escalations requiring deep IAM expertise.
• Document architecture, decisions, playbooks, and engineering patterns.
• Collaborate in agile teams and mentor engineers on identity engineering best practices.

Senior IAM Engineer

Risk

• Lead the identification, assessment, and optimization of information security risks and controls
• Conduct IT risk and compliance assessments and define effective risk mitigation strategies
• Provide guidance and mentorship to junior team members

Senior IT Risk Operations Analyst

Financial Planning and Analysis

• Provide counsel, guidance, and direction to clients and registered financial representatives on the purchase and sales of securities.
• Execute mutual fund order transactions on behalf of financial representatives and clients.
• Provide timely and accurate investment performance information, leveraging account statements and reporting tools.
• Serve as a primary point of contact for NM Investment home office assigned clients, addressing inquiries regarding investment accounts and products.
• Analyze, input, and review investment transactions, including trade executions, transfers, and account maintenance, ensuring accuracy and compliance.
• Handle phone and transactional responsibilities while adhering to strict confidentiality and privacy standards.
• Serve as a trusted advocate for our financial representatives and partner with them to meet client needs.
• Identify opportunities for the field to enhance existing client relationships.
• Deliver a personalized and remarkable client experience by answering questions and providing servicing options.

Investment Client Services Analyst – Remote

• Works under minimal supervision within the Cloud domain within the IAM Department on larger and complex projects
• Able to perform the most advanced development tasks within their domain independently but may need assistance from others when working outside of their IAM Domain
• Handles very high complex issues independently but may need assistance from others on team for more the most complex issues
• Has a solid understanding of general security frameworks and delivery models
• Begins to master multiple IAM Domains
• Defines how Identity & Access Management and tools should be used within their IAM Domain(s)
• Contributes to overall IAM Strategy for domain(s) they represent
• Defines knowledge of engineering best practices within their IAM Domain(s)
• Has an advanced understanding of Identity & Access Management outside of their IAM Domain and how their work impacts others
• Leads the architecture of IAM solutions, considering scalability, security, and usability requirements within their domain(s)
• Stays updated with the latest IAM technologies, trends, and emerging threats, and proactively implement necessary measures to mitigate risks
• Leads collaboration with third-party vendors and partners to evaluate IAM tools and services
• Advanced skills of requirements gathering and seeing through the eyes of the customers and aligns technical objectives to business objectives
• Able to troubleshoot or analyze the most advanced process issues, identify cause, and recommend efficiencies or provide formal reporting
• Provides recommendations to higher level staff of how to resolve new or complex issues
• Provides technical leadership, guidance, and mentorship to their IAM Domain and more junior IAM personnel outside of their domain
• Exhibits appetite for continuous learning and improvement

Lead Cloud IAM Engineer

Events

• Represents and provides support to an executive, functional or department head to facilitate effective decision-making.
• Co-leads the development of business cases, risk assessments, and investable structure cost analysis.
• Directs departmental strategy development and execution, ensuring alignment with key business priorities and outcomes.
• Guides the team on how to utilize data-driven strategies grounded in purpose, using insights to shape decisions, measure impact, and inform future event portfolio changes.
• Collaborates, plans and organizes with and through people to bridge strategies across teams.
• Identifies gaps between ideal and current state of operating model and recommends solutions to close the gaps.
• Partners with department leadership team to identify and track priority work.
• Develop and lead training programs utilizing tech and interactive methods to maximize engagement and knowledge retention.
• Ensures spend optimization is aligned with best-in-class industry standards while maintaining compliance and governance standards.
• Aligns department planning and budget to functional and company priorities, working cross-functionally with peers.

Assistant Director, Events Strategy

Recruitment

• Generate new leads to the firm through social media platforms and personal network
• Develop and maintain an active pipeline of candidates for selected positions within the organization
• Coordinate with Hiring Managers and the TA team to identify available markets and target candidate pools
• Measure and monitor the effectiveness of the strategic sourcing framework against predefined outcomes
• Other ad hoc TA projects

Talent Acquisition Specialist

• Assist in developing and executing product development strategies that leverage company advantages
• Design competitive and financially sound products based on client and field insight
• Provide representation and advocacy for life product in cross-departmental project teams
• Assist in the development and execution of product line sales goals, communication strategies, and product promotion plans
• Provide ongoing analysis of and planning for future trends that may impact the financial results of the product line
• Provide expert technical assistance/consultation to the field and home office regarding products, complex product analysis, competitive intelligence, sales illustrations and sales ideas

Risk Product Development Assistant Director

• Partners with leadership in the development of strategic direction
• Designs competitive and financially sound new HNW client solutions
• Drives end-to-end development and launch of new client solutions
• Takes accountability for program success
• Provides ongoing research and analysis of planning for future trends

Assistant Director – Business Lead

Consultant

• Principal review, assessment and approval or rejection of applicable Outside Business Activities and Passive Investments in accordance with Enterprise policies and within our service level agreements.
• Partner with home office stakeholders on new initiatives or requests to identify regulatory and Enterprise risks.
• Complete risk assessment and provide options for stakeholders to address their request.
• Build rapport with field leadership and supervision teams, as well as internal business partners and maintain good relationships.
• Assist other Enterprise Compliance partners in addressing OBA, Passive Investment and other regulatory assessments as required.
• Ability to work in a dynamic environment, provide consistent messaging and deliver difficult messages is required.
• Ability to work with Market Conduct and partners in Law Department to respond to regulatory inquiries and other legal matters.
• Ability to work with Field Leadership and Distribution Performance leadership relating to complex, higher risk requests and assist in difficult messaging or recommendations.
• Work closely with Oversight and Engagement division within Enterprise Compliance to ensure awareness and alignment on risk factors and local decision making.
• Train new Field Supervisors/Leadership and Field Engagement team members on Outside Business Activities, Passive Investment and similar regulatory obligations.
• Serve as subject matter expert for the Outside Business Activity Portal, communicating updates with field and home office users when necessary, and partnering with the technology and engineering teams on prioritization, planning, and implementation of required fixes and enhancements.