Jobs at Northwestern Mutual

Supports minority equity investments in independent wealth management firms through financial analysis, valuation, underwriting, diligence, transaction execution, portfolio monitoring, and reporting. Builds investment recommendations and financial models, coordinates cross-functional stakeholders, supports negotiations and documentation, researches market trends, and communicates insights to senior leaders and business owners.

Owns end-to-end product design for complex digital experiences, from problem framing and exploration through validation, delivery, and iteration. Translates user, business, and technical needs into intuitive workflows and interfaces using research, prototyping, design systems, and accessibility practices. Collaborates with Product, Engineering, Research, and business partners, contributes to design critique, and advances design quality in ambiguous environments.

The Corporate Development Analyst supports venture and corporate development by building financial models, conducting valuation analyses, developing acquisition and partnership business cases, researching financial services trends, and assisting with due diligence, negotiations, and integration planning. The role presents findings to senior leaders and collaborates with cross-functional stakeholders to evaluate strategic opportunities aligned with Northwestern Mutual’s long-term strategy.

Analyzes and improves business processes, elicits and documents requirements, evaluates solution options, and coordinates implementation activities. The role partners with business and technology stakeholders, supports issue resolution, acceptance testing, training, reporting, and organizational change management. It also facilitates consensus, manages stakeholder relationships, and promotes adoption of process and system changes across functions.

Leads enterprise-wide change management strategy across complex, cross-functional initiatives. Develops change frameworks, assesses people-related risks, aligns stakeholders, drives adoption, and oversees integrated change delivery. Advises senior leaders, delivers metrics and insights, and manages a team of change practitioners. Requires extensive experience implementing large-scale organizational transformations, strategic influence, analytical problem-solving, and a Prosci or similar change management certification.

Supports investment client onboarding by preparing proposals and account paperwork, entering transfer and ACH instructions, tracking account status, resolving transfer issues, conducting quality checks, and coordinating updates with advisors and staff. The role also improves operational processes, mentors junior team members, and applies investment knowledge to handle exceptions and special instructions.

Provides investment operations support for advisors and network offices by preparing investment proposals, opening accounts, processing transfers and ACH instructions, tracking account statuses, and resolving operational issues. The role also supports advisor calls, recommends process improvements, mentors junior staff, performs quality checks, and applies investment knowledge to nonstandard requests. Requires financial services and investment operations experience, strong analytical and communication skills, and preferred FINRA Series 7 licensing.

Leads enterprise state regulatory and legislative strategy for an insurance and financial services company. Advises the CEO and executives on regulatory risks, opportunities, and policy priorities; manages regulator, policymaker, NAIC, trade association, and industry relationships; oversees legislative affairs staff and external consultants; develops advocacy strategies and policy positions; coordinates cross-functional alignment; and represents the company in domestic and international forums. Frequent domestic and occasional international travel is required.

Coordinates field research projects from intake through delivery, tracking timelines, deliverables, and stakeholder communications. Maintains research repositories, knowledge-management systems, field research panels, and insight-sharing processes. Uses AI, Power BI, Qualtrics, and Jira to improve discoverability, workflow efficiency, and research operations. Partners cross-functionally on custom and community research, process improvements, and connecting findings across studies to support strategic, insight-led decisions.

The Technical Business Analyst II gathers and documents business and technical requirements, performs current-state, future-state, and gap analysis, and authors user stories and features. The role partners with product, engineering, design, and business stakeholders in an Agile/Scrum environment, supports development, reviews test plans, performs UAT and other testing, and applies project management principles to deliver technology-enabled business outcomes.

Leads enterprise learning, compliance, regulatory, and product training programs, advisor credentialing, and talent initiative adoption. Manages learning teams, develops strategic blended-learning solutions, partners with executives and business leaders, establishes performance metrics, measures learning impact, and drives organizational effectiveness, talent management, change management, and knowledge management initiatives across a matrixed organization.

Builds and scales anti-fraud technology, automation scripts, workflows, dashboards, and reporting capabilities. Analyzes fraud trends, control gaps, incidents, and detection effectiveness; recommends improvements to reduce losses and manual effort. Partners with investigators, business teams, and leadership to provide technical guidance, transition capabilities into operations, maintain documentation, and support fraud technology projects. Coaches peers and applies regulatory and financial-crime risk knowledge to improve prevention and detection.

Provides advanced estate, business succession, wealth transfer, tax, and executive compensation planning guidance to high-net-worth clients and financial advisors. Evaluates legal documents and planning structures, develops actionable recommendations, leads presentations, collaborates with attorneys and tax professionals, and supports coordinated execution of client objectives. The role also manages consultation workflows, builds stakeholder relationships, and contributes thought leadership and planning education.

Lead product vision, roadmapping, and experimentation for innovation programs. Define KPIs, validate solutions with research and data, manage cross-functional stakeholders, and communicate executive-level recommendations while facilitating agile delivery.

Manages Northwestern Mutual’s grassroots advocacy program and two political action committees. Responsibilities include coordinating delegate programs, Capitol Hill fly-ins, advocacy campaigns, PAC solicitations, stakeholder and contractor relationships, technology projects, communications, websites, databases, budgets, and PAC board meetings. The role develops strategies to increase grassroots engagement and PAC receipts, supports government relations initiatives, and presents to internal leadership. Requires at least three years of relevant political, PAC, fundraising, government relations, or legislative experience.

Analyzes business processes, gathers and documents requirements, authors user stories, performs current-to-future-state gap analysis, and coordinates test-plan reviews for digital post-approval products. Partners with product managers, engineers, and subject matter experts to support modernization initiatives, roadmap execution, operational stability, and delivery commitments. Applies analytical thinking, business acumen, Agile practices, and communication skills to resolve moderately complex problems and align technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Prepare federal and state individual, entity, passthrough, and trust tax returns for high-net-worth clients. Develop tax projections, perform financial and tax analyses, support tax planning presentations, and recommend strategies involving investments, life insurance, business planning, and estate planning. Collaborate with CPAs, financial advisors, legal professionals, and internal teams to deliver integrated tax solutions and address complex client circumstances.

Develop and support mainframe reinsurance systems involving premiums, claim payments, and reserve calculations. Translate business needs into software solutions, collaborate with actuarial experts and technical peers, improve core systems, establish engineering standards, conduct code and design reviews, and mentor less experienced engineers. The role requires strong analytical, mathematical, communication, prioritization, and software problem-solving skills.

Enterprise HR leader responsible for total rewards strategy, including compensation, benefits, retirement, health and well-being, performance management, recognition, job architecture, and career frameworks. Leads compensation and benefits teams, transformation initiatives, governance, vendor relationships, analytics, and program budgets. Advises executives and the Compensation Committee while aligning employee rewards with business performance, workforce strategy, financial stewardship, and organizational effectiveness.

Leads strategy execution, operations, governance, and continuous improvement for a field-facing learning technology platform. Manages and develops a learning technology team, oversees platform administration, reporting, integrations, support, vendors, and releases, and executes the technology roadmap. Partners with learning, digital product, technology, and field stakeholders to define requirements and implement scalable solutions. Evaluates AI-enabled learning capabilities, ensures compliance controls, and uses analytics and learner insights to improve engagement and business impact.