Why Join Thrivent?

Thrivent is a leading financial services organization dedicated to helping people achieve financial clarity, build strong futures, and live generously. As a not-for-profit Fortune 500 company, we combine the power of financial expertise with a mission-driven culture rooted in faith and community. Join our innovative team in the United States and be part of a company that's transforming the financial services landscape with cutting-edge technology.

Our core infrastructure platforms power Thrivent’s engineering ecosystem, including Server & Storage, Enterprise Database, Hosting Platforms, and Cloud Provisioning. These critical services deliver reliable compute, storage, database, and application-hosting capabilities that enable secure, scalable, and resilient experiences across on-prem and cloud environments. At Thrivent, you'll drive real impact by modernizing legacy systems, accelerating cloud-native transformation, and enhancing developer productivity.

Thrivent offers a collaborative, inclusive environment where your professional growth is prioritized. Enjoy competitive compensation, comprehensive benefits, and opportunities to contribute to meaningful work that aligns with your values. We're seeking a visionary Product Manager to lead our infrastructure platforms into the future.

Role Description

As the Manager, Product for Thrivent's core infrastructure portfolio, you will own the strategy, roadmap, and evolution of platforms that form the backbone of our engineering operations. This role is pivotal in guiding cross-functional teams to modernize legacy technologies, simplify complex architectures, and introduce standardized, cloud-ready offerings.

Your leadership will focus on automation, self-service provisioning, and operational resiliency, ensuring our platforms deliver the performance, stability, and scalability that our engineering community relies on. You'll accelerate Thrivent’s shift to cloud-native architectures, reduce technical debt, and foster developer productivity in a hybrid on-prem and cloud ecosystem. This position reports to senior engineering leadership and collaborates with product, engineering, and business stakeholders nationwide.

Detailed Responsibilities

• Develop and own the long-term product roadmap aligned with Thrivent's broader business strategy, analyzing personas, use cases, customer benefits, and value propositions.
• Iteratively execute business strategies through prioritized product roadmaps and release plans across multiple interconnected products.
• Lead team collaboration to manage, prioritize, and sequence roadmap items, ensuring they fit within capacity constraints to maximize customer value.
• Facilitate constructive conflict resolution and coach product teams on achieving specific business outcomes tied to organizational goals.
• Identify, track, and report on evergreen KPIs and targeted metrics to monitor product health and drive measurable improvements in user experiences.
• Engage regularly with customers, users, and stakeholders to uncover needs, form product hypotheses, test them, and refine solutions.
• Collaborate across product teams to develop and roll out operational plans, ensuring alignment on priorities and execution.
• Research emerging technologies, competitive landscapes, and industry trends to inform platform evolution and innovation.
• Drive modernization initiatives, including legacy system migrations, architecture simplification, and introduction of self-service cloud provisioning tools.
• Ensure platforms provide secure, scalable services that support Thrivent's cloud transformation and enhance developer productivity.

Required Skills

To succeed in this Product Manager role at Thrivent, you need a blend of strategic vision, technical acumen, and leadership prowess. Key skills include:

• Proven product management experience in infrastructure platforms (cloud, databases, hosting).
• Strong understanding of cloud-native technologies (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and hybrid environments.
• Expertise in roadmap development, prioritization, and execution using frameworks like OKRs or RICE.
• Analytical skills for defining and tracking KPIs, metrics, and business outcomes.
• Stakeholder management and cross-functional collaboration in agile environments.
• Experience modernizing legacy systems and reducing technical debt.
• Developer experience advocacy, including automation and self-service tools.
• Technical knowledge of servers, storage, databases (SQL/NoSQL), and provisioning.

Education & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or related field; Master's preferred.
• 7+ years in product management, ideally in infrastructure, cloud, or enterprise IT platforms.
• 3+ years leading engineering or product teams in financial services or tech-heavy industries.
• Demonstrated success in cloud migrations and platform modernization projects.
• Experience with agile methodologies, Jira, Confluence, or similar tools.

Compensation Overview

Thrivent offers competitive pay reflective of experience and market rates for top Product Management talent in the United States.

Benefits

Thrivent provides an exceptional benefits package including medical, dental, vision, 401(k) matching, generous PTO, professional development stipends, wellness programs, and faith-based community involvement opportunities. Enjoy flexible work arrangements, parental leave, and tuition reimbursement to support your work-life balance and career growth.

Thrivent is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to diversity and inclusion.