Summary: Lead high-performing engineering, product and technology teams to deliver value, develop talent, and drive change. Co-define with the business the vision for digital products, and accountability for defining technology vision. Accountable for outcome realization as connected to delivery roadmap. Collaborate with stakeholders across Marketing, Finance & Risk, HR, Legal & Public Affairs to ensure strategic alignment, assess feasibility, and manage costs.

Strategy & Innovation

Drives digital transformation and technology modernization.

Drives digital transformation and technology modernization.

Primary partner with key SLT members for aligned business areas and product lines.

Primary partner with key SLT members for aligned business areas and product lines.

Collaborates cross-functionally with the Chief Digital & Technology Officer’s leadership team and key partners in the Information Technology department.

Collaborates cross-functionally with the Chief Digital & Technology Officer’s leadership team and key partners in the Information Technology department.

Understands and drives the development of both engineering and business aspects of the product, representing the end-user's needs. Ensure the full product and engineering life cycle, health, hygiene, compliance and security is incorporated.

Understands and drives the development of both engineering and business aspects of the product, representing the end-user's needs. Ensure the full product and engineering life cycle, health, hygiene, compliance and security is incorporated.

Co-defines with the business the vision for digital products and collaborates cross-functionally to ensure goals are met, focusing on the end-user experience.

Co-defines with the business the vision for digital products and collaborates cross-functionally to ensure goals are met, focusing on the end-user experience.

Enables the business's product strategy, features, and end-user experience.

Enables the business's product strategy, features, and end-user experience.

Leads appropriate investments in emerging technologies to maintain industry leadership.

Leads appropriate investments in emerging technologies to maintain industry leadership.

Identifies and implements technology solutions to meet current and future needs.

Identifies and implements technology solutions to meet current and future needs.

Manages a budget that balances priorities, tradeoffs, and efficiencies. Optimizes IT investments and ensures technology budgets align with strategic business priorities.

Manages a budget that balances priorities, tradeoffs, and efficiencies. Optimizes IT investments and ensures technology budgets align with strategic business priorities.

Leads teams that track, analyze, and monitor technology performance metrics in pursuit of continuous improvement.

Leads teams that track, analyze, and monitor technology performance metrics in pursuit of continuous improvement.

Provide a high-level direction that illustrates the epics and features that will be delivered across a portfolio of products or platform and how it integrates with other cross functional team efforts.

Provide a high-level direction that illustrates the epics and features that will be delivered across a portfolio of products or platform and how it integrates with other cross functional team efforts.

Leadership

Builds and leads high-performing engineering, product, and technology delivery teams.

Builds and leads high-performing engineering, product, and technology delivery teams.

Empowers teams to take ownership of digital transformation initiatives.

Empowers teams to take ownership of digital transformation initiatives.

Uses organizational awareness and ability to navigate peers to strategically build relationships across the organization.

Uses organizational awareness and ability to navigate peers to strategically build relationships across the organization.

Collaborates across functions to ensure IT is a key enabler of business strategy.

Collaborates across functions to ensure IT is a key enabler of business strategy.

Thinks with an enterprise mindset to understand multiple perspectives in different contexts and how strategic initiatives in one business will impact the broader enterprise.

Thinks with an enterprise mindset to understand multiple perspectives in different contexts and how strategic initiatives in one business will impact the broader enterprise.

Advocates for agile methodologies and iterative product development.

Advocates for agile methodologies and iterative product development.

Visionary leader who pushes the organization toward continuous digital reinvention.

Visionary leader who pushes the organization toward continuous digital reinvention.

Change Management

Advocates for innovation and digital transformation while growing relationships and delivery.

Advocates for innovation and digital transformation while growing relationships and delivery.

Skilled at tailoring communications for technical/non-technical audiences to communicate technology strategy and initiatives.

Skilled at tailoring communications for technical/non-technical audiences to communicate technology strategy and initiatives.

Advocates change management efforts to accelerate technology adoption.

Advocates change management efforts to accelerate technology adoption.

Champions a culture of continuous learning and digital upskilling.

Champions a culture of continuous learning and digital upskilling.

Comfortable with ambiguity, complexity, and rapid change.

Comfortable with ambiguity, complexity, and rapid change.

Willing to take calculated risks to drive technological advancements.

Willing to take calculated risks to drive technological advancements.

Qualifications

Deep expertise in engineering, product development, and technology delivery in large scale organizations in the financial services or insurance industry, ensuring alignment with business objectives.

Deep expertise in engineering, product development, and technology delivery in large scale organizations in the financial services or insurance industry, ensuring alignment with business objectives.

Extensive experience building and leading engineering, product, and technology delivery teams.

Extensive experience building and leading engineering, product, and technology delivery teams.

Extensive experience with workforce planning including optimization through 3rd party vendors.

Extensive experience with workforce planning including optimization through 3rd party vendors.

Data-driven decision-maker with the ability to analyze complex business challenges.

Data-driven decision-maker with the ability to analyze complex business challenges.

Extensive experience managing a matrix P&L and understands the elements of a P&L.

Extensive experience managing a matrix P&L and understands the elements of a P&L.

Experience balancing cost efficiencies with innovation to drive competitive advantage.

Experience balancing cost efficiencies with innovation to drive competitive advantage.

Extensive experience identifying, comparing, selecting, and implementing technology solutions to meet current and future business needs.

Extensive experience identifying, comparing, selecting, and implementing technology solutions to meet current and future business needs.

Understands multiple perspectives in different contexts and how strategic initiatives in one business will impact the broader enterprise.

Understands multiple perspectives in different contexts and how strategic initiatives in one business will impact the broader enterprise.

Strong relationship-building skills to influence key stakeholders, including the peer-level executives, business partners, and senior leaders.

Strong relationship-building skills to influence key stakeholders, including the peer-level executives, business partners, and senior leaders.

Compensation Range

Pay Range - Start

$234,640.00

Pay Range - End

$435,760.00

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