National Life Insurance Company

Director, Portfolio Management

Addison, TX; Montpelier, VT · Director

Work authorization requiredDetected 13 hours ago

RoadmappingStakeholder ManagementLeadershipCommunicationActuarial ScienceUnderwriting

About the role

Come join one of America's fastest-growing insurance companies.
Since 1848, National Life Group has aimed to keep our promises, providing families with stability in good times and in bad.
Throughout that history, we have provided peace of mind to those families as they plan their futures.

Partner with technology domain leadership and business owners to ensure the domain roadmap is executable, transparent, and aligned to enterprise priorities.
Maintain roadmap transparency so stakeholders understand sequencing, timing, dependencies, and the impact of portfolio changes.
Lead the process for domain intake and demand management in partnership with business owners and technology domain leadership.
Provide executive-ready, fact-based decision support to technology domain leadership, business owners, enterprise portfolio partners, and governance forums.
Partner with Project Managers to ensure initiative-level integrated project plans align to domain priorities, sequencing decisions, capacity realities, delivery readiness, and dependency constraints.
Coordinate with peer Portfolio Management leaders and enterprise portfolio partners to identify cross-domain dependencies, shared capacity needs, sequencing conflicts, and enterprise impacts.
Maintain visibility into how domain decisions affect other technology domains, enterprise capacity, supplier capacity, and business operations.
Support enterprise prioritization conversations by providing domain-specific facts, constraints, capacity data, value assumptions, and tradeoff implications.
Partner with business owners, technology domain leadership, and delivery teams to connect roadmap items to intended business value, operational impact, adoption measures, and success indicators.

Bachelor's degree or equivalent related work experience.
Strong Life and Annuity industry experience with demonstrated expertise in the assigned domain.
Proven ability to translate business and technology strategy into executable portfolio plans, roadmap priorities, sequencing options, prioritization recommendations, and measurable capability improvements.
Proven ability to serve as a trusted advisor to senior business and technology leaders by clarifying tradeoffs, surfacing execution constraints, and creating alignment in complex, highly matrixed environments.
Demonstrated ability to influence portfolio practices, governance conversations, roadmap decisions, and prioritization outcomes across departments or business technology domains.
Strong systems-thinking capability with the ability to balance domain priorities with enterprise alignment, customer and advisor impact, operational sustainability, and execution feasibility.
Provide visibility into work in progress, deferred work, risks, constraints, dependencies, and tradeoffs required when priorities shift.

Advanced degree in business, technology, operations, or a related field.
Experience supporting technology-enabled transformation within a complex financial services or insurance environment.
Experience advising senior leaders in portfolio governance, prioritization, enterprise planning, or strategic execution forums.
Domain-specific Life and Annuity experience, such as New Business, Underwriting, Distribution, Finance, Actuarial, Financial Controls, In-Force, Service, policy administration, claims, or customer operations.
Experience shaping portfolio management practices, governance routines, roadmap planning discipline, or value realization frameworks.
AI Proficiency Expectations

Maintain transparency into portfolio health, value realization progress, delivery confidence, capacity utilization, and emerging risks.
Track whether delivered capabilities are producing the intended impact and surface where benefits, adoption, or operational improvements are not materializing.

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