Experience & Technology Modernization Circle Lead, Director

Who Are We?

Taking care of our customers, our communities and each other. That’s the Travelers Promise. By honoring this commitment, we have maintained our reputation as one of the best property casualty insurers in the industry for over 160 years. Join us to discover a culture that is rooted in innovation and thrives on collaboration. Imagine loving what you do and where you do it.

Job Category

Technology

Compensation Overview

The annual base salary range provided for this position is a nationwide market range and represents a broad range of salaries for this role across the country. The actual salary for this position will be determined by a number of factors, including the scope, complexity and location of the role; the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate; and other conditions of employment. As part of our comprehensive compensation and benefits program, employees are also eligible for performance-based cash incentive awards.

Salary Range

$111,800.00 - $184,500.00

Target Openings

1

What Is the Opportunity?

Travelers is seeking a Director, Circle Lead / Team of Teams Lead to drive the execution of business strategies in an agile fashion. In this position, you will be responsible for implementing the strategy and portfolio of deliverables and capabilities spanning a small number of agile product teams primarily within a single business unit or product. You will apply business acumen and leadership in partnership with technology counterparts to enable teams to achieve their goals, and drive end-user value while delivering results in service to business strategy. You will drive towards innovative solutions, while making trade-off decisions related to funding and resource allocation.

What Will You Do?

• Lead, define, communicate and champion the work of a small number of agile teams (i. e. Team of Teams) working toward common business outcomes generally within a specific business segment.
• At this level, you generally lead:
• less than 8 teams (less than 80 total people)
• a single business unit or product line/asset with limited interdependencies and risk
• established applications
• a very focused area, typically completed within the Circle.
• Partner with Technology Circle Lead to implement multi-team vision and strategy, ensuring alignment to overall value stream outcomes, including the business architecture and roadmap for achieving the strategy, vision and business outcomes; articulate the Circle / Team of Teams vision and strategy effectively to teams and stakeholders.
• Effectively drive, manage, implement and track a portfolio of deliverables and capabilities as well as 'test and learn'/experimentation targeted at defining/refining future deliverables, measuring performance and adjusting the overall roadmap of deliverables as needed.
• Prioritize interdependent team backlogs addressing risks and dependencies within the circle to defined outcomes and ensuring overall alignment with business strategy; Make trade-off decisions to balance quality, cost, and timelines to maximize value.
• Identify innovative solutions both internally and in the external marketplace; ensure competitive and industry benchmarking of critical capabilities.
• Oversee and make data driven decisions related to funding and resource allocation, and prioritization of work in alignment with circle and value stream objectives.
• Lead positive team dynamics, encourage collaboration and drive appropriate levels of self-organization; Assess, utilize, and partner with external resources and partners to meet agreed upon expectations, as needed.
• Manage multi-team dynamics; remove impediments to teams’ success and assist in conflict resolution, issue and dependency management.
• Build and foster collaborative relationships across other Circles and with key partners.
• Share best practices with peers across the value stream to ensure alignment and consistency in ways of working.
• Help grow agile maturity within and across teams.
• People-management responsibilities for team members.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

What Will Our Ideal Candidate Have?

• Five years of experience in an agile/execution leadership role delivering business solutions on a demanding schedule preferred.
• Three years of people leadership/ management experience preferred.
• Strong business acumen and a deep strategic mindset preferred.
• Proven analytical skills and experience making decisions based on hard and soft data preferred.
• Strong knowledge of the Line of Business with the ability to develop and leverage business and/or vendor partnerships, consult on business priorities, and optimize