Description:
The Area Lead for Core Actuarial will be a member of the Actuarial Center of Excellence (COE) leadership team, reporting to the Chief Actuary, and helping to shape the team’s agile transformation. The Area Lead is a multi-faceted role focused on setting its respective mission and aligning OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) with the Actuarial COE, responsible for leading the Assumptions, Projections, and Methodology & Governance Teams.
A successful candidate must be skilled at working in a matrixed organization and have a strong track record for building alignment and executing the work across multiple teams.
Key Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Define Area Mission and OKRs to build clear roadmap and align with Actuarial priorities
- Develop and own the Areas backlog and roadmap – i.e., the “to-do” list over subsequent sprints, with consistent refinement of the Backlog based on customer and business value
- Manage dependencies between squads and synchronize the vision of multiple areas
- Responsible for applying knowledge of Equitable’s business and the marketplace to advance the organization’s goals
- Creating a culture of encouraging continuous feedback loops from strategic partners and stakeholders
- Continue to stay well-informed with industry best practices and customer needs to drive impact across areas
- Ability to think out of the box, drive strategy, and determine how to successfully achieve goals with finite resources
- Passion to challenge the status quo and find new solutions that drive out of the box ideas – appreciate and embraces change
- Belief in a non-hierarchical culture of collaboration, transparency, safety, and trust
- Readiness to empower others to fail, learn, and grow
- Willingness to “roll up the sleeves” and to go outside comfort zone to learn, ability to push teams to do the same
- Ability to synthesize details of day-to-day work with overall departmental vision
- Manage multiple priorities, including but not limited to: handling multiple initiatives and integrates them into a comprehensive plan, serving as expert on tools and techniques for managing organizational level priorities, integrating strategic goals and tactical priorities