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WineTalent is working with Stoller Wine Group on a Vice President of Winemaking search

About the Company: Stoller Wine Group is a family of wine brands from Oregon's Willamette Valley. Founded in 1993, the portfolio includes Stoller Family Estate, Chehalem Winery, History, Elouan, Chemistry and Stoller Swing. The company continuously seeks to improve its brands, and company with a lens towards quality, authenticity and sustainability. Stoller Wine Group is a certified B Corp.

About the Position: The Vice President of Winemaking provides executive leadership and direction for winemaking and winery operations across all Stoller Wine Group brands. As part of the executive leadership team, the VP of Winemaking collaborates with the Founding Winemaker on long-term planning and execution to align production, quality, resources and capital investments with organizational goals.

Key Responsibilities:

Strategic Planning & Executive Leadership

• Partners with the President and executive team to develop and execute the annual and long-range strategic plan for winemaking and winery operations, with a focus on quality excellence, operational efficiency, and business growth.
• Leads the strategic direction of wine production across all brands, tiers, and programs.
• Authorizes major projects and allocates resources to support production goals, quality standards, and cost objectives.
• Ensures annual operating plans and capital expenditures align with strategic priorities and approved production volumes.
• Serves as a key member of the executive leadership team, contributing to enterprise-level planning and decision-making.

Winemaking, Processing & Quality Oversight

• Provides executive oversight of all winemaking and processing activities from grape procurement through bottling.
• Maintains and enforces wine style, technical, and quality standards across the full portfolio.
• Oversees the Estate, Reserve, and Chehalem winemaking teams to ensure alignment with brand vision, quality expectations, and production goals.
• Leads continuous improvement of technical protocols, quality systems, and production practices
• Ensure consistency, scalability, and excellence across varietals, brands, and production volumes.
• Oversee bottling operations and create and manage bottling calendar in collaboration with winemaking and bottling teams.
• Oversee quality assurance programs, audits, and corrective action initiatives.

Grape Procurement & Supply Strategy

• Leads grape procurement strategy, including sourcing, grower relationships, contracts, and long-term supply planning.
• Aligns fruit sourcing with production forecasts, quality objectives, and financial targets.
• Collaborates with viticulture teams and external partners to ensure fruit quality, sustainability, and supply continuity.

Operational & Financial Management

• Ensures production plans, staffing models, and operating budgets support volume, cost, and quality objectives.
• Oversees capital planning, equipment investments, and facility improvements.
• Drives operational efficiency while safeguarding wine quality and brand integrity.
• Monitors and manages key performance indicators, including cost of goods, yield, quality metrics, and capacity utilization.
• Works closely with sales on product volumes, release dates, and bottling timelines.

New Product Development & Innovation

• Supports new product development initiatives from concept through commercialization.
• Partners with sales and marketing to guide portfolio strategy, innovation, and brand growth.
• Evaluates emerging technologies, production techniques, and industry trends to maintain competitive advantage.

People Leadership & Organizational Development

• Leads, mentors, and develops winemaking, production, and bottling teams.
• Fosters a culture of accountability, collaboration, safety, and continuous improvement.
• Supports succession planning and leadership development within the winemaking organization.

External Representation & Industry Leadership

• Represents the winery with national and international media, industry organizations, and external stakeholders when needed.
• Strengthens the winery's reputation and credibility within the industry and marketplace.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Viticulture and Enology, Food Science, Chemistry, Microbiology or closely aligned science. Advanced degree highly desirable.
• 3 or more years in a Director or Vice President of Winemaking position and at least 10 years of winemaking experience.
• Proven leadership acumen and an understanding of complex interpersonal dynamics.
• High emotional intelligence and dedication to mentoring and coaching staff.
• Ability to manage up while collaborating with executives.
• Excellent communication, organizational, and analytical skills
• Ability to multitask and work with shifting priorities while maintaining clear direction for winemaking team.

Compensation and Benefits:

• This is a full-time, exempt position. The salary range is $170,000 to $200,000.
• Competitive salary plus incentive bonus. Benefits include medical, dental, vision and life insurance. Additional benefits include 401(K) with employer match, vacation, sick and holiday pay.

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IT Project Manager – Enterprise ERP Transformation

Location: This role is based in Eugene, OR. Candidates may reside in Portland or the surrounding region; however, regular on-site presence in Eugene is required (weekly, at minimum).

Overview

A multi-entity capital equipment organization is launching a high-impact enterprise initiative to unify operations across operating companies. The objective is to architect and implement a UI solution layered on top of an existing ERP platform to streamline storefront operations across business units.

This initiative affects nearly all core systems including:

• Security architecture
• Data structures & databases
• Business logic and reporting
• Sales & commission structures
• Financial processes

What You'll Do

• Lead end-to-end ERP transformation initiatives
• Coordinate across business units, IT, vendors, and executive stakeholders
• Oversee data conversions and integration strategy
• Manage risks, budgets, scope, and cross-functional alignment
• Guide architectural discussions for enterprise solution design
• Drive go-live readiness and post-implementation stabilization

What We're Looking For

• Proven ERP implementation or migration leadership
• Experience managing multi-entity environments
• Strong knowledge of financial modules (AR, AP, GL, Sales, Purchasing)
• Background leading projects involving both development and configuration
• Experience with data conversion and integration
• Strong executive communication skills

Why This Role Matters

This is not a maintenance PM role. This is a strategic transformation effort with executive visibility and organization-wide impact.

As one of our Account Managers, you will be a key contributor to increasing territory profitability and revenue through an in depth understanding of your territory consisting of bulk gases and equipment. As an Account Manager, you will leverage Messer North America’s resources and processes to differentiate Messer by adding value through our unique Product Service Offerings. Your primary responsibility will be to generate continuous profitable growth within the territory.

Why Messer?

Messer is the world’s largest privately held industrial gases company and what we do matters because it is woven into every part of life, from the medical gases that patients rely on to the essential elements needed to safely and sustainably produce the goods our communities depend on.

The true strength of Messer is our people—at every level and in every role.

Join us and take pride in the impact you will make by providing solutions essential to our world and lives. Reach your highest potential at our stable, inclusive company with diverse opportunities in a growing industry, supported by people who care.

Messer stands apart because we put what matters first, and you matter.

Key Activities:

Increase territory profitability and revenue through an in depth understanding of the territory.

• Maintain an overall territory business strategy to proactively plan and measure success
• Manage an existing portfolio of clients and related agreements
• Develop new customer relationships and negotiate new agreements
• Manage price and cost recovery across the business

Prospecting from multiple sources to develop new business

• Prospect and generate leads through multiple approaches, including but not limited to cold calls, trade shows, social media, leveraging internal/external sources to develop new customers and additional use opportunities with existing customers
• Allocate time to network, qualify and follow up on leads
• Engage Messer’s Industry experts to identify and create value added solutions

Consistent use of Messer Pro Sales Tools

• Qualify prospects to establish/evaluate stages (Sales Funnel) to determine viability and proper time/resource allocation. Maintain up to date opportunity roadmaps and account action plans
• Document relevant sales and customer activity including call reports, actions, and customer data in Messer’s CRM,

Deep Customer & Competitor Insight

• Understand customer values/priorities, business issues, and economic factors
• Accurately identifies prospect/customer account influencers and decision makers across sales process and records decision maker

Required Skills:

• Must be able to travel 30-40%. Position is Remote (At home and at Customer Sites) but must live within the territory.
• A high level of critical and innovative thinking, questioning skills are required to uncover issues and create value for customers
• A sense of urgency and responsiveness to take immediate action to resolve customer issues is required
• Must have a demonstrated sales track record applying deep customer insight, knowledge of competitive landscape, growing revenue, prospecting, negotiation, and closing abilities
• Strong business and financial acumen, proficient presentation skills and sound planning/organizing skills are essential
• Must be a self-starter that is achievement driven and able to perform both individually and within a team environment
• PC skills required including SalesForce or CRM equivalent, Microsoft Office with Excel and PowerPoint

Basic Qualifications:

• A bachelor’s degree in engineering, Sales, Marketing, Finance, Business or other technical discipline
• Minimum of 3 years' experience in business-to-business Industrial Sales, Gases, Specialty Chemical or other Manufacturing industry

Base Salary Range - $88,000 - 117,000 USD. Messer provides medical, dental, vision, short term disability, life insurance and paid time off as well as other voluntary benefits, such as, long term disability in accordance with the terms and conditions of these Plans. Employees are eligible to enroll in Messer’s 401(k) Plan. Employees may be eligible to participate in the company’s bonus program.

If you are a successful chemical or industrial sales professional looking for an excellent income and career growth opportunity, here’s your chance to join a large North American raw material chemical & materials supplier.Our client is looking for a high-energy “hunter” who is also an excellent account manager to fill a home-based sales position, ideally located in the Portland, OR area. Overnight travel is expected to be ~10%.

Responsibilities: Sell a broad range of raw material chemicals & materials to the Composites & fiberglass manufacturing markets in Oregon and Southern Washington. Products include Gel Coats, Resins, Epoxies, Adhesives, Initiators, Core Materials, Reinforcements, etc. End-use markets include Marine, Bath Tube & Spa, Piping, Transportation, Infrastructure, Construction, Energy, Etc. This is industrial/commercial selling, calling on Engineers, Fabricators, Production Managers, Plant Managers, and Purchasing. There would also be a large amount of prospecting and cold calling responsibilities. Manage all pricing and account strategies. Grow the business, both at existing accounts, but also by adding new accounts. Travel overnight as needed.

Requirements: 3+ years of experience selling raw material chemicals, preferably to the composites manufacturing markets. Experience selling raw material chemicals, adhesives, coatings, materials, industrial supplies, etc. is also a fit. Sales experience with a distributor is a plus.A bachelor’s degree is desired but not a requirement. High energy “hunter” with proven sales success in the region. Willingness to travel overnight as needed.

Company Information: North American raw material chemical & materials supplier. Leader in the Composites Supply Industry.

Compensation: Base salary is $80K, plus commissions that are currently running at ~$2K per month for this territory. Total compensation coming in the door is ~$104K - $110K. The monthly commission plan is very lucrative. As you grow your monthly sales, your monthly commissions grow. There is no cap. Top reps in the company are making $180K - $200K+. Company car. Excellent benefits. Opportunities for advancement.

In this position, you will underwrite new and renewal business which includes solicitation, selection and pricing of highly complex multi-line risks (workers compensation, commercial auto, general liability). You will actively and creatively pursue new commercial insurance solutions including guaranteed cost, large deductible and retro account opportunities throughout the territory through your network of national and regional brokers and agents. Maintain and develop prospects in order to have a strong base of future opportunities to build your large account book. Contribute to the development of broker and agency management strategies and lead the development and execution of relationship management plans.

Responsibilities:

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• Analyze, select and profitably price coverage for commercial risks and determine terms and conditions of coverage on new and renewal business.
  
  
• Apply and conform to underwriting rules and guidelines, rating manuals, insurance laws/ regulations.
  
  
• Utilize a consultative selling approach to generate new business consistent with underwriting strategy and in coordination with service team members to include accurately assessing the needs of the broker and the client and formulating solutions that effectively address those needs.
  
  
• Analyze underwriting & marketing activities and corresponding results; prepare reports to management.
  
  
• Mentor and provide technical training and guidance to coworkers.
  
  
• Determine, coordinate and direct account management activities with various departments.
  
  
• Negotiate and deliver proposals to producers and buyers.
  
  
• Develop and maintain client relationships and coordinate service team efforts.
  
  
• Identify opportunities for organizational improvement and recommend solutions.
  
  
• Demonstrate commitment to Company's Code of Business Conduct and Ethics, and apply knowledge of compliance policies and procedures, standards and laws applicable to job responsibilities in the performance of work.
  
  

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• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience required.
  
  
• 7 years of casualty underwriting with an insurance carrier required
  
  
• Advanced understanding and technical knowledge of underwriting mechanics and fundamentals
  
  
• Advanced knowledge of casualty coverage and loss sensitive deal structures (retrospective rating, large deductible, captive, and self-insurance). Additional knowledge in financial analysis, account management and collateral management is desired.
  
  
• Advanced knowledge of local and regional market conditions as well as industry trends.
  
  
• Advanced knowledge of underwriting territory and strong relationships with the local distribution network (local and regional agents, national and regional brokers, and select consultants).
  
  
• Demonstrated proficiency in the successful marketing and prospecting of business opportunities, as well as, relationship building and agency management skills.
  
  
• Ability to create a presence that conveys interest, conviction, and energy in maintaining relationships with external business partners.
  
  
• Strong ability to effectively communicate verbally and in writing to uncover business needs.
  
  
• Ability to foster creative solutions that resonate with external business partners.
  
  
• Ability to interact with various levels of management and support personnel.
  
  
• Advanced skills in marketing, analysis, decision making/problem solving, planning and organizing; sales and negotiation and mathematical proficiency.
  
  
• Strong desire to work collaboratively and foster a team oriented environment with Claims, Risk Control and other departments.
  
  
• Willingness to travel for business purposes. Underwriters are expected to be visible with their agents and brokers in order to develop and maintain solid relationships and generate an adequate flow of qualified business.
  
  
• Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter (CPCU); Associate in Risk Management designation or other professional designations are desired.
  
  

Customer Success Manager

Chicago, IL (Hybrid)

The American Medical Association (AMA) is the nation's largest professional Association of physicians and a non-profit organization. We are a unifying voice and powerful ally for America's physicians, the patients they care for, and the promise of a healthier nation. To be part of the AMA is to be part of our Mission to promote the art and science of medicine and the betterment of public health.

At AMA, our mission to improve the health of the nation starts with our people. We foster an inclusive, people-first culture where every employee is empowered to perform at their best. Together, we advance meaningful change in health care and the communities we serve.

We encourage and support professional development for our employees, and we are dedicated to social responsibility. We invite you to learn more about us and we look forward to getting to know you.

We have an opportunity at our corporate offices in Chicago for a Customer Success Manager on our Marketing & Member Experience team. This is a hybrid position reporting into our Chicago, IL office, requiring 3 days a week in the office.

As a Customer Success Manager, you will be responsible for ensuring best-in-class customer experience and product usage for all group membership institutions. This role will be a point of customer contact and work closely with day-to-day program administrators to understand their needs, tailor solutions, execute product onboarding/training, and implement outreach programs to increase engagement KPIs. The AMA Customer Success Team represents AMA externally, creates and maintains a robust case study and testimonials library, and provides recommendations for optimizing products to drive group membership growth and increase customer/member engagement.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Maintain a comprehensive understanding of target audience needs, issues, and relationships to enhance
• existing programs.
• Work with sales and product team to guide customers through the onboarding process, ensuring they understand the product/service and its features and have clearly defined KPIs.
• Provide robust training and onboarding experience that leads to learner activation and engagement.
• Identify opportunities for upselling/cross-selling group membership curriculum, content, and membership benefits.
• Maintain a deep understanding of the company's products/services and stay updated on new features and enhancements.

• Continuously work to improve customer experience, build trust, transparency, and safeguard/increase customer retention.
• Establish and maintain customer relationships and provide high-level technical and product support. Address customer concerns, inquiries, and issues promptly and effectively.
• Collaborate with internal teams (e.g., support, sales, product) to ensure outreach programs and communication tactics are optimized and drive KPIs.
• Identify satisfied customers and secure/curate testimonials and/or case studies.
• Assist with recognition program to reward/amplify top customers/institutions.

• Research, monitor, report, and recognize customer performance.
• Ensure accurate and comprehensive data reporting through CX digital monitoring tools and product analytics.
• Produce regular reports on customer success metrics and key performance indicators.
• Utilize Salesforce to document customer interactions and maintain accurate customer data.

May include other responsibilities as assigned

REQUIREMENTS:

1. Bachelor's degree in healthcare administration, business, communications, or related field required.
2. Minimum of 5+ years account management and customer relationship management experience required.
3. Previous experience in graduate medical education administration or related healthcare account/relationship management roles, preferred.
4. Proven ability to organize and prioritize while managing multiple projects/programs simultaneously in fast paced environment.
5. Analytical, goal-oriented, and creative individual with excellent communication skills (written and verbal) able to excel in a matrixed environment and strong client management skills.
6. Experience developing and maintaining customer relationships as well as driving programs/products forward to successful completion and growth.
7. Strong external presence to communicate with external stakeholders and customers.
8. Familiarity with accreditation standards, particularly ACGME regulations and LCME standards, is a plus.
9. Familiarity with learning management systems/online education programs
10. Some travel required.

The American Medical Association is located at 330 N. Wabash Avenue, Chicago, IL 60611 and is convenient to all public transportation in Chicago.

This role is an exempt position, and the salary range for this position is $87,394-$115,797. This is the lowest to highest salary we believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. An employee's pay within the salary range will be determined by a variety of factors including but not limited to business consideration and geographical location, as well as candidate qualifications, such as skills, education, and experience. Employees are also eligible to participate in an incentive plan. To learn more about the American Medical Association's benefits offerings, please click here.

We are an equal opportunity employer, committed to diversity in our workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment. As an EOE/AA employer, the American Medical Association will not discriminate in its employment practices due to an applicant's race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity and veteran or disability status.

THE AMA IS COMMITTED TO IMPROVING THE HEALTH OF THE NATION

*At Securian Financial the internal position title is Infrastructure Sr Analyst.*

Position Overview

As a ServiceNow Sr. Analyst, you will be responsible for maintaining, enhancing, and automating the existing infrastructure and supporting processes for the ServiceNow Platform. Your focus will be on executing and maintaining environments that support both internal and external application solutions, ensuring technologies are available and performing to meet business needs. You will define and implement technology solutions within the ServiceNow platform that align with Securian's business objectives and overall IT strategies. You will design, develop, and deploy applications within the ServiceNow platform. Collaboration with diverse business and technology teams will be essential. You will research trends impacting the ServiceNow technology platform. Finally, you will provide direction, guidance, and thought leadership to ITSM process owners to enhance their competency in leveraging CMDB, incident, problem, asset, change, knowledge, and service catalog management processes, streamlining operations.

Responsibilities include but not limited to:

• Maintain, support, and develop the ServiceNow platform via scripting and system configurations.

• Establish design and capability guidelines for new and existing ServiceNow features to ensure platform integrity.

• Architect and implement integrations with ServiceNow, third-party solutions, and internally developed applications.

• Research, recommend, design, and implement ServiceNow platform services, including workflows, ITOM, ITBM, ITSM, Performance Analytics, CMDB, and ITAM.

• Train internal associates and administrators in the use and configuration of ServiceNow applications.

• Own your code from design to delivery, including test automation and detailed documentation.

• Analyze, troubleshoot, and resolve ServiceNow system issues or operational support tickets.

• Provide rotational after-hours on-call support for ServiceNow production issues.

Qualifications:

• 2+ years of engineering experience with the ServiceNow technology platform or a comparable Service Management technology platform.

• Proficient in using ServiceNow or equivalent Service Management tools for analysis, design, development, and integration with other applications, including 3rd party software.

• Skilled in configuring ServiceNow Discovery and Orchestration.

• Project management and leadership skills with a proven ability to deliver outcomes on complex service management initiatives and transformations.

• Strong verbal and written communication skills to convey technical information and ideas at all business levels.

• Proven ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a fast-paced environment.

• Demonstrated ability to assess customer needs, creatively approach solutions, and influence appropriate courses of action.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 2+ years of experience deploying, implementing, administering, configuring, and/or developing solutions on the ServiceNow technology platform.

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience, education, and certification.

• Broad technical experience that includes integrations and infrastructure build and support.

• ServiceNow Administrator certification, with additional development certifications/experience (e.g., Advanced System Administration, Certified Application Developer, Application Creation).

• Experience and understanding of web technologies, SaaS solutions, and development (HTML, CSS, JavaScript).

• Experience with application integrations using technologies such as SOAP or REST Web Services, JDBC/ODBC, and flat files.

• Experience with ServiceNow reports, dashboards, and Performance Analytics.

• Knowledge of Information Protection strategies (DR, encryption).

• Understanding of data management and concepts such as data normalization, record retention, and archiving.

• ITIL certification V3/V4.

• Project management and leadership skills (agile preferred) with proven ability to deliver outcomes on complex service management initiatives and transformations.

#LI-hybrid **This position will be in a hybrid working arrangement.**

Securian Financial believes in hybrid work as an integral part of our culture. Associates get the benefit of working both virtually and in our offices. If you're in a commutable distance (90 minutes), you'll join us 3 days each week in our offices to collaborate and build relationships. Our policy allows flexibility for the reality of business and personal schedules.

The estimated base pay range for this job is:

Pay may vary depending on job-related factors and individual experience, skills, knowledge, etc. More information on base pay and incentive pay (if applicable) can be discussed with a member of the Securian Financial Talent Acquisition team.

Be you. With us. At Securian Financial, we understand that attracting top talent means offering more than just a job - it means providing a rewarding and fulfilling career. As a valued member of our high-performing team, we want you to connect with your work, your relationships and your community. Enjoy our comprehensive range of benefits designed to enhance your professional growth, well-being and work-life balance, including the advantages listed here:

Paid time off:

• We want you to take time off for what matters most to you. Our PTO program provides flexibility for associates to take meaningful time away from work to relax, recharge and spend time doing what's important to them. And Securian Financial rewards associates for their service by providing additional PTO the longer you stay at Securian.

• Leave programs: Securian's flexible leave programs allow time off from work for parental leave, caregiver leave for family members, bereavement and military leave.

• Holidays: Securian provides nine company paid holidays.

Company-funded pension plan and a 401(k) retirement plan: Share in the success of our company. Securian's 401(k) company contribution is tied to our performance up to 10 percent of eligible earnings, with a target of 5 percent. The amount is based on company results compared to goals related to earnings, sales and service.

Health insurance: From the first day of employment, associates and their eligible family members - including spouses, domestic partners and children - are eligible for medical, dental and vision coverage.

Volunteer time: We know the importance of community. Through company-sponsored events, volunteer paid time off, a dollar-for-dollar matching gift program and more, we encourage you to support organizations important to you.

Associate Resource Groups: Build connections, be yourself and develop meaningful relationships at work through associate-led ARGs. Dedicated groups focus on a variety of interests and affinities, including:

• Mental Wellness and Disability

• Pride at Securian Financial

• Securian Young Professionals Network

• Securian Multicultural Network

• Securian Women and Allies Network

• Servicemember Associate Resource Group

For more information regarding Securian's benefits, please review our Benefits page.

This information is not intended to explain all the provisions of coverage available under these plans. In all cases, the plan document dictates coverage and provisions.

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*At Securian Financial the internal position title is Infrastructure Dir."

Mission

"To lead the engineering discipline that ensures Securian's technology platforms and cloud services are built and operated with uncompromising resilience, performance, and quality. This role drives the design and automation of fault-tolerant, high-availability architectures across AWS, Azure, and GCP-ensuring the enterprise meets resiliency, scalability, and efficiency expectations at every layer of technology."

Positioning

The Director of Resilience Engineering and Quality Leader is both a strategic peer and technical counterpart to the Infrastructure & Reliability Engineering Leader.

This role provides bench depth and succession coverage for REO's most technically complex domains while driving innovation in reliability, resilience, and performance practices.

• Strategic influence: Shapes cloud reliability, quality engineering, and resilience strategy across REO and Architecture domains.

• Operational authority: Leads Sr. Managers and Managers who own the execution of quality, resilience, and performance engineering capabilities.

• Enterprise collaboration: Works hand-in-hand with Technology, Solution, Business, Data, and Enterprise Architects to embed reliability and resilience as core architecture principles.

Scope of Accountability

Resilience Engineering & Cloud Reliability

• Architect and validate fault-tolerant, regionally resilient architectures across AWS, Azure, and GCP.

• Own resilience automation, chaos testing, and IaC-based recovery validation.

• Lead cross-cloud reliability design reviews and failure-mode analyses for critical systems.

Quality Engineering & Continuous Testing

• Define enterprise-wide quality engineering strategy integrated into CI/CD pipelines.

• Drive automation-first testing (functional, non-functional, performance, resilience).

• Embed observability-driven quality validation and contract testing across services.

Performance, Capacity & Efficiency Engineering

• Oversee predictive capacity planning, scaling automation, and cost/efficiency optimization (FinOps/GreenOps).

• Partner with Platform & Infrastructure teams to tune performance across application and platform layers.

• Measure and report on performance SLIs/SLAs aligned to REO's Reliability Metrics framework.

Cross-Domain Architecture Collaboration

• Partner with Enterprise Architects to codify resilience and reliability standards in technology blueprints.

• Collaborate with Technology & Solution Architects to design service reliability into delivery architectures.

• Engage Data Architects for data resilience, replication, and pipeline reliability.

• Work with Business Architects to align technical reliability goals with critical business outcomes.

Leadership & Talent Development

• Lead a team of Sr. Managers and Managers, fostering a high-performance, hands-on engineering culture.

• Build and mentor top-tier technical talent in cloud reliability, resilience, and quality automation.

• Partner with HR and REO Enablement to develop succession plans and technical competency frameworks.

Core Technical Competencies

• AWS (primary) - Multi-account design, HA architecture, region failover, resilience automation, Terraform/CDK/CloudFormation.

• Azure & GCP (secondary) - Compute, networking, and reliability constructs; hybrid cloud design and failover integration.

• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) - Deep proficiency in Terraform, policy-as-code (OPA/Conftest), drift detection, pipeline integration.

• Reliability & Chaos Engineering - AWS Fault Injection Simulator, Gremlin, steady-state hypothesis design.

• Observability & Quality Automation - OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, CloudWatch, K6, Gatling; CI/CD quality gates and dashboards.

• Performance Engineering - Load, stress, and soak testing automation; performance profiling and SLO alignment.

• Disaster Recovery Automation - Cross-region orchestration, IaC-driven DR runs, replication validation.

• FinOps/GreenOps - Cloud cost and efficiency automation, carbon-aware scaling policies.

Leadership Competencies

• Strategic Technical Leadership: Operates at the intersection of deep engineering and executive strategy.

• Multi-Domain Collaborator: Integrates reliability and resilience across architecture, operations, and business domains.

• Talent Multiplier: Develops and empowers senior managers, fostering engineering mastery and innovation.

• Credible Technical Authority: Trusted peer to Infrastructure & Reliability Engineering; capable of leading architecture reviews and executive briefings.

• Change Champion: Drives transformation of reliability practices across platforms, pipelines, and teams.

Qualifications & Experience

• 12+ years in cloud engineering, reliability, or platform leadership roles.

• 5+ years leading Sr. Managers/Managers in technical domains.

• Proven expertise across AWS, with working knowledge of Azure and GCP.

• Experience with multi-cloud governance, DR design, IaC at scale, and reliability automation.

• Strong understanding of observability, SRE principles, and REO/ITIL-aligned reliability frameworks.

• Certifications:

  • Required: AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional

  • Preferred: AWS DevOps Engineer, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Google Professional Cloud Architect

Success Metrics

• 99.9% availability maintained for Tier-1 workloads.

• 100% coverage of DR automation for Tier-1 services.

• 25% annual increase in automated quality/test coverage.

• 15% annual improvement in resource efficiency and cost performance.

• Documented resilience participation across all enterprise architecture blueprints.

• Positive "technical peer readiness" and succession rating from Head of REO.

Summary Value Proposition

This Director role blends deep AWS reliability engineering expertise, multi-cloud technical breadth, and leadership scale.

It ensures REO maintains both technical depth and leadership redundancy, and it strengthens the bridge between engineering execution and enterprise architecture alignment.

#LI-hybrid **This position will be in a hybrid working arrangement.**

Securian Financial believes in hybrid work as an integral part of our culture. Associates get the benefit of working both virtually and in our offices. If you're in a commutable distance (90 minutes), you'll join us 3 days each week in our offices to collaborate and build relationships. Our policy allows flexibility for the reality of business and personal schedules.

The estimated base pay range for this job is:

Pay may vary depending on job-related factors and individual experience, skills, knowledge, etc. More information on base pay and incentive pay (if applicable) can be discussed with a member of the Securian Financial Talent Acquisition team.

Be you. With us. At Securian Financial, we understand that attracting top talent means offering more than just a job - it means providing a rewarding and fulfilling career. As a valued member of our high-performing team, we want you to connect with your work, your relationships and your community. Enjoy our comprehensive range of benefits designed to enhance your professional growth, well-being and work-life balance, including the advantages listed here:

Paid time off:

• We want you to take time off for what matters most to you. Our PTO program provides flexibility for associates to take meaningful time away from work to relax, recharge and spend time doing what's important to them. And Securian Financial rewards associates for their service by providing additional PTO the longer you stay at Securian.

• Leave programs: Securian's flexible leave programs allow time off from work for parental leave, caregiver leave for family members, bereavement and military leave.

• Holidays: Securian provides nine company paid holidays.

Company-funded pension plan and a 401(k) retirement plan: Share in the success of our company. Securian's 401(k) company contribution is tied to our performance up to 10 percent of eligible earnings, with a target of 5 percent. The amount is based on company results compared to goals related to earnings, sales and service.

Health insurance: From the first day of employment, associates and their eligible family members - including spouses, domestic partners and children - are eligible for medical, dental and vision coverage.

Volunteer time: We know the importance of community. Through company-sponsored events, volunteer paid time off, a dollar-for-dollar matching gift program and more, we encourage you to support organizations important to you.

Associate Resource Groups: Build connections, be yourself and develop meaningful relationships at work through associate-led ARGs. Dedicated groups focus on a variety of interests and affinities, including:

• Mental Wellness and Disability

• Pride at Securian Financial

• Securian Young Professionals Network

• Securian Multicultural Network

• Securian Women and Allies Network

• Servicemember Associate Resource Group

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Overview:

As a Product Owner in Affinity Solutions Technology (AST) you will lead a cross-functional agile team implementing technology solutions for Securian's Affinity Solutions and Securian Canada markets. AST teams demonstrate passion for delivering innovative solutions for clients, customers, and internal partners, driven by creative problem-solving skills, strong collaboration, and analytical abilities.

You need to be passionate about delivering business value through technology while remaining flexible to adapt to evolving and emerging needs. You will partner with stakeholders to define your team's strategy and roadmap, owning your team's prioritization and delivery. You will work closely with your team, other Product Owners, business stakeholders, engineering leaders, and technology partners to deliver solutions using a blend of methodologies.

Responsibilities include but not limited to:

• Partners with the business to build trust and translate operations, customer needs, and technology into impactful digital solutions-resolving trade-offs, managing risks and dependencies, creating and driving product roadmaps with a focus on measurable outcomes, and communicating transparently.

• Maintains a backlog to prioritize work/stories for the team by synthesizing all relevant data, research and any other available information.

• Engages stakeholders through ongoing collaboration to understand evolving customer needs, advocate for the business, and share insights with teams to drive alignment and optimal outcomes.

• Leverages emerging best practices and market trends to drive operational efficiencies and align technology strategies with business goals.

• Uses all available resources (e.g., analytics, reporting, surveys, ethnographic research, qualitative data, usability testing) to understand product performance and customer satisfaction.

• Effectively communicates product value through storytelling, connecting to business/customer impact and engages stakeholders in strategic decisions to optimize outcomes.

• Cross functional understanding of how their work integrates with other business workstreams and initiatives.

• Understands how to leverage team effectiveness metrics (e.g., velocity/cycle time) to drive value.

• Contributes to strategic product decisions by incorporating total cost of ownership and providing input into operating budget planning.

• Participates in governance meetings and communicates technical and business product status and progress with senior leaders.

• Creates product delivery commitments such as service level agreements and BCM plans to support resiliency requirements.

• Engages in product discovery efforts to identify strategic opportunities.

• Proactively develops and demonstrates advanced knowledge of and experience with the technical product(s) and is conversant in the product architecture to drive growth and improve customer experience.

• Directly responsible for implementation, configuration, and/or continuous improvement of a technical product based on value

• Anticipates and identifies new product opportunities to drive value. Provides input and leads the design of meaningful tests and learning opportunities.

• Ensures project delivery is in conformance with company methodologies and standards; leads and provides guidance for project management for initiatives, ensuring business objectives are met and business benefits are delivered.

Qualifications:

• Working knowledge of agile practices. Understands the fundamentals of iterative development, incremental delivery, backlog management, burndown metrics, velocity, and task definition.

• Leadership skills to gain credibility, garner respect, guide the creation of a self-organizing team, being assertive with business priorities and opposing viewpoints while adhering to agile concepts and principles.

• Ability to influence teams to deliver great customer experience without direct authority.

• Working knowledge of Product Management practices.

• Strong communication, facilitation, and interpersonal skills to engage agile team and stakeholders, facilitate discussions, negotiate, and resolve conflict.

• Strong analytical and critical-thinking skills, creative problem-solving skills, and attention to detail.

• Ability to work with minimal direction, flexibility to adapt to shifting priorities and schedules, handle multiple issues simultaneously, and manage stressful situations for self and team.

• Strong knowledge of technology and architectural principles to drive implementation of scalable, maintainable, and resilient solutions.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Proven track record as a Product Owner or individual contributor responsible for value and viability of technology solutions.

• Proven track record working in an agile environment while delivering results based on effective prioritization.

• Experience with stakeholder management and collaboration.

• Ability to quickly learn new domains and adapt to changing business needs.

• Knowledge of product and project and portfolio management best practices.

• Ability to communicate effectively with diverse audiences including executives, customers, and technical teams.

• Experience identifying critical emerging business needs and service challenges and ability to quickly and effectively shift/coordinate resources to deliver immediate impact.

• Proven ability to engage with both individual contributors and leaders of the highest levels in constructive and collaborative relationships.

• Demonstrated results of gaining credibility, gaining respect and building trust, guiding the creation of self-organizing teams and being assertive with business priorities and opposing viewpoints while adhering to agile concepts and principles.

#LI-hybrid **This position will be in a hybrid working arrangement.**

Securian Financial believes in hybrid work as an integral part of our culture. Associates get the benefit of working both virtually and in our offices. If you're in a commutable distance (90 minutes), you'll join us 3 days each week in our offices to collaborate and build relationships. Our policy allows flexibility for the reality of business and personal schedules.

The estimated base pay range for this job is:

Pay may vary depending on job-related factors and individual experience, skills, knowledge, etc. More information on base pay and incentive pay (if applicable) can be discussed with a member of the Securian Financial Talent Acquisition team.

Be you. With us. At Securian Financial, we understand that attracting top talent means offering more than just a job - it means providing a rewarding and fulfilling career. As a valued member of our high-performing team, we want you to connect with your work, your relationships and your community. Enjoy our comprehensive range of benefits designed to enhance your professional growth, well-being and work-life balance, including the advantages listed here:

Paid time off:

• We want you to take time off for what matters most to you. Our PTO program provides flexibility for associates to take meaningful time away from work to relax, recharge and spend time doing what's important to them. And Securian Financial rewards associates for their service by providing additional PTO the longer you stay at Securian.

• Leave programs: Securian's flexible leave programs allow time off from work for parental leave, caregiver leave for family members, bereavement and military leave.

• Holidays: Securian provides nine company paid holidays.

Company-funded pension plan and a 401(k) retirement plan: Share in the success of our company. Securian's 401(k) company contribution is tied to our performance up to 10 percent of eligible earnings, with a target of 5 percent. The amount is based on company results compared to goals related to earnings, sales and service.

Health insurance: From the first day of employment, associates and their eligible family members - including spouses, domestic partners and children - are eligible for medical, dental and vision coverage.

Volunteer time: We know the importance of community. Through company-sponsored events, volunteer paid time off, a dollar-for-dollar matching gift program and more, we encourage you to support organizations important to you.

Associate Resource Groups: Build connections, be yourself and develop meaningful relationships at work through associate-led ARGs. Dedicated groups focus on a variety of interests and affinities, including:

• Mental Wellness and Disability

• Pride at Securian Financial

• Securian Young Professionals Network

• Securian Multicultural Network

• Securian Women and Allies Network

• Servicemember Associate Resource Group

For more information regarding Securian's benefits, please review our Benefits page.

This information is not intended to explain all the provisions of coverage available under these plans. In all cases, the plan document dictates coverage and provisions.

Securian Financial Group, Inc. does not discriminate based on race, color, religion, national origin, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital or familial status, pregnancy, disability, genetic information, political affiliation, veteran status, status in regard to public assistance or any other protected status. If you are a job seeker with a disability and require an accommodation to apply for one of our jobs, please contact us by email at , by telephone (voice), or 711 (Relay/TTY).

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