Portfolio Strategy Director

• Facilitate portfolio prioritization and tradeoff conversations. Bring the analysis and frameworks that make roadmap tradeoff conversations productive between product engineering and ultimately business leaders. Help product and engineering leaders make allocation decisions they can confidently defend to the E-Team and the Board including tradeoffs and risks to manage.
• Connect product and engineering work to the financial plan. Articulate how the roadmap connects to meeting our long-term financial goals. Maintain our product and engineering capacity model and use it to define ROI. This is the bridge between what Product defines Engineering builds and what the E-Team/Board see.
• Define the reporting architecture for product and engineering outcomes. Work with engineering and product on what gets measured (quality productivity delivery) how it is framed and when it surfaces from regular operating rhythms to E-Team reviews to Board-level narratives. Build the structures that translate product and engineering data into action not just updates by combining the data with the real-world context and cross-team relationships that produce game-changing insight.
• Partner across functions on major cross-functional programs. You'll have a dotted line to the COO and direct access to E-Team conversations. When a cross-functional tradeoff between Product Engineering Sales or CX needs senior alignment you bring the framing that makes the decision actionable and ensure the right leaders are in the room to resolve. From time to time you will be asked to lead critical initiatives across these teams.

• Has the ability to work from an Applied Systems office or 100% remotely
• Your experience should include some or all of the following:
  • 12+ years combined across product operations business operations chief of staff roles strategy/operations consulting or high-growth SaaS operations
  • High agency. You take ambiguous high-stakes problems and drive them to a decision without waiting to be told how
  • You can build an operating model structure a complex cross-functional analysis and pull together a board-ready deck in the same week
  • Comfortable being the operational and analytical backbone in a room full of engineers product managers and commercial leaders
  • Scrappy enough to pull your own data when the perfect report doesn't exist yet
  • Communicates naturally across audiences: Teammates engineering teams product leaders C-suite
  • You've built the playbook in places where one didn't exist then made it repeatable
  • Genuine curiosity about insurance technology and AI commercialization
  • We know that talent comes from all backgrounds and experience levels. We encourage military members and their spouses as well as candidates without a degree or a background in tech to apply!

What We Do

Transforming the insurance industry is ambitious we know. That’s why at Applied we’re building a team that shows up every day ready to learn willing to try new things and driven to deliver innovative software and services that make us indispensable to our customers – all within a culture built on values that make us indispensable to each other too. At Applied we have a mission and a vision that guide us values that anchor us and a determination to achieve that propels us forward. We push the boundaries of innovation to solve the biggest challenges in insurance – helping us earn the title of indispensable partner from our customers. Our teammates show up as they are creating an authentic environment that fosters collaboration curiosity and connections – and one that doesn’t waste time on the unnecessary confines of corporate bureaucracy or hierarchy. No matter the role or title you have a voice at the table space to work hard and achieve and unending opportunities to be a great teammate.

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