Director, Life Business & Market Enablement | Hybrid

About the role

The Director, Life Business Profile & Market Enablement plays a crucial role in guiding the expansion of Allianz Life's Life business. This role collaborates closely with the Life End-to-End Leader, Life Product Manager, and Strategy teams to drive growth while maintaining a sustainable and strategic approach.

Responsibilities

• Help define and refine the intended Life business profile, including positioning, operation, and experience.
• Audit initiatives and decisions to ensure they align with a coherent and sustainable business model.
• Identify growth opportunities and develop plans to activate these opportunities.
• Utilize artificial intelligence tools and resources to enhance decision-making processes.
• Evaluate the sequence and pacing of Life initiatives to ensure readiness across various functions.
• Highlight dependencies, prerequisites, and second-order effects that influence outcomes.
• Champion changes required across stakeholders to translate strategy into action.
• Bring an external, experience-based perspective to inform current decisions.
• Evaluate proposals and concepts through a combined lens of market receptivity, implementation complexity, and operational sustainability.
• Flag areas where additional preparation, simplification, or alignment may be needed before execution.
• Serve as a trusted thought partner to Life leadership in key discussions.
• Contribute to discussions by providing perspective that helps surface assumptions, clarify tradeoffs, and support confident decision-making.

Requirements

12+ years of experience in life insurance, with meaningful exposure to Permanent/Universal Life Insurance products.

Prior roles with business-level responsibility or influence, such as carrier leadership roles informing product, market, or operating decisions, or market-facing or intermediary-adjacent roles with insight into adoption dynamics.

Demonstrated ability to apply experience and judgment to complex, cross-functional decisions.

Proven credibility working with senior leaders as a thought partner and advisor.

Qualifications

Must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. without requiring immigration sponsorship now or in the future.

This includes holders of H-1B, H4, L-1, L-2, TN, OPT, CPT, and other nonimmigrant visas.

Skills

Experience in life insurance, particularly in Permanent/Universal Life Insurance products.

Business-level responsibility or influence in carrier roles or market-facing/intermediary-adjacent roles.

Ability to apply experience and judgment to complex, cross-functional decisions.

Credibility working with senior leaders as a thought partner and advisor.

Benefits

Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plan options.

Flexible spending and health savings accounts.

Tuition reimbursement.

Student loan retirement program.

Generous annual paid leave.

Award-winning campus with discounted amenities.

Outstanding 401(k) company match.

Life insurance.

Employee Resource Groups fostering a fair, caring, and inclusive environment.

Equal opportunities for all, regardless of race, ethnicity, age, gender, nationality, religion, social class, disability, or sexual orientation.