Head of Business Architecture and Product Ownership
American Modern Insurance Group · Chicago, IL · 5 days ago
HybridInformation Technology$175k/yrFull-time
Key Responsibilities
- Enterprise Capability Strategy & Business Architecture
- Shape and steward the enterprise capability model and roadmap
- Create clarity and momentum across value streams, workflows, and business processes
- Identify opportunities to simplify, standardize, and scale while preserving specialty insurance expertise
- Serve as a thought leader on capability maturity, operating model design, business architecture frameworks, and transformation priorities
- Product Ownership, Roadmap Governance & Prioritization
- Turn enterprise strategy into actionable priorities, decision guardrails, and roadmap governance practices
- Create, coach, and lead a team of high-performing Product Owners
- Guide roadmap prioritization and sequencing decisions by balancing value, risk, dependencies, regulatory needs, readiness, change capacity, and enterprise trade-offs
- Technology, Data & Platform Enablement
- Partner closely with technology, data, analytics, architecture, and delivery leaders
- Advance data-enabled, scalable enterprise capabilities grounded in business outcomes, operational usability, and sustainable adoption
- Bring forward relevant product, platform, data, automation, and digital trends
- Stakeholder Leadership & Organizational Influence
- Build trusted, productive relationships with AMIG executives, Munich Re stakeholders, business leaders, technology and data partners, product owners, and external partners
- Influence and align cross-organizational teams around shared priorities, practical decisions, and disciplined execution
- Champion KPI-driven decision-making that creates transparency, strengthens mutual understanding, and supports clear alignment on enterprise trade-offs
What We're Looking For
- Seasoned leader with 10+ years of experience in business architecture, product ownership, enterprise transformation, operating model design, technology-enabled business change, or a related discipline
- Bachelor’s degree required; MBA or other advanced degree preferred
- Experience developing enterprise capability models, roadmaps, transformation plans, and governance mechanisms in complex environments
- Exposure to agile delivery, scaled product practices, Lean, DMAIC, portfolio management, project management, or enterprise transformation methods
- A collaborative leadership style with the ability to earn trust, negotiate priorities, and build alignment across business, technology, data, finance, transformation, and executive stakeholders
- A clear communication style with the ability to translate complex business and technical topics into executive narratives, decision materials, and actionable recommendations
- A strong understanding of insurance operations, including policy, underwriting, billing, claims, distribution, and related data and technology capabilities
- A track record of partnering with technology, data, analytics, enterprise architecture, delivery, finance, and change management teams to shape and deliver transformation outcomes
- The ability to build business cases, conduct financial and portfolio analysis, and communicate meaningful trade-offs to executive audiences