Goosehead Insurance · 3 months ago
AI Program Manager
Westlake
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
5+ years expGoosehead Insurance is a leading insurance agency seeking an AI Program Manager to drive analytics transformation initiatives. The role involves leading projects from discovery to production, aligning teams, and ensuring business readiness for analytics products.
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Responsibilities
Lead end-to-end delivery of analytics transformation initiatives, guiding projects through the full stage gate process from discovery to production
Serve as the strategic orchestrator and translator—aligning data science, engineering, and business teams around shared goals, timelines, and deliverables
Translate high-level business challenges into clearly scoped analytics use cases, with defined success criteria and measurable KPIs
Partner with stakeholders to design and run stage gates, ensuring that each project milestone includes structured assessments, go/no-go decisions, and learnings incorporated into design
Establish and institutionalize measurement frameworks that evaluate business value creation at each phase of an analytics initiative
Manage project backlogs, intake pipelines, and prioritization frameworks to focus on high-impact analytics opportunities
Build and communicate compelling transformation narratives, leveraging visualization, storytelling, and executive-ready documents that drive engagement and decision making
Ensure business readiness for analytics products in production—including training, process integration, and stakeholder support
Coach teams through common analytics project challenges such as ambiguous problem framing, data limitations, or unclear business buy-in
Stay current with industry best practices in analytics enablement, data governance, and program management
Qualification
Required
5+ years of experience in analytics transformation, analytics consulting, or managing cross-functional data science initiatives
Experience in a high-performing consulting, transformation, or enterprise program management environment with strong stakeholder and project ownership responsibilities
Track record of owning analytics programs from concept to operational deployment, including experience with structured stage gate or tollgate processes
Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, Computer Science, Economics, or a related quantitative field; Master's degree preferred
Proven ability to lead analytics initiatives in a transformation setting, with clear structure, governance, and outcomes
Strong familiarity with stage gate methodologies, program road mapping, and cross-functional coordination
Fluency in technical concepts such as machine learning, experimentation, data architecture, and model deployment—though not necessarily a hands-on builder
Proficiency in SQL and data visualization tools (e.g., Tableau)
Excellent communication, facilitation, and executive storytelling skills; able to clearly explain technical outcomes to non-technical leaders
Experience creating and managing project scorecards, KPIs, and dashboards that reflect real-time progress and value capture
Demonstrated ability to manage cross-functional teams without direct authority and deliver under tight deadlines
Preferred
Experience in highly regulated industries, ideally insurance or financial services
Familiarity with cloud data environments and tooling (e.g., AWS, Azure, Databricks, Snowflake)
Exposure to LLMs, NLP, or advanced ML model lifecycle (design, testing, deployment)
Understanding of organizational change management and how to embed analytics into operating models
Benefits
High quality voluntary health, vision, disability, life, and dental insurance programs
401K Matching Plan
Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Paid holidays, vacation, and sick leave
Corporate sponsored programs to enhance employee physical, financial, mental, and emotional wellness
Financial Solution Program
Company
Goosehead Insurance
Goosehead Insurance is a growing personal lines insurance agencies in the country.
0-1 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$300M2025-01-09Post Ipo Debt· $300M
2018-04-26IPO
Leadership Team
David Lakamp
Chief Service Officer
Ryan Frain
Agency Partner/Broker
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