State Farm · 1 day ago
Technology Director
Phoenix, AZ
Full-time
Onsite
Lead/Staff
$173K/yr - $284K/yrState Farm is a leading insurance company committed to helping people and investing in communities. The Technology Director will lead a team focused on innovative solutions to customer problems, collaborating across departments to prototype and scale solutions within the organization.
Insurance
Responsibilities
Leads and prioritizes broad, complex, and/or enterprise initiatives, shifting team resources to ensure focus on organizational priorities and executing on strategies that impact results
Monitors product metrics and uses data-driven insights to make informed decisions that continuously improve business, financial, and customer experience outcomes
Leverages extensive technical and architecture knowledge to develop and execute strategic plans, resulting in measurable improvements in business outcomes (e.g., increased speed, enhanced quality, improved customer experience)
Establishes and effectively communicates a clear vision and strategy that influences decisions within the area, department, and/or organization
Maintains a strong understanding of the industry’s direction in technology and architecture, proactively integrating relevant and innovative advancements into strategies and initiatives
Collaborates closely with business and senior leadership to define clear goals and establish shared accountability for business and technology outcomes
Promote professional growth through continuous learning, mentoring, and collaboration, ensuring teams possess the necessary skills to meet evolving organizational needs
Demonstrates a strong commitment to workforce, talent development, and succession planning by facilitating talent conversations and ensuring the successful execution of performance management processes
Qualification
Required
Innovation expertise: Ability to create, develop, and implement new ideas and processes
Strategic thinking: Align innovation initiatives with organizational goals and anticipate trends
Strategic Bridge-Building: Fluency in both startup/venture mindset AND traditional insurance operations
Portfolio Management: Balance portfolio across incremental, adjacent, and transformational initiatives (with experience designing funding models that enable experimentation)
Product Management: Experience and understanding of feature prioritization, analytics interpretation, go-to-market timing
Customer-Centric Design Thinking: Deep expertise in jobs-to-be-done, behavioral economics
Rapid Prototyping: Leverages design sprints, MVP methodology, user testing velocity
Process Mining: Identifies automation opportunities through data-driven process analysis
Innovation Metrics & KPIs: Outcome focused, leveraging leading indicators (hypothesis validation), not just lagging indicators
Change Management at Scale: Experience transforming large operations (1000+ FTE impact)
Data-driven decision making: Use analytics to evaluate opportunities and measure outcomes
Advanced Analytics & ML: Not just understanding—championing ML applications in risk assessment and demonstrated ability to implement ML solutions
Alternative Data Integration: Understanding and experience in usage of alternative data sources (telematics, satellite, behavioral) and validation
AI/ML Strategy: Prioritize high-impact use cases, realistic timelines
Omnichannel Architecture: Ability to design solutions that enable seamless digital, mobile, voice, IoT integration
Technology awareness: Understanding emerging technologies and their impact on business models
Empowerment & coaching: Build a culture of risk-taking and ownership
Collaboration: Work across departments and external partners
Empathy: Foster an inclusive and creative culture
Adaptability & curiosity: Comfort with ambiguity and eagerness to explore new ideas
Communication: Skilled at storytelling and influencing stakeholders at Senior Executive levels
Attitude: Optimistic, resilient, and open-minded
Diversity & inclusion awareness: Lead diverse teams and encourage healthy debate
Continuous learning: Commitment to personal and team development
Preferred
Startup experience or proven intrapreneur with scale success and product management credibility
Experience in insurance is highly preferred
Benefits
Get Paid! On top of our competitive pay, you are eligible for an annual raise and bonus.
Stay Well! Focus on you and your family’s health with our robust health and wellbeing programs. State Farm pays most of your healthcare premium, and we offer multiple healthcare plan options, including a high deductible plan. All medical plans provide 100% coverage for in-network preventative care, AND you and your family have access to vision, dental, telemedicine, 24/7 mental health professionals, and much more!
Develop and Grow! Take advantage of educational benefits like industry leading training programs, top-notch tuition assistance programs, employee resource groups, and mentoring.
Plan Ahead! Plan for those big moments in life with benefits like fertility/IVF/adoption assistance, college coaching, national discount programs, interactive monthly financial workshops, free financial coaching, and more. You can also start a savings account or consider financing through our State Farm Federal Credit Union!
Take a Little “You” Time! You will have access to our generous time off policies designed so you can plan around holidays, family events, volunteering, or just to take a relaxing day off. With the opportunity to initially earn up to 20 days annually plus parental leave, paid holidays, celebration day, life leave (40 hours/year), bereavement leave, and community service/education support days, there will be plenty of time for you!
Give Back! We offer several ways to give back through our Matching Gift Program, Good Neighbor Grant Program, and the Employee Assistance Fund.
Finish Strong! Plan for retirement using free financial advisors and a 401(k) plan with company contributions of up to 7% of your salary.
Company
State Farm
At State Farm®, our mission is to help people manage the risks of everyday life, recover from the unexpected, and realize their dreams.
Founded in 1922
10001+ employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
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Alexis Harris
CEO/AGENT
Aquilas Zephir
Owner/CEO at Aquilas Zephir State Farm
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