Actuarial Production Lead - Annuity (Hybrid)
About The Position
The Actuarial Production Lead for Annuities plays a critical leadership role in ensuring the integrity, effectiveness, and continuous evolution of core actuarial production processes. This role goes beyond executing established procedures—it is accountable for deeply understanding the end-to-end production ecosystem, the products and purposes it supports, and the stakeholders it serves. As the Actuarial Production Lead for Annuities, you will act as the connective tissue between process execution, governance, and stakeholder outcomes. You will lead with a mindset of operational excellence, partnering across actuarial, data, and business teams to ensure production processes are resilient, efficient, well-governed, and continuously improving. This role is designed for individuals who thrive on ownership, influence, and making complex systems work better over time. The Annuity Production Lead plays a visible and influential role in ensuring Securian's actuarial and financial outputs are trusted, timely, and continually improving. The role offers the opportunity to: Shape how critical production processes operate today and evolve tomorrow Build strong partnerships across the enterprise Lead meaningful change that improves outcomes for stakeholders and the organization.
Requirements
- Fellow of the Society of Actuaries designation (FSA) or equivalent credentials or experience
- 5+ years of relevant industry experience
- Demonstrated ability to take ownership of complex processes or workflows.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with comfort navigating ambiguity.
- Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Experience leading, mentoring, or influencing others in a professional setting.
- Strong organizational and documentation skills with attention to detail.
Nice To Haves
- Experience supporting actuarial, financial, or data-driven production processes.
- Familiarity with annuity products.
- Exposure to actuarial modeling, reporting, or governance frameworks.
- Experience driving process improvement or control enhancements.
- Familiarity with varying tools and technology: Prophet, Atlas, R, Alteryx, or other actuarial modeling, data, and automation tools that can enable operational excellence and enhance stakeholder engagement.
Responsibilities
- Own the integrity and performance of annuity production processes across both Prophet and Atlas platforms, including upstream data integration, execution, initial output review, and delivery to downstream stakeholders.
- Serve as the accountable leader for annuity production readiness, ensuring processes consistently meet quality, governance, and stakeholder expectations.
- Develop and lead associates supporting annuity production processes, fostering growth, accountability, and a strong sense of ownership across the team.
- Engage with stakeholders and partners to understand broader objectives, dependencies, and opportunities—bringing a systems-level perspective beyond immediate responsibilities.
- Continuously drive operational excellence, identifying and delivering improvements that increase efficiency, reduce risk, strengthen controls, and enhance stakeholder value.
- Balance strong product and model understanding with process expertise, ensuring production processes are fit for purpose without being the ultimate subject matter expert.
- Chair our Actuarial Model Standards committee, championing model governance and best practices across the organization, ensuring alignment with actuarial standards and enterprise expectations.
- Model and reinforce a culture of accountability, curiosity, and continuous improvement within the team and across partnerships.
- Own and maintain clear, accurate, and actionable production process documentation.
- Review and assess production processes to identify risks, inefficiencies, and improvement opportunities.
- Lead baseline testing efforts to establish confidence in production outcomes and process stability.
- Design and develop testware, tooling, and controls that strengthen understanding and transparency of models, data, and results.
- Facilitate retrospectives and continuous improvement forums, translating lessons learned and identified opportunities into tangible enhancements.
- Ensure effective alignment with actuarial governance policies, controls, and best practices.
- Partner across teams to proactively address emerging issues, dependencies, or changes impacting production.
- Seek out and contribute to opportunities beyond immediate scope that support broader team and partner objectives as well as personal growth.
Benefits
- Paid time off
- Leave programs: parental leave, caregiver leave for family members, bereavement and military leave.
- Nine company paid holidays.
- Company-funded pension plan
- 401(k) retirement plan with company contribution up to 10 percent of eligible earnings, with a target of 5 percent.
- Medical, dental and vision coverage from the first day of employment.
- Volunteer paid time off
- Dollar-for-dollar matching gift program
- Associate Resource Groups (ARGs) for Mental Wellness and Disability Pride, Young Professionals Network, Multicultural Network, Women and Allies Network, and Servicemember.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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