Assistant Director/Director of Strategic Innovation, Solaria Labs GRS Incubation

Liberty Mutual Insurance•Boston, MA

2d•$125,300 - $201,300•Hybrid

About The Position

To win in an era of accelerating change, Liberty Mutual must continuously explore emerging trends, rapidly incubate new ideas, and test and scale innovative solutions that meet the evolving needs of those we serve. Solaria Labs is Liberty Mutual’s enterprise-wide innovation incubator, partnering across the company to stay at the forefront of disruption and build new products, services, experiences, and capabilities for our customers, agents, partners, and communities. Within Solaria Labs, the Global Risk Solutions (GRS) Incubation team creates protected space to explore, test, and de-risk high-potential opportunities for the GRS business. We partner closely with leaders and teams across strategy, technology, product, underwriting, distribution, marketing, experience, analytics, applied science, operations, and strategic partnerships. Our work is always evolving in response to customer needs, market signals, emerging technologies, and GRS priorities, giving team members the opportunity to contribute across a changing portfolio of customer-facing, agent-facing, partner-facing, operational, digital, and AI-enabled initiatives.

Requirements

Minimum of 6-8 years relevant work experience required for Assistant Director level
Minimum of 7-10 years relevant work experience required for Director I level
Expert skills in Excel and PowerPoint
This role requires strategic thinking, creative problem solving, business acumen, and technical delivery coordination to shape and incubate innovative concepts
Understanding of commercial insurance concepts, underwriting process, and financial metrics
Self-starter who takes the initiative to lead their own projects and can set a vision
Ability to manage high degrees of complexity and ambiguity
Strong collaboration / relationship-building skills
Ability to work EST hours required

Responsibilities

Partner with key stakeholders across Liberty Mutual to identify opportunities that are aligned to enterprise-level and/or GRS strategic priorities and have the potential to disrupt our business in the future
Define incubation opportunities, including hypotheses to test and near- and long-term value
Design and incubate new products, services, and tools with the goal to generate new learnings and assets to de-risk and accelerate future investments
Partner with key stakeholders to transfer these learnings and assets back to the core business