Corporate Vice President, Field Experience Chief of Staff

New York Life•New York, NY

12d•$160,000 - $228,500•Hybrid

About The Position

Field Experience plays a critical role in enabling New York Life’s field force to deliver an exceptional experience for clients while building successful, sustainable practices. The organization brings together capabilities, programs, tools, and experiences designed to make it easier for agents and field leaders to engage with New York Life, serve clients, and grow their businesses. Working across Agency and enterprise partners, Field Experience helps translate business strategy and field needs into solutions that improve how agents and field leaders experience the company—from the tools and resources they use to the processes, programs, and support that enable their success. As Chief of Staff to the Head of Field Experience, you will serve as a strategic partner and trusted advisor, helping translate the Field Experience vision and strategy into clear priorities, coordinated action, and measurable outcomes. The Chief of Staff will play a central role in increasing the effectiveness of the Field Experience organization by connecting strategy to execution, creating alignment across priorities, enabling effective decision-making, and driving accountability for results. Working across the Field Experience leadership team and with partners throughout Agency and the enterprise, you will help ensure the organization remains focused on the work that will have the greatest impact on the field and the business. As an extension of the Head of Field Experience, you will maintain an integrated view across the organization, anticipate opportunities and challenges, synthesize complex information and perspectives, and help translate them into clear decisions and actions. You will move fluidly between strategic priorities and hands-on execution, taking ownership of critical initiatives and helping the leadership team operate as an integrated and highly effective organization. Success in this role requires exceptional business judgment, strong strategic and analytical thinking, superior organizational and communication skills, comfort operating in ambiguity, and the ability to influence and build trusted relationships across a complex organization.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience; advanced degree preferred.
10+ years of relevant experience with demonstrated business acumen and experience operating within complex organizations.
Strong understanding of Agency, field distribution, and the needs of agents and field leaders; experience in field-facing, distribution, or related functions strongly preferred.
Demonstrated ability to translate strategy into execution and drive complex, cross-functional initiatives from concept through implementation.
Strong strategic and analytical thinking, with the ability to synthesize complex information, identify implications, and translate insights into clear recommendations and actions.
Exceptional executive communication and presentation skills, including the ability to develop compelling narratives and materials for senior leadership audiences.
Demonstrated ability to work effectively with senior leaders and influence across organizational boundaries without relying on formal authority.
Strong organizational and prioritization skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities, anticipate needs, and maintain focus on both immediate deliverables and longer-term objectives.
Sound judgment and discretion, with the ability to operate independently and make decisions in situations characterized by ambiguity or incomplete information.
Exceptional relationship-building and influencing skills, with the ability to establish credibility and trust across diverse teams, functions, and levels of the organization.
An initiative-taking, adaptable leader who is equally comfortable shaping strategy, solving problems, creating organizational clarity, and rolling up their sleeves to drive execution.
This role requires FINRA licensed and/or FINRA Associated Person pre-hire fingerprinting.

Nice To Haves

advanced degree preferred

Responsibilities

Drive the Field Experience strategic agenda. Partner with the Head of Field Experience and leadership team to translate strategic priorities into actionable plans, establish clear outcomes, ownership, and milestones, and drive progress against the organization’s most important commitments.
Create connectivity across the Field Experience portfolio. Maintain an integrated view of priorities, initiatives, dependencies, and emerging issues across the organization. Identify opportunities for greater coordination and ensure individual efforts collectively advance the broader Field Experience strategy.
Enable effective leadership decision-making. Anticipate issues and opportunities and synthesize business information, field insights, performance indicators, and stakeholder perspectives into clear recommendations, decision points, and actions for the Head of Field Experience and leadership team.
Lead executive communications and strategic storytelling. Develop executive-level presentations, business updates, briefing materials, and other communications that clearly articulate the Field Experience strategy, priorities, progress, outcomes, and emerging opportunities to senior leadership and other key stakeholders.
Drive cross-functional alignment and execution. Build strong partnerships across Agency, the Foundational Business, and enterprise functions to advance shared priorities, resolve dependencies, and ensure coordinated execution. Represent Field Experience in key cross-functional forums as appropriate.
Strengthen connectivity to the field. Help ensure the perspectives and experiences of agents and field leaders inform organizational priorities and decision-making. Partner with appropriate teams to strengthen feedback loops and maintain connectivity between Field Experience strategy and evolving field needs.
Advance organizational effectiveness. Identify opportunities to improve processes, decision-making, and ways of working across Field Experience. Develop and implement programs, tools, and approaches that enable the organization to operate more effectively and efficiently.
Lead critical and emerging priorities. Take ownership of high-priority, cross-cutting, or ambiguous initiatives that require focused leadership, structured problem-solving, and coordination across multiple stakeholders. Flex as needed to address emerging business priorities and opportunities.
Partner across the broader Chief of Staff community. Build strong relationships with Chiefs of Staff and business leaders across Agency and the Foundational Business to create alignment, consistency, transparency, and connectivity across shared priorities.