Director, Agentic Automation
About The Position
The Director of Agentic Automation owns engineering for Distribution and Placement — the systems and agentic workflows that move submissions to market and quotes back to producers. The domain spans the placement layer above the AMSs, agentic application-to-bind, and the producer-facing submission and placement experience. This is a senior leadership role that pairs deep insurance-domain judgement with a clear vision for where AI and agentic automation transform distribution. The Director owns the domain's outcomes end to end: its product direction, its roadmap, its delivery, and its relationship with the business. They lead a group of pods — each with a Tech Lead and engineers who own deep technical design and build — and are accountable for translating business need into systems that measurably move how the business places and binds risk. They set strategy and direction; their pod leads own the architecture and the code.
Requirements
- 15+ years building data- and technology-driven products, with significant leadership in insurance or other complex, regulated industries.
- Deep insurance-domain fluency — underwriting, distribution, placement, MGA/program development, or adjacent — sufficient to own product direction and hold the line with the business.
- Proven track record translating AI, data, and automation capabilities into real products and measurable business outcomes.
- Experience owning a domain, product line, or business end to end, accountable for its strategy and outcomes over time.
- Demonstrated ability to build and lead teams, including standing up capability from scratch and growing high-performing groups.
- Strong technical fluency: able to engage credibly with engineers, reason about architecture and trade-offs, and direct technical teams — while relying on Tech Leads to own deep design and build.
- Demonstrated ability to influence senior stakeholders, including C-suite, carriers, and enterprise partners.
- Comfort operating in ambiguity and high-pressure environments, with a bias to decisive action.
Nice To Haves
- Founder, GM, or P&L experience a strong plus; hands-on experience building with modern AI/agentic tooling highly desirable.
Responsibilities
- Own the Distribution and Placement domain end to end — its product strategy, roadmap, delivery outcomes, and the business relationships that depend on it.
- Set the vision for where agentic automation reshapes distribution and placement, and turn it into a concrete, sequenced roadmap the business can fund and the team can build.
- Own the three-way relationship with the business-side P&L owner and the Delivery Lead — bringing the domain and product reality (what's worth building, what it's worth, what it unlocks) to the prioritisation conversation.
- Lead, grow, and develop the group's pods — currently two, scaling as the domain's scope is confirmed — holding the bar on talent and ensuring the Tech Leads own technical direction within their pods.
- Engage directly with the C-suite, carriers, producers, and senior business stakeholders; commit to outcomes and deliver them.
- Own the strategy and roadmap for Distribution and Placement systems (Sureplace, Leftseat, and the agentic placement/submission flow), and be accountable for their business outcomes.
- Lead the domain's pods, partnering with Tech Leads who own architecture, technical direction, and delivery quality within each pod.
- Shape new initiatives before they enter build — defining scope, success metrics, and the execution approach — so the team builds the right thing.
- Bring deep insurance-domain judgement to product and prioritisation decisions; push back intelligently and hold the line credibly with the business.
- Partner with the Delivery Lead and P&L owner to prioritise the portfolio and protect the team's focus.
- Diagnose delivery and product issues across technical, organisational, and process dimensions, and move decisively to resolve them.
- Stay technically fluent enough to engage credibly with engineers, evaluate trade-offs, and make sound calls quickly — without owning the codebase yourself.
- Engage at senior levels across the organisation to unblock the domain and represent it to the business and external partners.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation
- Generous vacation policy, paid holidays, and paid sick time
- Medical Insurance, Dental Insurance, and Vision Insurance (employee-paid)
- Company-paid Short-Term and Long-Term Disability Insurance
- Company-paid Group Life insurance
- Company-paid Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and Calm App subscription
- Employee-paid Pet Insurance and optional supplemental insurance coverage
- Vested 401(k) with company match and financial wellness programs
- Flexible Spending Account (FSA), Health Savings Account (HSA) and commuter benefits options
- Paid maternity leave, paid paternity leave, and fertility benefits
- Career growth and learning opportunities
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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