Director of Web Development

Group 1001•Zionsville, IN

10d

About The Position

Group 1001 is a consumer-centric, technology-driven family of insurance companies focused on delivering outstanding value and operational performance. This role is a hands-on technical/design manager responsible for the tactical execution of the web development and UI design team. The Director oversees three Web/UI Developer roles and is accountable for the quality, performance, and brand integrity of all marketing web properties and design systems across Group 1001 member companies. This is a working manager role, not solely a people management position.

Requirements

10+ years of professional web design and front-end build experience with progressive responsibility.
Demonstrated professional experience in the financial services and/or insurance sector.
Demonstrated ability to meet or exceed the Lead Web/UI Developer technical bar.
Expert-level Figma (HARD REQUIREMENT).
Expert-level Webflow for building and governing client-maintainable sites (HARD REQUIREMENT).
Deep design-system experience — building, evolving, governing, and scaling design systems across multiple product lines.
Strong typography, layout, interaction, and visual-design fundamentals.
Experience producing developer-ready Figma files for handoff to engineering teams.
Experience defining and executing SEO and GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) strategy and continuous monitoring.
Experience instrumenting web properties to feed enterprise BI platforms.
Content creation capability — copy, visual assets, campaign artifacts.
Requirements-gathering fluency with business stakeholders (Marketing, Sales, Communications).
Agile environment experience (Jira, User Stories).
Confident, fluent use of AI tools to accelerate design and content work.
Demonstrated technical/design management experience — running a team of 3+ designers.
Demonstrated grounding in software engineering or design concepts and theory — acquired through formal education, professional training, or equivalent industry experience.

Nice To Haves

Prior experience integrating acquired-company web properties during M&A activity.
Insurance, life/annuity, or financial services marketing domain experience, particularly intermediary-distribution channels (IMOs, banks, broker-dealers).
Experience with Contentful, headless CMS architectures, or similar.
HTML/CSS/JS proficiency sufficient to extend Webflow capabilities via custom code.

Responsibilities

Direct people-management of Lead, Senior, and entry-level Web/UI Developers (FTE and contractor mix).
Tactical accountability for sprint-level delivery, design reviews, and visual/UX standards across all web properties.
Support web property and UI design needs across all Group 1001 member companies.
Maintain hands-on design and Webflow contribution on critical-path work, personally conduct design reviews, and prototype design solutions.
Meet or exceed the Lead Web/UI Developer technical bar in Figma, Webflow, and design systems.
Operate in an Agile environment using Jira and User Stories, with AI-assisted design and content expected.
Contribute production-quality design and Webflow build work on critical-path web properties.
Serve as the accountable Product Owner for the applications and web properties in the team's portfolio, including security posture, accessibility compliance (WCAG AA minimum), and regulatory compliance.
Own the architectural health of every application in the portfolio, including business continuity, disaster recovery, data backup, operating-system and runtime version currency, third-party library currency, and timely security patches.
Ensure every team member has access to the correct application development and support tooling.
Own the team's quarterly and sprint-level design and build plans, aligning capacity against committed scope.
Actively participate in Agile sprint planning, backlog refinement, and retrospectives.
Personally vet user stories for design fitness, acceptance criteria clarity, content-readiness, and dependency identification.
Match designers to projects based on skill, brand-fluency, and capacity.
Manage schedules, conduct 1:1s, set goals, conduct performance reviews, make compensation recommendations, and handle corrective action.
Build individual development plans, provide design and technical mentoring, and develop senior and lead designers' craft, design-system thinking, and stakeholder skills.
Own the enterprise design system strategy — governance, contribution model, and cross-member-company reuse.
Oversee the team's SEO and Generative Engine Optimization strategy and continuous monitoring.
Own the team's web analytics and BI feed strategy.
Drive measurable improvements in design throughput, design-to-dev handoff quality, and Webflow build velocity.
Lead the hands-on assessment, re-platforming, and brand-integration of marketing web properties acquired through M&A.
Set and enforce team design standards, accessibility (WCAG AA minimum), brand compliance, and Webflow build conventions.