Senior Associate, Technology Enablement, Business Solutions

New York Life•New York, NY

1d•$100,000 - $143,000•Hybrid

About The Position

New York Life is seeking a Senior Associate, Technology Enablement within the Business Solutions team to help modernize and streamline processes across the small business market. Business Solutions serves business owners and their employees through New York Life’s career agents, delivering employee benefits products as well as strategies to protect and grow small businesses. This individual contributor role sits on the business side of the organization and works closely with New York Life’s technology organization. The Senior Associate helps identify where technology can most meaningfully improve how the business serves agents, business owners, and clients, and then partners across functions to shape those opportunities into well-defined initiatives. This is a highly collaborative role where success depends on strong business understanding, structured analytical thinking, and the ability to work effectively with partners across technology, operations, vendors, and the field. The role suits a motivated professional who enjoys working at the intersection of business and technology, and who is energized by replacing legacy processes with modern, scalable approaches.

Requirements

Experience contributing to technology-enabled business change in a complex enterprise environment.
Strong business acumen and curiosity, including the ability to quickly develop a working understanding of new products, processes, and operating models.
Demonstrated ability to work effectively through influence, driving outcomes with teams over which they have no direct authority.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to work through ambiguity, structure complex problems, and identify practical solutions.
Clear and confident written and verbal communicator, comfortable engaging with stakeholders at all levels, including senior leaders and technology partners.
Working familiarity with how technology gets delivered in large organizations, including SDLC, agile delivery models, requirements definition, and the trade-offs between build, buy, and integrate.
Comfortable operating in a fast-moving environment and managing multiple priorities simultaneously.
Sound judgment, intellectual honesty, and a low-ego, collaborative working style.
Bachelor’s degree required.

Nice To Haves

5 to 7 years of relevant experience spanning business and technology roles, including time spent on technology-enabled change initiatives.
Insurance industry experience strongly preferred; experience in financial services or other complex, regulated industries will be considered.
Experience in employee benefits, group insurance, or the small business market is a plus.
Experience working alongside technology teams on enterprise initiatives.

Responsibilities

Builds strong working fluency in Business Solutions’ products, operating model, customer and agent journeys, and competitive context.
Identifies friction points, inefficiencies, and opportunities where technology-enabled change would create meaningful value for the business.
Documents and translates business challenges into clearly framed problem statements that cross-functional partners can act on.
Supports the definition of technology-dependent initiatives, including scope, requirements, success metrics, and sequencing.
Works with technology partners to validate feasibility, surface dependencies, and evaluate solution approaches such as build, buy, or integrate.
Brings rigor and structure to opportunities before they enter formal delivery, helping ensure initiatives are well defined, properly scoped, and tied to clear business outcomes.
Helps move initiatives forward by coordinating with partners across technology, operations, vendors, finance, compliance, and field stakeholders.
Builds effective working relationships across a complex stakeholder environment and contributes to building consensus without formal authority.
Tracks cross-organizational dependencies and escalates risks, trade-offs, and decision points to Business Solutions leadership in a timely and actionable way.
Serves as a knowledgeable resource to Business Solutions leadership on the technology implications of business decisions.
Prepares clear, well-reasoned analysis and recommendations on where to invest, where to defer, and how to sequence technology work.
Represents Business Solutions’ technology needs in working sessions with enterprise partners and helps ensure business priorities are reflected in technology planning.