Assistant Director, Innovation Strategy & Enablement - Solaria Labs

This is a hybrid position working 2+ days a week in our Boston Headquarters

To win in an era of accelerating change, Liberty Mutual must continuously explore emerging trends and rapidly incubate, test, and scale innovative solutions to meet the evolving needs of those we serve.

Solaria Labs is Liberty Mutual’s enterprise-wide incubation function within the Enterprise Strategy & Innovation organization. We help the company remain at the forefront of disruption by partnering across the organization and incubating new products, services, and experiences to better serve our customers, clients, and communities today and in the future.

Within Solaria, the Insights & Experimentation Enablement (IE2) team serves as connective tissue across the incubation system. We lead competitor and experience research efforts to provide decision‑grade insight to incubation teams, oversee strategic operations for the Lab, and orchestrate enterprise‑wide programming to democratize innovation and enable a culture of experimentation. We bring together expertise in innovation, strategy, competitive intelligence, design thinking, and primary research to create programs, systems, and platforms that help the enterprise think differently and innovate boldly.

This role plays a critical part in helping Liberty Mutual shape innovation decisions, align enterprise learning, and scale experimentation across the organization. In this role, you will help evolve enterprise innovation culture platforms; support, architect, and facilitate strategic workshops; and contribute to cross‑cutting programs that connect strategy, portfolio insights, and executive storytelling.

This role is ideal for someone who combines strong business judgment with growing technical and AI fluency, and who is intellectually curious and comfortable learning new domains, particularly at the intersection of business strategy, technology, and emerging capabilities like AI. You can move fluidly between strategic thinking, front‑line activation, and program design, and you know how to turn workshops and communities into repeatable platforms that translate insight into action.

• Build and scale a cross‑enterprise network of innovation champions that create strategic programming for insight‑sharing, foresight, and enterprise learning.
• Partner across the organization to drive enterprise innovation programming including, the Liberty Innovation Challenge (an enterprise‑wide ideation program reaching 45,000+ employees), internal / external eminence building, and other related initiatives driving a culture of experimentation and amplifying our reputation as an innovation leader.

• Design and facilitate high‑impact strategic workshops & working sessions collaborating closely with business stakeholders to:
  • Reimagine workflows and identify opportunities to accelerate strategic priorities using emerging technologies (e.g., GenAI) to deliver greater value and increased productivity
  • Translate insights into clearly defined use cases for rapid experimentation
• Support and evolve Solaria’s workshop playbooks, archetypes, and facilitation tools, ensuring quality, consistency, and attachment of business context to use cases.

• Support executive reporting, strategic planning, portfolio insights, and enterprise‑level storytelling.
• Help orchestrate department‑wide meetings, cross‑teams learning sessions, and team building & engagement opportunities that build a high‑performing and unified team culture.

• Partner with teammates and leadership on special projects that require structured thinking, stakeholder coordination, and comfort with ambiguity.
• Pilot and refine new tools, frameworks, or practices that make innovation and experimentation more accessible across the enterprise.
• Act as a connector across strategy, insights, innovation, and culture, helping ideas travel further and land more effectively.

• Bachelor’s degree, MBA or advanced degree preferred.
• 6‑8+ years experience of…