Director, Enterprise Analytics Data Products

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The annual base salary range for this position is a nationwide market range and represents a broad range of salaries for this role across the country. The actual salary will be determined by a number of factors, including scope, complexity and location of the role; the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate; and other conditions of employment. As part of our comprehensive compensation and benefits program, employees are also eligible for performance‑based cash incentive awards.

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Our Enterprise Analytics Data Products Team is seeking a Director to lead a data engineering team delivering enterprise data & analytics capabilities in an agile way. In this position, you will act as a voice of the end‑user to guide the day‑to‑day work of the team, focusing on achievement of defined outcomes versus defining how the work is completed. As a leader of an agile team, you will partner closely with business leaders from multiple lines of business, architects, and data engineers to deliver an Enterprise Customer Data Asset.

The Travelers Data Engineering team constructs real‑time data pipelines that contextualize and provide easy access to data by the entire enterprise. As a team lead, you will play a key role in ensuring a ready backlog of work so that the team can continue to build and expand analytic data products that support enterprise‑level insights of our customers as they happen.

To be successful in this role, you need to have experience leading delivery and ownership of technology data & analytics assets, be comfortable engaging with numerous teams across the enterprise, and manage engineering work in cloud technologies. Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the US. The company does not sponsor or support H‑1B petitions, TN, or STEM OPT.

• Define, prioritize, and ensure a ready backlog of work for a cross‑functional product team, accept final product output, and focus on achieving defined outcomes rather than dictating how the work is completed.
• Effectively manage a backlog of deliverables and capabilities, including test‑and‑learn experimentation to define and refine future deliverables, measure performance, and adjust the overall roadmap.
• Translate business strategies and needs into execution‑ready work for an agile product team; define team goals and strategy, ensuring alignment with the circle and value‑stream vision; articulate team goals and strategy to key stakeholders, circle leads, and team members.
• Act as the voice of the end‑user; deeply understand, anticipate, and proactively seek customer feedback to ensure needs and requirements are clearly defined; ensure team work meets defined acceptance criteria.
• Own team backlog, including prioritization and refinement; make trade‑off decisions to maximize value.
• Optimize flow of value by setting objectives and key performance indicators (KPIs) for solutions.
• Inform and participate in business readiness; understand the impact of change, translate the approach to manage adoption, and mitigate resistance.
• Provide feedback on work‑in‑progress, clarify requirements, and contribute to removing roadblocks or impediments; seek opportunities for continuous team and process improvement.
• Partner with key leaders and peers across the organization to determine resources required to achieve defined business outcomes.
• Share best practices across teams to ensure alignment and consistency in ways of working within a value stream.
• Foster an innovative, inclusive, and diverse team environment that promotes positive culture, collaboration, and self‑organization.
• May manage team leads.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

• Bachelor’s degree preferred.
• Two…