Director, Head of Compliance Technology

When you join Met Life’s Global Technology team, you’ll be part of a forward-thinking group dedicated to shaping the future of digital solutions for customers worldwide. You’ll develop, maintain and support technology applications and delivery, leveraging AI, automation, and contemporary ways of working to enhance experiences and drive business outcomes. Your work will simplify complex processes, improve tech resiliency, and ensure high-performing, seamless solutions that power life’s most important moments.

In this dynamic environment, you’ll collaborate with talented peers across teams and functions, expanding your skills in impactful ways. Ready to push boundaries and set new industry standards? Join us and help drive the future of technology forward.

The Director, Head of Compliance Technology, is accountable for technology strategy, product management, delivery execution, and operational performance for the Compliance & Tax technology portfolio. This role serves as the primary technology partner to Compliance and Tax leadership, shaping strategic technology investments, driving business transformation, and ensuring technology capabilities effectively enable regulatory, governance, and operational objectives.

The Director works closely with business executives, enterprise architecture, information security, risk management, operations, and external partners to establish modern, data-driven solutions and effective operating models that improve decision-making, strengthen controls, increase operational efficiency, and support regulatory compliance.

The successful candidate will lead a diverse team of product managers, business analysts, engineers, and delivery professionals while overseeing a portfolio of critical enterprise platforms and strategic initiatives. This leader is expected to balance business strategy, product vision, governance, risk management, vendor management, financial stewardship, and organizational leadership while delivering measurable business outcomes aligned with Met Life's enterprise priorities.

• Define and execute a multi-year technology strategy and product roadmap supporting Compliance & Tax business capabilities, aligned with enterprise priorities and regulatory requirements.
• Act as product portfolio owner for Compliance & Tax technology, ensuring investment decisions are aligned to business value, strategic objectives, and risk management priorities.
• Partner with senior business leaders to shape future-state operating models, identify technology-enabled transformation opportunities, and establish long‑term strategic priorities.
• Drive portfolio prioritization, investment planning, demand management, capacity planning, and value realization across multiple strategic initiatives.
• Establish measurable success metrics and business outcomes for products, ensuring technology investments deliver tangible operational and strategic value.
• Lead product lifecycle governance, including modernization, rationalization, platform optimization, and decommissioning activities.
• Maintain a forward‑looking view of industry, regulatory, and market developments to proactively evolve product strategy.

• Lead multiple product and delivery teams responsible for development, implementation, integration, support, and continuous improvement of Compliance & Tax technology solutions.
• Establish and drive adoption of product management, delivery, governance, and engineering best practices across the portfolio.
• Translate business strategy into actionable technology roadmaps and delivery plans executed across multiple Agile teams.
• Partner closely with Enterprise Architecture, Information Security,…