Director, Engineering - Property & Specialty; P&S) Delivery - USRM Tech

Position: Director, Engineering - Property & Specialty (P&S) Delivery - USRM Tech
Description

USRM Technology is seeking a passionate, transformational Director, Engineering to lead the Property & Specialty (P&S) Delivery portfolio. This organization directly drives the design and build of product capabilities to deliver on aggressive P&S Profit and Growth targets. As Director, you will lead a group of ~150 FTE and contractors, and will bring partners together across domains to launch, roll out, and enhance our products.

You will partner closely with business stakeholders to further accelerate our ambition to grow Property & Specialty while maintaining target profitability. Central to that ambition is to pair lead lines with strong Specialty lines. Your teams will build and deliver the capabilities that make that strategy real for our customers and agents.

You will also play a key role transforming how we deliver. We are re-imagining our product delivery model to materially increase our speed to market for product launches and rollouts. You will be a driving force for AI in our delivery, from spec-driven development to agentic coding, and will build the delivery engine of the future.

The successful candidate will combine strategic business leadership with engineering excellence, influence investment decisions, and deliver lasting business value.

About the role:

Lead:
Serve as a strategic technology leader, coach, and mentor for a high-performing engineering team. Attract and build talent and create an environment where teams can deliver with clarity, accountability, and urgency.

Strategize:
Define and advance the technology strategy, build cross-functional partnerships across domains, and drive operational excellence by optimizing processes and delivery practices to accelerate speed-to-market while maintaining the high quality. Translate business priorities, user expectations, and industry trends into technology strategies that enable growth, profitability, both in the short and in the long term. Analyze, Decide, and Execute:
Use data-driven insights, business cases, engineering metrics, operational health, and risk indicators to make informed portfolio decisions, prioritization, and drive execution. Ensure teams deliver measurable outcomes, modernize critical platforms, improve resiliency and speed to market.
Collaborate:
Build trusted partnerships across USRM Technology, Personal Lines Product, Service, Claims, Billing, Operations, Architecture, and peer portfolio teams to align priorities, remove barriers, manage dependencies, and deliver end-to-end solutions. Balance the needs of multiple stakeholders while ensuring technology decisions remain aligned to business strategy and long-term architectural direction.

Transform:
Support the core Frontier team in shaping and advancing USRM’s multiyear transformational journey to simplify and modernize our product offering, policy capabilities, technology landscape, and ways of working.

External support:
Develop and maintain a network of industry contacts and vendor relationships. Uses insights and contacts to strategically augment our teams to deliver on outcomes with flexibility.

Present and Influence:
Communicate frequently with senior leaders, executives, peers, and cross-functional stakeholders to build alignment around portfolio vision, strategy, investment decisions, tradeoffs, risks, and outcomes. Bring clarity to complex topics and influence decisions across a broad and senior stakeholder group.

AI Fluency:
Actively uses AI tools to improve the speed, quality, and scale of work; can point to concrete workflows where AI adds value; critically evaluates and validates AI-generated output; and applies AI responsibly, protecting confidential and customer data.

Qualifications

Bachelor's or Master's Degree in technical or…