Strategic Innovation Director
USAA
San Antonio, Texas
director
financial
management
agile
director
viability
design
incubation
leadership
team
delivers
business partners
executive management
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October 3, 2022
USAA
San Antonio, Texas
Purpose of Job
- Identifies and manages existing and emerging risks that stem from business activities and the job role.
- Ensures risks associated with business activities are effectively identified, measured, monitored, and controlled.
- Follows written risk and compliance policies, standards, and procedures for business activities.
- Conducts quality reviews and observes team members in the development and delivery of their work; delivers coaching and on the job training; leads team in resolution of project level challenges.
- Identifies strategic business opportunities and exercises a disciplined thought process to evaluate the problem statement and possible solutions.
- Delivers a work product which is a qualified concept with a formal recommendation to Strategy partners to pursue or not pursue.
- Determines and launches the incubation approach through experiments to test assumed business value for new opportunities (technology, channel, etc...), which includes coordination with internal business partners and securing funding.
- Assesses feasibility and viability by evaluating whether the concept is technically and legally possible, and within realm of affordability.
- Tests for market need and interest.
- May serve as a process owner for business deliverable.
- Serves as a consultant to executive management on innovation issues. Assists unit director with managing workloads and resource planning; coordinates executive level communications.
- Bachelor's degree OR 4 additional years of related experience beyond the minimum required.
- 8 years of experience in a business and/or staff function such as property and casualty, banking, or financial services that includes 4 years of experience leading and launching innovative solutions, leading wide-ranging, diverse, and matrixed functional roles, managing IT backlogs and releases, and/or executing effective solutions against a problem set.
- Demonstrated problem solving abilities, experience with human centered design practices, agile, or a lean start-up project approach
- Detail oriented with a strong ability to manage and execute multiple competing projects across multiple CoSA s, business areas or external parties.
- Demonstrated ability to influence stakeholders from all levels of executive management an on an Enterprise-wide basis.
- Advanced knowledge of project-based methodologies such as Agile, Lean Start Up, Scrum, Portfolio Management, and tools such as Jira, Asana, Tableau, Salesforce, Rally, and Clarity.
- Ability to effectively connect cross-functionally throughout the organization
- Subject matter expert level of business acumen in the areas of business operations, industry practices and emerging trends.
- At least 3 years experience leading development teams
- 3 or more years experience collaborating with experts to align business capability with technical and information needs
- At least 3 years of experience tracking and measuring key metrics and KPIs
- At least 3 years consulting and helping to develop budget plans and ROI
- At least 3 years of proven experience presenting to executive leadership and business partners, influencing creative and proactive solutions for key risks, priorities, and trends
- 3 or more years of leading communication strategies to proactively identify business priorities.
- At least 3 years experience working in a strategic planning agile environment
- 3 or more years experience leading matrixed teams to achieve a desired business result
- Demonstrated subject matter expert of Labs products and services
- At least 3 years developing innovative strategies to support lines of business and staff agencies
- Geographical Differential: Geographic pay differential is additional pay provided to eligible employees working in locations where market pay levels are above the national average. Shift Premium will be addressed on an individual-basis for applicable roles that are consistently scheduled for non-core hours.
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