If you’re passionate about innovation and love working in an environment where you can constantly improve and adopt new technologies to drive business results, then Nationwide’s Information Technology team could be the place for you! At Nationwide®, “on your side” goes beyond just words. Our customers are at the center of everything we do and we’re looking for associates who are passionate about delivering extraordinary care.

Job Description Summary

Nationwide’s industry leading workforce is passionate about creating technology and data solutions that are secure, reliable and efficient in support of our mission to provide extraordinary care. Nationwide embraces an agile work environment and collaborative culture through the understanding of business processes, relationship entities and requirements using data analysis, quality, visualization, governance, engineering, robotic process automation, and machine learning to produce targeted solutions. If you have the drive and desire to be part of a future forward data enabled culture, we want to hear from you!

As the Emerging Technology leader, you’ll be responsible for providing strategic direction on the planning, potential use cases, initiatives, and investment in new technology solutions to support business goals and objectives. We’ll count on you to look within and outside the company to identify potential new and disruptive technology to support the business strategy and provide a competitive advantage. You’ll be responsible for the management and allocation of the Research & Development (R&D) budget, accountable for the coordinated development of integrated roadmaps across business and technology capabilities to enable a holistic planning process and aligning these roadmaps to our enterprise business strategies to ensure value realization.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities:

Partners in the creation of Technology’s strategy on how emerging technologies can enable Nationwide to meet their business goals.
Responsible for driving change and staying ahead of new technologies.
Partners in the creation of opportunity proposals, business cases, and partner requests to review and implement new technologies.
Oversees the technology adoption governance and process supporting our foundational capability of rapidly reviewing and/or adopting emerging technology.
Conducts a regular cadence of technology scouting with regular scans and engagements across the industry, startup community, universities and research firms to determine implications and needed actions by Nationwide.
Identifies key areas of research and experimentation based upon key inputs, determines allocation of budget and coordinates targeted technology initiatives experiments.
Drives the development, execution, and communication of technology capability roadmaps.
Collaborates with internal and external partners to identify, define, and evolve operational performance measures for strategic and technology priorities, technology innovation, R&D investments, and other related Nationwide’s innovation initiatives.
Leads all aspects of associate management, including performance, salary administration, training, and development, hiring, day-to-day management and corrective actions.

May perform other responsibilities as assigned.

Reporting Relationships:Reports to VP, Innovation & Emerging Technologies. Leads a team of approximately 4-8 direct reports. Will have additional matrix leadership responsibility for technical resources engaged in R&D activities.

Typical Skills and Experiences:

Education: Undergraduate studies in Computer Science, systems analyses or related field. Preferably a Master’s degree in IT management, Business Administration, and/or Organizational Effectiveness.

License/Certification/Designation:Lean Six Sigma or related preferred.

Experience: At least 10 years of technology experience in application development, application maintenance, operations and project delivery.

Knowledge, Abilities and Skills: Proven ability to lead, influence without authority, motivate and drive large and complex organizational changes. Prior experience with large, complex and multi-disciplinary projects. Successfully led organizations through both operational and growth challenges. Deep understanding and experience in implementing Lean and Continuous Improvement practices.

Other criteria, including leadership skills, competencies and experiences may take precedence.

Staffing exceptions to the above must be approved by the hiring manager’s leader and Human Resource Business Partner.

Values:Regularly and consistently demonstrates Nationwide Values.

Job Conditions:

Overtime Eligibility:Exempt (Not Eligible)

Working Conditions:Hybrid to normal office environment. Some travel may be required.

ADA: The above statements cover what are generally believed to be principal and essential functions of this job. Specific circumstances may allow or require some people assigned to the job to perform a somewhat different combination of duties.

Benefits

We have an array of benefits to fit your needs, including: medical/dental/vision, life insurance, short and long term disability coverage, paid time off with newly hired associates receiving a minimum of 18 days paid time off each full calendar year pro-rated quarterly based on hire date, nine paid holidays, 8 hours of Lifetime paid time off, 8 hours of Unity Day paid time off, 401(k) with company match, company-paid pension plan, business casual attire, and more. To learn more about the benefits we offer, click here.

Nationwide is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive culture where everyone feels challenged, appreciated, respected and engaged. Nationwide prohibits discrimination and harassment and affords equal employment opportunities to employees and applicants without regard to any characteristic (or classification) protected by applicable law.

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