Assistant Director/Director of Strategic Innovation, Solaria Labs GRS Incubation

Description

Hiring Manager: Jennifer Krawec

To win in an era of accelerating change, Liberty Mutual must continuously explore emerging trends, rapidly incubate new ideas, and test and scale innovative solutions that meet the evolving needs of those we serve. Solaria Labs is Liberty Mutual’s enterprise-wide innovation incubator, partnering across the company to stay at the forefront of disruption and build new products, services, experiences, and capabilities for our customers, agents, partners, and communities.

 

Within Solaria Labs, the Global Risk Solutions (GRS) Incubation team creates protected space to explore, test, and de-risk high-potential opportunities for the GRS business. We partner closely with leaders and teams across strategy, technology, product, underwriting, distribution, marketing, experience, analytics, applied science, operations, and strategic partnerships. Our work is always evolving in response to customer needs, market signals, emerging technologies, and GRS priorities, giving team members the opportunity to contribute across a changing portfolio of customer-facing, agent-facing, partner-facing, operational, digital, and AI-enabled initiatives.

 

Responsibilities

• Partner with key stakeholders across Liberty Mutual to identify opportunities that are aligned to enterprise-level and/or GRS strategic priorities and have the potential to disrupt our business in the future
• Define incubation opportunities, including hypotheses to test and near- and long-term value
• Design and incubate new products, services, and tools with the goal to generate new learnings and assets to de-risk and accelerate future investments
• Partner with key stakeholders to transfer these learnings and assets back to the core business

 

Example Project

 

Liberty Mutual partners with clients not only to transfer risk but also to mitigate and control risk.  Solaria’s GRS Incubation team recently partnered with GRS Data Science to test a roof health tool providing aerial imagery and roof condition insights to property clients.  We began by creating mockups for clients to react to, then worked with GRS Data Science to adapt an internal tool for client use.  In this role you will have the opportunity to lead similar types of projects.

 

The actual internal level/grade for this role will depend on the candidate’s overall experience and skill level (17-18)

• Assistant Director: $125,300-$176,800. Annual FTO days 
• Director: $142,800-$201,300. Annual FTO days 
• Annual FTO days : Review FTO accrual details

Please note the following expectations for remote employees:

• If you are based in New England, you are expected to come into the Boston office once a week.
• If you are located outside New England, you are expected to travel to Boston quarterly.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 6-8 years relevant work experience required for Assistant Director level
• Minimum of 7-10 years relevant work experience required for Director I level
• Expert skills in Excel and PowerPoint
• This role requires strategic thinking, creative problem solving, business acumen, and technical delivery coordination to shape and incubate innovative concepts
• Understanding of commercial insurance concepts, underwriting process, and financial metrics
• Self-starter who takes the initiative to lead their own projects and can set a vision
• Ability to manage high degrees of complexity and ambiguity
• Strong collaboration / relationship-building skills
• Ability to work EST hours required  

Employees should review all role requirements and apply only for positions for which they are eligible. Hiring processes may vary by country, including differences in procedures, requirements, and timelines.  For country-specific details, please consult your local recruiting / HR team.

Travel

10%