About the Role
The Director of Agentic Automation owns engineering for Distribution and Placement systems, including agentic workflows that move submissions to market and quotes back to producers. This senior leadership role combines insurance domain expertise with a vision for AI and agentic automation in distribution, owning the domain's outcomes from product direction to delivery and business relationships. The Director leads engineering pods, translating business needs into systems that improve risk placement and binding.
Responsibilities
- Own the Distribution and Placement domain end to end, including product strategy, roadmap, delivery outcomes, and business relationships.
- Set the vision for agentic automation in distribution and placement, creating a sequenced roadmap.
- Manage the relationship with business-side P&L owners and Delivery Leads, contributing domain and product reality to prioritization.
- Lead, grow, and develop the group's pods, ensuring Tech Leads own technical direction.
- Engage with C-suite, carriers, producers, and senior business stakeholders to commit to and deliver outcomes.
- Own the strategy and roadmap for Distribution and Placement systems (Sureplace, Leftseat, and the agentic placement/submission flow).
- Lead the domain's pods, partnering with Tech Leads on architecture, technical direction, and delivery quality.
- Shape new initiatives by defining scope, success metrics, and execution approach.
- Apply insurance-domain judgment to product and prioritization decisions.
- Partner with Delivery Lead and P&L owner to prioritize the portfolio and protect team focus.
- Diagnose and resolve delivery and product issues across technical, organizational, and process dimensions.
- Maintain technical fluency to engage credibly with engineers, evaluate trade-offs, and make sound decisions.
- Engage at senior levels across the organization to unblock the domain and represent it.
Requirements
- 15+ years building data- and technology-driven products, with significant leadership in insurance or other complex, regulated industries.
- Deep insurance-domain fluency (underwriting, distribution, placement, MGA/program development, or adjacent).
- Proven track record translating AI, data, and automation capabilities into real products and measurable business outcomes.
- Experience owning a domain, product line, or business end to end, accountable for its strategy and outcomes.
- Demonstrated ability to build and lead teams, including standing up capability from scratch and growing high-performing groups.
- Strong technical fluency to engage credibly with engineers, reason about architecture and trade-offs, and direct technical teams.
- Demonstrated ability to influence senior stakeholders, including C-suite, carriers, and enterprise partners.
- Comfort operating in ambiguity and high-pressure environments, with a bias to decisive action.
- Founder, GM, or P&L experience a strong plus.
- Hands-on experience building with modern AI/agentic tooling highly desirable.
- Final candidates will be required to complete post-offer verification processes.
Skills
- AI
- Agentic automation
- Product strategy
- Roadmap development
- Delivery management
- Business relationship management
- Team leadership
- Technical direction
- Architecture
- Insurance domain knowledge
- Data-driven product development
- Technology leadership
Location
- On-site
Work Type
- On-site
Experience Level
- 15+ years of experience
- Senior leadership
Salary/Compensations
- $245,000 - $287,000
Benefits
- Competitive compensation
- Generous vacation policy
- Paid holidays
- Paid sick time
- Medical Insurance (employee-paid)
- Dental Insurance (employee-paid)
- Vision Insurance (employee-paid)
- Company-paid Short-Term Disability Insurance
- Company-paid Long-Term Disability Insurance
- Company-paid Group Life insurance
- Company-paid Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Company-paid Calm App subscription
- Employee-paid Pet Insurance
- Optional supplemental insurance coverage
- Vested 401(k) with company match
- Financial wellness programs
- Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
- Health Savings Account (HSA)
- Commuter benefits options
- Paid maternity leave
- Paid paternity leave
- Fertility benefits
- Career growth and learning opportunities
About the Company
- Acrisure is a global fintech leader empowering ambitious businesses and individuals with customized solutions that drive growth and impact.
- We combine cutting-edge technology with expert human support to deliver tailored insurance, reinsurance, payroll, benefits, cybersecurity, mortgage services, and more.
- In the last twelve years, Acrisure has grown from $38 million in revenue to nearly $5 billion and now employs more than 19,000 colleagues across 20+ countries.
- Built on entrepreneurial spirit, we prioritize leadership, accountability, and collaboration — equipping our teams to work at the highest levels and solve meaningful challenges.
- Making a lasting impact on the communities it serves, Acrisure has pledged more than $22 million through its partnerships with Corewell Health Helen DeVos Children's Hospital in Grand Rapids, Michigan, UPMC Children's Hospital in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Blythedale Children's Hospital in Valhalla, New York.
Equal Opportunity
- Acrisure is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
- We consider qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.
- Applicants may request reasonable accommodation by contacting leaves@acrisure.com.
- Acrisure also provides reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities or based on a sincerely held religious belief, in accordance with applicable laws.
- We recruit, hire, employ, train, promote, and compensate individuals based on job-related qualifications and abilities.
- Acrisure also has a longstanding policy of providing a work environment that respects the dignity and worth of each individual and is free from all forms of employment discrimination.
