CVP, Application Development Manager

Location Designation: Hybrid - 3 days per week 

As part of New York Life Direct, you'll join a team revolutionizing the life insurance experience for AARP members. We're the industry leader in direct-to-consumer life insurance, offering streamlined coverage directly to individuals, bypassing traditional agent models. Your work will directly impact lives by making life insurance accessible, affordable, and understandable for millions of Americans.

This position primarily involves a hybrid work schedule - working remotely: Monday & Friday / on site: Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. 

Role Overview:

• Enhance the Culture of the Agile Team through continuous improvement, fostering collaboration, raising Enterprise awareness, and building trust and transparency. 

• Guide Careers through coaching and mentoring, developing career paths, identifying organizational needs, assist with personal career growth, train and educate. Perform career counseling and personal development. 

• Reward Staff through rewards and recognition, communicating the accomplishments of the team and individuals on the team. Participate in defining and administering compensation, benefits, and promotions. 

• Manage Staff via planning, staffing, onboarding, offboarding, promoting, transferring and all administrative functions associated with managing staff. Evaluate performance, including team input; provide guidance and corrective actions. 

• Work collaboratively with the Team’s Product Owner and Scrum Master to identify opportunities for team development and improving Agile ceremonies. 

• Work with Product Owner, Scrum master and other managers on the team to skill balance to optimize flow.  

• Assist with aligning technology recommendations with business strategies working primarily with the business units.  

• Identify budgetary needs for resources, training, hardware and/or software. 

• Partners with functional groups within the organization to communicate and clarify business needs. 

• Contributes to the development of short-term and long-term business plans and ensures technologies are aligned with business needs.  

• Proactively identifies opportunities to apply technologies to business processes. 

• Listen and support teams in problem identification, root cause analysis, and decision-making. 

• Eliminate impediments and evolve systems and practices in support of Lean-Agile development. 

• Help determine skill balance among team. 

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