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Guardian is seeking a senior executive with a proven track record leading high performing sales teams to achieve market-leading profitable growth, while building upon a strong culture and focus on developing talent. The Head of Group Benefits Field Sales will be responsible for leading a countrywide field sales organization to execute a profitable growth strategy through ongoing sales and retention.The ideal candidate is passionate about the development of people and teams, continuously identifying opportunities to develop top talent, improving processes, and leveraging technology in the advancement of team capabilities. You will lead, coach, and develop Sales Regional Vice Presidents and segment leaders responsible for developing and executing go-to-market strategies in their markets.The role will collaborate with Group Benefits senior leaders and internal partners to leverage data when delivering on Guardian’s promise to inspire well-being and managing top and bottom-line growth strategies. Success of this role will be largely dependent on creating highly performing teams that are successful at building internal and external relationships and achieving financial and operational results.You Will:<ul> <li>Develop a national sales plan and represent Guardian in the marketplace to achieve financial goals to maximize profitability, growth, retention and increased market share </li> <li>Oversee and maintain diverse, high performing teams by creating a culture with a strong sense of accountability for results, team performance, and change resilience</li> <li>Strive for and champion continuous improvement by creating followership and collaborating with cross functional teams to raise the bar on achieving corporate, financial, and business unit objectives </li> <li>Provide intelligence on national, regional and local market activity including competitor landscape, customer wants and needs, and emerging trends with Group Benefits products</li> <li>Support the general wellbeing of client relationships by ensuring market presence and cultivating strong external relationships with brokers and distribution partners.</li> <li>Formulate short and long-term strategic sales objectives, in line with the overall Group Benefits business strategy, taking into consideration the market and competitive environment.</li> </ul>You Have:<ul> <li>A minimum of 15 years of group benefits sales insurance leadership experience and a demonstrated ability to create long term strategic outcomes and growth. </li> <li>Familiarity and/or experience with Group Benefits products</li> <li>A capacity and orientation to be energized and excited by challenging goals; it is reflected in a true sense of competitiveness and drive for results.</li> <li>Ability to think strategically, drive discipline, and hold teams accountable to achieving results.</li> <li>Ability to work collaboratively and create followership among the sales organization, and to influence across the broader organization to align and enable growth.</li> <li>Demonstrated business acumen with ability to analyze and communicate financial reports, accurately forecast sales results, and control all local expenses.</li> <li>Keen ability to attract and recruit top talent, motivate the team, delegate effectively, celebrate diversity within the team, and manage performance. </li> </ul>Location:<ul><li>Guardian locations</li></ul>Travel:<ul><li>Up to 65% travel</li></ul>Salary: $250,000 ​ The salary reflected above is a good faith estimate of base pay for the primary location of the position. The salary for this position ultimately will be determined based on the education, experience, knowledge, and abilities of the successful candidate. In addition to salary, this role may also be eligible for annual, sales, or other incentive compensation.<h2>Our Promise</h2>At Guardian, you’ll have the support and flexibility to achieve your professional and personal goals. Through skill-building, leadership development and philanthropic opportunities, we provide opportunities to build communities and grow your career, surrounded by diverse colleagues with high ethical standards. Inspire Well-BeingAs part of Guardian’s Purpose – to inspire well-being – we are committed to offering contemporary, supportive, flexible, and inclusive benefits and resources to our colleagues. Explore our company benefits at <a href="http://www.guardianlife.com/careers/corporate/benefits" target="_blank">www.guardianlife.com/careers/corporate/benefits</a>. Benefits apply to full-time eligible employees. Interns are not eligible for most Company benefits. Equal Employment OpportunityGuardian is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to age, race, color, creed, religion, sex, affectional or sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, marital status, disability, military or veteran status, or any other classification protected by applicable law.AccommodationsGuardian is committed to providing access, equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities. Guardian also provides reasonable accommodations to qualified job applicants (and employees) to accommodate the individual's known limitations related to pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions, unless doing so would create an undue hardship. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact <a href="#">applicant_accommodation@glic.com</a>.Current Guardian Colleagues: Please apply through the internal Jobs Hub in Workday

Guardian Life

Head of Field Sales, Group Benefits

<h3> Position Summary </h3> Position Summary As a Sr. GenAI Engineer, you will actively engage in your engineering craft, taking a hands-on approach to multiple high-visibility projects. Your expertise will be pivotal in delivering solutions that delight customers and users, while also driving tangible value for Deloitte's business investments. You will leverage your extensive GenAI &amp; engineering craftsmanship and advanced proficiency across multiple programming languages and modern frameworks, consistently demonstrating your exemplary track record in delivering high-quality, outcome-focused solutions. Recruiting for this role ends on 4.1.25 Work you’ll do <ul> <li> Outcome-Driven Accountability: Embrace and drive a culture of accountability for customer and business outcomes. Develop engineering solutions that solve complex problems with valuable outcomes, ensuring high-quality, lean designs and implementations.</li> <li> Technical Leadership and Advocacy: Serve as the technical advocate for products, ensuring code integrity, feasibility, and alignment with business and customer goals. Lead requirement analysis, contributing to low-level architecture and component design, development, unit testing, integrations, and support.</li> <li> Engineering Craftsmanship: Maintain accountability for the integrity of code design, implementation, quality, data, and ongoing maintenance and operations. Stay hands-on, self-driven, and continuously learn new approaches, languages, and frameworks with significant focus on infusing AI/ML/GenAI where possible/appropriate. Create technical specifications, and write high-quality, supportable, scalable code and review code of other engineers, mentoring them, to ensure all quality KPIs are met or exceeded. Demonstrate collaborative skills to work effectively with diverse teams.</li> <li> Customer-Centric Engineering: Develop lean engineering solutions through rapid, inexpensive experimentation to solve customer needs. Engage with customers and product teams before, during, and after delivery to ensure the right solution is delivered at the right time.</li> <li> Incremental and Iterative Delivery: Adopt a mindset that favors action and evidence over extensive planning. Utilize a leaning-forward approach to navigate complexity and uncertainty, delivering lean, supportable, and maintainable solutions.</li> <li> Cross-Functional Collaboration and Integration: Work collaboratively with empowered, cross-functional teams including product management, experience, and delivery. Integrate diverse perspectives to make well-informed decisions that balance feasibility, viability, usability, and value. Foster a collaborative environment that enhances team synergy and innovation.</li> <li> Advanced Technical Proficiency: Possess deep expertise in modern software engineering practices and principles, including AI/ML/GenAI, Agile methodologies and DevSecOps to deliver daily product deployments using full automation from code check-in to production with all quality checks through SDLC lifecycle. Strive to be a role model, leveraging these techniques to optimize solutioning and product delivery. Demonstrate strong understanding of the full lifecycle product development, focusing on continuous improvement and learning.</li> <li> Domain Expertise: Quickly acquire domain-specific knowledge relevant to the business or product. Translate business/user needs, architectures, and UX/UI designs into technical specifications and code. Be a valuable, flexible, and dedicated team member, supportive of teammates, and focused on quality and tech debt payoff.</li> <li> Effective Communication and Influence: Capable of articulating complex technical concepts clearly and compellingly. Inspire and influence teammates and product teams through well-structured arguments and trade-offs supported by evidence. Create coherent narratives that align technical solutions with business objectives.</li> <li> Engagement and Collaborative Co-Creation: Engage and collaborate with product engineering teams at all organizational levels, including customers as needed. Build and maintain constructive relationships, fostering a culture of co-creation and shared momentum towards achieving product goals. Align diverse perspectives and drive consensus to create feasible solutions.</li> </ul> The successful candidate will have and/or be able to: The ideal candidate will be a dependable team player and mentor, collaborating with cross-functional teams to design, develop, and deploy advanced software solutions. <ul> <li>Understanding and experience in managing big data of various forms to generate insights and create intelligence.</li> <li>Understanding of methodologies &amp; tools like, XP, Lean, SAFe, DevSecOps, SRE, ADO, GitHub, SonarQube, etc. to deliver high quality products rapidly.</li> <li>Excellent interpersonal and organizational skills, with the ability to handle diverse situations, complex projects, and changing priorities, behaving with passion, empathy, and care.</li> </ul> The Team US Deloitte Technology Product Engineering has modernized software and product delivery, creating a scalable, cost-effective model that focuses on value/outcomes that leverages a progressive and responsive talent structure. As Deloitte’s primary internal development team, Product Engineering delivers innovative digital solutions to businesses, service lines, and internal operations with proven bottom-line results and outcomes. It helps power Deloitte’s success. It is the engine that drives Deloitte, serving many of the world’s largest, most respected companies. We develop and deploy cutting-edge internal and go-to-market solutions that help Deloitte operate effectively and lead in the market. Our reputation is built on a tradition of delivering with excellence. Qualifications Required: <ul> <li>Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or related field.</li> <li>6+ years of engineering experience focused in AI/ML</li> <li>2+ years of recent experience in GenAI utilizing technologies such as: OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, LangChain, Agents, Vector databases and approaches like Prompt Engineering, fine-tuning, etc.</li> <li>Limited immigration sponsorship may be available</li> </ul> Preferred: <ul> <li>8+ years of engineering experience focused in AI/ML</li> <li>Prior experience in Python, R, TensorFlow, PyTorch, Keras, Julia, ML libraries, NLP.</li> <li>Prior experience with Angular, React, NodeJS, Python, Streamlit, C#, .NET Core, Golang, SQL/NoSQL.</li> <li>Prior experience with experience with cloud-native engineering, using FaaS/PaaS/micro-services on cloud hyper-scalers like Azure, AWS, and GCP.</li> <li>Prior experience and familiarity with XP, Lean, SAFe, DevSecOps, SRE, ADO, GitHub, SonarQube.</li> <li>Advanced degree (e.g., MS) in computer science, software engineering, or related field.</li> </ul> The wage range for this role takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. The disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled. At Deloitte, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $102,500 to $ 210,600. You may also be eligible to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program, subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors, including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance. Information for applicants with a need for accommodation: Hyperlink: <a href="https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/pages/careers/articles/join-deloitte-assistance-for-disabled-applicants.html" target="_blank">https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/pages/careers/articles/join-deloitte-assistance-for-disabled-applicants.html</a> EA_ITS_ExpHire Recruiting tips From developing a stand out resume to putting your best foot forward in the interview, we want you to feel prepared and confident as you explore opportunities at Deloitte. <a href="https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/pages/careers/topics/recruiting-tips.html" target="_blank">Check out recruiting tips from Deloitte recruiters.</a> Benefits At Deloitte, we know that great people make a great organization. We value our people and offer employees a broad range of benefits. <a href="https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/pages/careers/articles/life-at-deloitte-benefits-and-rewards.html" target="_blank">Learn more about what working at Deloitte can mean for you.</a> Our people and culture Our inclusive culture empowers our people to be who they are, contribute their unique perspectives, and make a difference individually and collectively. It enables us to leverage different ideas and perspectives, and bring more creativity and innovation to help solve our client most complex challenges. This makes Deloitte one of the most rewarding places to work. Our purpose Deloitte’s purpose is to make an impact that matters for our clients, our people, and in our communities. We are creating trust and confidence in a more equitable society. At Deloitte, purpose is synonymous with how we work every day. It defines who we are. We are focusing our collective efforts to advance sustainability, equity, and trust that come to life through our core commitments. <a href="https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/pages/about-deloitte/articles/purpose-at-deloitte-us.html" target="_blank">Learn more about Deloitte's purpose, commitments, and impact.</a> Professional development From entry-level employees to senior leaders, we believe there’s always room to learn. We offer opportunities to build new skills, take on leadership opportunities and connect and grow through mentorship. From on-the-job learning experiences to formal development programs, our professionals have a variety of opportunities to continue to grow throughout their career.

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