Principal, Strategic Planning & Integration

At Allstate, great things happen when our people work together to protect families and their belongings from life’s uncertainties. And for more than 90 years, our innovative drive has kept us a step ahead of our customers’ evolving needs. From advocating for seat belts, air bags and graduated driving laws, to being an industry leader in pricing sophistication, telematics, and, more recently, device and identity protection. 

• Key Responsibilities Lead coordinated planning and execution at scale - Lead Planning & Integration across CEP in environments with a high number of distributed product teams, partnering with digital products teams to ensure backlogs are sequenced when needed and consumable across domains (e.g., infrastructure as code transformation or large-scale efforts like large vendor exit requiring coordinated movement across infrastructure, platforms, and product teams).  Accelerating delivery on critical outcomes.
• Strengthen product partnership and customer signal curation - Partner with Digital Product Managers to support how the voice of the customer is captured, shaped, and reflected in CEP priorities—particularly in the absence of a business architect construct. Streamline engagement to reduce repeated asks and fragmented input across initiatives.
• Elevate workforce planning and future readiness - Align workforce planning and capability development by aligning future skill needs and organizational capacity to expected demand, reducing reactive hiring and improving long-term scalability. Influencer stewardship, specialized onboarding bootcamps/spark zones for infra.
• Align strategic vendor engagement to enterprise priorities - Support engagement and alignment with key strategic external partners against ATS priorities, ensuring clarity of expectations and value delivery.
• Shapes a clear consistent strategic narrative that connects directly to enterprise value - Curate clear, consistent storytelling of CEP strategy, progress, and impact across OKR tracking, ORCC, and board-level materials—ensuring alignment between what is happening and how it is communicated externally.

• →This job has supervisory duties.

• Bachelor's degree is preferred or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 10+ years of progressive experience leading strategic initiatives within complex technology-driven organizations, with expertise in industries undergoing large-scale digital transformation, such as financial services, insurance, technology, consulting, or other highly regulated environments.
• Enterprise Strategic Planning & Execution: Demonstrated ability to develop and operationalize enterprise technology strategies, translating complex business objectives into actionable plans that drive measurable organizational outcomes.
• Executive Influence & Organizational Leadership: Proven success in building alignment and influencing senior leaders and cross-functional stakeholders in complex environments, driving decisions and results without direct authority.
• Technology & Product Partnership Experience: Strong understanding of technology and product operating models, with experience partnering across engineering, product, and business teams to prioritize initiatives and deliver strategic value.
• Strategic Storytelling & Communications: Exceptional ability to synthesize complex information into clear, compelling narratives and executive communications that inform decision-making and inspire organizational alignment.

• Creates a single point of strategic integration across core engineering platforms.
• Connects executive priorities to delivery realities across complex environments.
• Reduces fragmentation, duplication, and competing asks across teams.
• Improves speed of execution by aligning dependencies, decisions, sequencing, and stakeholder engagement.
• Strengthens confidence that critical outcomes are being actively steered.

As CEP continues to scale across distributed product domains, this role brings cohesion to how we work across product teams, sequence backlogs that impact on our customers, and reduce duplication across efforts. It also elevates how we capture customer needs and consistently represent CEP strategy and impact across conversations such as OKR Reviews, ORCC, and board-level discussions.

• People Leadership & Talent Development: Track record of building, developing, and leading high‑performing large organizations; establishes clear decision rights, accountability, and operating cadence while developing future leaders and succession pipelines.
• Operational Expertise: Brings strong operational expertise, with a proven ability to optimize processes, drive execution against strategic outcomes, and deliver consistent, high-quality results across complex environments.
• Strategic Thinking & Innovation: Demonstrates strong strategic thinking and problem-solving skills, with the ability to assess complex business challenges, identify innovative solutions, and drive continuous improvement initiatives. Applies forward-looking insights and analytical rigor to optimize processes, enhance performance, and support long-term organizational objectives.
• Business Acumen & Analytical Rigor: Advanced business acumen with strong analytical skills; uses data, insights, and technology fluency to inform decisions and foster a culture of disciplined execution.
• Innovation & Process Orientation: Natural process innovator with strong learning agility and a continuous‑improvement mindset.
• Influence: Proven capability to successfully influence decision-makers and collaborators at all levels - upward, downward, and laterally.  Able to build alignment, negotiate effectively, and drive outcomes without relying solely on positional authority.
• Change Leadership: Proven ability to lead large, multi‑location teams through significant changes, including business transformations, systems implementations, and organizational integrations.

The preceding description is not designed to be a complete list of all duties and responsibilities. May be required to perform other related duties as assigned. Regular, predictable attendance is an essential function of this job.

The Allstate Corporation is one of the largest publicly held insurance providers in the United States. Ranked No. 84 in the 2023 Fortune 500 list of the largest United States corporations by total revenue, The Allstate Corporation owns and operates 18 companies in the United States, Canada, Northern Ireland, and India. Allstate India Private Limited, also known as Allstate India, is a subsidiary of The Allstate Corporation. The India talent center was set up in 2012 and operates under the corporation's Good Hands promise. As it innovates operations and technology, Allstate India has evolved beyond its technology functions to be the critical strategic business services arm of the corporation. With offices in Bengaluru and Pune, the company offers expertise to the parent organization’s business areas including technology and innovation, accounting and imaging services, policy administration, transformation solution design and support services, transformation of property liability service design, global operations and integration, and training and transition.

Learn more about Allstate India here.