Director, Group Benefits Data Strategy
Description and Requirements
Join the nation’s largest non-medical carrier of group insurance, where your work will impact over 55,000 customers and cover more than 50 million employees and family members. As part of MetLife’s Group Benefits team, you’ll deliver innovative benefits solutions - life, disability, dental, vision, and voluntary benefits - tailored to today’s employers and workforces. Collaborate with customers, brokers, and partners to expand our offerings and reimagine digital experiences. Join us and be part of an organization committed to supporting customers when they need us most.
- Serve as the bridge between GB and DnA, translating GB business, product, and system knowledge to DnA while helping GB leaders understand data governance and quality.
- Establish shared data definitions and resolve data ownership gaps across business areas, systems, and teams.
- Support Agile Release Trains (ARTs) by helping teams resolve data-related blockers, dependencies, and questions.
- Lead Data Councils to drive decisions, resolve issues, and prioritize data quality improvements based on business impact.
- Drive business outcomes through stronger, more trusted data that improves decision making, service, analytics, and AI readiness.
- 7+ years of experience in Group Benefits or a closely related insurance or employee benefits function.
- Demonstrated ability to resolve ownership, definition, or accountability gaps across teams and systems.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to translate between business and technical audiences.
- Experience working in a matrixed environment and influencing outcomes across multiple stakeholders.
- Ability to build structure, governance, and alignment in ambiguous environments.
- Knowledge of data governance and data quality concepts.
- Experience partnering with enterprise data governance or data management organizations.
- Understanding of how data quality supports AI and analytics solutions.
- Experience supporting Agile teams or Agile Release Trains (ARTs).
- Bachelor’s degree.
Our U.S. benefits address holistic well-being with programs for physical and mental health, financial wellness, and support for families. We offer a comprehensive health plan that includes medical/prescription drug and vision, dental insurance, and no-cost short- and long-term disability. We also provide company-paid life insurance and legal services, a retirement pension funded entirely by MetLife and 401(k) with employer matching, group discounts on voluntary insurance products including auto and home, pet, critical illness, hospital indemnity, and accident insurance, as well as Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and digital mental health programs, parental leave, paid time off, paid holidays, volunteer time off, tuition assistance and much more! For more information regarding MetLife’s U.S. benefits, please click here.
About MetLife
Recognized on Fortune magazine's list of the "World's Most Admired Companies", Fortune World’s 25 Best Workplaces™, as well as the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For®, MetLife, through its subsidiaries and affiliates, is one of the world’s leading financial services companies; providing insurance, annuities, employee benefits and asset management to individual and institutional customers. With operations in more than 40 markets, we hold leading positions in the United States, Latin America, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.
As part of our New Frontier strategy, MetLife is building an AI-enabled, people-centered future. We’re looking for people who bring curiosity, adaptability, and a growth mindset as we use AI to enhance how we serve customers, support communities, and evolve the way work gets done. At MetLife, AI is a responsible partner that supports human judgment, creativity, and continuous improvement while helping us build trust, inclusion, and long-term value.
Our purpose is simple - to help our colleagues, customers, communities, and the world at large create a more confident future. United by purpose and guided by our core values - Win Together, Do the Right Thing, Deliver Impact Over Activity, and Think Ahead - we’re inspired to transform the next century in financial services. At MetLife, it’s #AllTogetherPossible. Join us!
MetLife is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All employment decisions are made without regards to race, color, national origin, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, marital or domestic/civil partnership status, genetic information, citizenship status (although applicants and employees must be legally authorized to work in the United States), uniformed service member or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law (“protected characteristics”).
MetLife maintains a drug-free workplace.
