Jobs at Nationwide

Provides hands-on administration and production support for data governance platforms, including upgrades, integrations, automation, access management, monitoring, incident response, and AWS-based engineering. Responsibilities include capacity management, secure software practices, system maintenance, disaster recovery, backups, release and change management, root-cause analysis, and continuous environment improvement. The role collaborates across engineering, security, data governance, product, vendors, and business teams.

Conducts complex risk assessments for senior living accounts, focusing on professional liability and abuse exposures. Advises clients on controls, policies, procedures, regulatory compliance, and loss prevention. Develops training and risk-management resources, partners with underwriting and agents, prepares technical reports, and delivers presentations. The role requires strong senior living and insurance risk expertise, client consulting skills, field assessments, and occasional to frequent travel.

Leads Nationwide’s corporate development agenda, including mergers and acquisitions, strategic investments, partnerships, valuation, due diligence, negotiation, closing, integration, and value realization. Advises senior leaders on inorganic growth opportunities, coordinates internal and external stakeholders, manages investment banking and advisory relationships, and develops high-performing corporate development teams.

Leads Nationwide’s corporate development agenda, including mergers and acquisitions, strategic investments, partnerships, valuation, due diligence, negotiation, transaction approval, integration, and value realization. Advises senior leaders, coordinates internal and external stakeholders, manages relationships with financial and strategic advisors, and develops high-performing corporate development teams. The role requires extensive experience in complex transactions, financial modeling, valuation, negotiation, integration, executive communication, and people leadership.

Leads annuity valuation and reporting across Statutory and US GAAP/LDTI accounting bases. Oversees reserves, capital, earnings emergence, modeling, controls, audits, and regulatory requirements across diverse annuity products. Provides technical leadership, manages direct reports, improves processes through automation, and translates complex actuarial analysis into recommendations for finance and business leaders.

Leads Nationwide’s IoT and telematics product and application portfolio, overseeing platform health, security, resiliency, data quality, governance, modernization, delivery prioritization, risk, financials, vendors, and incident response. The role guides engineering teams, develops roadmaps, supports audits and controls, promotes modern development practices, manages stakeholder relationships, and hires and coaches technology professionals. Hybrid work requires two weekly office days in Columbus, Ohio, with possible after-hours on-call responsibilities.

Supports catastrophe risk research and enterprise analytics for physical property and weather-related exposures. Builds and maintains SQL, Python, R, Databricks, and Snowflake data pipelines; validates and transforms large datasets; develops and evaluates quantitative risk models; documents assumptions and limitations; and improves analytics automation. The role requires actuarial expertise, catastrophe or P&C pricing and reserving experience, advanced statistical modeling, and collaboration with business partners.

Leads internal audit assurance and advisory engagements from planning through completion. Responsibilities include assessing risks and controls, reviewing audit work, reporting findings, managing client relationships, coaching teams of up to 10 associates, conducting risk assessments, and applying data analytics, visualization, and continuous auditing technologies. Builds trusted enterprise relationships and drives improvements while maintaining audit independence and professional standards.

Investigates, evaluates, and negotiates complex, high-severity specialty insurance claims involving coverage, liability, damages, litigation, and reserves. Manages claim strategies, attorneys, vendors, insureds, agents, and legal counsel through resolution. Provides subject-matter expertise, mentors team members, maintains knowledge of insurance law and regulations, and communicates effectively with customers and senior leaders.

Provide strategic legal counsel and leadership for Commercial Lines, Excess & Surplus, and Specialty (CLESS) businesses. Advise senior leaders on underwriting, distribution, claims, product, vendor, data/technology, and regulatory matters. Coordinate OCLO resources, manage a legal team, drive cross-team projects, and enable risk-balanced business strategies across Small Commercial, Middle Market, Wholesale, Programs, and Shared Services.

Supports accounting and finance operations through complex financial reporting, reconciliations, transactions, policy analysis, regulatory compliance, and audit support. Leads process improvements, reporting automation, system and workflow enhancements, and project initiatives. Advises management on accounting data, GAAP and STAT requirements, financial statements, tax impacts, and operational issues. Requires strong analytical, Excel, problem-solving, communication, and project management skills, with collaboration across Operations, Accounting, and Tax teams.

Manages and underwrites complex large commercial surety business within an assigned territory. Develops agency relationships, business plans, sales strategies, and profitable pipelines while evaluating financial and credit risks, pricing accounts, and selecting acceptable business. Drives production, profitability, retention, and cross-selling opportunities; monitors market conditions and underwriting performance; resolves business issues; conducts agency visits; and provides training, mentoring, and field expertise to agencies and internal teams.

Leads enterprise quality engineering and requirements analysis strategy, including AI-enabled testing, automation, test data, security, performance, regression testing, and release quality. Oversees governance, adoption, metrics, and continuous improvement while managing and developing technology analysis staff. Partners with engineering, architecture, security, and business leaders to translate strategy into measurable delivery, quality, productivity, and business outcomes.

Leads quantitative risk management for Nationwide Financial, overseeing hedge strategies for life and annuity guarantees, stochastic GPU-based modeling infrastructure, economic scenario generation, index development, and financial risk analysis. Partners with product leadership, investments, vendors, consultants, and senior management to develop hedging and risk strategies. Manages a team and oversees hiring, performance, development, workflow, and organizational planning.

Provides expert support for complex associate relations inquiries involving benefits, payroll, time reporting, HR systems, policies, and employment practices. Handles escalated cases confidentially, documents resolutions, troubleshoots HR systems, coordinates with legal and external partners, updates knowledge resources, and recommends process improvements. Serves as a subject matter expert and supports projects, training, and crisis escalation processes.

Provides expert employee and associate relations consultation, conducts workplace investigations, advises on employment laws and policies, manages compliance audits, supports reductions in force, and delivers HR training. Partners with HR, legal, ethics, security, benefits, and other corporate functions to resolve complex issues, reduce organizational risk, and ensure fair and compliant practices.

Represents commercial and personal lines insurance clients in civil litigation as lead counsel or part of a trial team. Independently manages complex caseloads, develops litigation and recovery strategies, evaluates claims, negotiates settlements, provides case valuations, and maintains client relationships. The role requires strong trial advocacy, legal analysis, communication, technology use, organization, and mentoring of junior attorneys. Frequent travel and occasional overnight travel are required.

Develop, test, debug, document, deploy, and maintain secure full-stack software solutions using Angular, Java, AWS, REST APIs, microservices, Informatica PowerCenter, and agentic AI. Provide technical leadership, code reviews, coaching, and guidance to a cross-functional agile team. Translate business requirements into designs and acceptance criteria, apply DevSecOps practices, manage project deliverables, and support insurance and financial applications.

Designs, configures, and optimizes Salesforce solutions for Retirement Solutions. Builds reports, dashboards, workflows, automation, and Agentforce AI capabilities; gathers requirements; advises stakeholders; manages projects and recurring data operations; documents processes; and recommends scalable technology improvements. Requires strong Salesforce administration, reporting, consultative communication, analytical, project management, and operational discipline skills.

Develop and validate multi-year stochastic portfolio credit risk models for corporate bonds, commercial mortgage loans, and structured assets. Research credit defaults, migrations, recovery behavior, and risk cycles; build Monte Carlo analytical frameworks; document assumptions and limitations; and support underwriting, pricing, asset allocation, and capital decisions. Collaborate with asset managers and finance teams, communicate complex modeling concepts to leaders, and guide junior analysts.