Director of Engineering, Digital Auto Sales

At GEICO, we offer a rewarding career where your ambitions are met with endless possibilities. 

Every day we honor our iconic brand by offering quality coverage to millions of customers and being there when they need us most. We thrive through relentless innovation to exceed our customers’ expectations while making a real impact for our company through our shared purpose. 

When you join our company, we want you to feel valued, supported and proud to work here. That’s why we offer The GEICO Pledge: Great Company, Great Culture, Great Rewards and Great Careers.

Position Summary
GEICO is seeking an experienced Director of Digital Auto Sales Engineering team to lead our Personal Auto digital Sales team. This is an exciting opportunity to drive high-performance, best in class consumer aimed at advancing GEICO’s market leadership in auto insurance. Your teams will work closely with the insurance product, platform central DevOps, to deliver new insurance models to consumers and agents for every state.

Position Description 
The Director of Digital Auto Sales will partner with engineering staff to build innovative, open-source, high-performing solutions that integrate seamlessly with our existing insurance products and applications. This role is responsible for setting and executing a tech strategy that allows you to have a smooth state rollout with high velocity, scale and high quality. You will collaborate with business, product, and peer engineering teams to ensure solutions are aligned with both technical and business goals.

What You’ll Do:

• Lead and Mentor Teams: Hire, mentor, and coach the engineering teams and leaders, ensuring they have the skills and resources to achieve individual and organizational success.
• Drive Technical Roadmap: Define and execute a technical strategy to rollout insurance products to states for both consumer and agents with high velocity and high quality.
• Technical guidance:  Tease out and identify technical/process hotspots and create a tech roadmap that solves technical/process inefficiencies to drive high velocity and high quality. Build a high performing self-driven team to rollout smoothly.  
• Collaborate Across Functions: Work closely with peer engineering teams, insurance product and platforms, central DevOps, and business units to deliver aligned solutions that meet both technical requirements and business needs with high quality.
• Resource and Project Management: Oversee resource allocation, budgeting, prioritization and scheduling working with your product counterparts.
• Operational Support: Manage production support to ensure application availability, stability, and performance, with a focus on simplifying operations and enhancing scalability.
• Develop KPIs and Reporting: Establish and report KPIs to measure progress and drive data-informed decision-making.
• Build Relationships: Foster strong partnerships with technology teams and business leaders within commercial insurance.
   

Qualifications:

• Proven leadership experience managing teams of 25+ engineers, with a focus on cross-functional management across full stack engineering and DevOps.
• Proven leadership in building and delivering large scale complex projects to production with speed and high quality.
• Ability to tease complex technical/process problems and provide technical guidance for the teams to execute.
• Strong understanding of front-end, backend, data, architecture, and its application within large scale industries or domains.
• Expertise in cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and DevOps tools such as GitHub, Azure DevOps, and CI/CD practices.
• Strong foundation in algorithms, data structures, and computer science principles.
• Fluency in SQL, Power BI, and Snowflake, with experience in application monitoring and performance evaluation.
• Exceptional communication skills, able to convey complex concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Familiarity with applied AI frameworks and libraries, with experience in creating reusable components and frameworks is a plus.

Experience:

• 10+ years of technically strong professional software engineering experience, including lifecycle best practices.
• 5+ years in development within large-scale, mission-critical environments.
• 5+ years of direct leadership experience in technical environments.
• 2+ years of managing managers and leaders
• Experience in front-end and backend teams, integration, and end-to-end functional workings.
• Experience in regulatory industry like insurance is a plus, but not needed.
   

Education:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience.

This role is ideal for a visionary leader who is ready to shape the future of insurance industry applications and experiences.

Annual Salary

The above annual salary range is a general guideline. Multiple factors are taken into consideration to arrive at the final hourly rate/ annual salary to be offered to the selected candidate. Factors include, but are not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the role, the selected candidate’s work experience, education and training, the work location as well as market and business considerations.

The GEICO Pledge:

Great Company: At GEICO, we help our customers through life’s twists and turns. Our mission is to protect people when they need it most and we’re constantly evolving to stay ahead of their needs.

We’re an iconic brand that thrives on innovation, exceeding our customers’ expectations and enabling our collective success. From day one, you’ll take on exciting challenges that help you grow and collaborate with dynamic teams who want to make a positive impact on people’s lives.

Great Careers: We offer a career where you can learn, grow, and thrive through personalized development programs, created with your career – and your potential – in mind.  You’ll have access to industry leading training, certification assistance, career mentorship and coaching with supportive leaders at all levels.

Great Culture: We foster an inclusive culture of shared success, rooted in integrity, a bias for action and a winning mindset. Grounded by our core values, we have an an established culture of caring, inclusion, and belonging, that values different perspectives. Our teams are led by dynamic, multi-faceted teams led by supportive leaders, driven by performance excellence and unified under a shared purpose.

As part of our culture, we also offer employee engagement and recognition programs that reward the positive impact our work makes on the lives of our customers.

Great Rewards: We offer compensation and benefits built to enhance your physical well-being, mental and emotional health and financial future.

• Comprehensive Total Rewards program that offers personalized coverage tailor-made for you and your family’s overall well-being.
• Financial benefits including market-competitive compensation; a 401K savings plan vested from day one that offers a 6% match; performance and recognition-based incentives; and tuition assistance.
• Access to additional benefits like mental healthcare as well as fertility and adoption assistance.
• Supports flexibility- We provide workplace flexibility as well as our GEICO Flex program, which offers the ability to work from anywhere in the US for up to four weeks per year.

The equal employment opportunity policy of the GEICO Companies provides for a fair and equal employment opportunity for all associates and job applicants regardless of race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, age, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, familial status, disability or genetic information, in compliance with applicable federal, state and local law. GEICO hires and promotes individuals solely on the basis of their qualifications for the job to be filled.

GEICO reasonably accommodates qualified individuals with disabilities to enable them to receive equal employment opportunity and/or perform the essential functions of the job, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship to the Company. This applies to all applicants and associates. GEICO also provides a work environment in which each associate is able to be productive and work to the best of their ability. We do not condone or tolerate an atmosphere of intimidation or harassment. We expect and require the cooperation of all associates in maintaining an atmosphere free from discrimination and harassment with mutual respect by and for all associates and applicants.