Please note that we do not offer visa sponsorship for this position.

Role Summary

Position Start Date: June 2026

In this role you will develop and grow business relationships with agencies and agents by acting as a subject matter expert on our products and processes and as a liaison with those individuals and entities. This involves collaborating with field leaders to design and execute against sales and marketing plans, as well as working with agency principals and agents to educate on and recommend products. In this role you will also be responsible for independently growing and developing dormant agencies/agents.

This role sits in either our Addison, TX or Montpelier, VT locations and uses virtual meeting tools to connect with field leaders, agents and agencies. There may be periodic travel to various agencies and conferences.

This position currently offers an onsite work schedule, with the expectation that you are in the office four (4) days per week during onsite core days.  Our current onsite core days are Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.  The work schedule type and core days are subject to change with advance notification and manager discretion. 

This position is eligible for a language differential in pay for approved bilingual skills.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Grow and manage a consistent and continuous new business pipeline through building relationships, developing expertise, using prospecting tools and educating agencies and agents on NLG products and processes
• Establish, manage, and grow strong relationships with existing strategic accounts with large growth potential
• Provide product analysis, illustration, and case design, acting as a subject matter expert for business stakeholders
• Independently grow and develop dormant agencies/agents.
• Recommend new products and features to agents and agencies, using knowledge of each account and its needs, markets, and goals
• Develop and collaborate on account specific strategies and marketing plans to deliver growth
• Onboard and educate new agents regarding NLG products and processes
• Ensure ongoing communication about policy/agent activity with internal groups (new business, underwriting, contracting, etc…)

Minimum Qualifications

• Bilingual (English/Spanish) to effectively communicate with our partners
• 1-3 years industry experience in life and annuity products
• Industry certifications, such as CLU, CFP or ChFC
• Ability to drive growth and increase presence and market share for assigned accounts
• Team player and self-starter with the ability to work independently and prioritize work in a fast-paced sales environment
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Understanding of compliance and regulatory standards for life and annuity products

Benefits

• Your benefits start day one and are flexible and customizable to your and your family’s specific needs. Check out the BENEFITS of a Career at National Life!

Please note that we do not offer visa sponsorship for this position.

Role Summary

Position Start Date: June 2026

In this role you will develop and grow business relationships with agencies and agents by acting as a subject matter expert on our products and processes and as a liaison with those individuals and entities. This involves collaborating with field leaders to design and execute against sales and marketing plans, as well as working with agency principals and agents to educate on and recommend products. In this role you will also be responsible for independently growing and developing dormant agencies/agents.

This role sits in either our Addison, TX or Montpelier, VT locations and uses virtual meeting tools to connect with field leaders, agents and agencies. There may be periodic travel to various agencies and conferences.

This position currently offers an onsite work schedule, with the expectation that you are in the office four (4) days per week during onsite core days.  Our current onsite core days are Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.  The work schedule type and core days are subject to change with advance notification and manager discretion. 

This position is eligible for a language differential in pay for approved bilingual skills.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Grow and manage a consistent and continuous new business pipeline through building relationships, developing expertise, using prospecting tools and educating agencies and agents on NLG products and processes
• Establish, manage, and grow strong relationships with existing strategic accounts with large growth potential
• Provide product analysis, illustration, and case design, acting as a subject matter expert for business stakeholders
• Independently grow and develop dormant agencies/agents.
• Recommend new products and features to agents and agencies, using knowledge of each account and its needs, markets, and goals
• Develop and collaborate on account specific strategies and marketing plans to deliver growth
• Onboard and educate new agents regarding NLG products and processes
• Ensure ongoing communication about policy/agent activity with internal groups (new business, underwriting, contracting, etc…)

Minimum Qualifications

• Bilingual (English/Mandarin) to effectively communicate with our partners
• 1-3 years industry experience in life and annuity products
• Industry certifications, such as CLU, CFP or ChFC
• Ability to drive growth and increase presence and market share for assigned accounts
• Team player and self-starter with the ability to work independently and prioritize work in a fast-paced sales environment
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Understanding of compliance and regulatory standards for life and annuity products

Benefits

• Your benefits start day one and are flexible and customizable to your and your family’s specific needs. Check out the BENEFITS of a Career at National Life!

Please note that we do not offer visa sponsorship for this position.

Role Summary

Position Start Date: June 2026

In this role you will develop and grow business relationships with agencies and agents by acting as a subject matter expert on our products and processes and as a liaison with those individuals and entities. This involves collaborating with field leaders to design and execute against sales and marketing plans, as well as working with agency principals and agents to educate on and recommend products. In this role you will also be responsible for independently growing and developing dormant agencies/agents.

This role sits in either our Addison, TX or Montpelier, VT locations and uses virtual meeting tools to connect with field leaders, agents and agencies. There may be periodic travel to various agencies and conferences.

This position currently offers an onsite work schedule, with the expectation that you are in the office four (4) days per week during onsite core days.  Our current onsite core days are Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.  The work schedule type and core days are subject to change with advance notification and manager discretion. 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Grow and manage a consistent and continuous new business pipeline through building relationships, developing expertise, using prospecting tools and educating agencies and agents on NLG products and processes
• Establish, manage, and grow strong relationships with existing strategic accounts with large growth potential
• Provide product analysis, illustration, and case design, acting as a subject matter expert for business stakeholders
• Independently grow and develop dormant agencies/agents.
• Recommend new products and features to agents and agencies, using knowledge of each account and its needs, markets, and goals
• Develop and collaborate on account specific strategies and marketing plans to deliver growth
• Onboard and educate new agents regarding NLG products and processes
• Ensure ongoing communication about policy/agent activity with internal groups (new business, underwriting, contracting, etc…)

Minimum Qualifications

• 1-3 years industry experience in life and annuity products
• Industry certifications, such as CLU, CFP or ChFC
• Ability to drive growth and increase presence and market share for assigned accounts
• Team player and self-starter with the ability to work independently and prioritize work in a fast-paced sales environment
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Understanding of compliance and regulatory standards for life and annuity products

Benefits

• Your benefits start day one and are flexible and customizable to your and your family’s specific needs. Check out the BENEFITS of a Career at National Life!

Payment Center Customer Service Rep

Please note that we do not offer visa sponsorship for this position.

Hours will be 9am - 5:45pm EST

Summary

We will train you to work directly with customers across America to ensure they have a positive experience in understanding and optimizing their life and annuity policies with National Life Group.  You will empower customers by providing information, help to solve important issues, and collaborates with the team to reach our full potential and achieve results.  You will build skills that allow you to complete first-call resolution by having experience in call handling and payment processing.  Ultimately, you will be an active and engaged member of a team dedicated to bringing peace of mind to all we serve.

Responsibilities:

Identifies, understands, and interprets customer needs, responding to a variety of questions (e.g. payment related statuses, requirements needed, policy value inquiries, product structure etc.) from a diverse group of agents, policyholders, and customers, in a high-volume inbound call environment, and implements resolutions in a way that provides quality customer service with urgency and caring curiosity. 

Navigates multiple technology systems (e.g. mainframe, CRM, SalesForce, Five9, etc.) to research customer questions and concerns, notate the policy after each interaction, and submit work items (e.g. disbursement of money, requests, payments, etc.) to accurately service the variety of transactions that occur over the lifetime of a customer. 

Processes payment-related transactions (e.g. inbound payments and disbursements on life and annuity policies) in accordance with expectations and is able to meet standards on quality, timeliness, and accuracy.  

Utilizes significant product knowledge (e.g. legacy product knowledge, life insurance, annuity) to guide and educate agents on both simple and complicated requests (e.g. submitting applications, offering options, self-service, how to use technology or processes, etc.), asking questions to provide information relevant to the customer’s wants and needs.

Factors that lead to success:

Customer Focus: You get excited, and feel rewarded in helping people

Detailed-oriented with a focus on quality and timeliness: You are proud of providing quality work in a timely manner

Resiliency: You quickly adapt to business needs (new information/processes, pivoting from one task to another) under pressure, bouncing back from setbacks easily

Nimble Learner: You are naturally curious and eager to learn with the ability to navigate ambiguity to arrive at the answer, even when not all the information is readily available

Self-Development: You take ownership of issues and instill confidence in the caller while collaborating across multiple departments

Demonstrate Self-Awareness: You are empathetic and intuitively relate to others

Communicates effectively/Interpersonal Savvy: You can clearly convey your message verbally and written and demonstrate strong listening skills with customers and internal teammates 

Tech-savvy: You are great at multi-tasking in a fast-paced environment and are computer savvy (web searches, MS Office and Mainframes)

Collaborative: You easily build positive, professional relationships with our customers and internal stakeholders

Thinks critically:  You have a knack for seeing how things can be done more efficiently and effectively, and are open to continuous improvement and change

Minimum Qualifications:

• Associates degree or higher (preferred)
• You have 2+ years of professional work experience interacting with customers
• Basic ability to read and interpret information
• Perform arithmetic, ratios, rates and percentages

What You’ll Find at National Life Group

• Competitive pay (starting at $22/hr.) and outstanding health, wellness, and insurance benefits
• Genuine opportunities for growth and career advancement
• Full tuition sponsorship for completing your undergraduate and graduate degrees with University Arizona World Campus; additional $5K in annual tuition reimbursement
• Paid time off and holidays
• 40 hours of community service hours annually
• A culture committed to inclusion and diversity

Environmental:

• Work schedule hours: Monday-Friday 8am-7pm ET (9a-6p CT) Monday-Friday
• Structured schedule, with built in breaks
• Time spent on the phone speaking with customers and processing customer and agent requests

Please note that we do not offer visa sponsorship for this position.

Role Summary

We are seeking an experienced and visionary Underwriting leader to be head of our dynamic and growing core markets team. This senior leadership role requires a data-driven, forward-thinking leader who can provide strategic oversight, drive innovation, and focus on the development of our team. The ideal candidate will balance top and bottom-line objectives, ensuring our underwriting practices are both competitive and compliant while fostering a culture of excellence and growth.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership and Vision:

• Develop and articulate a clear, forward-looking underwriting strategy that aligns with our corporate goals.   Work across our department and enterprise to ensure that underwriting strategy deepens the value chain and competitive edge that we offer to our customers.
• Foster a solution-oriented mindset within the core market Underwriting department, promoting innovation and continuous process and workflow management improvement.

Industry Leadership and Presence:

• Elevate National Life brand by actively participating in industry events, committees, advisory boards, and vendor meetings.  Establish our organization as a Center of Excellence in underwriting, setting industry standards and driving thought leadership.

Field Engagement and Relationship Building:

• Collaborate with field and key distribution leaders to recruit and educate producers on our underwriting practices and target demographics.  Cultivate strong relationships with field leadership and producers, integrating their feedback into the underwriting process and directly addressing complex issues when necessary.

Team Development and Leadership:

• Uses data insights and innovative tools to assess current staffing models and, based on projections, make recommendations on ways to support the growing business. 
• Lead a high-performing underwriting team, focusing on hiring, development, succession planning, and career growth.
• Provide mentorship and strategic guidance on managing a diverse portfolio of cases, including large and complex cases.
• Inspire and motivate the team to achieve our business growth plans, while effectively managing the underwriting budget.

Innovation and Competitive Advantage:

• Champion innovative underwriting practices that enhance our competitive edge, focusing on improving quality, speed, and agent satisfaction.

Product Development and Enhancement:

• Influence product development by providing insights based on field feedback, competitive intelligence, and market analysis.
• Continuously refine risk selection criteria to maintain a competitive position in the market.

Standards, Compliance, and Quality Assurance:

• Drive productivity and service standards to ensure National Life remains competitively differentiated, safeguarding profitability through high-quality risk selection.
• Ensure compliance with all relevant insurance regulations and laws, partnering with the legal team to address and resolve disputes.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required. A master’s degree and significant industry certifications (FALU, FLMI, and/or CLU) are strongly preferred.
• Minimum of 10 years’ experience in the life underwriting industry, marked by strong business relationships, skilled leadership, and proven business results.
• Recognized as an industry leader with a strong external reputation, capable of attracting and engaging new distribution groups to National Life Group.

Skills and Abilities:

Strategic Focus: Demonstrated ability to manage and influence people and initiatives with a strategic, externally focused approach.

Leadership: Exceptional leadership skills with a balance of sales and marketing acumen and a collaborative problem-solving style. Must be able to role model Servant Leadership principles and hold others accountable within the underwriting organization.

Innovation: Possess an innovative and solution-oriented mindset with a forward-thinking perspective on demographic and risk changes.

Proactive and Collaborative: High energy, strong bias for action, and a collaborative nature. Takes initiative and works effectively with minimal supervision.

Technical Expertise:

• Extensive knowledge in complex case underwriting, and living benefits.
• Broad experience across affiliated, independent, and brokerage channels.
• Understanding of product development, illustrations, and pricing.
• Ability to work with advanced sales and specialty risks, including foreign national, executive bonus, large case, and premium finance niches.
• Experience with COLI, small group, and critical or chronic cases is a plus.
• Deposition experience is desirable.

Business Acumen: Broad industry perspective with strong general business acumen. Understanding of the evolving compliance and regulatory environment.

Relationship Building: Ability to attract business, foster loyalty among agents, and build strong relationships both with field associates and the home office team.

Communication: Excellent communication skills, enthusiastic and articulate. Ability to develop and present to large audiences.

Background Check: Candidate must successfully pass a background check.

Preferred Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree required. A master’s degree and significant industry certifications (FALU, FLMI, and/or CLU) are strongly preferred.

Core Work Days

This position is presently onsite/hybrid with the expectation of being in the office four days per week with current campus days being Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday (subject to change with advance notification and manager discretion).

Benefits

• Your benefits start day one and are flexible and customizable to your and your family’s specific needs. Check out the BENEFITS of a Career at National Life!

Please note that we do not offer visa sponsorship for this position.

Position Summary

The Contact Center Escalations Associate is responsible for supporting complex after issue (payment) servicing needs and escalated customer and agent concerns across Life & Annuity products. This role serves as an After Issue (payment) subject matter expert and central point of contact for advanced service issues, providing guidance, troubleshooting support, and end-to-end case coordination.

The associate partners closely with agents, internal operational teams, and leadership to resolve complex servicing challenges, improve customer and agent experiences, identify trends, and recommend scalable process improvements. This position requires deep knowledge of insurance and annuity servicing with a focus on After Issue process and procedure.

Key Responsibilities

After Issue Service Expertise

• Serve as a subject matter expert on complex After Issue service matters for Life & Annuity products.
• Act as an Operations relationship conduit for internal partners such as business units and field leadership.

Relationship and Resolution Management

• Act as the primary point of contact for complex policyholder and agent escalations.
• Research, analyze, and resolve escalated issues requiring advanced problem-solving and strong judgment.
• Manage cases from intake through resolution, ensuring timely follow-up and clear communication.
• Develop thoughtful and creative solutions to complex service challenges.

• Partner with internal teams such as Payment Center, Title, Contract Change, Case Design, Special Operations, and other operational groups to ensure timely and accurate issue resolution.
• Serve as a business liaison between frontline service teams, operations, and leadership.

Reporting and Process Improvement

• Track and analyze service issues and escalation trends to identify root causes and recurring challenges.
• Prepare reporting and insights for leadership related to escalations, service performance, and operational opportunities.
• Conduct or support gap analyses to compare actual performance against potential performance and identify improvement opportunities.
• Recommend and support enhancements to systems, workflows, and operational processes.
• Contribute to short- and long-term initiatives that improve efficiency, quality, and digitally enabled customer experiences.

Required Qualifications

• After Issue experience
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
• Experience in insurance, annuities, financial services, or a related field.
• Strong knowledge of Life & Annuity products and post-issue servicing processes.
• Ability to use network to prioritize and solve issues.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.

Benefits

• Your benefits start day one and are flexible and customizable to your and your family’s specific needs. Check out the BENEFITS of a Career at National Life!

Actuary – Model Development

Please note that we do not offer visa sponsorship for this position.

JOB SUMMARY:

The Actuary will be responsible for building, testing, and validating MG-ALFA models and will report to the Model Steward.  The model is used for Asset Adequacy Testing, Asset/Liability Management, Statutory Forecasting, ORSA, VNB, and to support various special project initiatives.  The individual will streamline our modeling functionality to enable efficient and reliable projection capabilities.  The Actuary is expected to have detailed knowledge of MG-ALFA, Statutory accounting, and GAAP accounting.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Ownership of all aspects of the technical functionality of MG-ALFA models
• Develop and maintain model inputs, model interface, model reports, and database
• Participate and provide thought leadership in model governance, assumption maintenance, and model change management, including User Acceptance Testing
• Lead projects to implement new products, riders, and model functionality
• Provide a validated and locked-down production model to end users on a quarterly basis
• Partner with the IT department to identify and implement areas for automation and efficiency
• Lead development of functionality related to ad-hoc projects and one-off requests, working closely with business partners to ensure appropriate usage of models for new contexts

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree in Actuarial Science, Mathematics, Computer Science, Statistics, Economics, or related field
• FSA or Career ASA professional designation
• 8+ years of actuarial experience with 5+ years of modeling experience
• MG-ALFA expertise or any modeling software
• Advanced knowledge of Statutory and GAAP accounting preferred
• Significant experience with Annuities, including Fixed-Indexed Annuities or Life Insurance, including Indexed Universal Life

In office (VT or TX) 4 days a week preferred, but will consider remote for well-qualified candidates.

Benefits

• Your benefits start day one and are flexible and customizable to your and your family’s specific needs. Check out the BENEFITS of a Career at National Life!

Role Summary

Please note that we do not offer visa sponsorship for this position.

The Assistant Vice President, Market Risk & Asset Liability Management (ALM) is responsible for leading key aspects of National Life Group’s Market Risk & ALM management programs. This role supports balance sheet resilience by providing rigorous risk analytics, governance, and insights related to interest rate risk, liquidity risk, and broader market risks.

The VP in Enterprise Risk Management partners closely with Investments, Finance, and Actuarial teams to ensure alignment between asset strategy, liability characteristics, capital objectives, and the company’s enterprise risk appetite. This role contributes materially to earnings stability, capital efficiency, and regulatory readiness while upholding National Life Group’s mutual values and policyholder commitments.

Key Responsibilities

Market Risk Management

• Support and enhance the enterprise market risk framework covering interest rate, credit spread, equity, FX, and other relevant market risks.
• Monitor market and ALM risk limits and escalations in alignment with National Life Group’s risk appetite.
• Oversee stress testing, scenario analysis, and tail-risk assessments under adverse market conditions.
• Conduct derivative effectiveness testing and support economic surplus-at-risk and capital-related analyses.

Asset-Liability Management (ALM)

• Lead and execute core elements of National Life Group’s Market and ALM framework, including interest rate risk, liquidity risk, cash flow testing, and hedging analysis.
• Oversee the development, maintenance, and interpretation of ALM models, including stochastic projections, scenario analysis, sensitivity testing, and cash flow matching.
• Partner with Investments, Finance, Actuarial, and Product teams to ensure asset strategies appropriately reflect liability structures and policyholder obligations.
• Evaluate balance sheet impacts of new products, reinsurance strategies, and investment initiatives.
• Support ongoing assessment of ALM strategies as market, economic, and regulatory conditions evolve.
• Prepare and present ALM analysis, risks, and recommendations for governance risk forums such as risk committees.

Governance, Reporting & Regulatory

• Contribute to risk governance processes, including preparation of materials, risk assessments, and follow-up actions.
• Support compliance with regulatory and rating agency expectations (e.g., NAIC, ORSA, RBC, VM-20/30/31).
• Participate in regulatory exams, internal audits, and external reviews related to ALM and market risk.
• Deliver clear, concise, executive-ready risk reporting that translates complex analytics into business-relevant insights.

Leadership & Collaboration

• Lead, mentor, and develop ALM and market risk professionals, fostering a culture of transparency, accountability, and proactive risk management.
• Collaborate closely across ERM, Finance, Investments, Asset Management, Actuarial, and Product teams.
• Serve as a trusted risk partner by providing thoughtful challenge, practical solutions, and sound judgment.
• Contribute to broader enterprise risk management, capital planning, and strategic initiatives as needed.

Qualifications

Required

• Bachelor’s degree in actuarial science, Finance, Economics, Mathematics, or a related field.
• 10 plus years of experience in ALM, market risk, liquidity risk, reinsurance risk, actuarial, investments, or financial risk management within insurance or asset management.
• Strong understanding of insurance balance sheets, liability structures, and general account investment portfolios.
• Hands-on experience with ALM modeling, stress testing, economic scenario analysis, and risk reporting.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to senior leaders and governance committees.
• Proven ability to collaborate effectively across functions and influence outcomes.

Preferred

• Fellow of the Society of Actuaries (FSA); CFA or FRM strongly preferred.
• Advanced degree (MBA, MS) a plus.
• Experience with regulatory frameworks such as NAIC, ORSA, RBC, and economic capital.
• Familiarity with modernizing risk analytics, modeling tools, or data platforms.

Key Competencies

• Strong analytical and quantitative skills
• Clear, confident communication and executive presence
• Sound judgment and risk awareness
• Collaborative, enterprise-minded leadership style
• Ability to manage complexity and ambiguity
• Commitment to National Life Group’s mission and mutual values

Benefits

• Your benefits start day one and are flexible and customizable to your and your family’s specific needs. Check out the BENEFITS of a Career at National Life!

Please note that we do not offer visa sponsorship for this position.

Role Summary

The Associate Actuary reports to the Actuary of Capital Management & Deal Team and will be responsible for leading and collaborating on multiple transactions. This role supports strategic financial initiatives by developing, validating, and interpreting actuarial models used to evaluate capital deployment, reinsurance transactions, and other corporate financing solutions. This role partners closely with MCOE, Finance, Pricing and senior actuarial leadership to provide analytical insights that optimize the company’s capital position and drive informed decision-making.

The successful candidate will contribute to the pricing and structuring of reinsurance deals, assess the capital impact of strategic transactions, and help manage NLG’s economic, regulatory capital frameworks. This position requires strong technical modeling ability, sound actuarial judgment, and the ability to communicate complex results to both actuarial and non-actuarial audiences.

• This position currently offers an onsite hybrid work schedule, with the expectation that you are in the office four (4) days per week during onsite core days. Our current onsite core days are Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.  The work schedule type and core days are subject to change with advance notification and manager discretion.
• Can be based on Vermont or Dallas Campus.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Co-lead or support reinsurance and capital transactions with internal and external stakeholders. Optimizing pricing, capital and financial impacts, risk management and assist operations teams with closing efforts.
• Quantify the impact of deals and capital actions across multiple frameworks (e.g., statutory, GAAP, economic capital, RBC).
• Support the development of pricing analyses and scenario testing for prospective reinsurance or financing structures, including legal entity modeling, cash-flow projections, sensitivities, and stress tests.
• Collaborate with MCOE, Finance, Pricing and related business areas to align modeling assumptions, capital methodologies, and reinsurance transaction structures.
• Build and enhance actuarial models to assess capital usage, return on capital, and value creation for reinsurance transactions, M&A opportunities, and other capital or risk-transfer strategies.
• Prepare presentation materials and clearly communicate findings, recommendations, and key risks to senior management.
• Assist in identifying opportunities to improve capital efficiency through reinsurance, capital market solutions, or balance-sheet optimization.
• Stay current on emerging capital methodologies, regulatory changes, and actuarial modeling best practices.

Minimum Qualifications

• Associate of the Society of Actuaries (ASA) or Fellow of the Society of Actuaries (FSA) preferred.
• 6+ years of experience in actuarial modeling, corporate development, reinsurance or related actuarial roles, preferably within a life insurance or reinsurance company.
• Proficiency with actuarial projection systems (e.g., MG-ALFA) and strong Excel/Databricks skills.
• Ability to interpret complex financial models, reconcile results, and explain key drivers to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Familiarity with a wide range of actuarial models, including liability projections, asset modeling, and capital models. Assess modeling assumptions, methodologies, and controls for appropriateness and reliability.
• Experience presenting findings and influencing senior stakeholders in actuarial, finance, or investment functions.
• Detail-oriented, deadline-driven, and able to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Demonstrated ability or willingness to adopt and apply emerging technologies, including generative AI and automation tools, to improve reporting efficiency, effectiveness, and control quality.

Benefits

• Your benefits start day one and are flexible and customizable to your and your family’s specific needs. Check out the BENEFITS of a Career at National Life!

Please note that we do not offer visa sponsorship for this position.

Position Summary:

This is an exciting opportunity to continue your Accounting Career at one of the fasted growing life insurance companies in the country.   National Life Group currently has an opening for a Reinsurance Senior Accountant.  This senior-level position is designed for an accounting professional with significant experience in reinsurance accounting. The ideal candidate will be motivated by opportunities to enhance, refine, and create processes. As an essential member of a developing reinsurance team, this role will be responsible for supporting both newly established and ongoing reinsurance arrangements as the company grows and adapts. While the main focus will be on reinsurance accounting, the individual will work closely with the broader insurance accounting team to ensure processes are aligned, consistent, and equipped with robust internal controls throughout the organization. Responsibilities will include reviewing and analyzing accounting outcomes, ensuring that transactions are properly recorded. The role will also involve preparing and entering journal entries for complex ledger accounts, which may require developing and designing computerized entry processes.

Key Responsibilities:

• Prepare, review, and reconcile periodic reinsurance settlement statements.
• Carry out monthly and/or quarterly ledger close procedures, including preparing reinsurance journal entries, reconciliations, and analyses.
• Validate data from both internal systems and external reinsurers, investigating any discrepancies that arise.
• Maintain records that are accurate, thorough, and well-documented to support settlements, underlying assumptions, and reconciliations.
• Identify and pursue opportunities to improve processes, focusing on standardization and automation where possible.
• Review and provide support for the implementation or updating of new and existing reinsurance agreements.
• Work collaboratively with reinsurers to foster effective relationship management.
• Support audits, regulatory reporting, and respond to other ad hoc requests as necessary.
• Collaborate across functions with teams such as Financial Reporting, Risk Management, Legal, Internal Audit, Pricing, Product, IT, Operations, and Investments.

• Identify, evaluate, and leverage emerging technologies, including generative AI and automation solutions and workflow tools, to drive measurable improvements in reporting efficiency, control effectiveness, and scalability.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting.
• CPA preferred.
• Three to five years of accounting experience, ideally within insurance or public accounting sectors.
• Strong grasp of accounting principles, especially regarding internal controls.
• Advanced skills in Excel.
• Demonstrated analytical, problem-solving, and reconciliation abilities.
• Keen attention to detail and the capacity to meet deadlines in a dynamic work setting.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills.
• Capability to work independently as well as collaborate across teams.
• Proven ability to develop strong working relationships and operate with a partnership-focused approach.

Benefits

• Your benefits start day one and are flexible and customizable to your and your family’s specific needs. Check out the BENEFITS of a Career at National Life!

Please note that we do not offer visa sponsorship for this position.

Role Summary

We are seeking a Content Marketing Specialist to play a central role in shaping and executing our marketing and communications strategy. This individual will develop and manage a steady stream of high-quality content across channels—including email campaigns, social media, blogs, recruiting materials, and event promotions—ensuring consistency, compliance, and alignment with business priorities. Working closely with internal stakeholders across the firm, this role will help translate complex ideas into clear, compelling messaging that drives engagement, supports advisor growth, and elevates our brand.

The ideal candidate is a strong writer and strategic thinker who understands how to connect content to outcomes. They are comfortable operating in a fast-paced, highly collaborative environment, managing multiple priorities while maintaining attention to detail. Experience in financial services or a regulated industry is a plus, along with familiarity with tools like Salesforce Marketing Cloud and social media platforms. Above all, this person is proactive, adaptable, and motivated to bring creative ideas to life while supporting both recruiting efforts and advisor-facing initiatives.

This position currently offers an onsite work schedule, with the expectation that you are in the office four (4) days per week during onsite core days. Our current onsite core days are Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. The work schedule type and core days are subject to change with advance notification and manager discretion.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Content Strategy, Creation & Management

• Develop, write, and edit a wide range of marketing content across channels, including email campaigns, social media, blogs, website copy, video scripts, presentations, and print materials.
• Manage and maintain a centralized library of marketing collateral, ensuring all materials are current, compliant, brand-aligned, and easily accessible for field use.
• Own the content calendar and coordinate with internal stakeholders to deliver timely, accurate, and strategically aligned communications.
• Analyze content performance and apply insights to continuously improve engagement and effectiveness. 

Recruiting & Advisor Growth Support 

• Partner with the Business Development team to develop targeted recruiting campaigns and collateral.
• Craft compelling messaging that clearly communicates ESI’s value proposition and supports advisor acquisition and growth.

Communications & Brand Alignment

• Support internal and external communications, including employee messaging, leadership updates, and strategic initiatives.
• Collaborate with the National Life Communications Team and/or third party firms on press releases, announcements, and earned media opportunities.

Digital, Social & Advisor-Facing Content

• Collaborate on the development and execution of social media content aligned with ESI’s brand and priorities.
• Create co-brandable, compliant content for advisors to use within approved marketing platforms.

Event & Training Marketing

• Support the promotion of conferences, training programs, and events through invitations, registration campaigns, and follow-up communications.
• Develop marketing materials that enhance visibility, engagement, and overall event experience.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Communications, Journalism, or a related field.
• 3–5 years of experience in content marketing.
• Strong writing, editing, and proofreading skills.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office, CMS platforms (e.g., WordPress), and email marketing tools (e.g., Salesforce Marketing Cloud, MailChimp).
• Experience with social media scheduling tools and basic design platforms (e.g., Adobe Creative Suite or Canva).

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in the financial services industry supporting advisors or working within a broker-dealer, RIA, or insurance-based distribution model, with an understanding of advisor marketing, recruiting dynamics and compliance requirements.
• Hands-on experience building and optimizing marketing journeys in platforms such as Salesforce Marketing Cloud or similar tools, including segmentation, personalization, and performance tracking.
• Experience supporting full campaign lifecycles—from pre-event promotion through post-event follow-up and nurture campaigns—especially in a B2B or advisor-facing environment.

Benefits

• Your benefits start day one and are flexible and customizable to your and your family’s specific needs. Check out the BENEFITS of a Career at National Life!

Please note that we do not offer visa sponsorship for this position.

Overview

We are seeking a highly analytical, strategically minded finance leader to drive enterprise capital strategy, liquidity planning, and credit stewardship. This role partners closely with senior leadership to shape financing decisions, proactively manage rating agency relationships, and safeguard the company’s financial strength.

The Director will lead consolidated liquidity forecasting and capital structure analysis, ensuring alignment between growth objectives, funding strategy, and rating considerations. In addition, this role will champion innovation within Finance by advancing AI-enabled forecasting, analytics, and decision-support capabilities that enhance transparency, agility, and strategic insight.

This position also provides cross-functional oversight and continuity for the company’s internal corporate insurance program, ensuring alignment between risk transfer strategies and capital management objectives.

The role requires deep capital markets expertise, rigorous financial modeling capability, executive-level communication skills, and the ability to translate complex financial dynamics into clear, decision-oriented recommendations.

Key Responsibilities

Capital Markets & Capital Structure Strategy

• Evaluate, structure, and execute capital markets transactions, including debt issuances, hybrid securities, alternative financing arrangements, and other capital initiatives.
  • Partner with banks and financial institutions to assess market conditions, pricing dynamics, investor demand, and optimal transaction timing.
  • Develop forward-looking capital structure strategies that balance growth, liquidity, leverage, and rating considerations.
  • Analyze market trends and comparable transactions to inform strategic financing decisions.
  • Clearly communicate capital strategy, credit considerations, and rating implications to senior leadership in a concise, decision-oriented manner.
  • Coordinate transaction execution across internal stakeholders, external advisors, and banking partners.

Enterprise Liquidity Strategy & Forecasting

• Own development and oversight of consolidated enterprise liquidity projections, integrating operating cash flows, financing plans, capital deployment, and stress scenarios.
  • Lead short- and long-term liquidity planning to ensure adequate financial flexibility under base and stressed conditions.
  • Establish and monitor liquidity risk metrics, funding triggers, and early warning indicators.
  • Develop contingency funding frameworks aligned with rating agency expectations and risk appetite.
  • Partner with Treasury, FP&A, and business leaders to align liquidity forecasts with operating plans and strategic initiatives.
  • Provide liquidity analysis and forward-looking funding insights for executive and Board-level materials.

Financial Modeling, Analytics & AI Enablement

• Own and enhance the enterprise capital and liquidity model, integrating capital structure alternatives, cash flow forecasting, covenant compliance, and rating agency metrics into a unified decision-support framework.
  • Perform scenario analysis and stress testing to assess impacts on leverage, financial flexibility, and credit ratings.
  • Champion adoption of artificial intelligence and advanced analytics tools to enhance forecasting precision, automate recurring analyses, and improve decision speed.
  • Identify opportunities to streamline covenant tracking, market monitoring, scenario modeling, and credit metric reporting through AI-enabled solutions.
  • Partner with Finance, Data, and Technology teams to build scalable analytics capabilities and strengthen data governance standards.
  • Serve as a thought partner to the broader Finance organization on emerging AI applications in capital management and risk analysis.

Rating Agency Management & Credit Stewardship

• Serve as strategic lead in shaping and delivering the company’s external credit narrative.
  • Lead preparation and completion of annual rating agency surveys and recurring information requests.
  • Develop comprehensive rating agency presentations, including business overview, financial performance, forward outlook, capital strategy, liquidity profile, and key credit metrics.
  • Prepare for and coordinate annual and semi-annual rating agency meetings, including messaging alignment, materials preparation, and follow-up.
  • Monitor rating agency methodologies, sector outlooks, and credit criteria; assess potential impacts on the company’s ratings.
  • Advise senior leadership on rating-sensitive decisions and external communication strategy.

Corporate Insurance Program Oversight

• Develop cross-functional knowledge of the company’s corporate insurance program design and administration to ensure continuity and institutional depth.
  • Participate in renewal processes, broker engagement, coverage analysis, and carrier discussions.
  • Evaluate insurance structures, limits, deductibles, and pricing to ensure alignment with enterprise risk appetite and capital objectives.
  • Integrate risk transfer considerations into broader liquidity and capital planning frameworks.

Core Competencies

• Capital Strategy & Market Execution – Deep understanding of debt markets, financing structures, and transaction processes.
  • Liquidity & Funding Leadership – Ability to design, forecast, and manage enterprise liquidity with a forward-looking, risk-aware lens.
  • Credit & Ratings Expertise – Working knowledge of rating agency frameworks, methodologies, and credit drivers.
  • Analytical Excellence – Advanced financial modeling and ability to synthesize complex data into clear strategic insights.
  • Executive Communication – Ability to articulate complex financial concepts to senior leadership, Boards, financial institutions, and rating agencies.
  • Strategic Judgment – Balances growth, leverage, liquidity, and rating considerations in decision-making.
  • Innovation & Digital Fluency – Comfort leveraging AI and advanced analytics to modernize finance processes and improve decision support.
  • Relationship Management – Proven ability to build credibility with internal stakeholders and external financial partners.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Accounting, or related field (MBA or CFA preferred).
  • 7–12+ years of experience in capital markets, corporate finance, treasury, or investment banking.
  • Demonstrated experience leading or supporting capital markets transactions.
  • Experience managing or engaging with rating agencies.
  • Advanced financial modeling skills and strong presentation capabilities.
  • Strong understanding of credit metrics, capital structures, covenant frameworks, liquidity planning, and financial risk management.
  • Familiarity with corporate insurance programs or enterprise risk financing structures preferred.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills with executive presence.

Benefits

• Your benefits start day one and are flexible and customizable to your and your family’s specific needs. Check out the BENEFITS of a Career at National Life!

Please note that we do not offer visa sponsorship for this position.

Role Summary

As we continue to grow, we are still looking to add additional individuals to our Sales Desk Team for a June Start date.  We are looking to hire energetic and ambitious individuals into our vibrant, growing culture rooted in Servant Leadership.  Since our inception in 1848, we have been delivering on our promises to our customers.  Come be a part of our continued growth and success!

This position currently offers an onsite work schedule, with the expectation that you are in the office four days per week during onsite core days. Our current onsite core days are Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.  The work schedule type and core days are subject to change with advance notification and manager discretion.

You’re encouraged to apply if you are:

Energetic and Passionate: Use your knowledge and energetic work ethic work ethic to support agents and Field Leaders who sell our life and annuity products.

Competitive go-getter: Ready to earn a base salary plus a quarterly variable bonus? You will have the chance to engage in friendly team competitions to win rewards and recognition. 

People Person: Put that emotional and social intelligence to good use by helping agents grow their business with National Life through providing solutions and business development opportunities.

Relationship Builder: You’ll carry out the Sales Desk mission of winning the sale by building relationships based on authenticity, seamless service and acting with a sense of urgency. 

Growth Driven: The Sales Desk is the farm team for the organization. Your drive and performance can lead to opportunities to move into an External Field Leader role or to other Home Office positions. We are committed to developing internal talent – our people are our secret sauce. 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Provide sales support for an external wholesaler (Field Leader).
• Promote Life and Annuity products through webinars and inbound/outbound calls.
• Manage inbound calls
• Demonstrate proficiency in sales skills, identifying sales opportunities, and cross-selling skills with agents
• Manage and execute effective outbound call campaigns
• Be skilled at presenting in both small and large group settings
• Capture all activity and agent profile information into Salesforce.com
• Perform other duties as required

Minimum Qualifications

• Bilingual (Mandarin/English) required

• 1-3 years financial services experience (preferred)
• 3+ years successful sales experience (preferred)
• Strong presentation skills as well as excellent communication skills
• Ability to adapt to the interests of the audience as well as use technical skills and people skills, on the phone and in person, to build relationships and help grow sales
• Interpersonal Flexibility
• Up to 10% travel required

Preferred Qualifications

• Broad knowledge of capital markets
• Previous experience with life and/or annuity illustration software 
• Bachelor’s degree 
• Life and Health Licensed 
• CLU, ChFC, CFP designations

Benefits

• Your benefits start day one and are flexible and customizable to your and your family’s specific needs. Check out the BENEFITS of a Career at National Life!

Please note that we do not offer visa sponsorship for this position.

Role Summary

As we continue to grow, we are still looking to add additional individuals to our Sales Desk Team for a June Start date.  We are looking to hire energetic and ambitious individuals into our vibrant, growing culture rooted in Servant Leadership.  Since our inception in 1848, we have been delivering on our promises to our customers.  Come be a part of our continued growth and success!

This position currently offers an onsite work schedule, with the expectation that you are in the office four days per week during onsite core days. Our current onsite core days are Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.  The work schedule type and core days are subject to change with advance notification and manager discretion.

You’re encouraged to apply if you are:

Energetic and Passionate: Use your knowledge and energetic work ethic work ethic to support agents and Field Leaders who sell our life and annuity products.

Competitive go-getter: Ready to earn a base salary plus a quarterly variable bonus? You will have the chance to engage in friendly team competitions to win rewards and recognition. 

People Person: Put that emotional and social intelligence to good use by helping agents grow their business with National Life through providing solutions and business development opportunities.

Relationship Builder: You’ll carry out the Sales Desk mission of winning the sale by building relationships based on authenticity, seamless service and acting with a sense of urgency. 

Growth Driven: The Sales Desk is the farm team for the organization. Your drive and performance can lead to opportunities to move into an External Field Leader role or to other Home Office positions. We are committed to developing internal talent – our people are our secret sauce. 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Provide sales support for an external wholesaler (Field Leader).
• Promote Life and Annuity products through webinars and inbound/outbound calls.
• Manage inbound calls
• Demonstrate proficiency in sales skills, identifying sales opportunities, and cross-selling skills with agents
• Manage and execute effective outbound call campaigns
• Be skilled at presenting in both small and large group settings
• Capture all activity and agent profile information into Salesforce.com
• Perform other duties as required

Minimum Qualifications

• Bilingual (Spanish/English) required 

• 1-3 years financial services experience (preferred)
• 3+ years successful sales experience (preferred)
• Strong presentation skills as well as excellent communication skills
• Ability to adapt to the interests of the audience as well as use technical skills and people skills, on the phone and in person, to build relationships and help grow sales
• Interpersonal Flexibility
• Up to 10% travel required

Preferred Qualifications

• Broad knowledge of capital markets
• Previous experience with life and/or annuity illustration software 
• Bachelor’s degree 
• Life and Health Licensed 
• CLU, ChFC, CFP designations

Benefits

• Your benefits start day one and are flexible and customizable to your and your family’s specific needs. Check out the BENEFITS of a Career at National Life!

Please note that we do not offer visa sponsorship for this position.

Role Summary

As we continue to grow, we are still looking to add additional individuals to our Sales Desk Team for a June Start date. We are looking to hire energetic and ambitious individuals into our vibrant, growing culture rooted in Servant Leadership.  Since our inception in 1848, we have been delivering on our promises to our customers.  Come be a part of our continued growth and success!

This position currently offers an onsite work schedule, with the expectation that you are in the office four days per week during onsite core days. Our current onsite core days are Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.  The work schedule type and core days are subject to change with advance notification and manager discretion.

You’re encouraged to apply if you are:

Energetic and Passionate: Use your knowledge and energetic work ethic work ethic to support agents and Field Leaders who sell our life and annuity products.

Competitive go-getter: Ready to earn a base salary plus a quarterly variable bonus? You will have the chance to engage in friendly team competitions to win rewards and recognition. 

People Person: Put that emotional and social intelligence to good use by helping agents grow their business with National Life through providing solutions and business development opportunities.

Relationship Builder: You’ll carry out the Sales Desk mission of winning the sale by building relationships based on authenticity, seamless service and acting with a sense of urgency. 

Growth Driven: The Sales Desk is the farm team for the organization. Your drive and performance can lead to opportunities to move into an External Field Leader role or to other Home Office positions. We are committed to developing internal talent – our people are our secret sauce. 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Provide sales support for an external wholesaler (Field Leader).
• Promote Life and Annuity products through webinars and inbound/outbound calls.
• Manage inbound calls
• Demonstrate proficiency in sales skills, identifying sales opportunities, and cross-selling skills with agents
• Manage and execute effective outbound call campaigns
• Be skilled at presenting in both small and large group settings
• Capture all activity and agent profile information into Salesforce.com
• Perform other duties as required

Minimum Qualifications

• 1-3 years financial services experience (preferred)
• 3+ years successful sales experience (preferred)
• Strong presentation skills as well as excellent communication skills
• Ability to adapt to the interests of the audience as well as use technical skills and people skills, on the phone and in person, to build relationships and help grow sales
• Interpersonal Flexibility
• Up to 10% travel required

Preferred Qualifications

• Broad knowledge of capital markets
• Previous experience with life and/or annuity illustration software 
• Bachelor’s degree 
• Life and Health Licensed 
• CLU, ChFC, CFP designations

Benefits

• Your benefits start day one and are flexible and customizable to your and your family’s specific needs. Check out the BENEFITS of a Career at National Life!

Please note that we do not offer visa sponsorship for this position.

Role Summary

• This position is part of the Life & Annuity Solutions team, which is responsible for designing, implementing, and managing our life and annuity products. The team is at the forefront of delivering innovative solutions that enhance customer experience and drive business growth.
• This role leads a team of actuarial systems analysts and serves as an enterprise leader in the design, implementation, and support of life insurance and annuity products. The role bridges deep technical expertise with strategic leadership by overseeing the design and execution of actuarial components within policy administration systems, illustration tools, and ancillary platforms.
• A successful candidate will guide operational problem-solving, production support, and product implementation by applying advanced business knowledge, a strong regulatory mindset, and technical excellence to ensure seamless system integration and inforce policy management, while thriving in a fast-paced environment.
• As a people leader, this role is accountable for setting direction, establishing short-term goals (1years or less) aligned to departmental objectives, managing performance, developing talent, and fostering a high-performing, resilient team.
• This position will report to Actuary, L&A Delivery Solutions.
• This is more than just a managing business analyst role—it’s an opportunity to influence organization objectives, lead innovation, and represent the team across the enterprise. If you're looking for a role where you can innovate, grow, and make a difference, we’d love to hear from you!

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Serve as a subject matter expert and people leader in product set up, policy mechanics and calculations across multiple systems utilized in the sale and administration of life insurance and annuity contracts.  Apply advanced business and technical knowledge to solve complex implementation challenges and guide cross-functional problem-solving.

• Define and clarify product implementation and production challenges. Recommend solutions, within and beyond the business unit.
• Lead creation and modification of test tools and test plans to validate product rates and values on impacted systems. Oversee team project and product documentation and assign tasks across multiple projects. Optimize daily operations within the team by leveraging advanced technical expertise. 

• Estimate resourcing requirements for both projects and ongoing operations, balancing individual team member development goals with project timelines, ensuring both delivery and growth.
• Own the design and delivery of robust training and knowledge transfer processes. Coordinate the creation of training modules, maintain a centralized training library, and actively develop the technical and business acumen of staff.

• Research, develop, and implement new testing capabilities and tools to improve work quality and accelerate project delivery, fostering stretch performance and innovation
• Lead teams in the delivery of projects

• Build broader partnerships with other business units and teams throughout the organization. Clearly communicate complex calculations and product mechanics to a wide range of stakeholders, including senior leadership.
• Own critical decisions that impact team operations, project prioritization, and long-term goals. Set and manage team schedules. Coordinate with peer leaders to balance delivery timelines with strategic development opportunities for staff.
• Lead performance management for direct reports. Set clear expectations, provide timely feedback, and hold team members accountable for results. Coach and mentor team members to strengthen technical depth, grow leadership capabilities, and deliver consistent stretch performance.
• Identify and cultivate high potential talent. Build a sustainable leadership pipeline through succession planning and experiential learning opportunities.

• Represent the team in enterprise forums. Advocate team priorities and clarify goals in alignment with broader business strategy. Ensure visibility and inclusion of the team’s perspectives in organizational planning.

• Monitor team dynamics, and proactively diffuse and resolve team conflicts.  Continually seek ways to improve team culture, cohesion, and performance.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in mathematics, finance, computer science or related field Required
• Minimum of 11 years of related work experience, OR   minimum of 8 years of related work experience with advanced degree
• Demonstrated leadership skills, including team development, performance management, and cross-functional engagement required.
• Demonstrated strong understanding of life and annuity product mechanics required 
• Proven ability to read and interpret policy forms, product specifications, and insurance regulations. Ability to assess regulatory impacts on system design and business operations.
• Experience working with Policy Administration and/or Illustration Systems for Life Insurance & Annuities products
• Understanding of MS Office suite of applications including very robust Excel capabilities.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively. Proven ability to influence across organizational levels and functions.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and organizational skills. Exceptional verbal and written communication.

Preferred Qualifications

• Mastery level understanding of product mechanics and calculations, including development of UL, IUL, whole life cash value and death benefit calculations, definition of life insurance and modified endowment calculations, interest theory, and other related actuarial product benefit calculations.
• Proficiency in SQL and Alteryx strongly preferred

Work Arrangements: 

Hybrid

• This position currently offers an onsite hybrid work schedule, with the expectation that you are in the office four days per week during onsite core days. Our current onsite core days are Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.  The work schedule type and core days are subject to change with advance notification and manager discretion.

Benefits

• Your benefits start day one and are flexible and customizable to your and your family’s specific needs. Check out the BENEFITS of a Career at National Life!

Role Summary

Please note that we do not offer visa sponsorship for this position.

Are you looking for the next step in your Compliance career with the opportunity to join Life & Annuity Compliance? We are seeking a talented individual who is passionate about continuing to grow their professional expertise through applying comprehensive understanding of fixed insurance regulations to areas of responsibility.

The successful candidate will become part of the Advertising Guidance team (“AGT”) and utilize advanced analytical and problem-solving techniques when reviewing and responding to advertising materials submitted by home office employees and appointed agents with independent distribution. In this role you will have the opportunity to adapt your communication style for diverse audiences and provide advice on challenging matters.

As part of our team, you will have the opportunity to apply the skills you have already gained, while continuing to grow your business and compliance knowledge, as you take the next step in your Compliance career journey. The main products handled by the Company are fixed life insurance, including indexed universal life insurance, along with living benefits, and fixed annuities, including fixed indexed annuities.

This position currently offers an onsite hybrid work schedule, with the expectation that you are in the office four (4) days per week during onsite core days.  Our current onsite core days are Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.  The work schedule type and core days are subject to change with advance notification and manager discretion.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Use basic business understanding and subject matter expertise to creatively resolve submitted advertising materials that vary in complexity by suggesting variations in approach when necessary and applying judgment to determine exceptions as needed.
  • Execution – 75%
  • Tactical – 25%
• Demonstrate full understanding of AGT processes and apply subject-matter expertise to timely complete assigned deliverables within internally established time standards.
• Independently complete tasks in alignment with policies and procedures with work reviewed by management or designated senior colleagues, at critical points.
• Strengthen relationships with senior internal and external (including regulators) peers.
• Apply judgment in alignment with policies and procedures when assessing unusual circumstances, identifying causes, and suggesting innovative approaches to meet short-term needs.
• Devise solutions with limited information, adapting existing approaches effectively.
• Fully integrate NLG values and Servant Leadership Tenets into daily work and serve as a model for junior colleagues in applying these principles.

Minimum Qualifications

• FINRA Series 7 & 24 registrations.
• 5+ years of progressive and relevant combination of compliance and/or life insurance and annuity work experience.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite.
• Ability to provide exceptional customer service through empathy, listening, and understanding client needs.
• Ability to understand and independently communicate general compliance topics.
• Demonstrate tact and professionalism and the ability to interact with individuals and leaders at all levels of the Company, the Field, and with the public on sensitive matters.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, with a high degree of accuracy.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality on sensitive matters.
• Strong organizational, time management, qualitative, and analytical skills.
• Demonstrate understanding of Company and departmental goals by designing and aligning individual goals to support annual goals and initiatives.
• Effectively work in a team environment, closely collaborating with business partners.
• All other duties as assigned.

Preferred Qualifications

• 3+ years compliance-related experience
• Pursuit of LOMA certifications
• Demonstrated comprehensive product knowledge of fixed life insurance and annuities

Benefits

• Your benefits start day one and are flexible and customizable to your and your family’s specific needs. Check out the BENEFITS of a Career at National Life!

Role Summary

The Senior Actuary – Modeling will report directly to the Head of Modeling COE and will be accountable for executing the strategic vision and operational excellence of our modeling initiatives. This role will provide thought leadership and mentorship to the team, interfacing with senior management and external stakeholders to deliver robust and innovative modeling solutions across key areas including ALM, Asset Adequacy Testing, ORSA, Risk Based Capital, VNB, as well as various special project initiatives.  

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES 

• Work with a team of highly skilled modeling actuaries to ensure robust modeled balance sheet integrity and deep understanding of actuarial modeled results 

• Analyze and interpret complex modeling results, providing actionable insights to senior leadership. 

• Establish, review, and continuously improve best practices for model development, production, and validation. 

• Mentor and develop the MCOE team through targeted training programs and development initiatives, elevating overall modeling proficiency. 

• Partner and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders to meet increasing business needs. 

• Support special projects and implementation of sound modeling methodologies and solutions. 

• Support production actuaries and help resolve issues and drive ongoing continuous improvements. 

• Help ensure compliance and consistency in methods across all lines of business. 

• Help develop deeper analytics across all lines of business. 

• Assist with new product implementation and ongoing validation work. 

JOB REQUIREMENTS 

• 10+ years of actuarial modeling experience with deep understanding of advanced modeling techniques, risk management, and regulatory frameworks.  

• 3+ years of influencing senior management/critical stakeholders experience. 

• Proven history of modeling enterprise balance sheets, including both assets and liabilities, under various economic scenarios. 

• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams and mentor less experienced professionals. 

• Strong communication skills with the ability to translate technical details into strategic business insights for senior management. 

• Exceptional problem-solving skills and the ability to think strategically about the integration of modeling processes across the organization. 

• Expert level knowledge of GAAP and Statutory regulations for Life and Annuity products with a preference for indexed products and reinsurance concepts. 
• Demonstrated ability or willingness to adopt and apply emerging technologies, including generative AI and automation tools, to improve reporting efficiency, effectiveness, and control quality.
• Prior experience with Economic Scenario Generation preferred. 

• Fellow or Associate of the Society of Actuaries (FSA or ASA) 

Benefits

• Your benefits start day one and are flexible and customizable to your and your family’s specific needs. Check out the BENEFITS of a Career at National Life!

Role Summary

Sponsorship is not available for this role.

This individual will support and may lead initiatives related to design and pricing of indexed and fixed annuity products. This includes product design, actuarial modeling, pricing, actuarial support of regulatory filings and support of sales ideas. This position will work closely with the broader Life & Annuity Solutions team, Distribution/Field Leaders, and Marketing to ensure new products and features are aligned with the company’s strategic goals.

This position currently offers an onsite work schedule, with the expectation that you are in the office four (4) days per week during onsite core days.  Our current onsite core days are Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.  The work schedule type and core days are subject to change with advance notification and manager discretion. 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Provide and discuss pricing results as well as sensitivity-analysis to senior Actuaries of the Company, including Product Risk Management Committee and Investments Risk Management committee.
• Present product features and/or actuarial results to Distribution Leadership, Product Risk Committee, Project Teams, Senior Management, and other stakeholders.
• Reviews experience studies and sets pricing assumptions.
• Prepare or review actuarial materials required to secure state approvals.
• Prepare or review product specifications and actuarial reports.
• Partner with the policy forms team to review forms as needed.
• Understands pricing practices, and develops as well as oversees modeling to set appropriate rates, understand profitability, and analyze sensitivities.
• Understands and can reverse engineer key features of competitor products.
• Reviews product marketing materials as appropriate.
• Partner with the policy forms team to review forms as needed.
• Coordinates and reviews work of outside actuarial consultants.
• Train and mentor actuarial students/analysts as needed.
• Provide support to other business areas
• Consult or advise on broader matters that may or may not be actuarial in nature
• Proactively identifies and ensures compliance with legal and regulatory requirements

Minimum Qualifications

• FSA or career ASA designation from the Society of Actuaries
•  A minimum of 6 years of actuarial experience with in-depth knowledge of annuity products and benefits
• Solid financial modeling experience using actuarial software, preferably MG-ALFA.
• Working knowledge of applicable Valuation, Nonforfeiture, tax, risk-based-capital and other relevant regulations and standards.
• Ability to work with Distribution Leadership and multiple stakeholders to design and develop new annuity products and features.
• Self-motivated and result-focused
• Exceptional analytical acumen and advanced problem-solving skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills 
• Must be able to successfully complete a background check that may include fingerprinting

Preferred Qualifications

• Member of the American Academy of Actuaries
• Indexed Annuity Pricing experience a major plus

Benefits

• Your benefits start day one and are flexible and customizable to your and your family’s specific needs. Check out the BENEFITS of a Career at National Life!

Please note that we do not offer visa sponsorship for this position.

Role Summary

The Product Domain Technical Lead plays a pivotal role within the Product & Inforce organization, driving major Product Launch initiatives and shaping technical solutions across the product ecosystem. This is a hands-on technical leadership role that requires deep expertise in life and annuity products, application architecture, and integration frameworks.

As a key member of cross-functional SCRUM teams, you will collaborate with Product Managers, Scrum Masters, Developers, and Quality Engineers across global locations. You will ensure the delivery of end-to-end technical solutions for complex business needs within a dynamic environment. This position provides an opportunity to contribute directly to product modernization and innovation initiatives.

This position currently offers an onsite work schedule, with the expectation that you are in the office four (4) days per week during onsite core days.  Our current onsite core days are Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.  The work schedule type and core days are subject to change with advance notification and manager discretion.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Technical Leadership & Delivery

• Provide hands-on technical leadership for Product Domain initiatives, including design, development, integration, and implementation.
• Translate business and product requirements into detailed technical designs and specifications aligned with enterprise architecture standards.
• Evaluate technology options and trade-offs to ensure feasibility, scalability, and performance of solutions.
• Drive the adoption of AI-assisted coding, refactoring, and documentation practices to enhance productivity and reduce legacy maintenance overhead.
• Drive end-to-end solution delivery, from architecture through deployment and support.

Collaboration & Stakeholder Management

• Partner with Product Owners and Business Stakeholders to align technology strategy with product vision and business goals.
• Build strong trust-based relationships across departments to drive alignment and innovation.
• Work closely with Architects and IT teams to define, implement, and maintain standards, processes, and roadmaps for the Product domain.
• Coordinate with cross-functional teams to ensure efficient resource utilization and timely delivery of initiatives.

Process Improvement & Innovation

• Identify opportunities for application modernization, rationalization, and transformation toward a simplified, modern system platform.
• Lead process re-engineering and technology implementation initiatives to optimize operational efficiency.
• Identify opportunities to apply Generative AI for knowledge extraction, documentation creation, and code migration from legacy systems.
• Support strategic financial developments for new product launches, ensuring technology enablement aligns with financial and regulatory objectives.

Governance & Quality

• Ensure that technical solutions meet business requirements and comply with architecture, security, and quality standards.
• Manage estimation, cost, and scheduling for all domain-related solutions and projects.
• Oversee the release management and testing processes to ensure high-quality delivery.
• Establish best practices for AI governance, model validation, and responsible AI usage within Mainframe Product development.
• Communicate effectively across organizational levels, providing clear updates and guidance on project progress and risks.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• 15+ years of experience in Full System Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Expertise in IBM Mainframe technologies: COBOL, JCL, SQL, CICS, DB2, VSAM, ISPF/PDF, FILE-AID, MVS, Endevor.
• Proven experience in Life and Annuity Product systems, particularly on Vantage Policy Administration Platform:
• 15+ years of Product domain experience preferred.
• 7+ years leading teams on Vantage systems preferred.
• Strong conceptual and analytical skills with the ability to design and build complex algorithms.
• Demonstrated success leading in matrixed, outsourced environments, leveraging influence and collaboration.
• Experience in managing third-party IT suppliers cost-effectively.
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies and iterative delivery processes highly desired.
• Strong organizational, leadership, and communication skills with a proactive, adaptive mindset.

Key Competencies

• Strategic Thinking and Technical Vision
• Leadership in Cross-Functional Teams
• Architecture and Integration Design
• Agile and DevOps Practices
• Change and Risk Management
• Continuous Improvement and Innovation

Career Path

This role offers a clear progression toward an Applications Domain Head position within the Product & Inforce organization, providing opportunities for strategic leadership and enterprise impact.

Benefits

• Your benefits start day one and are flexible and customizable to your and your family’s specific needs. Check out the BENEFITS of a Career at National Life!

About Us

NLG Capital, the investment management company of NLG, manages approximately $40+ billion in AUM. Our purpose is simple – to allow NLG to keep its promises. How we do this – an obsessive focus on delivering investment results. We drive results through a rigorous but collaborative investment process, and we hold ourselves to the highest of standards, both as investors and teammates. While our process is based on rigor, our culture is based on our guiding principles: Meritocracy, Uncompromising Transparency, Intellectual Honesty, Performance Driven Learning, Relentless Pursuit of Excellence. These principles serve as the foundation of our team.  They govern the way we conduct ourselves, how we interact with teammates and how we approach every investment decision.  We act with the integrity and humility required to make the investment decision that is right for the firm, and ultimately our policyholders.  Our culture has been deliberately built to foster curiosity and provide opportunities to learn and grow, both as people and investors. The flat and collaborative nature of our team promotes an atmosphere where the best ideas are continually expressed and rewarded. Our pursuit of excellence is unwavering.

Please note that we do not offer visa sponsorship for this position.

Role Summary

The Residential Whole Loan - Analyst/Associate will be a key contributor to the execution of our residential mortgage investment strategy spanning over $1.5 billion in whole loan residential mortgages.  In this role, the Associate will support market analysis, loan stratification and data-driven pricing, underwriting support, and portfolio monitoring and reporting. The role requires strong technical skills to enhance data processing, automation, and analytics within the investment process. The ideal candidate should be eager to learn, adaptable to evolving capital markets, and comfortable integrating technology into financial analysis. Additionally, this role will also support ongoing business development efforts, including analyzing new origination channels and conducting due diligence. The Associate will cross train and develop other members of the team, ensuring proper depth of talent and resources within the capital markets function.

The Associate will have experience in the residential mortgage and/or RMBS structured finance markets including, but not limited to: asset-level contract finance, due diligence (asset valuation, credit and compliance), collateral analysis, risk mitigation, product development, regulation compliance, and vendor/client management. The ideal candidate will be an effective communicator and presenter, analytical, ethical, collegial, and driven individual with proven track record in residential mortgage investment.

This position currently offers an onsite work schedule, with the expectation that you are in the office four days per week during onsite core days. Our current onsite core days are Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.  The work schedule type and core days are subject to change with advance notification and manager discretion.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Support the residential mortgage team on transactions and asset management of the residential mortgage investment portfolio
• Perform deep sector specific research and analysis, identify relative value and potential trade opportunities, and communicate ideas across the team
• Keep portfolio managers updated on key developments in mortgage related sectors, and contribute to the team’s strategic outlook in both whole loan and securitized markets
• Help negotiate and manage flow and bulk contracts
• Collaborate with trade support, accounting, and technology departments along with vendor partners on settlement tie-out and trade management
• Clear collateral exceptions with document custodian to make sure all collateral documents are received within the trailing document period
• Track and manage collateral and credit file requirements
• Manage the Know Your Counterparty process for vendors and trade partners
• Complete diligence scope and diligence findings on each transaction based on feedback from investment committee
• Ensure trade stipulations complied with by Seller as per contracts (purchase agreement and trade confirm)
• Build, develop, and enhance analytical systems supporting the Residential Mortgage Investment team
• Compile and manage the residential mortgage monthly reporting (portfolio analysis, trade activity, performance attribution, asset exposure)

Minimum Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree (preferably in accounting, finance, economics, math, or engineering)
• 5+ years experience within the residential mortgage space
• Knowledge of mortgage structured finance including Agency / Non-Agency MBS and Credit Risk Transfer (CRT) markets, with the skills to run various sensitivity and scenario analysis using prepayment models
• Familiarity with loan-level due diligence, collateral, and contract finance for residential mortgage loans
• Strong quantitative skills, with proficiency in Excel, Powerpoint, and customer relationship management software
• Drawn to incorporating technology and best-practices to transaction management policies and procedures
• Ability to wear many hats and ensure that the business is being executed with zero-defect or exceptions and with strong work ethic
• First-principles mindset and ability to think critically and challenge status quo
• Solid interpersonal skills and ability to connect to form meaningful working partnerships
• Experience driving projects to completion
• Ability and desire to work in a dynamic and demanding environment

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of mortgage modeling systems (Intex, Yieldbook) and programming (Python, SQL) considered a strong plus

Benefits

• Your benefits start day one and are flexible and customizable to your and your family’s specific needs. Check out the BENEFITS of a Career at National Life!

About Us

NLG Capital, the investment management company of NLG, manages approximately $40+ billion in AUM. Our purpose is simple – to allow NLG to keep its promises. How we do this – an obsessive focus on delivering investment results. We drive results through a rigorous but collaborative investment process, and we hold ourselves to the highest of standards, both as investors and teammates. While our process is based on rigor, our culture is based on our guiding principles: Meritocracy, Uncompromising Transparency, Intellectual Honesty, Performance Driven Learning, Relentless Pursuit of Excellence. These principles serve as the foundation of our team.  They govern the way we conduct ourselves, how we interact with teammates and how we approach every investment decision.  We act with the integrity and humility required to make the investment decision that is right for the firm, and ultimately our policyholders.  Our culture has been deliberately built to foster curiosity and provide opportunities to learn and grow, both as people and investors. The flat and collaborative nature of our team promotes an atmosphere where the best ideas are continually expressed and rewarded. Our pursuit of excellence is unwavering.

Please note that we do not offer visa sponsorship for this position.

Role Summary

As a member of NLG Capital’s Commercial Real Estate team, this role supports the origination, underwriting, and closing of commercial mortgage investments on behalf of National Life Group. The Analyst will contribute to financial modeling, credit analysis, and market research to support investment decisions and ongoing portfolio management.

This position currently offers an onsite work schedule, with the expectation that you will be in the office four (4) days per week during onsite core days.  Our current onsite core days are Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.  The work schedule type and core days are subject to change with advance notification and manager discretion.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Origination & Underwriting

• Analyze and underwrite commercial mortgage loan opportunities, including cash flow modeling and debt sizing.
• Build and maintain financial models (cash flow projections, IRR, NPV, sensitivity analyses).
• Evaluate investments across property types, including multifamily, industrial, retail, office, and niche sectors.
• Assess key credit metrics such as DSCR, LTV, and debt yield.
• Perform sensitivity analysis on interest rates, vacancy, and exit assumptions.

Structuring & Execution

• Support loan structuring, including amortization, covenants, reserves, and pricing.
• Review third-party reports (appraisals, engineering, environmental, sponsor analysis).
• Analyze leases, operating statements
• Coordinate with legal, appraisal, and internal stakeholders throughout the closing process.
• Assist in preparation of credit memos and investment committee materials.

Portfolio Management & Reporting

• Maintain pipeline tracking and portfolio analytics.
• Support quarterly and annual portfolio reporting.
• Monitor loan performance, including covenant compliance and credit quality.
• Assist with risk rating assessments and internal reporting.
• Support asset management activities

Market Research & Risk Assessment

• Conduct market research on supply/demand dynamics, rent trends, and liquidity.
• Identify and evaluate risks, including tenant rollover, capital expenditures, and market conditions.

All other duties as assigned

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Real Estate, or related field and 2 or more years of related experience.
• Strong Excel skills, including pivot tables and financial functions, including NPV.
• Experience with financial modeling and underwriting.
• Understanding of real estate fundamentals and capital structures.
• Demonstrated understanding of capital market dynamics and pricing.
• Knowledge of, and experience in, structuring positions with the capital stack and relative value.
• Strong analytical, research, and problem-solving skills.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills.
• Results-oriented with strong attention to detail.
• Able to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Collaborative, with the ability to work both independently and as part of a team.
• Demonstrates sound judgment, intellectual curiosity, and accountability.

Preferred Qualifications

• MBA with concentration in Finance, Real Estate, or related field.
• 3 – 5 years of experience in commercial real estate or related field.
• Experience using VBA in Excel.
• Experience with ARGUS CRE valuation software.

Benefits

• Your benefits start day one and are flexible and customizable to your and your family’s specific needs. Check out the BENEFITS of a Career at National Life!

About Us

NLG Capital, the investment management company of NLG, manages approximately $40+ billion in AUM. Our purpose is simple – to allow NLG to keep its promises. How we do this – an obsessive focus on delivering investment results. We drive results through a rigorous but collaborative investment process, and we hold ourselves to the highest of standards, both as investors and teammates. While our process is based on rigor, our culture is based on our guiding principles: Meritocracy, Uncompromising Transparency, Intellectual Honesty, Performance Driven Learning, Relentless Pursuit of Excellence. These principles serve as the foundation of our team.  They govern the way we conduct ourselves, how we interact with teammates and how we approach every investment decision.  We act with the integrity and humility required to make the investment decision that is right for the firm, and ultimately our policyholders.  Our culture has been deliberately built to foster curiosity and provide opportunities to learn and grow, both as people and investors. The flat and collaborative nature of our team promotes an atmosphere where the best ideas are continually expressed and rewarded. Our pursuit of excellence is unwavering.

Please note that we do not offer visa sponsorship for this position.

Role Summary

The Director, Commercial Real Estate Origination is a senior originator to lead the sourcing, structuring, and execution of commercial real estate debt investments.  This role is responsible for developing a consistent pipeline of institutional-quality opportunities and advancing the firm’s credit strategy and portfolio objectives.  The position is relationship-driven, focused on originating transactions across core property types while partnering closely with underwriting, asset management, and senior leadership through closing.

This position currently offers an onsite work schedule, with the expectation that you will be in the office four (4) days per week during onsite core days.  Our current onsite core days are Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.  The work schedule type and core days are subject to change with advance notification and manager discretion.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Origination & Relationship Management

• Build and maintain a pipeline of high-quality investment opportunities.
• Develop and manage relationships with sponsors, brokers, and mortgage bankers.
• Travel to key markets for client meetings, broker engagement, and site visits.
• Represent NLG Capital through industry engagement and conferences.

Underwriting & Structuring

• Originate, structure, and close commercial mortgage loans (typically $15M–$60M).
• Underwrite stabilized, transitional (bridge), and construction loans.
• Assess business plans, lease-up risk, capital expenditures, and exit strategies.
• Structure loans within credit parameters aligned with risk-return objectives.
• Perform cash flow analysis, market evaluation, and sponsor credit review.

Execution & Credit Approval

• Prepare and present investment memoranda to internal credit committees.
• Negotiate loan terms, pricing, covenants, and legal documentation.
• Coordinate with internal and external stakeholders through closing.

Portfolio & Market Strategy

• Monitor market conditions and capital markets trends.
• Partner with portfolio management on diversification across assets and geographies.
• Collaborate with asset management to support portfolio performance and risk mitigation.

All other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Real Estate, or related field and 6 - 8 years of related experience.
• 6 or more years of commercial real estate lending experience with a track record of originations.
• Experience underwriting stabilized, transitional/bridge, and construction loans.
• Strong knowledge of credit underwriting, real estate fundamentals, and loan structuring.
• Established network of sponsors, brokers, and mortgage bankers.
• Advanced Excel and financial modeling skills.
• Experience using commercial real estate (CRE) software used for valuation and cash flow modeling.
• Strong analytical, research, and communication skills.
• High integrity, sound judgment, and disciplined risk approach.

Preferred Qualifications

• MBA with concentration in Finance, Real Estate, or related field.
• At least 8 years progressive experience commercial real estate lending and origination.
• Experience with ARGUS CRE Valuation software.

Benefits

• Your benefits start day one and are flexible and customizable to your and your family’s specific needs. Check out the BENEFITS of a Career at National Life!

Senior Analyst, Data Project (ERP Focus)

Please note that we do not offer visa sponsorship for this position.

At National Life Group we are in the process of transforming our approach to managing and using data. To maximize its value, it is critical that our data is timely, accurate, consistent, and well-defined throughout the organization. Success relies on strong commitment and collaboration from all areas of the organization, with the Data Team playing a key role in this transformation. In this role, you will have the opportunity to work with various teams across the data lifecycle and engage with senior and executive leadership throughout the organization.

This position currently offers an onsite work schedule, with the expectation that you are in the office four (4) days per week during onsite core days. Our current onsite core days are Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.  The work schedule type and core days are subject to change with advance notification and manager discretion.

We are seeking a data enthusiast who thrives in transformative environments. You may also have experience in product ownership or product management.  The ideal candidate will embrace the culture of National Life – where servant leadership, upholding company values & applying learnings to performance are valued above all else.

As a key member of our data team, the Senior Analyst role will lead the execution of data-driven initiatives across the organization. A primary focus will be ownership of data work for a large-scale ERP implementation, as well as supporting transformational finance data migrations to our cloud data platforms. Key responsibilities include:

1. Data product ownership:
   • Oversee project scope and prioritization from discovery to delivery of data products, especially in the finance data domain.
   • Develop and manage a thoughtful and integrated project roadmap and backlog.
   • Present updates on incremental project deliveries to business partners and leadership audiences.
2. Project team leadership:
   • Lead the daily work of a cross-functional project team including data engineers, data architects, quality engineers, project managers, and business analysts.
   • Manage timelines, costs, resources, and scope as key measures of success.
   • Build team relationships to foster growth and mentorship.
3. Stakeholder collaboration:
   • Work closely with cross-functional teams (technical and non-technical) to understand business requirements, prioritize tasks, and deliver high-value data and analytics products.
   • Manage stakeholder relationships to effectively balance business needs with technical capabilities.
4. Thought leadership and strategy:
   • Collaborate with non-technical stakeholders to define project needs and effectively translate the product vision to technical teams.
   • Provide strategic guidance to business partners throughout the data lifecycle to promote a data-driven decision-making culture.
   • Contribute to the larger Data Team vision to enable data as a strategic asset across the organization.
5. Data governance and quality management:
   • Implement and champion data governance practices throughout projects to ensure data integrity, quality, and reliability across all data product deliveries.

Requirements & Qualifications: 

• Bachelor's degree in Math, Economics, Engineering, Computer Science, or a related quantitative field.
• 10+ years of combined post-secondary education and relevant work experience, with a focus on product management, data governance, data management, or data analytics.
• 8+ years of hands-on experience leading and executing enterprise projects in a product owner/manager role, with a proven track record of delivering on time, on budget, in scope, and with high adoption of final product. Data cloud migration experience is a plus.
• Prior involvement in large-scale ERP transformations, especially managing data dependencies, cross-functional workflows, and other supporting data and reporting activities is preferred.
• Hands-on experience with Databricks or other cloud-based data analytics platforms (e.g., Snowflake, AWS Redshift).
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts and solutions to non-technical audiences clearly and effectively.

• Proven ability to work across cross-functionally across departments and communicate with various stakeholders to gather requirements and drive project success.
• Analytical mindset with experience in solving complex problems and deriving effective solutions. Ability to independently navigate ambiguity in decision making.

• Experience in data modeling and designing data structures to optimize business insights and value is a plus.
• Experience using business intelligence tools like Tableau and Alteryx for data visualization and analysis is preferred.
• Proficiency in coding languages such as SQL, Python, Pyspark, etc. is preferred.

Benefits

• Your benefits start day one and are flexible and customizable to your and your family’s specific needs. Check out the BENEFITS of a Career at National Life!

Please note that we do not offer visa sponsorship for this position.

Role Summary

The Project Management Practice Lead is accountable for designing, evolving, and enabling the enterprise delivery system as a value delivery engine. This role establishes principles, capabilities, and practices that allow the organization to translate strategy into outcomes effectively. The Practice Lead drives alignment across functions, reduces friction in decision-making, and builds a high-performing PM capability focused on value, flow, and adaptability.

This position currently offers an onsite work schedule, with the expectation that you are in the office four days per week during onsite core days. Our current onsite core days are Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.  The work schedule type and core days are subject to change with advance notification and manager discretion.

This role requires a minimum of 10 years of Life and Annuity industry experience.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Initiation & Value Alignment

• Ensure enterprise initiatives align to strategy and value outcomes
• Define principles and guardrails for value-based delivery and prioritization
• Partner with strategy and portfolio functions to reinforce outcome alignment

Adaptive Planning & Flow Management

• Design systems that enable flow across the enterprise
• Partner with Portfolio to optimize sequencing, capacity and prioritization
• Remove systemic barriers to flow and improve speed to value

Risk, Uncertainty & Decision Enablement

• Establish decision frameworks and governance models
• Reduce decision latency and organizational ambiguity
• Enable consistent, transparent tradeoff management across the enterprise

Stakeholder Alignment & Influence

• Align Strategy, Portfolio, Business, and Technology functions
• Build a culture of accountability, transparency, and collaboration
• Influence executive leadership to support value-based delivery practices

Minimum Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience leading enterprise delivery or transformation initiatives
• Minimum of 10 years of experience within the Life and Annuity industry, with demonstrated understanding of products, operations, and regulatory environment
• Demonstrated experience leading, coaching, and scaling Project Management teams in a complex, enterprise environment
• Demonstrated success evolving organizations from process-driven to value-driven delivery
• Deep expertise with enterprise prioritization, portfolio management, and decision frameworks
• Proven ability to design and optimize enterprise delivery systems
• Strong systems thinking and ability to operate in complex environments
• Executive-level influencing capability across business and technology leadership
• Proven track record of building and scaling high-performing PM capabilities
• Strong financial, strategic, and operational acumen
• PMP or equivalent experience required; advanced degree preferred

Benefits

• Your benefits start day one and are flexible and customizable to your and your family’s specific needs. Check out the BENEFITS of a Career at National Life!

Please note that we do not offer visa sponsorship for this position.

Role Summary

The Senior Project Manager is accountable for optimizing delivery across multiple initiatives or programs, ensuring the system of work delivers expected business value. This role enables cross-functional decision-making, manages systemic risks, and improves flow across the organization. The Senior PM operates at a strategic level, aligning execution to enterprise priorities and driving value realization.

This position currently offers an onsite work schedule, with the expectation that you are in the office four days per week during onsite core days. Our current onsite core days are Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.  The work schedule type and core days are subject to change with advance notification and manager discretion.

This role requires a minimum of 8 years of Life and Annuity industry experience.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Initiation & Value Alignment

• Drive alignment of initiatives to strategic objectives and enterprise priorities
• Lead tradeoff decisions to maximize value across competing initiatives
• Ensure initiatives are connected to measurable business outcomes

Adaptive Planning & Flow Management

• Optimize sequencing, capacity, and flow across programs and teams
• Identify and remove systemic bottlenecks and constraints
• Enable coordinated execution across interconnected initiatives

Risk, Uncertainty & Decision Enablement

• Enable cross-functional decision-making across leaders and domains
• Anticipate systemic risks and second-order impacts
• Resolve ambiguity and guide teams through complex trade-offs

Stakeholder Alignment & Influence

• Align senior stakeholders with competing priorities and constraints
• Influence decision-making at leadership level
• Maintain enterprise-level visibility of progress, risks and value

Minimum Qualifications

• 10–15 years of experience leading complex programs or multi-team initiative
• Minimum of 8 years of experience within the Life and Annuity industry, with demonstrated understanding of products, operations, and regulatory environment
• Proven ability to deliver strategic initiatives with measurable business outcomes
• Strong experience managing interdependencies across domains and functions
• Advanced capability in decision facilitation, tradeoff analysis and ambiguity resolution
• Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive enterprise alignment
• Strong financial and operational acumen tied to value realization
• Expertise in multiple delivery methodologies and tools
• Strong executive presence and decision facilitation capability
• PMP or equivalent experience expected; track record of enterprise impact

Benefits

• Your benefits start day one and are flexible and customizable to your and your family’s specific needs. Check out the BENEFITS of a Career at National Life!

Please note that we do not offer visa sponsorship for this position.

Role Summary

This leadership position will play a critical role in the Customer and Agent Experience within our New Business area of our Customer Innovation Group (CIG) and will partner with other teams across multiple locations to provide strategy, direction, leadership, and management.  This position will lead several teams located on our Addison, Texas Campus consisting of Team Managers and Case Managers aligned to support key distribution relationships.  Activities include everything from application submission to the issuance of a policy contract.  

This position currently offers an onsite work schedule, with the expectation that you are in the office four (4) days per week during onsite core days.  Our current onsite core days are Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.  The work schedule type and core days are subject to change with advance notification and manager discretion.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Provide leadership to ensure all activities are consistent with our goals, guidelines and culture by monitoring trends and evolving our strategy to keep up with changing customer expectations
• Actively participate on collaborative panels, committees and teams with Marketing, Distribution, Operations, Finance, and other key areas to drive overall business results
• Develop and maintain productivity and quality standards through audit and other review mechanisms to ensure policy, procedures, and objectives are carried out
• Motivate and coach teams to meet service goals and increase productivity while driving down unit costs
• Focus on employee development, succession and career planning through management, coaching and development

Minimum Qualifications

The qualified candidate will have substantial experience in Annuity/Life Operations marked by strong business relationships, skilled leadership and demonstrated business results.  Must have 10+ years of Operational leadership experience and a four-year college degree with a strong academic record. Advanced education (Masters) is preferred but not required.

Must possess the following skills and abilities:

• Strategic, internally/externally focused individual adept at leading people and initiatives
• Broad industry perspective and strong general business acumen
• Working knowledge of insurance operations
• Ability to target continuous improvement opportunities and drive execution focused on enhancing our service delivery and boosting overall performance
• Collaborative solutioning style; Strong bias for action
• High energy; Enthusiastic
• Self-starter; Curious learner
• Takes accountability for quality results, for treating others professionally and respectfully, and for using productive communication that fosters teamwork and collaboration
• Excellent communication skills
• Some travel between campuses will be required
• Must be able to successfully pass a background check

Benefits

• Your benefits start day one and are flexible and customizable to your and your family’s specific needs. Check out the BENEFITS of a Career at National Life!

Please note that we do not offer visa sponsorship for this position.

Role Summary

At National Life Group, our enterprise data and analytics practice is well established, and we are now focused on further evolving and maturing how we organize, govern, and unlock value from our data. To sustain that progress it is critical that we have timely, accurate, consistent and well-defined data throughout the organization. Success depends on strong commitment & collaboration from all areas of the organization, and the Advanced Analytics & Governance team within the Chief Data Office is central to advancing this work.

The Director, Advanced Analytics & Governance is a senior leadership role within the Chief Data Office responsible for driving the continued maturation of the organization’s analytics and reporting capabilities and for advancing enterprise-wide analytics standards. In this role, you will lead a team of data analysts, analytics engineers, reporting governance specialists, and data stewards to deliver high-impact solutions while ensuring data is trusted, secure, compliant, and governed effectively across the enterprise. You’ll operate at the intersection of business, analytics, and technology — bridging technical innovation in advanced analytics with robust data governance, privacy, and ethical standards.

As a senior leader on our data team, the Director, Advanced Analytics & Governance will set the strategy and oversee execution of analytics initiatives across the organization, building on an established foundation. Key responsibilities include:

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Evolve and execute the enterprise strategy for advanced analytics and reporting governance in alignment with the overall CDO vision and business objectives.
• Lead the design, development, and deployment of advanced analytics solutions — including predictive modeling, machine learning, deep learning, and optimization — and oversee the end-to-end analytics lifecycle from problem framing through model deployment and monitoring.
• Mature and scale the enterprise analytics platform and self-service analytics environment to empower business users while maintaining governance controls.
• Oversee production support and administration of the data analytics systems, ensuring reliability, availability, and operational excellence across the environment.
• Continuously refine and strengthen the enterprise analytics governance framework, including policies, standards, quality metrics, SLAs, metadata management, and remediation processes.
• Lead reporting stewardship programs and ensure clear ownership and accountability across business and technology teams; oversee compliance with data-related regulations (GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, HIPAA, etc.) and internal policies for privacy, security, and ethical data usage.
• Build, mentor, and lead the Business Informatics team, manage talent acquisition, performance management, career development, and succession planning.
• Partner with business leaders, IT, and other CDO functions to identify high-value use cases where advanced analytics can drive revenue, efficiency, customer experience, or risk mitigation.
• Act as a trusted advisor to the CDO and executive leadership; present complex analytics findings and governance strategies to senior executives and non-technical stakeholders in clear, actionable terms.
• Evaluate and recommend analytics and governance tools and technologies (e.g., Tableau, Power BI, Databricks) and drive adoption of modern analytics and reporting architectures leveraging the enterprise data platform.
• Champion a data-driven culture by deepening adoption of analytics insights and governed data assets across the organization.

Obviously, we are looking for someone who loves data! Beyond that, a successful candidate will be a strategic leader who is energized by the work of further maturing and evolving an established analytics practice. They will also contribute to the culture of National Life – where servant leadership, company values & applying learnings to performance are valued above all else.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Information Systems, Analytics, or a related quantitative field
• 10+ years of progressive experience in data analytics, data science, or data governance, with at least 5+ years in a leadership role
• Proven track record of advancing and scaling advanced analytics capabilities in a complex organization
• Strong experience refining and operating enterprise analytics governance programs, including data quality, metadata, and compliance frameworks
• Analytical mindset with the ability to navigate ambiguity in decision making and to translate complex technical concepts into business language
• Deep expertise in modern data platforms (cloud, Databricks, Snowflake, etc.) is preferred
• Strong knowledge of programming languages such as Python, R, and SQL, and big data technologies (Spark, Hadoop, etc.) is preferred
• Experience with MLOps, model lifecycle management, data cataloging, lineage, and quality management platforms is preferred
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and modern data architectures is preferred
• Experience working in a Chief Data Office (CDO) or similar central data organization is preferred
• Industry experience in Life Insurance is preferred
• Certifications such as CDMP (Certified Data Management Professional), DAMA, or analytics governance certifications are preferred

Key Competencies & Personal Attributes:

• Strategic Thinking: Ability to align technical capabilities with business outcomes.
• Leadership & Influence: Proven ability to lead without direct authority and influence at all levels.
• Communication: Exceptional ability to translate complex technical concepts into business language.
• Collaboration: Strong partnership-building skills across diverse stakeholder groups.
• Innovation Mindset: Passion for leveraging emerging technologies to solve business problems.
• Ethical Orientation: Deep commitment to responsible data and analytics practices.
• Results-Oriented: Demonstrated ability to deliver measurable business impact through analytics and governance.

Benefits

• Your benefits start day one and are flexible and customizable to your and your family’s specific needs. Check out the BENEFITS of a Career at National Life!

Please note that we do not offer visa sponsorship for this position.

Summary

Reporting directly to the head of Technology Finance and Partner Management, this role functions as the Controller for the IT organization, with responsibility for financial management, vendor financial oversight, and contract governance.

1. Oversee IT financials - Responsible for forecasting, spend reporting, and budgeting in a complex environment with spend over $100M. This will entail working closely with colleagues in Finance and all IT departments. Activities might include restructuring of IT’s chart of accounts and allocations to internal customer groups.
2. Manage and negotiate IT contracts - This role is responsible for negotiations and contracting for all technology-related contracts including collaborating with Legal, other departments and executive leadership.
3. Manage and improve supplier governance - This will entail improving the value delivered by suppliers and maturing overall supplier management discipline.  
4. CPA is required for this role,
5. This position is not a remote role, it requires working in the Dallas office. 

Candidates for this role must be self-starters who can operate with a high degree of autonomy, collaborate effectively and consistently show sound business judgment. Candidates should have demonstrated success in managing IT suppliers at large scale (hundreds of personnel), including offshore consultants.  Ideal candidates will have demonstrated success in improving IT supplier management processes and tools. All candidates should be comfortable understanding and helping to negotiate complex, multi-$M, multi-year technology contracts.  Candidates must have financial reporting and accounting experience and have demonstrated success in managing technology financial reporting, and have their CPA certification. Candidates must also have experience directly leading and managing a team.  This role will be the current leader’s successor within the next two years.

MAIN JOB DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES:

The AVP, Technology Finance and Partner Management is responsible for:

Financial Management:

Partner with the CIO and other IT leaders to own $150M+ IT expense and capital budget, forecast financial performance and ensure that spending aligns with business objectives.

• Lead IT’s annual budget preparation process, including budget reviews with senior finance and business executives, drafting communication materials and supporting CIO for executive budget reviews.  
• Oversee all IT direct spend reporting and analysis including automation of monthly reports and coordinating with FMG on monthly, quarterly and annual accruals.
• Lead implementation of IT Financial Management system to improve transparency and granularity of IT cost attribution.  Develop reporting and lead continued analysis of cost drivers and saving opportunities for IT.  Track achievement of savings for forecasting and budgeting purposes.   Lead IT showback reporting for business departments and tracking of action plans for cost reductions.
• Oversee IT discretionary spending, such as Travel and Training.
• Validate forecasts for financial reporting.
• Where appropriate, work with Finance to restructure IT’s chart of accounts and allocation of expenses to consuming customer groups. 

Contract & Risk Management:

• Establish and enforce IT’s contract policy and standards including implementing and managing the process for all technology contract reviews to address key 3rd party risks.
• Lead, provide oversight or assist in terms negotiations, pricing negotiations and service level agreements for multi-million dollar and multi-year technology agreements including MSA’s, SOW’s, outsourcing agreements and software.  Assure alignment with NLG policies and standards, approximately 400 agreements per year
• Partner with Legal, Risk and executive leadership to mitigate third-party, data, AI and regulatory risks.  Lead evaluation of existing contracts for assessing risks and updating terms, particularly AI and data terms.
• Oversee contract lifecycle management tools and processes.

Supplier Management:

• Work closely with stakeholders to run governance forums (QBR’s, MBR’s), manage and improve key supplier metrics to measure supplier performance. This requires taking an active, hands-on role in the day-to-day management of IT suppliers.
• Supporting the National Life IT leadership team by clarifying supplier responsibilities and resolving disputes.  Serve as key point of contact for vendor escalations.
• Manage vendor Quarterly Business reviews and key vendor monthly governance meetings.
• Collaborate with key stakeholders outside IT, including Operations, Legal, Finance and Risk.
• Implement and expand the IT vendor governance program to address vendor performance of key suppliers, including service level agreements and other vendor obligations.
• Manage the operational/execution aspects of NLG’s IT outsourcing contracts. As necessary, assist with the negotiation of these contracts.  Responsible for approval of onboarding contract resources.
• Oversee NLG’s Third Party Risk Management policies, procedures and ongoing vendor risk management including regulatory compliance.
• Optimize IT’s vendor portfolio and improve procedures, standards and processes for working with IT suppliers.
• Maintain and enhance tools used for supplier management, including supplier tracking and performance.

Executive and People Leadership:

• Model NLG values and servant leadership tenants and contribute new ideas and initiatives that align with these principles.
• Partner closely with IT senior leadership team to drive improvements and lead IT initiatives.
• Work closely on a daily/weekly basis with the CIO regarding finances, contracts, vendors and IT improvement initiatives.
• Develop relationships with senior leaders and executives outside the IT organization to drive improvements and help influence direction.
• May lead team within IT Finance and Partner Management, including guidance, coaching, goal setting and performance management.
• May lead cross-functional teams in support of specific projects or goals.

KNOWLEDGE/EDUCATION:

• CPA license is required.
• Minimum of bachelor's degree in a related field and at least 15 year of progressive experience in IT financial management, vendor management and technology operations.
• At least 10 years of experience directly performing accounting function and Finance Controller for a complex IT organization.  Experience with IT Financial Management tools, IT Showbacks and IT Chargebacks.
• At least 6 years of hands-on experience in a vendor management leadership role managing multiple large-scale IT vendors in a highly diverse environment.
• Demonstrated success leading negotiations for complex multi-million dollar technology contracts.
• Experience leading and developing teams.
• Proven experience in Life/Annuity Insurance will be considered an asset.

SKILLS/COMPETENCIES:

• Proven experience working with major global outsourcing suppliers in on-shore and off-shore models.
• Proven experience applying AI within IT financial or vendor analytics environments.
• Experience working in a multi-campus, offshore, nearshore and onshore environment.
• At least 6 years directly managing an internal team and managing outsourced resources.
• Strength in collaborating across business units and teams.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience with common practices in IT financials.
• Familiarity with ITSM/ITIL processes and practices.
• Advanced skill level in Excel.  Proven experience in application of AI within IT functions , and developing in Tableau and Alteryx are a plus.
• Exceptional organizational skills and attention to details.
• Strong analytical problem-solving skills.
• Able to work independently and collaboratively.
• Positive, can-do attitude with a willingness to learn and improve every day.

 Benefits

• Your benefits start day one and are flexible and customizable to your and your family’s specific needs. Check out the BENEFITS of a Career at National Life!

Please note that we do not offer visa sponsorship for this position.

This role required a minimum of 10 years of Life and Annuity information technology experience.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

National Life Group is in the midst of significant growth and enterprise transformation, requiring technology to evolve to the next gen of maturity to enable greater scale, better customer experiences, and foster top-line growth. The role of the Chief Technology Officer is to lead the modernization of the company’s core insurance platforms and technology ecosystem so the organization can grow efficiently, innovate faster, and compete effectively in a rapidly changing life insurance and annuity market.

The CTO will play a lead role in transforming and managing core technology platforms while driving innovation through technology and thought leadership. The CTO will be responsible for assessing the talent to ensure they are fit for purpose and provide the skills, capabilities, behaviors, and processes required to deliver a modern, agile, and integrated environment.  The CTO will lead transformations across cloud computing, contemporary software architectures, continuous delivery and DevOps, Advanced Analytics, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence. Additionally, the CTO will be a key partner in promoting new ways of working, including advanced concepts in Agile, Lean Product Development, Lean Operations, and Design Thinking.  Collectively, the CTO is expected to lead these transformations to facilitate National Life’s transformation as it competes in the AI era.

Through disciplined execution, strong partnerships, and clear executive communication, this leader will ensure that technology investments are aligned with business priorities, deliver meaningful returns on investment, and support sustained growth. Ultimately, the CTO will help position National Life’s technology capabilities as a strategic advantage. 

Success in this role will often require careful coordination of activities with the larger (approx. 850 people) IT organization. Candidates must demonstrate the ability to organize complex work streams and collaborate effectively with colleagues and business leaders to influence transformation in a highly outsourced, multi-vendor environment, including onshore and offshore teams. Top candidates will have demonstrated success and feel comfortable working in this heavily outsourced, globally distributed environment.

This is a senior and critical role within the technology leadership team and will report directly to the Chief Information Officer and will have consideration for the CIO role in succession planning.

Other specific responsibilities include:

• Responsible for all aspects of establishing quality technology platforms and services.
• Influence business outcomes collaboratively to define the “art of the possible” for the future state of National Life
• Develop and instill a core innovation and incubation strategy that fosters emerging technology solutions that capture economic value across the National Life organization.
• Develop a fit-for-purpose operating model, based on the right sourcing decisions, location, talent and capability strategy as well as a high-performing team.
• Responsible for ensuring the operating model is optimized in terms of cost and quality of service, and that internal resources and supplier partner relationships meet the agreed model and service framework.
• Create a culture of continuous improvement that proactively manages the resolution of complex problems, identifies their underlying causes and improves processes accordingly.
• The courage to challenge the status quo, fail forward, learn, and influence change through self-awareness, clear communication, humility, and vulnerability

YEAR ONE CRITICAL SUCCESS FACTORS

 The key objectives of the role are to:

• Operate in a fast-paced environment while building trust with IT and the business
• Partner closely with the CIO and be able to run workloads independently
• Clearly understand and adopt the National Life culture and ways of working
• Establish credibility through relationships with business leaders and the IT organization as a whole
• Continue to bring process and rigor to the architecture and development organization
• Infuse AI into IT practices consistently to make it a fabric of IT development operations
• Build relationships with key stakeholders across the business; work diligently to understand business needs and tie those needs back into the IT organization, creating transparency as well as a customer-centric IT environment.
• Bring process and rigor to the IT organization, with particular emphasis on shoring up the architecture and software development lifecycle methodology.
• Assess the IT leadership team and develop or fortify as needed.
• Being able to present and story tell the IT Vision, Technical direction, and various transformation “pitches” to a wide variety of audiences spanning from Board, executive team, business leaders, business operations and IT teammates
• Bringing thought leadership by being asked to participate in various thought leadership areas, strategies, meetings, committees as more than just an IT representative
• The ability to give feedback and receive feedback. Demonstrably changing and learning through received feedback with vulnerability

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE/QUALIFICATIONS

• 20+ years of information technology experience and 10+ years of IT leadership and business transformation work in the life and annuities business is required.
• Deep understanding of the business landscape of a Life & Annuity organization, including but not limited to New Business, Underwriting, Claims, InForce management, Product development, Actuarial analysis, and Investment management.
• Recognized achievement in delivering a successful major technology transformation program, and in the delivery of a modern heavily cloud-based environment.
• Proven track record in identifying opportunities and delivering innovative and pragmatic digital solutions that challenge the status quo.
• Willingness to roll-up his/her sleeves and go both deep and wide into technology issues.
• Ability to effectively present technical or complex information to senior management with simplicity.
• Significant experience working with technology vendors through strategic partnership and managing a diverse workforce of internals and externals. Examples include eApplication, Policy Administration, eDelivery, Automated Underwriting, Digital Experiences, Hierarchy based compensation, Licensing and Contracting, Broker/Dealer automation, Fraud and Risk Management, CRM and Workflow
• Strong financial management experience and demonstrable track-record in driving continual improvements in the cost base.
• Experience developing and deploying IT change programs with detailed business case development and delivery at the board or business unit level.
• Track record of successfully working on complicated initiatives encased in ambiguity and uncertainty.
• Strong communication skills and persuasion and influencing skills.
• Broad experience in architecture and application software delivery.
• Adept at defining IT vision and strategy and identifying initiatives that lead to target state architectures and outcomes.
• Adept at continuous learning, especially in emerging areas of technology, modern work practices, and digital transformation.
• Strong and concise communication ability with persuasion and influencing skills in a matrixed organization
• Ability to coach, mentor, and develop a trusted learning organization that creates teams of future leaders
• Broad experience in application software delivery, infrastructure, security, data, and vendor management
• Adept at defining the IT technical direction and identification of initiatives that lead to target state architectures and outcomes. Then bringing people along towards the target state through leadership and influence
• Adept at continuous learning, especially in emerging areas of technology, modern work practices, and digital transformation
• Ability to create a culture of engagement, empowerment, execution, and trust amongst teams through self-awareness, influence, humility, and vulnerability

EDUCATION

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, engineering, or a related engineering of science field is required.
• MBA or master’s degree is required.
• Other certifications are preferred but not required

Benefits

• Your benefits start day one and are flexible and customizable to your and your family’s specific needs. Check out the BENEFITS of a Career at National Life!

 Please note that we do not offer visa sponsorship for this position.

Role Summary

This individual will play a key role in leading and supporting initiatives related to the design and pricing of indexed and fixed/traditional life products, both as an individual contributor and through oversight and direction of supporting resources.  Job responsibilities primarily center around product design, actuarial modeling, pricing, actuarial support of regulatory filings and evaluation of sales and design concepts.  The individual will work closely with the broader L&A Solutions team, Business Innovation Group and Distribution/Field Leaders to ensure new products and features are aligned with the company’s strategic goals, financial objectives, and risk appetite. 

This position currently offers an onsite work schedule, with the expectation that you are in the office four (4) days per week during onsite core days.  Our current onsite core days are Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.  The work schedule type and core days are subject to change with advance notification and manager discretion. 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Develop and oversee models to set appropriate rates, understand profitability, and analyze sensitivities.
• Provide analysis to aid in the development of pricing assumptions.
• Strategically solve unique and complex problems.
• Help provide detailed analysis on key competitive features in the marketplace.
• Present product features and/or actuarial results to Distribution Leadership, Product Risk Committee, Project Teams, Senior Management, and other stakeholders.
• Train, mentor, and oversee / direct the work of actuarial students / analysts.
• Provide ad-hoc support to other business areas as needed
• Effectively coordinate and review the work of outside consultants.
• Partner with the policy forms team to review forms and prepare / review actuarial materials required to secure state approvals.
• Prepare / review product specifications and actuarial reports.
• Proactively identify and ensure compliance with legal and regulatory requirements.
• Review marketing materials as appropriate. 

Minimum Qualifications

• At least 6+ years of relevant experience, with experience in pricing Individual Life products (and especially Indexed UL) strongly preferred
• Active actuarial credentials-FSA or Career ASA required
• In-depth knowledge of Life products and benefits, including applicable valuation, nonforfeiture, 7702/7702A, illustration, and other relevant standards.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, including the ability to communicate effectively with less technical audiences
• Highly effective teamwork and collaboration skills
• Extensive experience with Microsoft Office suite.
• The candidate must be able to successfully complete a background check that may include fingerprinting. 

Preferred Qualifications

• Solid financial modeling experience using actuarial software, preferably MG-ALFA. 
• MAAA preferred

Benefits

• Your benefits start day one and are flexible and customizable to your and your family’s specific needs. Check out the BENEFITS of a Career at National Life!

Please note that we do not offer visa sponsorship for this position.

Position Summary:

This is an exciting opportunity to continue your financial career in the Corporate Finance department of one of the fastest growing life insurance companies in the country. National Life Group currently has an opening for a GAAP Reporting Senior Accountant to join a team that is fundamental to the financial reporting and analysis function of the organization. This position offers the opportunity to take ownership of complex reporting responsibilities within a dynamic and evolving environment.

This position is integral to the Company’s external financial reporting function, with primary responsibility for core financial statements including the statement of cash flows, statement of equity, and related disclosures, as well as management and board-level reporting. The role offers significant ownership of complex reporting areas within a dynamic and evolving environment.

We are seeking a high performing accounting professional who thrives in a fast-paced setting, demonstrates strong technical expertise, and proactively drives improvements in reporting processes. Qualified candidates will be self-starters with a strong execution mindset who desire to advance into future leadership positions. The Senior Accountant reports to the Associate Director of Financial Reporting.

Key Responsibilities:

• Prepare U.S. GAAP financial statements and disclosures, including the statement of cash flows, statement of equity and related footnote disclosures and supporting schedules.
• Own the preparation of GAAP reporting deliverables, including Management Discussion & Analysis, disclosure checklists to ensure compliance with U.S. GAAP requirements and board and senior management reporting materials.
• Independently manage components of the monthly, quarterly, and annual financial close process including journal entries, account reconciliations, variance analysis, and oversight of close calendar deliverables.
• Analyze financial results and communicate insights to management to support informed decision making.
• Identify, evaluate, and leverage emerging technologies, including generative AI and automation solutions such as RPA and workflow tools, to drive measurable improvements in reporting efficiency, control effectiveness, and scalability.
• Analyze and implement business process improvements to enhance the effectiveness, efficiency, and scalability of the accounting function.
• Evaluate accounting processes for compliance with corporate policies and state and federal regulatory requirements.
• Create, analyze, and communicate monthly, quarterly, and annual reports ensuring financial information is recorded accurately and completely.
• Collaborate with external auditors to support successful audit outcomes and regulatory compliance.
• Research technical accounting standards and apply guidance to reporting results and disclosures. Assist with drafting accounting policy memoranda.
• Train and mentor junior staff while fostering a culture of accountability and continuous improvement.

Requirements:

• 5+ years of progressive experience in accounting, financial reporting, and/or auditing.
• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or related field required.
• CPA  or CPA candidate preferred but not required.
• Demonstrated ability to adopt and apply emerging technologies, including generative AI and automation tools, to improve reporting efficiency, effectiveness, and control quality.
• Strong experience with US GAAP required, preferably in the financial services industry
• Experience with Statutory reporting and insurance regulatory filings preferred, but not required.
• Demonstrated ability to independently manage complex reporting responsibilities in a deadline driven environment.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills required, including proficiency with complex formulas, pivot tables, data analysis tools, and managing large and complex data sets.
• Proven track record of identifying and executing process improvements within accounting or reporting functions.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Proven ability to anticipate, identify, and resolve financial issues while managing multiple priorities effectively.

Benefits

• Your benefits start day one and are flexible and customizable to your and your family’s specific needs. Check out the BENEFITS of a Career at National Life!

Please note that we do not offer visa sponsorship for this position.

Role Summary

The Sr. Application Technical Lead is expected to lead a technology team to deliver end-to-end project solutions in a fast-paced environment.  The Technical Lead must demonstrate strong technical thought leadership that is deep in Life & Annuity (L&A) Insurance Policy Admin Systems capabilities and Mainframe technologies with basic understanding of SQL and Integration technologies. The Technical Lead will provide IT technical guidance in solution selection as well as lead and facilitate project development and implementation in L&A functionality.

This position currently offers an onsite work schedule, with the expectation that you are in the office four (4) days per week during onsite core days.  Our current onsite core days are Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.  The work schedule type and core days are subject to change with advance notification and manager discretion.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Strong leadership qualities and organizational skills, as well as the ability to adapt quickly to changing priorities, assignments, and roles
• Establish and sustain high trust partnership with business stakeholders and product owners who are dependent on the incumbent’s technical guidance
• Ensure IT resources are effectively utilized in IT Application Service delivery
• Apply skills in application development and support while exhibiting leadership in process re-engineering and implementation of technology
• Collaborate with architects and development community to define and maintain standards, processes, and emerging technical roadmaps
• Collaborate with IT staff maintaining applications in the Inforce domain or with points of integration to applications
• Judge the feasibility and trade-off of different technologies and make choices that fit the constraints of the project/product. Ensure solutions satisfy business requirements and are of the highest quality
• Estimate delivery cost and schedule for Inforce domain related solutions, projects and requests
• Build and maintain detailed working knowledge of key business applications
• Identify application transformation & rationalization opportunities as we transform to a simpler, more modern system platform
• Develop application design, application configuration, test and release management processes
• Communicate effectively, and with an appropriate level of detail, to all levels in the organization.
• Work with limited direction, usually within a complex environment, to drive delivery of solutions and meet service levels.
• Strong conceptual and analytic skills. Ability to design and build complex algorithms.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree, preferred in Computer Science, or relevant work experience.
• 10+ years Full System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) experience; Designing, maintaining and enhancing software applications leveraging COBOL, JCL, SQL, CICS, DB2, VSAM, ISPF/PDF, FILE-AID, MVS, Endevor and using IBM Mainframe environment preferred
• 3+ years of experience leading product / project development team on Vantage policy administrative platform preferred
• Open-minded with proven ability to work collaboratively in team environment
• Demonstrated ability to lead in a highly matrixed, heavily outsourced organization through a combination of influence, partnership, and authority
• Ability to manage IT Suppliers in a cost- effective manner
• Ability to manage change and cope with complex and ambiguous situations
• Agile solution delivery skills highly desired

Benefits

• Your benefits start day one and are flexible and customizable to your and your family’s specific needs. Check out the BENEFITS of a Career at National Life!

Please note that we do not offer visa sponsorship for this position.

Summary

The Principal Engineer, Infrastructure Engineering position partners with business and technical stakeholders to lead infrastructure design and integrations. This individual in this position has a proven track record of driving continuous improvement in all facets of NLG infrastructure ecosystems. This position will lead infrastructure teams in the delivery of the infrastructure technologies and services. Effective ability to communicate, a positive attitude, and a proven track record of serving in a technical leadership role are key qualifications.

This role is a senior technical leadership position and member of the National Life Group IT Shared Services team. You will represent the infrastructure team in project initiatives, architecture design, and be a champion of operational excellence while collaborating across a vibrant technical community. We’re looking for an inquisitive individual with a passion for continuous learning, attention to detail, and a drive to follow-through. This role can be located in Dallas (Addison), TX; Montpelier, VT

This position currently offers an onsite work schedule, with the expectation that you are in the office four (4) days per week during onsite core days.  Our current onsite core days are Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.  The work schedule type and core days are subject to change with advance notification and manager discretion.

Key Responsibilities

Infrastructure Delivery

• You will lead development and enhancement of CICD, SRE and APM tools.
• You will drive implementation of the technology direction, vision, and strategy and adoption.
• You will lead delivery as a subject matter expert in pipeline configurations, code repositories management and related controls.
• You will help lead incident resolution and resolution of business issues.
• You possess the ability to communicate effectively with an appropriate level of detail to all levels within the company
• You will lead identifying and managing capacity, performance, and risk
• You will adhere to and promote firm Change Management, Problem Management policies and are familiar with ITIL or other formalized IT operations foundations

Infrastructure Architecture & Strategy

• You will drive innovation and encourage others to remain current on emerging technologies and development trends
• You will lead initiatives to improve overall system reliability, scalability, and maintainability.
• You collaborate with development and operations teams to ensure seamless integration of APM and CI/CD processes.
• You will need to communicate effectively with stakeholders, including developers, QA engineers, and project managers.

Job Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree, preferred in Computer Science; or relevant work experience.
• 8+ years of hands-on infrastructure experience with at least 4 years in a technical team leadership role.
• 4+ years of hands-on experience and knowledge working with Application performance tools, CI/CD pipelines and source code management.
• Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes and CI/CD pipelines
• Demonstrated ability to lead in a highly matrixed, heavily outsourced organization through a combination of influence, partnership, and authority.
• Ability and interest in mentoring technical staff and raising collective technical competencies.
• Ability to manage change and cope with complex and ambiguous situations.
• Broad engineering awareness of the following technical domains and expert technical

Expertise in at least two of the following areas –

• Swagger Hub, SonarQube, Jfrog or similar tools
• Code Repository Management (GIT)
• Monitoring & Instrumentation Tools (New Relic, Azure Monitor or other tools)
• Proficiency in scripting and automation (Java, Python etc.).
• Pipeline Technologies (CI/CD, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, etc.)
• Various upcoming AI technologies around development and application performance.

Benefits

• Your benefits start day one and are flexible and customizable to your and your family’s specific needs. Check out the BENEFITS of a Career at National Life!

Please note that we do not offer visa sponsorship for this position.

Role Summary

The Senior Cloud Platform & Site Reliability Engineering Lead partners with business and technical stakeholders to lead cloud platform design, engineering, and integration efforts. This individual has a proven track record of driving continuous improvement across infrastructure, platform services, and application reliability.

This role is a senior technical leadership position within the National Life Group IT Shared Services team. You will represent cloud and platform engineering in project initiatives, architecture design, and operational excellence while collaborating across a vibrant technical community. We’re looking for an inquisitive individual with a passion for continuous learning, attention to detail, and a drive to follow-through. This role can be located in Dallas (Addison), TX; Montpelier, VT.

This position currently offers an onsite work schedule, with the expectation that you are in the office four (4) days per week during onsite core days.  Our current onsite core days are Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.  The work schedule type and core days are subject to change with advance notification and manager discretion.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Cloud Platform & Infrastructure Delivery

• You will lead design and delivery of cloud-native solutions within Microsoft Azure and other.
• You will lead development and enhancement of CI/CD, SRE, and observability capabilities.
• You will drive infrastructure automation using Infrastructure as Code (Bicep, ARM, other).
• You will serve as a subject matter expert in pipeline configuration, code repository management, and related controls.
• You will help lead incident resolution and business issue remediation.
• You will lead identifying and managing capacity, performance, and risk.
• You will adhere to and promote firm Change Management and Problem Management policies (ITIL).
• You possess the ability to communicate effectively with appropriate detail across all levels.

SRE & Platform Engineering

• You will lead adoption of SRE practices including SLIs/SLOs and reliability engineering principles.
• You will drive improvements in system reliability, scalability, and performance.
• You will leverage Azure Monitor, Application Insights, and APM tools such as New Relic for observability.
• You will promote automation and AI-assisted operations to reduce manual effort and improve outcomes.

Infrastructure Architecture & Strategy

• You will drive innovation and remain current on Azure and emerging cloud technologies.
• You will define and promote Azure architecture standards (networking, identity, security).
• You will lead adoption of cloud-native patterns (AKS, serverless, PaaS services).
• You will collaborate with development, QA, and operations teams to integrate CI/CD and observability practices.
• You will communicate effectively with stakeholders across engineering and business teams.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree, preferred in Computer Science; or relevant work experience.
• 8+ years of hands-on with CI/CD pipelines, APM tools, source code management, infrastructure, cloud, or platform engineering experience with at least 4 years in a technical leadership role.
• Open-minded with proven ability to work collaboratively with others.
• Show up consistently with a positive attitude.
• Demonstrated ability to lead in a highly matrixed, heavily outsourced organization through influence and partnership.
• Ability and interest in mentoring technical staff and raising collective technical competencies.
• Ability to manage change and operate effectively in complex environments.

Technical Expertise

Broad engineering awareness with strong expertise in multiple of the following areas –

• Microsoft Azure (compute, storage, networking, identity, monitoring)
• Infrastructure as Code (Bicep, ARM, Other)
• Pipeline Technologies (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, CI/CD)
• Code Repository Management (GIT)
• Monitoring & Instrumentation Tools (Azure Monitor, Application Insights, New Relic or similar)
• Containers & Serverless (AKS, Azure Functions)
• Proficiency in scripting and automation (Python, PowerShell, etc.)
• DevSecOps tools (SonarQube, JFrog, SwaggerHub or similar)
• Experience with AWS or other cloud platforms is a plus
• Exposure to AI technologies in development and application performance (AIOps)

Benefits

• Your benefits start day one and are flexible and customizable to your and your family’s specific needs. Check out the BENEFITS of a Career at National Life!

Role Summary

The Associate Actuary will be responsible for calculating, analyzing, reporting, and explaining reserves and other actuarial financial statement items for the Indexed Universal Life. The individual will monitor policyholder behavior and profitability of the business and will also provide actuarial support to recurring and special projects. The Associate Actuary is expected to have a detailed knowledge of statutory valuation requirements and advanced GAAP accounting issues for life insurance products. 

This position currently offers an onsite work schedule, with the expectation that you are in the office four (4) days per week during onsite core days.  Our current onsite core days are Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.  The work schedule type and core days are subject to change with advance notification and manager discretion. 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Perform valuation on Life blocks with the focus on Principle-Based Reserves (PBR)
• Perform experience studies, recommend assumption updates, and quantify impacts for PBR business
• Conduct analysis of business trends and reserve movements
• Update annual PBR report and communicate with external auditors and regulators regarding the PBR model
• Support the production and oversight of reporting for reserves and other actuarial items – Statutory, GAAP, and Tax
• Familiar with GAAP accounting such as FAS97 and FAS133 and clearly communicate analysis to financial reporting stakeholders
• Proactively share analysis and provide insight into our business with Pricing, FP&A, Inforce Management, Modeling Center of Excellence, and Tax areas

Minimum Qualifications

• FSA designation from the Society of Actuaries with a minimum 7 years of actuarial experience within the Life Insurance sector, or Career ASA with a minimum 10 years of experience within the Life Insurance sector
• Bachelor's Degree in Actuarial Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Economics or related field
• At least 5 years of actuarial experience within actuarial modeling or actuarial valuation & financial reporting
• Proficiency in actuarial modeling software (such as PolySystems, MG-ALFA, GGY-AXIS)
• Skilled in database tools like SQL, DataBricks, Microsoft Access, etc.
• Comprehensive understanding of actuarial valuation requirements and techniques
• Proven analytical prowess and problem-solving capabilities
• A proactive attitude towards continuous improvement and challenging established norms 

Preferred Qualifications

• Comprehensive understanding of actuarial governance and control frameworks
• Demonstrated collaborative spirit and organizational synergy
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills 

Benefits

• Your benefits start day one and are flexible and customizable to your and your family’s specific needs. Check out the BENEFITS of a Career at National Life!

Please note that we do not offer visa sponsorship for this position.

National Life Group is transforming the future of Life and Annuities. As Head of Product & Distribution Marketing, you will serve as the strategic bridge between Marketing and the Enterprise, owning go-to-market strategy, positioning, and growth execution across the portfolio.

This leader will integrate market insight, distribution strategy, data, and AI-driven personalization to deliver measurable growth, agent engagement, and competitive differentiation.

Key Responsibilities

Enterprise & Strategic Leadership

• Own enterprise product marketing and growth strategy in partnership with senior leaders.
• Translate market intelligence, analytics, and AI-driven insights into clear business actions.
• Lead GTM strategy, positioning, messaging, and launch planning across Life and Annuities.
• Partner across Product, Distribution, Operations, and Field leadership.

Product Marketing & Go-To-Market

• Own end-to-end GTM for Life and Annuity products (e.g., Instant Decision, Whole, Term, UL, FIAs).
• Define differentiated value propositions aligned to agent needs and product economics.
• Influence roadmap prioritization, competitive positioning, and launch sequencing.

AI-Driven CRM & Growth

• Lead CRM and lifecycle marketing strategy across advisor and customer journeys.
• Embed AI, automation, and advanced analytics into personalization and campaign orchestration.
• Drive experimentation, targeting, and performance optimization to improve conversion, retention, and premium growth.
• Optimize the full journey from awareness through onboarding and cross-sell.

Sales Enablement & Advisor Engagement

• Design agent-first programs that accelerate adoption and loyalty.
• Oversee development of sales enablement tools, product content, and promotional support.
• Ensure marketing directly impacts pipeline and field performance.

Team & Performance Leadership

• Lead and develop a high-performing product marketing team.
• Establish dashboards, stakeholder forums, and performance metrics to ensure accountability.
• Drive change through structured communication and capability building.

Experience & Capabilities

• 10+ years in product marketing, CRM, growth, or consulting within Life and/or Annuities.
• Deep expertise in advisor-centric distribution models.
• Proven success leading GTM strategy, teams, and delivering measurable growth.
• Strong Salesforce CRM and AI-driven marketing experience.
• Executive-level communication and stakeholder leadership skills.
• Strategic, data-driven, and effective in complex environments.
• Willingness to travel as needed.

Benefits

• Your benefits start day one and are flexible and customizable to your and your family’s specific needs. Check out the BENEFITS of a Career at National Life!

Please note that we do not offer visa sponsorship for this position.

We encourage applicants to include a cover letter to share more about their experience and interest.

Role Summary

The Associate Director, Digital Content & Insights acts as the connective tissue between creative storytelling, digital execution, and performance measurement bridging content, analytics, and technology to ensure that all digital channels work together to deliver measurable, compliant, and high-performing marketing outcomes. The role connects the dots between brand, creative, and media to deliver content that builds awareness, credibility, and engagement across NLG’s digital ecosystem. This role is responsible for shaping and optimizing the firm’s digital content strategy, ensuring every message and campaign reflects the brand voice, meets compliance standards, and drives measurable performance across web, email, and social channels.

Reporting to the Director – Digital Marketing, this individual will lead the planning, development, and governance of digital content, driving an organic-first approach that blends storytelling, search intelligence, and performance insights. They are digitally bilingual — able to think strategically about content while speaking the technical language of SEO, analytics, CMS, and compliance. A working knowledge of HTML and marketing technology enables this role to operate with agility and independence, collaborating seamlessly with creative, data, and technical partners to ensure content performs as well as it inspires.

The Associate Director, Digital Content & Insights will collaborate closely with the Web & Digital Experience Strategist to align content with site architecture, SEO priorities, and user journeys, and with the Lifecycle Marketing Manager to ensure messaging and cadence are consistent across channels. They will oversee the editorial calendar, manage content workflows, brainstorm and lead content marketing efforts, and maintain brand and compliance integrity across all digital touchpoints. This role also owns social media operations and governance, as well as online reputation management, driving brand consistency and engagement across all digital touchpoints.

The ideal candidate is a strategic storyteller who combines creative thinking with analytical discipline. They are high energy and have a proactive, solutions-oriented mindset and understand how brand narratives, keywords, and engagement data work together to drive organic growth and meaningful results. Success in this role will be defined by cohesive, insight-driven content that advances NLG’s reputation, engagement, and measurable impact across the digital landscape.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Lead digital content strategy and planning. Working with clients and other communicators, define and manage NLG’s digital content editorial calendar. Drive an organic-first approach to content development that blends storytelling, SEO, and analytics to enhance visibility and engagement.

Manage and mentor the content producer: Oversee the Digital Media Producer, guiding workload prioritization, creative execution, and professional development. Ensure content producer delivers high-quality, compliant content and creative assets that support campaigns and business objectives.

Lead content creation and storytelling: Direct and contribute to the creation of compelling, insight-driven content, including thought leadership articles, blog posts, case studies, social media content, and interviews that reinforce NLG’s brand and expertise. Ensure all content reflects the company’s tone, voice, and positioning while meeting engagement and performance goals.

Oversee content production and publishing: Manage the creation, editing, and distribution of content across NLG’s owned digital channels. Oversee workflows in the CMS system (Sitecore, WordPress, Adobe Experience Manager) to ensure content accuracy, timeliness, and alignment with digital best practices.

Own social media operations and governance: Oversee corporate and agent-facing social media programs, ensuring consistency, compliance, and brand integrity across platforms. With Director – Digital Marketing as a strategic content partner, manage publishing, engagement, and paid amplification using tools such as Sprout and Hearsay. Identify opportunities to strengthen channel performance and audience reach.

Integrate data and insights into storytelling: Partner with the Web & Digital Experience Strategist to use analytics, SEO insights, and performance data to inform content decisions for consumers consumption and agent use. Monitor content performance through GA4, SEMrush, and social analytics tools; translate findings into actionable recommendations that improve reach, engagement, and conversion.

Drive SEO and discoverability: Lead collaboration with the Web & Digital Experience Strategist to ensure content is optimized for search visibility and aligned with keyword strategies, metadata standards, and site architecture. Conduct ongoing keyword research, analyze trends, and apply best practices for both search and emerging AI-driven discovery tools.

Ensure governance, quality, and compliance: Uphold NLG’s brand, voice, and editorial standards while ensuring that all content meets accessibility, privacy, and regulatory requirements. Partner with Compliance and Legal teams to facilitate content review and approval processes, maintaining accurate documentation and version control.

Advance content performance measurement and reporting: Develop KPIs and reporting dashboards to evaluate the effectiveness of digital content. Track and communicate insights on traffic, engagement, and conversion metrics to senior stakeholders, using data to refine content strategy and prioritize future initiatives.

Minimum Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in digital content strategy, marketing, or communications, with proven success developing and optimizing multi-channel content programs (web, social, video, and email).
• Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Communications, Journalism, Digital Media, or a related field; an equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and manage a small team, including content producers, copywriters, or media specialists, balancing strategic guidance with hands-on execution.
• Strong understanding of SEO, analytics, and content performance, with hands-on experience using Google Analytics 4 (GA4), Google Tag Manager (GTM), SEMrush, or equivalent tools to inform content decisions.
• Experience managing and publishing content within CMS platforms such as Sitecore, WordPress, or Adobe Experience Manager (AEM), ensuring accuracy, accessibility, and brand consistency.
• Proven ability to manage social media platforms and tools such as Sprout, Hearsay, or similar, ensuring consistent brand expression, compliance, and performance reporting.
• Demonstrated ownership of social media channels, including organic and paid social strategy, publishing, analytics, online reputation management (ORM), and governance.
• Excellent writing and editing skills with the ability to translate complex ideas into clear, compelling, and compliant digital copy.
• Proven ability to collaborate across marketing, IT, compliance, and creative functions to deliver cohesive, high-quality content aligned to business objectives.
• Highly organized, detail-oriented, and capable of managing multiple projects and priorities in a fast-paced environment.

Work Arrangements:  Hybrid

This position currently offers an onsite hybrid work schedule, with the expectation that you are in the office four days per week during onsite core days.  Our current onsite core days are Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.  The work schedule type and core days are subject to change with advance notification and manager discretion.

Preferred Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in content strategy, digital marketing, or editorial leadership, preferably within financial services, professional services, or another highly regulated industry.
• Experience leading content teams or editorial operations, managing workflows, priorities, and development for writers, producers, and designers.
• Demonstrated success building content strategies that connect brand, creative, and media to drive awareness, engagement, and organic growth.
• Deep understanding of modern content formats and emerging digital trends, including video, podcasts, interactive content, and AI-assisted content creation tools (e.g., Copilot, ChatGPT).
• Strong grasp of user behavior and journey-based storytelling, with experience using data, A/B testing, and analytics to improve message relevance and conversion performance.
• Advanced proficiency in SEO and discoverability strategies, including keyword analysis, metadata management, and answer engine optimization (AEO) for emerging AI-driven search visibility.
• Familiarity with content governance and compliance workflows, including accessibility (WCAG), brand voice standards, and content approval processes.
• Experience collaborating across CRM and marketing automation ecosystems (e.g., Salesforce, Marketing Cloud) to connect content performance with lead generation and nurture campaigns.
• Proficiency with project management platforms (e.g., Monday.com, Jira, or Asana) and comfort working in Agile or hybrid team environments.
• Strong presentation and communication skills with the ability to clearly articulate content strategy, performance insights, and creative concepts to senior stakeholders.
• Demonstrates a proactive approach to continuous improvement and digital excellence, staying current on emerging trends in SEO, analytics, and digital content innovation.

Benefits

• Your benefits start day one and are flexible and customizable to your and your family’s specific needs. Check out the BENEFITS of a Career at National Life!

Please note that we do not offer visa sponsorship for this position.

We encourage applicants to include a cover letter to share more about their experience and interest.

Role Summary

The Lifecycle Marketing Manager is responsible for developing, executing, and optimizing lifecycle and marketing automation programs that drive engagement, conversion, and retention across the customer journey. This role requires technical expertise and deep marketing experience. To create data-driven campaigns that deliver personalized, compliant, and measurable experiences.

Reporting to the Director – Digital Marketing, the Lifecycle Marketing Manager owns Salesforce Marketing Cloud (SFMC), Mailchimp, and Snappy Kraken systems, serving as the enterprise’s subject matter expert for marketing automation and dynamic journeys. This individual will audit and optimize an existing, complex SFMC environment, implementing best practices for data integrity, workflow design, governance, and performance. This individual will build, test, and deploy sophisticated, multi-stage programs across acquisition, nurture, onboarding, and re-engagement, ensuring that every communication aligns with brand voice and contributes to business growth.

This role partners closely with the Web & Digital Experience Strategist and Digital Content & Insights Lead to connect lifecycle initiatives to the broader digital ecosystem. By aligning journeys with web experiences, campaigns, and analytics, the Lifecycle Marketing Manager ensures that each customer interaction is relevant, timely, and measurable, enhancing the overall digital experience and pipeline velocity.

The ideal candidate is a high-energy, hands-on marketer with deep technical expertise in Salesforce Marketing Cloud (SFMC) and other marketing automation platforms. They combine a strong technical foundation with a passion for automation, data-driven storytelling, and operational excellence. A proactive problem solver and collaborative team player, this individual brings curiosity, precision, and accountability to every project — translating business objectives into scalable, measurable marketing campaigns. Success in this role requires a balance of strategic thinking and executional excellence, along with the ability to anticipate challenges, drive solutions, and consistently deliver results in a fast-paced environment.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Design and execute lifecycle marketing programs: Working with stakeholders like Product Marketing and collaborating with Creative Services, own the development, execution, and continuous optimization of lifecycle and nurture campaigns across acquisition, onboarding, engagement, and retention stages. Build sophisticated, multi-stage customer journeys primarily within Salesforce Marketing Cloud (SFMC) to deliver personalized, data-driven experiences at scale. Work within Mail Chimp as required until all assets are transitioned to SFMC.

Lead SFMC optimization and platform ownership: Serve as the enterprise owner and SME for SFMC (plus Mailchimp and Snappy Kraken). In partnership with IT, conduct a full audit and lead remediation: refactor data extensions and automations, standardize naming/QA, deprecate legacy assets, harden governance, and implement monitoring/playbooks to improve reliability, speed, and scalability.

Document user flows and lifecycle architecture: Create and maintain detailed documentation of user flows, campaign logic, and data processes to ensure transparency, scalability, and consistent execution across marketing programs. Partner with IT and cross-functional teams to align marketing automation architecture with CRM integrations and data governance standards.

Collaborate to ensure data integrity and domain health: Work closely with Information Technology and various business units to maintain list hygiene, data synchronization, and accurate audience segmentation between SFMC, CRM, and other connected systems. Monitor and optimize email and domain health (including deliverability, authentication, and IP reputation) to ensure reliable campaign performance. Own unsubscribe management and Unsub Central, ensuring accurate suppression and compliance.

Create and optimize audience segmentation and personalization: Partner with the Director-Digital Marketing and Digital Content& Insights Lead as well as business unit clients to define audience strategies, segmentation frameworks, and personalization logic that drive engagement and conversion. Leverage CRM and first-party data to deliver relevant, compliant, and journey-aligned communications.

Build and deploy creative, responsive communications: Develop and QA dynamic, modular, and responsive email templates using HTML, AMPscript for personalization and SQL for data segmentation and automation. Ensure all communications meet brand standards, accessibility requirements, and deliverability best practices across devices and platforms.

Monitor performance and optimize through testing: Track and analyze campaign and journey performance across KPIs such as deliverability, engagement, conversion, and retention. Partnering with the Director-Digital Marketing and the Digital Content & Insights Lead, conduct A/B and multivariate testing on creative, timing, and targeting to continuously improve program effectiveness and ROI, and share learnings across teams to inform future strategy.

Ensure compliance, governance, and operational excellence: Maintain strict adherence to CAN-SPAM, GDPR, and other data privacy regulations. Document and enforce standards for campaign QA, approval, and deployment. Collaborate with marketing operations, compliance, and data teams to uphold governance and deliver a seamless, compliant customer experience. Maintain unsubscribe data according to compliance protocols.

Minimum Qualifications

• 5+ years digital marketing automation experience; including direct responsibility for email marketing automation strategy and execution in Salesforce Marketing Cloud with demonstrated success developing and optimizing automated email and nurture programs.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, Marketing, Communications, Business, or a related field; equivalent combination of education and significant marketing automation experience may be considered.
• Extensive hands-on experience with Salesforce Marketing Cloud (SFMC), including Journey Builder, Email Studio, Automation Studio, and Contact Builder. Proven ability to audit and optimize an existing instance, refactoring data extensions, automations, and governance processes.
• Working knowledge of Mailchimp and Snappy Kraken or similar marketing automation platforms.
• Proficiency in HTML, CSS, SQL, and AMPscript for building, customizing, and troubleshooting responsive, dynamic email templates.
• Proficiency in data integration between SFMC and Salesforce CRM, including segmentation, lead routing, and consent management.
• Deep understanding of email deliverability, domain health, and reputation management, including authentication, IP warm-up, and inbox placement.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze campaign performance using GA4, SFMC analytics, or similar tools, identify trends, and translate findings into actionable optimization plans.
• Familiarity with GDPR, CAN-SPAM, and global data-privacy and consent regulations; experience managing unsubscribe systems such as Unsub Central.
• Strong organizational and project-management skills with the ability to manage multiple campaigns, priorities, and stakeholders simultaneously.
• Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills, with strong attention to detail and accuracy.

Work Arrangements: Hybrid

• This position currently offers an onsite hybrid work schedule, with the expectation that you are in the office four days per week during onsite core days. Our current onsite core days are Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.  The work schedule type and core days are subject to change with advance notification and manager discretion.

Preferred Qualifications

• 7–10 years of experience in lifecycle, CRM, or digital marketing, including direct responsibility for email marketing automation strategy and execution.
• Salesforce Marketing Cloud certification(s) such as Marketing Cloud Engagement Developer or Marketing Cloud Email Specialist strongly preferred.
• Proven expertise in Salesforce CRM integration with SFMC, including data synchronization, consent management, and cross-platform segmentation.
• Experience leveraging Salesforce Einstein and Mobile Studio for predictive insights, personalization, and multi-channel engagement.
• Experience leading or mentoring marketing automation specialists or developers, with the ability to establish best practices and process documentation.
• Familiarity with Adobe Experience Manager (AEM), Adobe Assets, or Adobe Creative Cloud, and understanding of how creative workflows integrate with campaign execution.
• Proficiency with SFMC Intelligence (Datorama), Tableau, or similar analytics and visualization tools.
• Experience in Agile environments and comfort collaborating through iterative, cross-functional project cycles.
• Ability to develop clear technical and functional documentation, including user guides, workflow diagrams, and campaign playbooks.
• Experience using email QA and testing tools (e.g., Litmus, Email on Acid) and campaign tagging systems such as Claravine.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to prioritize and perform effectively under tight deadlines.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with a proactive, solution-oriented mindset.
• Experience in financial services, professional services, or other regulated industries with established legal/compliance review processes.
• Demonstrated passion for marketing innovation, continuous learning, and improving automation efficiency through process and technology enhancements.

Benefits

• Your benefits start day one and are flexible and customizable to your and your family’s specific needs. Check out the BENEFITS of a Career at National Life!

Please note that we do not offer visa sponsorship for this position.

Email is the number one attack vector and here, you’ll be the trusted expert who takes our defenses to the next level.  In this hands-on role, you’ll architect and refine cutting-edge security controls using the latest in Proofpoint, Microsoft Office 365, Exchange Online Protection, and Microsoft Purview DLP to stay ahead of phishing, business email compromise, and data loss threats.  You’ll have the freedom to innovate, experiment with new solutions, and champion fresh ideas that drive real results.

Grow your skills and make a difference.  Our team thrives on collaboration and knowledge-sharing, and we believe in leading by example.  You’ll automate successful strategies, quickly adapt from lessons learned, and help shape our security roadmap.  Leaders here empower you to test new approaches and encourage ongoing personal and professional development, so your contributions will have a direct and meaningful impact.

Join a culture built on purpose and progress.  We keep things simple: Do good. Be good. Make good.  You’ll be supported by a team that values thoughtful experimentation and growth, ensuring your work matters for our organization and for your career.

This position currently offers an onsite work schedule, with the expectation that you are in the office four (4) days per week during onsite core days. Our current onsite core days are Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.  The work schedule type and core days are subject to change with advance notification and manager discretion.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Engineer and operate advanced email protections in Proofpoint and Microsoft Defender for Office 365 (including Exchange Online Protection, Safe Links/Safe Attachments, impersonation safeguards) with continuous tuning to cut false positives and boost catch rates.
• Engineer and operate Microsoft Purview DLP for Exchange Online.  Design classification labels and enforcement rules with defined exceptions to stop data exfiltration.  Use split tests and drift monitoring to sustain policy effectiveness.
• Harden trust and identity for mail: SPF/DKIM/DMARC strategy, DMARC enforcement and reporting, display name/VIP impersonation controls, external tag strategy, QR code phishing and Business Email Compromise patterns.
• Investigate and respond: lead deep-dive investigations on phishing campaigns; provide actionable post-incident improvements.
• Cross-team force multiplier: improve detections and execute response with Security Monitoring & Response, lock down access with IAM, ensure compliance fit with GRC, and make the fix stick with Security Architecture and Infrastructure.
• Automate and integrate: build playbooks and API/SOAR hooks for triage, enrichment, and response (e.g., auto-pull/recall, bulk purge, VIP watchlists, threat intel lookups).
• Measure what matters: define metrics (catch rate, FP rate, MTTD/MTTR for mail events, DLP signal quality) and share insights that drive roadmap priorities.
• Document and mentor: publish standards, playbooks, and quick-wins; coach peers, and champion secure-by-default patterns for email workflows.

Minimum Qualifications

• 5+ years in Information Security with 2+ years focused on email security engineering/operations.
• Hands-on experience with Proofpoint email security, including Targeted Attack Protection (TAP) and Threat Response Auto-Pull (TRAP); policy tuning; Data Loss Prevention integration; and quarantine workflows.  Proficiency with Microsoft Defender for Office 365 and Exchange Online Protection (EOP); configuring Safe Links and Safe Attachments; conducting advanced hunting; and performing header and mail flow troubleshooting. 
• Email DLP platform expertise (Microsoft Purview preferred).  Define and maintain the label taxonomy; tune rules and detectors including Exact Data Match (EDM) and regex; establish exception governance; and run testing at scale.
• Mail flow and identity depth across Exchange Online, connectors, transport rules, header analysis, and DNS; SPF/DKIM/DMARC design and enforcement; and vanity domain lifecycle for email: subdomain design and naming, DNS ownership and hygiene, third-party sender onboarding and alignment, and ongoing deliverability and blocklist monitoring.
• Strong scripting (PowerShell or Python), API/automation comfort, and a metrics-first mindset.
• Clear communication, able to turn complex findings into crisp recommendations for engineers, business stakeholders and leadership.

Nice to have:

• Certifications: CISSP, Proofpoint certifications, Microsoft SC-200 or SC-400.
• Experience: Brand Indicators for Message Identification (BIMI) and brand protection.  Experience with Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR).  Exposure to email threat intelligence enrichment.

Benefits

• Your benefits start day one and are flexible and customizable to your and your family’s specific needs. Check out the BENEFITS of a Career at National Life!

Chief Compliance Officer

Job Summary

The Chief Compliance Officer (CCO) will lead and oversee the compliance program for NLG Capital, Inc. (the Firm), an SEC-registered investment adviser within the National Life Group family of companies. This senior leadership role is responsible for preparing and executing a forward-looking compliance strategy that ensures adherence to regulatory standards while enabling the Firm’s continued growth across various asset markets—including CLO management, Private Credit, Asset-Backed Finance, and Commercial Real Estate investment strategies.

The CCO will partner closely with the Firm’s leadership team, Board and Legal team to integrate compliance across both traditional insurance asset management and the Firm’s expanding private markets platform. This position plays a critical role in supporting NLG Capital’s strategic shift from public to private assets, providing practical, solutions-oriented compliance guidance that supports innovation while maintaining strong governance and fiduciary standards.

Primary Responsibilities

Strategic Compliance Leadership

• Define and execute a comprehensive compliance strategy aligned with NLG Capital’s growth priorities, including private credit, CLO management, asset-backed finance, commercial real estate and other private markets.
  • Partner with leadership to ensure compliance frameworks enable business objectives while maintaining regulatory integrity and investor confidence.
  • Provide proactive guidance on compliance risks, regulatory developments, and industry trends—particularly those shaping private and alternative investments.
  • Build and maintain a governance framework that spans both traditional insurance investments and private asset platforms.

Regulatory Oversight & Relationship Management

• Serve as the primary point of contact for the SEC and other regulatory bodies, overseeing examinations, inquiries, and communications.
  • Ensure the timely and accurate completion of all regulatory filings (e.g., Form ADV, Rule 206(4)-7 annual reviews) and Board reporting.
  • Monitor and interpret new and evolving regulations affecting investment activities, including private credit, structured finance, and real estate investment activities, ensuring the Firm remains prepared and compliant.

Program Development & Execution

• Lead the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of the Firm’s compliance program, with specific focus on CLO management, private lending, and SPV oversight.
  • Oversee investment compliance monitoring across public and private assets, ensuring that policies, investment mandates, and client restrictions are consistently met.
  • Partner with investment and operations teams to develop compliance controls around credit underwriting, borrower diligence, and collateral management.
  • Leverage data analytics and technology to streamline compliance monitoring and enhance transparency in private asset structures.

Risk Management & Oversight

• Collaborate with Legal, Risk, Operations, and Investments to integrate compliance within the Firm’s broader risk management framework.
  • Identify and address emerging compliance risks associated with illiquid investments, valuation practices, and complex deal structures.

Leadership & Culture

• Build and lead a high-performing compliance team with expertise across both private and traditional investment strategies.
  • Foster a culture of integrity, accountability, and transparency across all levels of the organization.
  • Provide mentorship, training, and thought leadership to enhance compliance knowledge and engagement firmwide.
• Promote a solutions-oriented compliance culture that supports responsible growth and innovation in private markets.

Qualifications

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Business, or Law (required). Advanced degree (JD, MBA) or professional certifications (e.g., CFA, CAIA, IACCP) strongly preferred.

Experience

• 10+ years of progressive compliance or legal experience in investment advisory, asset management, or private markets, including at least 10 years in a senior leadership role.
  • Demonstrated expertise in private credit, CLOs, structured finance, and commercial real estate investing, including oversight of Special Purpose Vehicles (SPVs).
  • Proven success leading compliance programs at firms managing both public and private assets.

Skills

• Deep knowledge of SEC regulations, the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, and compliance best practices across alternative and private asset classes.
  • Familiarity with LSTA guidance or similar frameworks governing loan market participation and structured credit.
  • Ability to guide SPV structuring and administration to ensure regulatory compliance and fiduciary standards.
  • Strong collaboration with investment, legal, and operations teams on fund terms, credit agreements, and side letters.
  • Expertise in compliance oversight for lending practices, credit underwriting, and borrower monitoring.
  • Excellent leadership, communication, and relationship management skills, with the ability to engage effectively with regulators, auditors, and senior leadership.

About Us

NLG Capital, the investment management company of NLG, manages approximately $40+ billion in AUM. Our purpose is simple – to allow NLG to keep its promises. How we do this – an obsessive focus on delivering investment results. We drive results through a rigorous but collaborative investment process, and we hold ourselves to the highest of standards, both as investors and teammates. While our process is based on rigor, our culture is based on our guiding principles: Meritocracy, Uncompromising Transparency, Intellectual Honesty, Performance Driven Learning, Relentless Pursuit of Excellence. These principles serve as the foundation of our team.  They govern the way we conduct ourselves, how we interact with teammates and how we approach every investment decision.  We act with the integrity and humility required to make the investment decision that is right for the firm, and ultimately our policyholders.  Our culture has been deliberately built to foster curiosity and provide opportunities to learn and grow, both as people and investors. The flat and collaborative nature of our team promotes an atmosphere where the best ideas are continually expressed and rewarded. Our pursuit of excellence is unwavering.

Please note that we do not offer visa sponsorship for this position.

Position Summary 

The Investment Analytics Analyst will have direct exposure to NLG Capital's investment process by supporting senior members of the Office of the CIO Team. In doing so, they will work on projects related to asset allocation, risk management, performance measurement, competitive intelligence, and other investment related projects. The high impact role will offer exposure to key areas of the National Life investment process while ensuring that we are able to objectively frame our investment portfolio positioning and risk.  This role provides the necessary information that is required to improve our investment decisions and to ensure that our decisions are aligned with the strategic objectives and constraints facing National Life Group.  

Responsibilities 

• Supporting the Office of the CIO in executing on NLG Capital’s investment strategies 

• Create and improve analytical tools and monitors that support our investment process through improved understanding and visualizing complex data sets 

• Create monitors that bring transparency and objectivity of information to our investment process 

• Influence key decision makers through recurring and ad hoc analysis 

• Integrate insights into practical workflows utilizing Excel, Tableau / Microsoft BI, and email-based reporting 

• Learn investment strategy workflows and apply technical skills to improve and automate processes 

• Improve team efficiency by leveraging technology to solve our most challenging problems  

THE PERSON 

Pivotal Experience & Expertise 

• Strong understanding of financial markets, with at least three years of investment experience or an advanced degree in Finance, Economics, Financial Engineering, Data Science or Computer Science or combination thereof 

• Asset management experience within the insurance industry preferred 

• Experience in financial analysis and/or development and/or business analytics related roles 

• Experience using Excel, Microsoft BI, Tableau, and other data visualization tools 

• SQL and Python helpful

• Experience with code development best practices a plus

• Intense intellectual curiosity with the desire to seek new challenges while continuously learning 

• Solid interpersonal skills and ability to connect to form meaningful working partnerships 

• Inclusive team player with a collaborative and cooperative approach 

• Strong work ethic and proactive professional disposition 

• Experience driving projects to completion 

Cultural Fit 

• Results-driven mindset 

• Thrives in a collaborative environment where the best ideas that drive the best results are rewarded 

• Have the integrity to communicate all relevant facts and information in evaluating decisions and the humility to admit what you do not know 

• Love of learning – comfortable in an organization that seeks to continually learn from its mistakes and successes to drive better investment decisions 

• Comfortable with ambiguity and the mentality required to address and ultimately own those ambiguous situations – finding answers and solutions 

• Proficient in giving and receiving constructive feedback in both real time and structured environments 

• Demonstrates transparent, direct, and open communication across the organization 

• Promotes collaboration and has a “firm first” attitude – does what is right for National Life Group 

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Benefits

• Your benefits start day one and are flexible and customizable to your and your family’s specific needs. Check out the BENEFITS of a Career at National Life!

About Us

NLG Capital, the investment management company of NLG, manages approximately $40+ billion in AUM. Our purpose is simple – to allow NLG to keep its promises. How we do this – an obsessive focus on delivering investment results. We drive results through a rigorous but collaborative investment process, and we hold ourselves to the highest of standards, both as investors and teammates. While our process is based on rigor, our culture is based on our guiding principles: Meritocracy, Uncompromising Transparency, Intellectual Honesty, Performance Driven Learning, Relentless Pursuit of Excellence. These principles serve as the foundation of our team.  They govern the way we conduct ourselves, how we interact with teammates and how we approach every investment decision.  We act with the integrity and humility required to make the investment decision that is right for the firm, and ultimately our policyholders.  Our culture has been deliberately built to foster curiosity and provide opportunities to learn and grow, both as people and investors. The flat and collaborative nature of our team promotes an atmosphere where the best ideas are continually expressed and rewarded. Our pursuit of excellence is unwavering.

Please note that we do not offer visa sponsorship for this position.

Role Summary

• The Senior Hedging Trader at NLG Capital is responsible for execution and implementation of the hedging program for the company’s insurance and reinsurance operations. This is a critical role that sits at the intersection of investments, risk management, and actuarial strategy. The position requires deep expertise in hedging and derivative strategies, combined with the ability to play a senior role within the hedging team working with the Head of Hedging and the broader NLG Capital investment team to ensure effective risk management, capital efficiency, and alignment with the firm’s long-term objectives.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Facilitate day-to-day hedging transaction management within the stated goals of the organization, within risk limitations and in conjunction with the broader resources of the organization.
• Monitor and report on hedge effectiveness, including metrics such as value-at-risk, hedge P&L attribution, and capital impacts.
• Partner with investment, actuarial, and finance teams to design and execute hedging strategies for new products, M&A, and reinsurance deals—including FX hedging and inforce risk management.
• Optimize collateral and capital efficiency associated with hedging activities.
• Collaborate with actuaries, distribution partners, and banking counterparties on the development and launch of new FIA and RILA products, including custom and indexed-linked strategies.
• Work with corporate finance and actuarial valuation teams to support projections, capital planning, and stress testing.

Minimum Qualifications

• Proven track record of successfully designing and implementing hedging programs in insurance or reinsurance contexts.
• Broad understanding of life and annuity products, including FIA and RILA.
• Strong ability to communicate complex hedging strategies simply and effectively to diverse stakeholders.
• Experience balancing risk management and capital efficiency objectives.
• Strong technical proficiency, including Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint); experience with quantitative tools preferred.
• Self-motivated with excellent leadership, collaboration, and communication skills.
• Actuarial, quantitative finance, or CFA background preferred but not required.
• This position currently offers an onsite hybrid work schedule, with the expectation that you are in the office four days per week. The work schedule type and core days are subject to change with advance notification and manager discretion.

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with U.S. statutory accounting, GAAP, and actuarial guidelines.
• Experience managing collateral and counterparty relationships.
• Prior leadership of derivatives or hedging teams in an insurance or asset management setting.

Benefits

• Your benefits start day one and are flexible and customizable to your and your family’s specific needs. Check out the BENEFITS of a Career at National Life!

About Us

NLG Capital, the investment management company of NLG, manages approximately $40+ billion in AUM. Our purpose is simple – to allow NLG to keep its promises. How we do this – an obsessive focus on delivering investment results. We drive results through a rigorous but collaborative investment process, and we hold ourselves to the highest of standards, both as investors and teammates. While our process is based on rigor, our culture is based on our guiding principles: Meritocracy, Uncompromising Transparency, Intellectual Honesty, Performance Driven Learning, Relentless Pursuit of Excellence. These principles serve as the foundation of our team.  They govern the way we conduct ourselves, how we interact with teammates and how we approach every investment decision.  We act with the integrity and humility required to make the investment decision that is right for the firm, and ultimately our policyholders.  Our culture has been deliberately built to foster curiosity and provide opportunities to learn and grow, both as people and investors. The flat and collaborative nature of our team promotes an atmosphere where the best ideas are continually expressed and rewarded. Our pursuit of excellence is unwavering.

Please note that we do not offer visa sponsorship for this position.

Position Overview

The Director of RMBS Trading & Residential Credit Investing is responsible for leading residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) trading, whole loan trading, and private residential credit investment initiatives. This role oversees portfolio management, sourcing, pricing, structuring, and execution across a broad range of residential credit asset classes. The Director drives relative value analysis, develops proprietary analytical tools, manages junior team members, and partners cross-functionally to deliver attractive risk-adjusted returns.

Key Responsibilities

RMBS Trading & Portfolio Management

• Manage and actively trade multi-sector RMBS portfolio, including agency, non-agency, CRT, NPL/RPL, and other structured credit subsectors.
• Conduct relative value analysis, performance surveillance, and risk monitoring across holdings.
• Source and evaluate market opportunities, maintaining relationships with buy-side and sell-side counterparties.
• Develop and enhance internal pricing models and analytical frameworks to support trading decisions.
• Oversee portfolio analytics, scenario analysis, and performance attribution.
• Build loan-level pricing models incorporating prepayment, default, severity, and rate assumptions.
• Manage and mentor junior team members responsible for modeling and portfolio surveillance.
• Manage acquisition and disposition of whole loan asset classes
• Coordinate transaction execution with legal, transaction management, counterparties, and servicers.
• Prepare and present detailed investment committee memoranda outlining return expectations, risk factors, and sensitivities.

Risk Analytics & Process Development

• Design and implement robust portfolio monitoring and delinquency tracking frameworks.
• Develop expected loss modeling and pricing optimization tools.
• Collaborate with middle and back-office teams to design underwriting and operational processes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Economics, Finance, Mathematics, Statistics, or related quantitative field; strong academic record required.
• 7+ years of experience in RMBS trading, whole loan trading, residential credit investing, structured products, or mortgage analytics.
• Deep knowledge of residential mortgage products, securitization structures, and credit performance drivers.
• Strong financial modeling skills (loan-level cash flow modeling, scenario analysis, yield and spread analysis).
• Experience presenting investments to Investment Committees.
• Demonstrated ability to manage portfolios and drive P&L performance.
• Strong negotiation and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Prior team leadership or analyst management experience preferred.

Benefits

• Your benefits start day one and are flexible and customizable to your and your family’s specific needs. Check out the BENEFITS of a Career at National Life!

About Us

NLG Capital, the investment management company of NLG, manages approximately $40+ billion in AUM. Our purpose is simple – to allow NLG to keep its promises. How we do this – an obsessive focus on delivering investment results. We drive results through a rigorous but collaborative investment process, and we hold ourselves to the highest of standards, both as investors and teammates. While our process is based on rigor, our culture is based on our guiding principles: Meritocracy, Uncompromising Transparency, Intellectual Honesty, Performance Driven Learning, Relentless Pursuit of Excellence. These principles serve as the foundation of our team.  They govern the way we conduct ourselves, how we interact with teammates and how we approach every investment decision.  We act with the integrity and humility required to make the investment decision that is right for the firm, and ultimately our policyholders.  Our culture has been deliberately built to foster curiosity and provide opportunities to learn and grow, both as people and investors. The flat and collaborative nature of our team promotes an atmosphere where the best ideas are continually expressed and rewarded. Our pursuit of excellence is unwavering.

Please note that we do not offer visa sponsorship for this position.

Role Summary

• The Hedging Leader at NLG Capital is responsible for designing, implementing, and overseeing the hedging framework and activity for the company’s insurance and reinsurance operations. This is a critical leadership role that sits at the intersection of investments, risk management, and actuarial strategy. The position requires deep expertise in hedging and derivative strategies, specifically index and product related design, combined with the ability to lead a team and collaborate across functions to ensure effective risk management, capital efficiency, and alignment with the firm’s long-term objectives.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Develop and implement a scalable hedging program to manage market, interest rate, and option risks across NLG’s insurance companies.
• Oversee day-to-day hedging operations, starting with static hedging programs and evolving toward dynamic overlays as business and asset volumes increase.
• Monitor and report on hedge effectiveness, including metrics such as value-at-risk, hedge P&L attribution, and capital impacts.
• Partner with investment, actuarial, and finance teams to design and execute hedging strategies for new products, M&A, and reinsurance deals—including FX hedging and in force risk management.
• Optimize collateral and capital efficiency associated with hedging activities.
• Build and lead a high-performing team of 2–3 professionals responsible for hedge execution, reporting, and analytics.
• Collaborate with actuaries, distribution partners, and banking counterparties on the development and launch of new FIA and RILA products, including custom and indexed-linked strategies.
• Work with corporate finance and actuarial valuation teams to support projections, capital planning, and stress testing.

Minimum Qualifications

• Proven track record of successfully designing and implementing hedging programs in insurance or reinsurance contexts.
• Broad understanding of life and annuity products, including IUL, FIA, MYGA and RILA.
• Strong ability to communicate complex hedging strategies simply and effectively to diverse stakeholders.
• Experience balancing risk management and capital efficiency objectives.
• Strong technical proficiency, including Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint); experience with quantitative tools preferred.
• Self-motivated with demonstrated excellent leadership, collaboration, and communication skills.
• Actuarial, quantitative finance, or CFA background preferred but not required.
• This position currently offers an onsite hybrid work schedule, with the expectation that you are in the office four days per week during onsite core days. The work schedule type and core days are subject to change with advance notification and manager discretion.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with U.S. statutory accounting, GAAP, insurance regulatory and actuarial guidelines.
• Experience managing collateral and counterparty relationships.
• Prior leadership of derivatives or hedging teams in an insurance or asset management setting.

Please note that we do not offer visa sponsorship for this position.

This position is ideally based in Addison, TX or Montpelier, VT with a hybrid work arrangement. Remote work may be considered for candidates located outside of a reasonable commuting distance to these offices.

Role Summary

The Retirement RFP Writer plays a strategic role in fueling the growth of National Life Group’s Retirement Business. By producing high-quality, compliant, and compelling proposals, this position directly contributes to new plan acquisition, client retention, and the company's competitive positioning in the 403(b), 457(b), and institutional retirement markets.

As part of the Retirement Solutions Team, this position would be responsible for responding to requests for Request for Proposal ("RFP") responses, Request for Information ("RFI"), and due diligence questionnaires while maintaining a company information database for use in responding to RFPs, sourcing requests, project management associated with the proposal process, and ensuring that all proposals meet the company’s high standards of quality. 

The Proposal Writer will become an informed Subject Matter Expert (SME) in National Life Group’s firmwide information and marketing materials as well and the autonomous SME on NLG’s full line of product offerings and retirement platforms.  The RFP writer will contribute to the Company’s Retirement Business initiatives through the creative writing and preparation of information request responses and the preparation of proposals while serving on the Retirement Solutions Team.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• He/she will work directly with the Head of Retirement Solutions, Relationship Managers, Retirement Consultants, VP of Retirement Business, Legal, and Distribution Leaders to respond to requests with defined goals to acquire and retain retirement business at the institutional level
• Source and write request for proposals (RFPs), Standard Proposals, Ad hoc requests for plan maintenance and business development opportunities
• Work with all internal subject matter experts (SMEs) to prepare answers, consolidate, proof, print and ship
• Update RFP database with all latest answers
• Navigate and update AI tool with latest responses to assist with enhancing future answers
• Provide reporting on RFPs with weekly progress reports and monthly updates
• Source key resources like BidPrime and other industry database to find relevant RFPs and pre-qualify National Life Group responses
• Support Retirement Services with all other marketing content, materials, and efforts
• Maintain current and accurate proposal answer and standard proposal templates by offering
• Improve NLG’s win rate and competitiveness through high-quality, on-time RFP submissions.
• Maintain 100% SLA compliance on proposal delivery deadlines.
• Partner with Field and RM teams to ensure accurate plan implementation and onboarding readiness.

Minimum Qualifications

• B.A. Marketing, Communication, Journalism, Writing or equivalent work experience.
• Five years of investment or annuity industry experience with a minimum of three years in RFP or investment marketing project engineering/ project management or process engineering.
• Organizational skills and time management.
• Effective communications skills both written and verbal for interface with Client partners, and co-worker SMEs.
• Familiarity  with Proposal Software and investment products in the retirement space.

Preferred Qualifications

• Possess ability to effectively work on multiple investment projects at the same time autonomously
• Become the Subject Matter Expert on National Life Group and its full menu of retirement products
• Ability to work in a fast-paced work environment with tight deadlines
• Possess extremely high level of attention to detail.
• Possess exceptional organizational skills.
• Possess excellent communication skills.
• Possess the ability to stay calm under pressure in a deadline oriented position.
• Possess the ability to quickly create concise, well written responses to RFP information requirements.
• Ability to navigate and farm multiple databases for reporting and tracking purposes
• Possess the ability to edit and format Word documents quickly and to also possess strong business and investment writing and editing skills, with the ability to clearly and accurately communicate our business and products to current relationships and prospective clients; and
• Possess a clear desire to expand industry knowledge
• Travel up to 15%

Benefits

• Your benefits start day one and are flexible and customizable to your and your family’s specific needs. Check out the BENEFITS of a Career at National Life!

Operations Manager, Life New Business

Position is located in Montpelier, Vermont, or Addison, Texas, with a relocation package offered.

Please note that we do not offer visa sponsorship for this position.

Company Summary

Come join one of America’s fastest growing insurance companies with a stable history of 175 years. At National Life Group (“NLG”), we offer a flexible work environment with opportunity for growth. As a mission-driven business, our promises are as important as the products we sell. We encourage our associates to live our values: Do Good. Be Good. Make Good.

Our mission extends beyond the insurance and annuities policies that we sell. Our cause is also to make the world a better place through grants from our charitable foundation, paid time for our employees to volunteer, environmentally sustainable and healthy work sites, and events that promote the work of nonprofits in our own backyard.

We invite you to explore what we have to offer and to join our cause.

Role Summary

We are seeking a forward-thinking, high-impact leader to join our team as Manager of Life New Business. This role is a critical leadership position designed to develop and groom the next generation of people leaders within our department, providing deep exposure to operational strategy, performance leadership, and talent development.

The Manager will oversee a team of Operations Leads that will support other Managers and Case Managers across multiple sites and Distribution channels. This role is highly cross-functional, requiring strong partnerships within the department—including Operations, Underwriting, Quality/Audit and Training—to drive an outstanding experience for our internal and external partners.

 Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and manage a cross-functional team across multiple sites to ensure efficient processing of Life New Business
• Champion a high-performance culture with a focus on leadership development, actively coaching team members with potential to advance into management
• Collaborate closely with internal teams across the department to streamline operations and enhance the end-to-end customer and agent experience
• Support and coach team members on building effective, service-oriented relationships with our distribution partners
• Model strong partner relationship skills and set expectations for professionalism, responsiveness, and trust-building in every external interaction
• Work with team members to resolve complex partner issues, turning challenges into opportunities to strengthen our partnerships
• Implement individual and team goals that align with broader departmental and organizational objectives
• Coach a team of individuals who act as a key point of escalation for high-priority agent and customer inquiries, ensuring swift and accurate resolution
• Model and uphold NLG values while promoting continuous learning, adaptability, and innovation
• Responsible for collaboration across distribution and enterprise-wide teams
• This position is presently onsite/hybrid with the expectation of being in the office four days per week with current campus days being Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday (subject to change with advance notification and manager discretion).

Job Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field
• 5–10 years of leadership experience in the life and annuity industry preferred; solid understanding of distribution, marketing, and operations required
• Strong Command Skills (Leadership)
• Proven ability to build and develop high-performing teams and mentor future leaders
• Demonstrated effectiveness in collaborative, cross-functional environments
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to successfully pass a background check that may including fingerprinting

Sponsorship is not available for this role.

Role Summary

National Life Group is seeking a highly motivated Senior Accountant Policy professional to join the corporate finance team. The Senior Accountant with strong insurance accounting knowledge will assess technical transactions, research and interpret accounting guidance and regulatory policy, and engage with leadership on accounting matters. This individual contributor role will work closely with other members of the Controller team and business units within the Company.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Research relevant accounting guidance (U.S. GAAP and Statutory Accounting Principles) to evaluate complex and technical business transactions
• Develop, maintain, and update the company’s accounting policy manual and technical memos
• Draft clear, practical accounting policies based on U.S. GAAP and Statutory Accounting Principles
• Monitor changes in accounting guidance and regulatory developments (e.g. FASB and NAIC) and assess their impact
• Communicate new and emerging technical accounting policy developments and related regulatory developments to key stakeholders
• Ensure company-wide accounting policies are current and compliant with existing and recently issued accounting standards and regulations
• Serve as a resource to team members and applicable internal/external stakeholders on more complex technical accounting policy and compliance issues for assigned areas of responsibility
• Provides technical accounting support on transactions and strategic initiatives by identifying any accounting issues during the process and developing/integrating technical accounting policies, as needed 

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance
• 5+ years of relevant experience in accounting policy, technical accounting, or audit in public accounting 
• CPA with previous public accounting experience strongly preferred
• Strong knowledge of U.S. GAAP and Statutory Accounting Principles, preferably in the life, health, or P&C insurance sector
• Familiarity with NAIC guidance and statutory reporting requirements
• Experience with insurance products, reinsurance arrangements, and investment accounting is a plus
• Excellent research, analytical, and technical writing skills
• Strong communication and collaboration skills across cross-functional teams
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and Word; experience with accounting research tools (e.g. PwC Checkpoint, DART, CCH) preferred
• Demonstrated ability or willingness to adopt and apply emerging technologies, including generative AI and automation tools, to improve reporting efficiency, effectiveness, and control quality.
• Good verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to work flexible hours as required

Benefits

• Your benefits start day one and are flexible and customizable to your and your family’s specific needs. Check out the BENEFITS of a Career at National Life!

Sponsorship is not available for this role

Role Summary

• Reporting to the AVP, Investment Accounting, the Director, Investment Accounting will lead a high-performing team of individual contributors to ensure accurate, timely financial reporting of NLG’s investment portfolio. The successful candidate will demonstrate an ability to navigate between review of journal entries and higher level understanding of financial results while supporting the broader finance organization’s strategic initiatives.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Responsible for the Investment Accounting function, including oversight and direction of GAAP and statutory accounting, and reporting for all asset classes in the Company’s consolidated investment portfolio and its subsidiaries and affiliates.
• Ensure accurate month-end, quarter-end and annual reporting of balances relating to investment assets, liabilities, income and expenses on a GAAP and statutory basis of accounting.
• Build and maintain external relationships with auditors, vendors and other business partners.
• Build and maintain internal relationships with diverse lines of businesses and other parts of the organization, including financial reporting, tax, treasury, and investment operations to support their specific needs.
• Develop continuous process improvement strategy which includes automation and the implementation of new technology, processes, and reporting, and strengthens controls over investment accounting.
• Assist management in the development of key business indicators, metrics, analytic reports, and investment-related strategies. Communicate to business leaders and internal business partners on the same.
• Stay abreast of financial reporting and regulatory developments related to investment accounting which can impact the Company and facilitate compliance with such regulations.
• Manage a team of investment accounting professionals, including establishing and monitoring of goals, reviewing work completed by team on a timely basis, and ensuring proper communication of investment accounting and corporate policies, practices, and performance.

Minimum Qualifications

• 7 -10 years of related experience required in the areas of investment accounting, financial reporting, internal controls, process improvement, and the broader accounting profession.
• Bachelor's degree.
• Experience with US GAAP Accounting and/or Statutory Reporting.
• Experience with investment accounting within an insurance or other regulated organization.
• Ability to anticipate, identify and resolve financial issues.
• Ability to continually manage multiple priorities and reprioritize as needed.
• Demonstrated ability or willingness to adopt and apply emerging technologies, including generative AI and automation tools, to improve reporting efficiency, effectiveness, and control quality.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree
• CPA or equivalent professional certification
• Experience managing multi-site and/or remote contributors.
• Experience with portfolios holding diverse asset classes and/or private credit.

Benefits

• Your benefits start day one and are flexible and customizable to your and your family’s specific needs. Check out the BENEFITS of a Career at National Life!

Please note that we do not offer visa sponsorship for this position.

Media Relations Director

National Life Group has a great story to tell and we’re searching for the right person to tell it. As one of the fastest growing life insurance companies in the U.S., we are hiring a hands-on Media Relations Director to lead the strategy and execution of our public relations, media outreach, and executive thought leadership. This well-connected, dynamic individual contributor will have an eye for detail and an ear to the ground. They will have a strong curiosity and drive to uncover compelling stories through an established network that is ready to amplify it.

What You Bring

• Strategic Storytelling: build trusted relationships both internally and externally to promote stories that will spotlight National Life’s top ten status while positioning it as a company that brings financial confidence to underserved markets.
• Media Leadership: identify and secure high-impact opportunities across media, events, podcasts, and digital platforms for senior leaders working in collaboration with agency partners.

• Content Curation: craft engaging, accurate content across relevant media (press releases, blogs, online publications, digital, social media, etc.).

• Thought Leadership: develop and execute personalized communications plans for senior leaders and campaigns aligned with National Life’s business priorities and values.
• Data Mining Expertise: access and mine data regularly to inform recommendations and measure impact/results of communications and PR plans.
• Crisis Communications: provide communications expertise and insights to the company’s emergency response team.
• A Servant Leadership Approach: work independently to drive proven results while pitching in to provide support to teammates when needed. 

Preferred Skills

• 10+ years of experience managing external communications including public relations, media relations, and content creation using sound judgement and strategy
• Proven results achieved through experience, intuition, and a robust network
• Excellent communicator with empathy and listening skills
• Approachable, authentic leader who can read a room
• Data analysis to make informed decisions and recalibrate if necessary
• Self-motivated, results-oriented and able to work independently in a fast-paced business environment
• Proactive approach, able to anticipate issues and recommend solutions
• Take direction and offer constructive feedback
• Ruthlessly prioritize work and projects to meet deadlines/expectations
  
  

About the Team

You will work as a member of Corporate Communications and Community Relations, reporting to the head of the team, in collaboration with associates across the enterprise to ensure messaging is consistent, our tone is on point, and our content is compelling and accurate. You will be encouraged to think big, to live our do good values, and make a positive impact on National Life’s brand.  

We’ve been keeping our promises to our people, customers, community and environment since 1848.  Come join our cause!

Benefits

• Your benefits start day one and are flexible and customizable to your and your family’s specific needs. Check out the BENEFITS of a Career at National Life!