Teams at Athene

Leads product strategy and development for innovative annuity and retirement solutions serving RIA, wealth management, and self-directed investor markets. Responsibilities include financial product structuring, market validation, commercialization, business case development, and lifecycle execution from concept through launch. The role partners with investment, actuarial, risk, legal, operations, and distribution teams while influencing senior executives and applying data-driven and responsible AI-enabled approaches.

Build and lead Athene’s Austin engineering organization and own the technical strategy, architecture, delivery, and operations of a cloud-native retirement platform. Oversee decisioning, calculation services, APIs, transaction workflows, integrations, and data capabilities. Recruit and develop engineering talent, establish security and operational controls, drive AI-enabled development, and partner with business leaders on investments, vendors, and delivery outcomes. The role requires hands-on coding, architecture, and executive influence in a regulated financial-services environment.

Analyze platforms, partner integrations, data capabilities, and system architecture to guide product strategy. Own the roadmap and backlog, write requirements and acceptance criteria, lead technical discovery, define metrics, and develop business cases and executive recommendations. Partner with engineering, architecture, distribution, actuarial, and external organizations to align priorities, resolve trade-offs, and support delivery of a new annuity and retirement technology platform.