Jobs at Horace Mann

Develops and manages enterprise, employee, leadership, corporate, and external communications. Responsibilities include communications planning, stakeholder partnership, writing and editing, storytelling, channel coordination, project execution, performance measurement, workflow improvement, and brand and reputation support. The role translates complex business topics into engaging audience-focused content, manages multiple communications initiatives, coordinates internal partners and vendors, and recommends improvements based on performance insights.

Supports enterprise business processes and technology systems by eliciting and documenting requirements, performing gap and issue analysis, translating business needs into technical specifications, and designing process improvements. Coordinates small to mid-sized projects, monitors deliverables, and ensures solutions meet organizational standards. Acts as a liaison between business stakeholders and technical teams, facilitates communication, manages requirements throughout delivery, and provides guidance to less experienced staff.

Coordinates technology releases across multiple teams, managing schedules, readiness criteria, change tickets, deployment plans, risks, dependencies, communications, and post-release reviews. Facilitates release planning, Change Advisory Board activities, testing, production deployments, infrastructure readiness, rollback planning, and off-hours implementations. Partners with technical and business stakeholders to ensure releases are approved, deployed, validated, and continuously improved. Requires strong knowledge of software development lifecycles, change management, deployment processes, branching, build management, and Agile and ITIL practices.

Reviews financial services applications and transactions for suitability under broker-dealer procedures and FINRA requirements. Supports registered representatives with product, documentation, and asset allocation guidance; conducts surveillance and exception reporting; maintains regulatory records; assists with training, forms, system enhancements, and process improvement. Requires insurance or brokerage experience, strong analytical and communication skills, and FINRA licensing.

Leads Supplemental and Group insurance priorities from strategy through execution. Manages complex cross-functional initiatives, establishes plans, milestones, ownership, and success measures, and develops recommendations for leadership. Partners across product, distribution, marketing, operations, technology, legal, compliance, finance, and customer experience. Leads and develops a small team, supports commercialization and business readiness, removes execution barriers, manages risks and dependencies, and improves processes and ways of working.

Leads enterprise marketing and distribution strategy, analytics, planning, forecasting, investment decisions, and performance management across agent, call center, partnership, and internet channels. Owns lead-funnel analytics, market opportunity modeling, dashboards, KPIs, and executive insights to drive profitable growth. Partners cross-functionally to implement strategies and develops a high-performing strategy and analytics team.

Build and manage an organization-wide developer enablement program, including tiered training, risk overlays, solution intake, compliance tracking, tooling standards, documentation, and technical support. Deliver training, resolve or route developer questions, maintain approved integration and package catalogs, and collaborate with Security, Architecture, Governance, and Data teams to improve development processes and guidance.

Lead an IT software engineering and support team responsible for digital platform stability, defect resolution, incidents, and system enhancements. Prioritize requests based on business value, urgency, and feasibility; communicate trade-offs and timelines to stakeholders; establish support and ticketing processes; analyze defect trends; and drive continuous improvement. Champion team adoption of agentic AI coding tools, prompt and context engineering, reusable integrations, and evidence-based verification of AI-generated work.

Supports enterprise business processes and technology systems by eliciting and documenting requirements, conducting gap and issue analysis, translating business needs into technical specifications, and designing process improvements. Coordinates small to mid-sized projects, monitors deliverables, manages requirements throughout the SDLC, and serves as a liaison between business stakeholders and technical teams. The role also facilitates collaboration, supports strategic initiatives, and guides less experienced staff.

Supports investment portfolio administration, reporting, risk and compliance monitoring, trade and valuation review, private asset pricing, and alternative investment operations. Compiles Board and Investment & Finance reports, monitors regulatory requirements, coordinates subscription documentation, and maintains front- and middle-office procedures supporting SOX compliance, disaster recovery, and process improvement. Partners with investment managers, vendors, and internal stakeholders to resolve operational issues and ensure accurate investment data.

Designs, develops, tests, deploys, maintains, and supports enterprise software applications using C#, .NET, ASP.NET Core, SQL Server, APIs, and related technologies. Owns application performance, reliability, scalability, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement. Serves as a technical subject matter expert, contributes to architecture and technology decisions, partners with DevOps on CI/CD automation, and mentors engineers. Collaborates with business stakeholders, product owners, vendors, and project teams throughout the software development lifecycle.