Teams at Thrivent Financial

Lead definition and delivery of an MVP for a new digital financial-planning offering. Translate vision into roadmap, work hands-on with engineering and design, run experiments and user research, define KPIs, use prototypes and data to validate assumptions, and align stakeholders through ambiguity. Identify opportunities to apply AI and balance customer, technical, and business tradeoffs.

Implement and support HR Operations processes and tools, manage knowledge resources, drive continuous improvement, track metrics and dashboards, perform QA of HR service reps, and partner with COEs and cross-functional teams to improve employee experience and operational performance.

Manage and lead cybersecurity engineering teams responsible for asset protection and threat detection. Set technical direction for firewalls, endpoint/server security, DLP, vulnerability scanning, SIEM/SOAR, and threat intelligence. Partner with product, operations, infrastructure, and risk teams to prioritize engineering work, drive automation and observability, ensure operational health, and deliver measurable risk-reduction outcomes while developing and coaching staff.