Technology Project Manager (Insurance Industry)

About the role

If you're passionate about being part of a dynamic organization that enables a Fortune 100 company with nearly $70 billion in annual sales to drive innovation and adopt new technologies that deliver business results, then Nationwide's Technology team could be the place for you! At Nationwide®, "on your side" goes beyond just words. Our customers are at the center of everything we do and we're looking for associates who are passionate about delivering extraordinary care.

About the role

The Technology Project Manager is accountable for delivering business and technology outcomes across the Commercial Lines portfolio, leading initiatives from intake and funding through implementation, stabilization, and value realization. This role partners with business and technology stakeholders to translate strategic objectives, intake requests, and business cases into realistic delivery plans and measurable results, leading work through build, testing, release, and stabilization using Agile, waterfall, and hybrid delivery approaches as appropriate.

Primary Focus Areas

• Manage a portfolio of concurrent projects varying in size and complexity, with total budget responsibility in the multi-million-dollar range.
• Lead delivery across development teams, shared technology platforms, business stakeholders, and vendors.
• Own project scope, schedule, budget, forecasts, risks, dependencies, and change management to ensure successful delivery outcomes.
• Drive decision-making, issue resolution, and risk mitigation while communicating progress, trade-offs, impacts, and recommendations to stakeholders.
• Hold vendors and delivery partners accountable for commitments, quality, financial performance, and delivery results.
• Apply strong financial management practices, including budgeting, forecasting, funding requests, and value realization tracking.
• Establish and monitor delivery, financial, and outcome metrics to improve quality, predictability, transparency, and business value.

AI, Automation & Continuous Improvement

This is an AI-forward role with an expectation to leverage automation, analytics, AI agents, GitHub Copilot, Glean, and emerging AI capabilities to improve delivery speed, quality, transparency, efficiency, and stakeholder outcomes. You will:

• Drive adoption of AI-enabled tools and practices to improve planning, reporting, stakeholder communications, risk management, and decision-making.
• Identify and implement process improvements, automation opportunities, and operational efficiencies.
• Reduce manual effort and improve team productivity, delivery effectiveness, and overall business and technology outcomes.

• The role primarily supports partners and teams across the Eastern and Central time zones.
• Work Arrangement: This role follows a hybrid schedule and requires in-office presence in Columbus, OH or Des Moines, IA, two days per week.
• Exceptional candidates outside these markets may be considered for a remote work arrangement.
• Work Authorization: This role does not qualify for employer-sponsored work authorization. Nationwide does not participate in the STEM OPT Extension program.
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Job Description Summary

If you're enthusiastic about delivering secure technology solutions to support a company providing extraordinary care to its customers, then Nationwide Technology is the place for you. Nationwide's industry-leading technology workforce embraces an agile work environment and a collaborative culture to deliver outstanding solutions and results. If that sounds like something you aspire to, we want to hear from you!

As a Delivery Leader you'll be responsible for delivering value and outcomes. Delivery leaders are expected to have an end-to-end vantage point on delivery, manage dependencies, remove blockers, engage partners, manage financials, maximize vendor relationships, and enable an iterative delivery of value. You will need to keep pace with software delivery and organizational change methods and tools. Delivery leaders should also understand relevant Financial and Agile/Lean/DevOps tools and techniques.

Key Responsibilities

• Drives the End to End delivery of expected business outcomes, realization of benefits as outlined in the business case, drives incremental value, drives incremental planning, and drives dependency scope definition.
• Responsible for applying secure software and systems engineering practices throughout the delivery lifecycle to ensure our data and technology solutions are protected from threats and vulnerabilities.
• Responsible for the communication, critical issues, visibility, change management guidance to deliver business outcomes.
• Key contributor in the facilitation of contract negotiations, statement of work development and vendor oversight toward expected goals.
• Drives the prioritization of deliverables, handles moderate to complex issues/risks, governs dependencies.
• Is responsible for the delivery of status/health reports to drive value delivery tracking (ex: KPIs), optimizes the flow of value and ensures demand/capacity is handled.
• Works with medium to large project/product financials.
• Serves as a professional to others around delivering business outcomes, benefit realization, agile delivery, and Lean.

• May perform other responsibilities as assigned.
• Reporting Relationships: Reports to Delivery Leader or Business Solution Area Executive.

Typical Skills and Experiences

• Education: Undergraduate studies (bachelor's degree preferred) in management information systems, engineering, math, computer science, data analytics or comparable experience and education strongly preferred.
• License/Certification/Designation: Technology certifications or PMI, SAFE, Agile or Lean designations are encouraged.

• Experience: Six or more years of experience in technology or related field.
• Three years demonstrated proficiency in delivering outcomes/projects.
• Awareness of emerging technologies and/or industry trends.

• Knowledge, Abilities and Skills: Ability to make decisions and recommendations.
• Aptitude to influence, establish relationships and set priorities.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to interact with all levels of associates, senior management and/or vendors.
• Insurance/financial services industry knowledge a plus.

• Other criteria, including leadership skills, competencies and experiences may take precedence.
• Staffing exceptions to the above must be approved by the hiring manager's leader and HR Business Partner.
• Values: Regularly and consistently demonstrates the Nationwide Values.
• Job Conditions: Overtime Eligibility: Exempt (Not Eligible)

Working Conditions

• Normal office environment.
• ADA: The above statements cover what are generally believed to be principal and essential functions of this job. Specific circumstances may allow or require some people assigned to the job to perform a somewhat different combination of duties.
• We currently anticipate accepting applications until 11/27/2026. However, we encourage early submissions, as the posting may close sooner if a strong candidate slate is identified before the deadline.

Benefits

We have an array of benefits to fit your needs, including: medical/dental/vision, life insurance, short and long term disability coverage, paid time off with newly hired associates receiving a minimum of 18 days paid time off each full calendar year pro-rated quarterly based on hire date, nine paid holidays, 8 hours of Lifetime paid time off, 8 hours of Unity Day paid time off, 401(k) with company match, company-paid pension plan, business casual attire, and more. To learn more about the benefits we offer,

This position could be filled within any of the lower 48 U.S. states.

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Note to Employment Agencies

We value the partnerships we have built with our preferred vendors. Nationwide does not accept unsolicited resumes from employment agencies. All resumes submitted by employment agencies directly to any Nationwide employee or hiring manager in any form without a signed Nationwide Client Services Agreement on file and search engagement for that position will be deemed unsolicited in nature. No fee will be paid in the event the candidate is subsequently hired as a result of the referral or through other means.

Nationwide pays on a geographic-specific salary structure and placement within the actual starting salary range for this position will be determined by a number of factors including the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate; the scope, complexity and location of the role as well as the cost of labor in the market; and other conditions of employment.

• If a Sales job, Sales Incentives, based on performance goals are possible in addition to this range.
• Note on Compensation for Part-Time Roles: Please be aware that the salary ranges listed below reflect full-time compensation.
• Actual compensation may be prorated based on the number of hours worked relative to a full-time schedule.

• The national salary range for Consultant, Technology Project Manager: $118,000.00-$222,000.00
• The expected starting salary range for Consultant, Technology Project Manager: $118,000.00 - $178,000.00