Principal, Strategic Planning & Integration

At Allstate, great things happen when our people work together to protect families and their belongings from life’s uncertainties. And for more than 90 years, our innovative drive has kept us a step ahead of our customers’ evolving needs. From advocating for seat belts, air bags and graduated driving laws, to being an industry leader in pricing sophistication, telematics, and, more recently, device and identity protection.

Core Engineering & Platforms (CEP) provides foundational (Core) capabilities, applying a disciplined Engineering first mindset, and advancing scalable, reusable Platforms across the ecosystem This role ensures critical priorities do not operate in silos, acting as the connective tissue, bringing cohesion across CEP by connecting work, signals, and outcomes across a wide set of product domains without introducing additional friction. Streamlining how CEP engages customers across products and services while cultivating strategic vendor partnerships that span multiple technology domains. The role elevates how CEP communicates its strategy and impact—curating clear, enterprise-relevant narratives for topics such as OKR progress, Operational Risk and Return Committee, technology execution review and board-level discussions that reflect plan of intent, progress to outcomes, and value delivered.

Key Responsibilities Lead coordinated planning and execution at scale - Lead Planning & Integration across CEP in environments with a high number of distributed product teams, partnering with digital products teams to ensure backlogs are sequenced when needed and consumable across domains (e.g., infrastructure as code transformation or large-scale efforts like large vendor exit requiring coordinated movement across infrastructure, platforms, and product teams).  Accelerating delivery on critical outcomes. Strengthen product partnership and customer signal curation - Partner with Digital Product Managers to support how the voice of the customer is captured, shaped, and reflected in CEP priorities—particularly in the absence of a business architect construct. Streamline engagement to reduce repeated asks and fragmented input across initiatives. Elevate workforce planning and future readiness - Align workforce planning and capability development by aligning future skill needs and organizational capacity to expected demand, reducing reactive hiring and improving long-term scalability. Influencer stewardship, specialized onboarding bootcamps/spark zones for infra. Align strategic vendor engagement to enterprise priorities - Support engagement and alignment with key strategic external partners against ATS priorities, ensuring clarity of expectations and value delivery. Shapes a clear consistent strategic narrative that connects directly to enterprise value - Curate clear, consistent storytelling of CEP strategy, progress, and impact across OKR tracking, ORCC, and board-level materials—ensuring alignment between what is happening and how it is communicated externally.

This job has supervisory duties.

Bachelor's degree is preferred or equivalent combination of education and experience. 10+ years of progressive experience leading strategic initiatives within complex technology-driven organizations, with expertise in industries undergoing large-scale digital transformation, such as financial services, insurance, technology, consulting, or other highly regulated environments. Enterprise Strategic Planning & Execution : Demonstrated ability to develop and operationalize enterprise technology strategies, translating complex business objectives into actionable plans that drive measurable organizational outcomes. Executive Influence & Organizational Leadership : Proven success in building alignment and influencing senior leaders and cross-functional stakeholders in complex environments, driving decisions and results without direct