<div>Thrivent is a Fortune 500, membership-owned financial services organization that operates as a fraternal benefit society. Founded more than 120 years ago, it helps over 2 million clients achieve financial clarity while putting generosity and faith at the heart of saving, investing, and giving.</div>

<p>As the Director of Design Client Experience at Thrivent, you will be a dynamic leader focused on strategic vision, growing talent, and driving execution. You will lead and mentor a team of managers, focusing on new value creation, organization-wide leadership, and operational excellence. With your significant management experience and strong design skills, you will drive the development of innovative practices that increase the value and appreciation of design both internally and externally.</p><h3>Duties &amp; Responsibilities</h3><p><em>This is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of essential job functions, but rather a general overview of the principal responsibilities.</em></p><ul><li>Lead and mentor a team of designers, focusing on strategic vision, talent growth, and execution excellence.</li><li>Excel in one area of design, with strong proficiency in two others and capability in two additional areas. Use design methods not just to solve execution problems but to identify new opportunities for value creation.</li><li>Complete the shift to program-level work across multiple workstreams, driving the development of new practices that increase the value and appreciation of design.</li><li>Frame research initiatives and prioritize when to execute research to inform strategic decisions and identify new opportunities. Take an active role in company-wide leadership initiatives, shaping entire user experiences.</li><li>Use storytelling and persuasion to connect strategy and vision with day-to-day practicality, driving meetings and stakeholder communication effectively.</li><li>Develop a holistic understanding of organizational context and line-of-business strategy. Appreciate broader organizational efforts around culture, work, and values, and articulate a compelling vision for the team.</li><li>Create the team you need by defining problems with cross-functional leads and managing managers. Coach managers toward strong people-management practices and drive broader organizational efforts around culture, work, and values.</li><li>Recruit, develop, and sustain a high-performing team while promoting a culture of shared accountability, operational excellence, and partnership across the organization.</li><li>Support and develop an environment in which Thrivent employees and colleagues are focused on continuous improvement, exceptional employee engagement, and an unwavering commitment to clients. Shape and support a culture that represents Thrivent’s purpose, promise, and values, ensuring that Thrivent’s trust and reputation remain strong with its clients.</li><li>Model Thrivent’s leadership competencies: Model the Way, Rally the Team, and Deliver Outcomes.</li></ul><h3>Key Relationships &amp; Influence</h3><ul><li>Design Managers and Principal Designers – direct supervision and management</li><li>Cross-functional Product and Engineering peers – collaboration</li><li>Cross-functional organizational stakeholders – collaboration and presentations</li><li>Product, Design, and Engineering VPs and EVPs – presentations and strategic communication</li></ul><h3>Qualifications &amp; Skills</h3><p><strong>Required</strong></p><ul><li>Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Interaction Design, UI/UX Design, Web Product Design, Web Development, or any combination of education and experience that would provide an equivalent background.</li><li>12+ years of experience in a related field, including 5-8 years of experience in user experience, interaction design, product innovation, and research within a product development team.</li><li>Proven experience leading and mentoring design teams, with significant management experience and the ability to recruit and hire top talent.</li><li>Strong leadership skills with the ability to motivate and inspire teams to achieve their goals.</li><li>Ability to drive the development of innovative practices that increase the value and appreciation of design, supported by a strong strategic mindset.</li><li>Strong strategic communication skills, with the ability to connect vision with day-to-day practicality.</li><li>Holistic understanding of organizational context and line-of-business strategy, with the ability to articulate a compelling vision for the team.</li><li>Experience in talent management, including recruiting, hiring, and professional development.</li><li>Experience in annual and ad hoc headcount planning for the organization and securing necessary budget.</li></ul><p><strong>Preferred</strong></p><ul><li>Strategic design thinking and the ability to contribute to the overall design strategy of the organization.</li><li>Knowledge and experience working in diversified financial services.</li><li>Experience working within a product operating model at scale.</li></ul><h3>Pay &amp; Benefits</h3><p>Thrivent’s long-term growth depends on attracting, rewarding, and retaining people who are committed to helping others thrive with purpose. We accomplish this by offering a wide variety of market-competitive compensation programs designed to attract, reward, and retain top talent.</p><p>The applicable salary range for this full-time role is <strong>$177,984.00-$240,803.00 per year</strong>, which factors in various geographic regions. The base pay actually offered will be determined by a variety of factors including, but not limited to, location, relevant experience, skills and knowledge, business needs, market demand, and other factors Thrivent deems important.</p><p>Thrivent is unique in its commitment to helping people be wise with money and live balanced and generous lives. That commitment extends to employee benefits, which may include:</p><ul><li>Annual or long-term incentive bonuses</li><li>Medical, dental, and vision insurance</li><li>Health Savings Account (HSA)</li><li>Flexible Spending Account (FSA)</li><li>401(k) plan</li><li>Pension</li><li>Life and accidental death and dismemberment insurance</li><li>Disability insurance</li><li>Supplemental protection insurance</li><li>20 days of Paid Time Off each year</li><li>Sick and Safe Time</li><li>10 paid company holidays</li><li>Volunteer Time Off</li><li>Paid parental leave</li><li>Employee Assistance Program (EAP)</li><li>Well-being benefits</li><li>Other employee benefits</li></ul><p>Eligibility for these benefits is subject to the applicable plan and policy documents. Thrivent’s plans and policies are subject to change at any time at Thrivent’s discretion.</p><h3>Equal Employment Opportunity</h3><p><em>Thrivent provides Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) without regard to race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, pregnancy, national origin, age, disability, marital status, citizenship status, military or veteran status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable local, state, or federal law. This policy applies to all employees and job applicants.</em></p><p><em>Thrivent is committed to providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation, please let us know.</em></p>

Director, Design Client Experience

<strong>About the Role</strong><br>An Engineering Manager in the Acquisition Portfolio leads a team of 5-8 full-stack engineers, bridging technical expertise and product partnerships. The day involves being a hands-on technical partner to product management and tech leads, overseeing delivery, and maintaining hands-on technical understanding. This includes actively guiding architecture, code quality, and system design decisions to ensure scalable, high-quality solutions aligned with business objectives.<br><br><strong>Overall Tasks and Responsibilities</strong><br>Overall, the role requires providing strategic direction across teams, establishing operating practices, priorities, and metrics aligned with organizational goals. The manager interprets and applies company-wide policies within the context of engineering delivery, driving effective execution and continuous improvement. They collaborate closely with Product, business leaders, and senior stakeholders to translate complex compensation and advisor needs into well-designed technical solutions. Additionally, the manager leads technical discussions and forums that shape direction, ensure clarity, and support the delivery of business and technology outcomes. The team maintains and builds highly integrated products and experiences, requiring cross-functional collaboration across Thrivent.<br><br><strong>DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:</strong><br><strong>Designing Solutions</strong><br><ul><li>Review technical solution design and architecture and provide guidance and direction.</li><li>Take part in system design and architecture conversations with the team to land approaches to deliver solutions.</li><li>Review technical solution and supports the execution of the solution.</li></ul><br><strong>Developing Software</strong><br><ul><li>Has developed software. Can read code and stays up to date on best practices.</li><li>Ensure code reviews are completed - Problem solving and analytical skills.</li></ul><br><strong>Learning and applying new techniques</strong><br><ul><li>Promotes and empowers sharing ideas, best practices, etc. They need to make space so teams can take time for these activities.</li><li>Anticipates and analyzes trends in technology and assesses the impact of emerging technologies on the business.</li></ul><br><strong>Collaborating within team</strong><br><ul><li>Supports the team agile practices and learning events/trainings.</li><li>Helps break down barriers for the team.</li><li>Engages in sprint demos; understands the desired and actual outcomes as well as the technology delivered by the team.</li><li>Partner with Product Manager on initiatives/features/epics and provides clarity on desired outcomes as well as technical expertise.</li><li>Collaborates with Product Manager for strategies, operating plans, targets and measures for product groups.</li><li>Creating a positive team environment where individuals have psychological safety and work collaboratively while understanding, respecting, challenging and appreciating each other’s ideas.</li></ul><br><strong>Collaborating across teams</strong><br><ul><li>Supports and empowers teams to broker solutions across products.</li><li>Understands how the product integrates with other products and ensures consistency in approach to work towards a common goal/outcome.</li><li>Builds strong working relationships with peers across teams.</li><li>Proactively identifies cross team challenges and works to empower teams in solving collaboratively.</li></ul><br><strong>Collaborating across the organization</strong><br><ul><li>Align your team with the priorities of the company and the technology organization for a given product area.</li></ul><br><strong>Setting product/platform technology strategy</strong><br><ul><li>Participates in setting the product and platform technology vision, strategies, initiatives, roadmaps, objectives and alignments.</li><li>Represents the business value of technology upgrades, etc. and influences prioritization in the product roadmap.</li><li>Empowers the team to select the right tool and platforms for the given product area.</li></ul><br><strong>Defining Engineering standards/patterns</strong><br><ul><li>Collaborating with Engineers to ensure Engineering practices and be an advocate to bring the engineering disciplines.</li><li>Promoting engineering practices and continuous improvement such as develops and observability.</li><li>Contributes to the creation of enterprise frameworks and patterns.</li></ul><br><strong>DevOps</strong><br><ul><li>Define and supports the development lifecycle processes.</li><li>Supports the team and removes barriers to resolving production incidents/problems.</li><li>DevOps continuously evaluated through observability, monitoring and alerting.</li><li>Understands the health of technology products and promotes prioritization of work to maintain and continuously improve.</li><li>Serve as an escalation point in product level support for ongoing maintenance and production issues.</li></ul><br><strong>Selecting & Managing Technology Vendors</strong><br><ul><li>Be an advocate to the team to define criteria for selecting the right platform/technology.</li><li>Guides the team to build consensus on an approach and driving a build vs buy decision with the team. In a buy decision, works with the team to decide on criteria and vendor selection.</li><li>Execute or manage the overall technology solutions, platforms for the product groups and associated vendor relationships.</li></ul><br><strong>Coaching Engineers</strong><br><ul><li>Holding regular 1:1s with team members and team meetings.</li><li>Provides constructive feedback, guidance and coaching to help engineers grow their skills and experience.</li><li>Provides career planning advice to engineers and creates development plans to help them achieve their career goals which leverages their skills and capabilities and provides them with learning opportunities.</li></ul><br><strong>Recruiting/building talent</strong><br><ul><li>Leads the process of selecting and engaging the right consulting partners.</li><li>Planning in advance for future people needs for the product groups, collaborate with the other teams on the recruitment process.</li><li>Recruits, develops, and sustains a high-performing team while promoting a culture of shared accountability, operational excellence, and partnership across the organization.</li><li>Models Thrivent’s leadership competencies – courage, collaboration, and commitment by demonstrating resiliency, working together to make the best decisions, and holding yourself and others accountable.</li><li>Supports and/or develops an environment in which Thrivent employees and colleagues are focused on continuous improvement, exceptional employee engagement, and an unwavering commitment to our clients. Shapes and/or supports a culture that represents the Thrivent purpose, promise and values, ensuring that Thrivent’s trust and reputation remain strong with its clients.</li><li>Manage a team of direct and indirect staff.</li></ul><br><strong>QUALIFICATIONS & SKILLS:</strong><br><em><strong>Required:</strong></em><br><ul><li>Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or other technical field or equivalent work experience.</li><li>8+ years of progressively responsible positions in Information Technology including 5+ years’ experience in IT discipline, e.g., customer relationship management, portfolio strategy and roadmap development.</li><li>3+ years of leadership experience in all aspects of a specific IT discipline, e.g. IT/LOB customer relationship management, portfolio strategy and/or demand management.</li><li>3+ years’ management/supervisory experience in specific IT functional area discipline, e.g. applications development or equivalent skills leading major technical projects with accountability for enforcing talent management needs and performance.</li></ul>

Mgr, Digital Engineering

<div><strong>As a Principal Engineer in AI Security, you will define and lead Thrivent’s strategy for defending against emerging external AI-powered threats. This role focuses on protecting the enterprise from adversarial AI capabilities, including automated vulnerability discovery, exploitation, and AI-driven attack campaigns. You will operate at the intersection of cyber defense, artificial intelligence, and enterprise architecture, translating rapidly evolving external threats into practical, scalable protections across the organization. This role requires deep technical expertise, strong systems thinking, and the ability to influence security strategy at the highest levels.<br></strong><br></div><h3>DUTIES &amp; RESPONSIBILITIES:</h3><div><br><strong>Designing Solutions</strong></div><ul><li>Apply expert-level knowledge of AI-driven threats, cyber defense, and enterprise security architecture to define and drive outcomes that protect the organization from emerging AI-powered attack vectors.</li><li>Create the enterprise strategy for defending against AI-enabled threats, including automated vulnerability discovery, exploitation, and adversarial AI techniques.</li><li>Establish architecture for detection, prevention, and response capabilities specific to generative AI threat patterns.</li><li>Define and implement security patterns and guardrails to enable safe and secure enterprise consumption of AI technologies.</li><li>Drive integration of AI threat detection and controls into existing cyber defense tooling and platforms.</li><li>Build threat models focused on generative AI attack patterns and emerging adversarial techniques.</li></ul><div><br><strong>Implementing Solutions</strong></div><ul><li>Use independent, critical thinking to translate evolving AI threat intelligence into scalable engineering controls and defensive capabilities.</li><li>Lead the development of detection and response mechanisms for AI-driven attacks across enterprise environments.</li><li>Design and implement telemetry strategies to identify anomalous behavior indicative of AI-enabled threats.</li><li>Partner with Cyber Defense teams to operationalize detections, response playbooks, and automation for AI-related incidents.</li><li>Prototype and evaluate defensive applications of AI to enhance detection, response, and security operations.</li><li>Develop architecturally significant components that advance the organization’s ability to defend against AI-driven adversaries.</li></ul><div><br><strong>Learning and Applying New Techniques</strong></div><ul><li>Lead research initiatives focused on emerging AI threat capabilities, adversarial AI techniques, and evolving attack methodologies.</li><li>Maintain deep expertise in industry frameworks such as OWASP LLM Top 10 and MITRE ATLAS.</li><li>Continuously evaluate and introduce modern security technologies and approaches to address AI-era risks.</li><li>Drive adoption of innovative defensive techniques across the organization to stay ahead of threat evolution.</li></ul><div><br><strong>Collaborating Within the Team</strong></div><ul><li>Provide deep technical expertise in AI security to solve complex, high-impact problems and remove critical technical roadblocks.</li><li>Partner with product owners and engineering teams to incorporate AI security requirements into technical designs and user stories.</li><li>Act as a technical leader in system design across teams, ensuring AI security considerations are embedded into broader architecture decisions.</li><li>Mentor engineers and elevate AI security capabilities within teams.</li></ul><div><br><strong>Collaborating Across Teams</strong></div><ul><li>Partner closely with Cyber Defense, IAM, and Application Security teams to integrate AI threat protections across the security ecosystem.</li><li>Promote adherence to enterprise security standards while extending them to address AI-specific risks.</li><li>Broker design and implementation of AI security controls across product teams to support strategic priorities.</li><li>Drive alignment across teams on detection engineering, telemetry, and response strategies for AI threats.</li></ul><div><br><strong>Collaborating Across the Organization</strong></div><ul><li>Influence senior leadership on AI risk posture, threat landscape evolution, and required investments in defensive capabilities.</li><li>Provide enterprise-wide guidance on AI security architecture, ensuring consistent and scalable protection strategies.</li><li>Represent the organization externally on AI security topics when appropriate (industry forums, partnerships, etc.).</li><li>Translate complex AI security risks into actionable insights for both technical and non-technical stakeholders.</li></ul><div><br><strong>Setting Product/Platform Technology Strategy</strong></div><ul><li>Define enterprise-level capabilities required to defend against AI-powered threats.</li><li>Shape the strategic direction for AI security across cyber defense, detection engineering, and secure AI adoption.</li><li>Provide subject matter expertise to guide platform and security investments related to AI risk mitigation.</li></ul><div><br><strong>Defining Engineering Standards/Patterns</strong></div><ul><li>Establish and promote engineering standards for AI security, including secure AI usage patterns and detection frameworks.</li><li>Collaborate across teams to ensure consistent application of AI security controls and design patterns.</li><li>Drive adoption of best practices for integrating AI threat protections into engineering workflows and platforms.</li></ul><div><br><strong>DevOps</strong></div><ul><li>Provide technical leadership in identifying and responding to AI-driven security incidents and emerging threats.</li><li>Introduce resilient and scalable technologies to improve detection and response capabilities for evolving attack patterns.</li><li>Evaluate and implement enhancements to CI/CD and operational pipelines to incorporate AI security controls.</li><li>Influence cross-functional teams to proactively address risks associated with AI-enabled development and deployment.</li></ul><div><br><strong>Selecting and Managing Technology Vendors</strong></div><ul><li>Provide technical expertise in evaluating AI security tools, detection platforms, and emerging defensive technologies.</li><li>Assess how vendor solutions align with enterprise strategy for defending against AI-driven threats.</li><li>Contribute to selection criteria for platforms that enhance AI security posture and detection capabilities.</li></ul><div><br><strong>Coaching Engineers</strong></div><ul><li>Mentor engineers in AI security concepts, threat modeling, and detection engineering.</li><li>Provide guidance on best practices for securing AI-enabled systems and defending against adversarial AI techniques.</li><li>Deliver training, workshops, and knowledge-sharing sessions to build AI security expertise across the organization.</li></ul><div><br><strong>Recruiting and Building Talent</strong></div><ul><li>Engage in the broader AI and security community to strengthen organizational expertise and visibility in AI security.</li><li>Support recruitment efforts to hire engineers with specialized skills in AI security and advanced cyber defense.</li><li>Model Thrivent’s leadership competencies: Model the Way, Rally the Team, and Deliver Outcomes.</li><li>Foster a culture of continuous improvement, innovation, and strong security practices aligned to evolving AI risks.</li></ul><div><br><strong>QUALIFICATIONS &amp; SKILLS:</strong></div><h3>Required:</h3><ul><li>Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or related technical field, or equivalent work experience</li><li>10+ years of experience in security engineering or related field</li><li>Proven experience defining and executing enterprise security strategy</li><li>Deep knowledge of modern threats, attack techniques, and detection engineering</li><li>Experience with threat modeling, incident response, and security operations</li><li>Demonstrated ability to influence both technical and executive stakeholders</li></ul><h3>Preferred:</h3><ul><li>Experience working with AI/ML systems and security implications</li><li>Knowledge of adversarial AI techniques and AI threat modeling</li><li>Experience with XDR, SIEM, and detection engineering practices</li><li>Familiarity with AI security frameworks (e.g., OWASP LLM Top 10, MITRE ATLAS)</li><li>Financial services industry experience</li></ul><div>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div><strong>Pay Transparency</strong></div><div>Thrivent’s long-term growth depends on attracting, rewarding, and retaining people who are committed to helping others thrive with purpose. We accomplish this by offering a wide variety of market competitive compensation programs to attract, reward, and retain top talent.&nbsp; The applicable salary or hourly wage range for this full-time role is $161,436.00 - $218,415.00 per year, which factors in various geographic regions.&nbsp; The base pay actually offered will be determined by a variety of factors including, but not limited to, location, relevant experience, skills, and knowledge, business needs, market demand, and other factors Thrivent deems important.</div><div><br></div><div>Thrivent is unique in our commitment to helping people to be wise with money and live balanced and generous lives.&nbsp; That extends to our benefits.</div><div><br></div><div>The following benefits may be offered:&nbsp; various bonuses (including, for example, annual or long-term incentives); medical, dental, and vision insurance; health savings account; flexible spending account; 401k; pension; life and accidental death and dismemberment insurance; disability insurance; supplemental protection insurance; 20 days of Paid Time Off each year; Sick and Safe Time; 10 paid company holidays; Volunteer Time Off; paid parental leave; EAP; well-being benefits, and other employee benefits.&nbsp; Eligibility for receipt of these benefits is subject to the applicable plan/policy documents.&nbsp; Thrivent’s plans/policies are subject to change at any time at Thrivent’s discretion.</div>

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