Sr. Manager, Business Innovation Owner - Remote

CSAA Insurance Group

$152K — $202K *
US-Anywhere
+ 45 other locationsRemote
Business Services
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Business, Strategy, Marketing, or related field; or equivalent experience.
  • 8-10 years in innovation, product or business strategy, or consulting.
  • 3 years of direct leadership experience.
  • Proven ability to manage finances and partnerships.
  • Experience translating strategies into validated concepts using innovation frameworks.

Responsibilities

  • Translate business strategies and customer needs into innovation initiatives.
  • Lead the lifecycle of innovation projects from discovery to scaling.
  • Facilitate agile teams and workshops for iterative learning.
  • Conduct market research and product-market fit assessments.
  • Design validation experiments using lean startup or design thinking.

Benefits

  • Remote work flexibility across most states in the U.S.
  • Opportunity for a company-wide annual discretionary bonus.
  • Collaborative and inclusive company culture.
  • Encouragement of professional development and innovation initiatives.
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Job Title
Sr. Manager, Business Innovation Owner - Remote

Requisition Number
R7868 Sr. Manager, Business Innovation Owner - Remote (Open)

Location
Arizona - Home Teleworkers

Additional Locations
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Job Information

We are actively hiring for a Sr. Manager, Business Innovation Owner - Remote!

Your Role: The Sr. Manager, Business Innovation Owner leads end-to-end innovation initiatives that turn business strategy into measurable results. This role drives multi-functional collaboration from conceptualization through execution, ensuring new products, services, or processes deliver business value, operational impact, and financial outcomes while balancing speed, risk, and strategic priorities.

Your Work:
  • Translates business strategies, customer needs, and market insights into innovation initiatives and testable hypotheses.
  • Leads the full lifecycle of innovation projects, including discovery, prototyping, experimentation, validation, and scaling.
  • Leads and facilitates agile teams, workstreams, workshops, sprints, and retrospectives to drive iterative learning and delivery.
  • Conducts or supervises market research, customer discovery, and product-market fit assessments.
  • Designs and delivers validation experiments using lean startup, design thinking, or hypothesis-driven methods.
  • Builds strong cases, ROI models, and scaling recommendations advised by evidence and data.
  • Influences and aligns partners across product, business, design, engineering, analytics, and operations.
  • Removes blockers, leads risks, and ensures multi-functional clarity on goals, roles, and expected outcomes.
  • Prepares and delivers clear communication, updates, and recommendations for senior leadership.
  • Contributes to continuous improvement of innovation practices, playbooks, and operating rhythms within the business unit.


Required Experience, Education and Skills
  • Bachelor's degree in Business, Strategy, Innovation, Marketing, Design, Economics, or a related field; or equivalent practical experience.
  • 8 -10 years demonstrated ability in innovation, product strategy, business strategy, consulting, or related fields.
  • 3 Years leading others directly or indirectly
  • Financial and partner management skill
  • Demonstrated success owning initiatives from conceptualization through validation and launch.
  • Experience leading multi-functional teams using agile or iterative methods.
  • Solid ability to translate business strategy into actionable innovation plans and validated concepts.
  • Deep experience with innovation frameworks (e.g., design thinking, lean startup, agile experimentation).
  • Excellent research, synthesis, and analytical skills, particularly related to customer insights and market dynamics.
  • Ability to assess product-market fit and design experiments to validate assumptions.
  • Strong leadership of multi-functional teams without formal authority.
  • Skilled facilitator, capable of leading workshops, sprints, and structured ideation sessions.
  • Effective partner management, influence, and communication skills.
  • Ability to develop cases and articulate clear value propositions and critical metrics.
  • Comfort with ambiguity and iterative development in early-stage environments.


What would make us excited about you?
  • Advanced degree (e.g., MBA) or professional training in innovation, product strategy, or applied research.
  • Experience delivering measurable innovation outcomes within a business unit or product line.
  • Prior responsibility for cases, pilot programs, and scaling recommendations.
  • Experience influencing senior partners and collaborating across multiple disciplines.
  • Creates a collaborative, inclusive and psychologically safe environment, demonstrating authenticity and fostering trust to inspire and empower team members and colleagues
  • Actively shapes our company culture through words and actions (e.g., supporting employee resource groups, mentoring employees, volunteering, joining multi-functional projects, encouraging team member involvement in these activities)
  • Champions our cultural norms (e.g., willing to have cameras when it matters: interviewing candidates, building relationships with team members, etc.)
  • Translates our enterprise strategy and priorities for their team members to connect to the bigger picture
  • Demonstrates a company ownership mindset, thinking beyond boundaries of their own area
  • Travels as needed for role, including enterprise meetings, divisional / team meetings, and other in-person meetings
  • Fulfills business needs, which may include investing extra time, helping other teams, etc


Please note we are hiring for this role remote anywhere in the United States with the following exceptions: Hawaii and Alaska.

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The national average salary range for this position is $152,010.00-$168,900.00. However, we have a location-based compensation structure. Our salary ranges vary and are calculated based on work location. The starting pay range for this position across all the states we hire in is $152,010.00-$202,550.00. This role also includes an opportunity for a company-wide annual discretionary bonus, through our Annual Incentive Plan (AIP), of up to 20% of eligible pay.

This job posting will be unposted on Wed, 29 Jul 2026.

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