VP, Transformation & Product Leader

Unum; Portland (ME); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Award-winning culture

Diversity & inclusion

Performance incentives

Health benefits

Paid time off

401(k) contributions

Mental health support

Career advancement

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Unum in Portland, ME seeks a senior leader to coordinate the Value Stream program end-to-end and to define product standards and practices across the organization. You will collaborate with Value Stream Owners, HR, and run-team leaders to align scope and assets with the enterprise roadmap, guiding cross-functional teams and driving value realization.

The role combines program leadership with people and capability development, requiring deep product management expertise, stakeholder management,

Responsibilities

• Establish and continuously evolve the end-to-end Value Stream program structure, governance, and coordination mechanisms.
• Partner with Value Stream Owners, sponsors, and run-team leaders to align scope, outcomes, priorities, sequencing, phasing, and asset reuse.
• Codify and update the organization's best-practice methodology for scaling front-to-back Value Stream delivery.
• Ensure Value Stream roadmaps, risk logs, and dependency logs are established, maintained, and used to monitor progress across the overall program.
• Develop and maintain a clear decision framework for identifying, escalating, managing, and resolving cross-value stream issues and dependencies.

Job description

When you join the team at Unum, you become part of an organization committed to helping you thrive.

Here, we work to provide the employee benefits and service solutions that enable employees at our client companies to thrive throughout life's moments.

To enable this, we provide:

• Award-winning culture
• Inclusion and diversity as a priority
• Performance Based Incentive Plans
• Competitive benefits package that includes: Health, Vision, Dental, Short & Long-Term Disability
• Generous PTO (including paid time to volunteer!)
• Up to 9.5% 401(k) employer contribution
• Mental health support
• Career advancement opportunities
• Student loan repayment options
• Tuition reimbursement
• Flexible work environments
• All the benefits listed above are subject to the terms of their individual Plans.

And that's just the beginning...

With 10,000 employees helping more than 39 million people worldwide, every role at Unum is meaningful and impacts the lives of our customers. Whether you're directly supporting a growing family, or developing online tools to help navigate a difficult loss, customers are counting on the combined talents of our entire team. Help us help others, and join Team Unum today!

General Summary

This position sits in the leadership team of the Transformation Acceleration Office (TAO) and is responsible for coordinating the Value Stream program end-to-end, establishing and evolving the overall Value Stream structure, and partnering with Value Stream Owners to align scope, outcomes, priorities, phasing, and asset reuse across Value Streams. The role monitors overall program progress, resolves cross-value stream issues and dependencies, and drives alignment with the enterprise roadmap and capability-development priorities.

In parallel, this leader serves as the accountable owner of the Product Chapter, setting and evolving product standards, playbooks, frameworks, and ways of working to ensure consistent product practice across the organization. The role maintains an enterprise view of the Product talent pipeline, partners with leaders and HR on staffing, coaching, learning, and development needs, and builds feedback mechanisms that continuously improve Product Chapter practices.

This role combines program-level strategy and coordination with people and capability leadership. Success requires strong cross-functional stakeholder management, sound value-based decision-making, deep product management expertise, and a demonstrated ability to coach and develop product talent across a distributed, embedded workforce.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities

• - Establish and continuously evolve the end-to-end Value Stream program structure, governance, and coordination mechanisms.
• - Partner with Value Stream Owners, sponsors, and run-team leaders to align Value Stream scope, intended outcomes, priorities, sequencing, phasing, and reuse of capabilities and assets.
• - Codify and update the organization's best-practice methodology for scaling front-to-back Value Stream delivery.
• - Ensure Value Stream roadmaps, risk logs, and dependency logs are established, maintained, and used to monitor progress across the overall program.
• - Develop and maintain a clear decision framework for identifying, escalating, managing, and resolving cross-value stream issues and dependencies.
• - Monitor cross-value stream risks, issues, capability gaps, and interdependencies, and coordinate timely resolution with accountable leaders.
• - Drive alignment between Value Stream plans, the enterprise roadmap, and capability-development priorities.
• - Promote transparency and disciplined decision-making by providing an integrated view of Value Stream progress, dependencies, and areas requiring leadership action.
• - Serve as the accountable owner for Product Chapter standards, playbooks, methodologies, and ways of working, ensuring they are practical, current, and consistently applied across the organization.
• - Define and evolve the backlog, minimum viable product, and value-realization frameworks used by embedded Product practitioners.
• - Assess adherence to Product standards in partnership with Value Stream Owners, Product leaders, and run-team leadership; identify improvement opportunities and support adoption.
• - Represent Product in cross-Chapter and enterprise-level forums, escalating and helping resolve standards, capability, tooling, or resourcing conflicts.
• - Coach and develop Product practitioners and leaders, strengthening product craft and supporting visible career pathways.
• - Influence workforce and resourcing decisions to address cross-value stream Product capability gaps and competing priorities.
• - Drive enterprise-wide adoption of consistent Product standards, backlog hygiene, and minimum viable product and value-realization frameworks.
• - Establish, track, and improve relevant Pr