Role Description The VP, Industry Affairs will serve as a distinguished expert and transformative commercial leader, responsible for shaping world-class relationships across all classes of trade and driving the strategic agenda that powers our growth vision. They will operate at the intersection of customer strategy, category leadership, and industry influence elevating company standing with the most important retailers, distributors, and trade partners in the marketplace. - Own and elevate senior relationships with key buyers, category leaders, and C-suite stakeholders across top national and regional accounts. - Lead strategic joint business planning with priority retail and distribution partners to drive aligned, measurable growth. - Serve as Monster Energy’s lead ambassador at industry forums, trade associations, and major customer engagements. - Set and execute the strategic roadmap for top accounts—delivering aggressive growth targets and activation plans. - Partner cross-functionally to build insight-driven business cases that secure customer investment and unlock opportunity. - Accelerate innovation by ensuring new products launch fast, scale quickly, and win in-market. - Identify and capture white space opportunities across existing accounts and underdeveloped trade channels. - Shape industry influence by tracking trends, engaging key stakeholders, and delivering Monster’s category leadership POV. - Develop bold, consistent trade messaging and prepare executives for high-impact external engagements. - Advise senior leadership with real-time market intelligence while building, mentoring, and scaling a high-performance team. Qualifications - Bachelor’s degree required; MBA or advanced degree preferred. - 10+ years of commercial leadership in CPG, beverage, or food & drug industries. - Proven success building senior-level customer relationships and driving measurable growth. - Deep expertise across all trade channels: convenience, grocery, mass, club, foodservice, and on-premise. - Strong command of category management, retail analytics, and trade marketing. - Executive presence with the ability to influence at the highest levels. - Experience engaging with trade associations or regulatory bodies is a plus. - Proficiency in Microsoft 365 and data-driven performance tools. Requirements - Competitive total compensation. - Estimated annual salary range: $160,875 — $214,500 USD. Equal Opportunity Employer This employer is required to notify all applicants of their rights pursuant to federal employment laws. For further information, please review the Know Your Rights notice from the Department of Labor.

• Responsible for creating and managing relationships with broker/dealer advisors • Increase sales in the given territory through meetings, seminars, campaigns, and follow-up • Conduct training sessions for advisors on products and sales • Manage the deployment of resources to maximize territory sales • Use CRM systems for effective communication with internal partners

Title: AVP, Software Engineering Lead Location: - Hartford, Connecticut - Charlotte, North Carolina - Chicago, Illinois Employment Type: Full-time Work Arrangement: Hybrid or Remote - Hybrid: Employees living near Hartford, Charlotte, or Chicago are expected to work in-office 3 days per week. - Remote: Available for candidates who do not live near an office, with occasional travel to an office as business needs require. Salary: - Base Salary: $182,000–$273,000 annually Job Description: AVP Software Engineering - IE05FE We're determined to make a difference and are proud to be an insurance company that goes well beyond coverages and policies. Working here means having every opportunity to achieve your goals - and to help others accomplish theirs, too. Join our team as we help shape the future. The AVP, Software Engineering Lead is a senior technology leader responsible for defining and executing engineering solutions with an AI-first mindset across the Corporate Functions IT organization. Reporting to the CIO of Corporate Functions, this role drives the re-imagination of software engineering, improving our software development lifecycle using AI-first processes, and ensuring AI‑driven capabilities are designed, built, and scaled safely, reliably, and in alignment with enterprise standards, governance, and risk. This role sets the roadmap for advanced software engineering teams to deliver AI‑enabled solutions, agent‑augmented workflows, and AI‑first engineering capabilities, partnering closely with Data & AI, Product, Architecture, Security, Risk, and Business leaders. The AVP will drive the modernization of engineering practices, accelerating delivery and productivity, while demonstrating measurable business value. This role can have a Hybrid or Remote work schedule. Candidates who live near one of our office locations (Hartford CT, Charlotte, NC or Chicago IL) will have the expectation of working in an office 3 days a week. Candidates who do not live near an office will have a remote work arrangement, with the expectation of coming into an office as business needs arise. Candidates must be authorized to work in the US without company sponsorship Key Responsibilities AI-first Software Engineering Strategy & Execution - Define and lead the AI engineering strategy aligned to enterprise technology, Data & AI, and business priorities. - Own end‑to‑end software engineering reimagination and rollout of AI-first tools and processes to our technology organization. - Ensure AI-first software solutions are engineered for security, resiliency, performance, cost efficiency, and operational sustainability. AI‑First Engineering & Platform Enablement - Establish and evolve AI‑first engineering standards, patterns, and best practices, including GenAI and agent‑augmented development approaches. - Drive adoption of AI‑assisted development tooling and modern engineering accelerators to improve developer productivity and quality. - Partner with Architecture and Platform teams to define reusable AI engineering reference architectures, integration patterns, and guardrails. - Promote consistency and scale across AI implementations while enabling innovation and responsible experimentation. Delivery, Quality & Operational Excellence - Drive acceleration and efficiency using AI across software engineering teams, balancing speed, quality, risk, and cost. - Strengthen and champion AI-first SDLC, DevSecOps, CI/CD, and automation practices. - Ensure production readiness through robust testing, observability, monitoring, and incident response practices. - Use data‑driven insights to improve delivery predictability, flow efficiency, and engineering health. Governance, Risk & Controls - Partner with Data & AI, Risk, Legal, Compliance, Cybersecurity, and Architecture teams to ensure AI engineering solutions meet enterprise governance and regulatory expectations. - Implement required engineering controls, including logging, auditability, model integration controls, and operational safeguards. - Ensure alignment with the Enterprise AI Operating Model, risk tiering, and approval processes. - Proactively identify and mitigate technology, security, and operational risks associated with AI‑enabled systems. Talent Leadership & Engineering Culture - Elevate high‑performing software engineering teams with AI-first mindset. - Provide leadership, mentorship, and coaching to senior engineering talent. - Drive workforce strategy, succession planning, and capability uplift aligned to future‑ready AI and engineering skills. - Foster a culture of accountability, innovation, continuous improvement, and engineering excellence. Required Qualifications - 15+ years of technology experience in software engineering, including 5+ years leading engineering teams. - Led AI centric software engineering transformations - Proven experience building software engineering practices, with a special focus on AI-first engineering. - Deep expertise in agentic AI concepts and architectures, including multi-agent systems and non-deterministic workflows. - Strong systems thinking and ability to operate across strategy, architecture, and execution. - Demonstrated success influencing distributed, and cross‑functional engineering teams. - Experience operating within regulated, risk‑sensitive environments (insurance or financial services strongly preferred). - Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence senior leaders across Technology, Data & AI, and the Business. - Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, Data Science, or related field (advanced degree preferred). Technical & Engineering Experience - Expertise building and leveraging Agentic AI solutions in support of software engineering processes and reimagining the software lifecycle with an AI lens. - Expertise implementing modern software engineering practices, cloud‑native architectures, API‑driven and event‑based systems. - Strong background in CI/CD, DevSecOps, automation‑first delivery, and reliability engineering. - Familiarity with AI‑assisted development tools, AI platforms, and modern engineering accelerators. - Experience defining engineering standards, reference architecture, and platform reuse strategies Compensation The listed annualized base pay range is primarily based on analysis of similar positions in the external market. Actual base pay could vary and may be above or below the listed range based on factors including but not limited to performance, proficiency and demonstration of competencies required for the role. The base pay is just one component of The Hartford's total compensation package for employees. Other rewards may include short-term or annual bonuses, long-term incentives, and on-the-spot recognition. The annualized base pay range for this role is: $182,000 - $273,000

• Leads CFCU’s Enterprise Platforms function, with responsibility for the technical and operational strategy, performance, and delivery of workflow, integration, automation, and emerging AI platforms. • Leads teams across product management, integration engineering, and operations. • Partners across the enterprise to deliver secure, scalable solutions and measurable outcomes. • Owns the end-to-end delivery for Enterprise Platforms.