Teams at Thrivent Financial

Lead local community and business development by building partnerships with advisors, churches, nonprofits, and business networks. Design and execute engagement plans and events that drive awareness, advisor appointments, and business growth while supporting advisors with tools, playbooks, and CRM processes.

Manage and lead cybersecurity engineering teams responsible for asset protection and threat detection. Set technical direction for firewalls, endpoint/server security, DLP, vulnerability scanning, SIEM/SOAR, and threat intelligence. Partner with product, operations, infrastructure, and risk teams to prioritize engineering work, drive automation and observability, ensure operational health, and deliver measurable risk-reduction outcomes while developing and coaching staff.

The Manager of Design Systems & Operations at Thrivent leads the design system's vision and governance, manages design teams, and enhances operational frameworks for consistent product design quality.