Senior Resiliency Advisor

About Us

American Century Investments® is a leading global asset manager with over 65 years of experience helping a broad base of clients achieve their financial goals. Our expertise spans global equities and fixed income, multi-asset strategies, ETFs, and private investments.

Privately owned and independent, we focus solely on investment management. But there’s an unexpected side to us, too. We direct 40% of our dividends every year—over $2 billion since 2000—to the Stowers Institute for Medical Research. Our ongoing financial support drives the Institute’s breakthrough work and mission of defeating life-threatening diseases like cancer and Alzheimer’s. So, the better we do for our clients, the more we can do for everyone.

All who work here around the globe are inspired every day by the unique difference our hard work can make in so many lives. It shows in the curiosity we bring to every initiative, the deep relationships we build with our clients, and the way we treat each other in the hallway. If you’re excited to learn more about us, we can’t wait to learn more about you.

Role Summary

We are seeking a Senior Resiliency Advisor to join our Governance, Risk, Compliance, and Resiliency team. In this role, you will help strengthen the organization's ability to prepare for, respond to, and recover from disruptive events. You will lead key aspects of our business continuity and resilience program, facilitate exercises and testing activities, and partner with business and technology teams to ensure recovery strategies align with critical operational needs.

As a trusted advisor, you will help leaders identify priorities, assess risks and recovery gaps, and build practical resilience capabilities across the organization. Success in this role requires strong collaboration, influence, and the ability to translate complex resilience concepts into actionable solutions that improve preparedness and recovery outcomes.

This role plays a key part in helping American Century Investments maintain critical operations, support our clients, and recover effectively when disruptions occur.

This role reports to the IT Manager of the Risk & Resiliency team.

This hybrid position will be based out of our Kansas City, MO office.

This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship. Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. without visa sponsorship, now or in the future.

How You Will Make an Impact

• Own and continuously enhance our business continuity and cyber resilience program, helping the organization prepare for, respond to, and recover from disruptions.
• Partner with business and technology teams to identify critical processes, recovery priorities, dependencies, and resilience requirements, translating insights into practical recovery strategies.
• Guide business impact analyses, continuity planning, governance activities, and program reporting to ensure a consistent and effective approach across the organization.
• Assess recovery capabilities, identify gaps and risks, and work with leaders to prioritize improvements that strengthen operational resilience.
• Design and facilitate tabletop exercises, recovery testing, and other readiness activities that improve preparedness and cross-functional coordination.
• Support response efforts during significant disruptions by helping leaders coordinate information, align decisions, and drive effective recovery actions.
• Collaborate with risk, legal, vendor management, and business partners to address resilience risks associated with critical third-party providers.
• Deliver meaningful reporting, training, and advisory support that promotes a culture of resilience and enables continuous improvement.

What You Bring to the Team (Required)

• Bachelor's degree in cybersecurity, information systems, risk management, business, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 7+ years of progressive experience in business continuity, disaster recovery, cyber resilience, operational resilience, technology risk, or related disciplines.
• Experience leading, governing, or maturing enterprise business continuity, disaster recovery, cyber resilience, or operational resilience programs, including business impact analysis, continuity planning, testing, and governance.
• Strong understanding of technology and operational environments, including applications, infrastructure, cloud services, cybersecurity, data protection, facilities, and third-party dependencies.
• Proven ability to assess resilience risks, identify recovery gaps, and translate business recovery requirements into practical operational and technology solutions.
• Experience facilitating tabletop exercises, recovery testing, and incident response or crisis management activities, including driving corrective actions and continuous improvement.
• Exceptional communication, consulting, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence decisions, present complex risk concepts to diverse audiences, and manage multiple priorities in a dynamic environment.
• Ability to participate in an established after-hours crisis and recovery support rotation.
• Demonstrates the American Century Investments Winning Behaviors: Client Focused, Courageous and Accountable, Collaborative, Curious and Adaptable, Competitively Driven.

Additional Assets (Preferred)

• Professional certifications such as CBCP, MBCI, CRISC, CISSP, or other relevant business continuity, resilience, risk, or cybersecurity credentials.
• Experience in financial services, asset management, or other highly regulated industries.
• Knowledge of operational resilience practices, including end-to-end process mapping, scenario testing, resilience assessments, and third-party resilience oversight.
• Experience with resilience management, emergency notification, or recovery orchestration platforms.
• Ability to develop meaningful metrics, dashboards, key risk indicators, and executive-level reporting that support informed decision-making.

The above statements are not intended to be a complete list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required.

What We Offer

• Competitive compensation package with bonus plan
• Generous PTO and competitive benefits
• 401k with 5% company match plus annual performance-based discretionary contribution
• Tuition reimbursement, formal mentorship program, live and online learning

Learn more about our benefits and perks.

Employees are required to be in the office on a scheduled frequency. Adherence to this schedule is essential to fulfilling the expectations of the role.

American Century Investments is committed to complying with the Americans with Disabilities Act and all other applicable Equal Employment Opportunity laws and regulations. As such, American Century strives to provide a reasonable accommodation to any qualified individual under the ADA to perform essential job functions.

We encourage people of all backgrounds to join us on our mission. If you require reasonable accommodation for any aspect of the recruitment process, please send a request to HR-Talent_Acquisition@americancentury.com. All requests for accommodation will be addressed as confidentially as practicable.

American Century Investments believes all individuals are entitled to equal employment opportunity and advancement opportunities without regard to race, religious creed, color, sex, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age for individuals forty years of age and older, military and veteran status, sexual orientation, and any other basis protected by applicable federal, state and local laws. ACI does not discriminate or adopt any policy that discriminates against an individual or any group of individuals on any of these bases.

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