Corporate Vice President, Product Director (AI & Data)

Location Designation: Hybrid - 3 days per week 

When you join New York Life, you’re joining a company that values career development, collaboration, innovation, and inclusiveness. We want employees to feel proud about being part of a company that is committed to doing the right thing. You’ll have the opportunity to grow your career while developing personally and professionally through various resources and programs. New York Life is a relationship-based company and appreciates how both virtual and in-person interactions support our culture.

Join Strategic Capabilities and collaborate with a winning team developing and executing game-changing business strategies, informed by cutting-edge data and competitive insights. Fuel business growth through smart acquisitions, innovative partnerships, and impactful technology integration. Leverage AI and strategic data management to bring ideas to life, all while ensuring effective governance and project management.

New York Life’s AI and Data (AI&D) team within Strategic Capabilities delivers innovative data through the enterprise data platform, developing 360 data products, analytical insights, and AI solutions for the organization.

Role Overview:

This role serves as a Product Director in AI&D product management organization and has accountability for creating the vision & strategy, managing the roadmap and executing on the product backlog working closely with cross functional teams across data engineering, data governance, data science and data analytics within AI & Data.

In addition to working with AI&D functional teams, the role will work closely with business counterparts across New York Life in Recruiting & Development, Sales, Service, Eagle Investment Advisory, NYLIFE Securities, Life and other products, Technology and others.

The candidate should have prior product management experience working on data, AI and data products ideally in consumer facing financial services industry as well as a comfortable familiarity with technology & AI trends and industry-leading enterprise platforms.

What You’ll Do:

As a member of the AI&D product management team; your primary focus will be to define the strategy, manage the roadmap & requirements and execute on the backlog across AI&D products portfolio and foundational initiatives.

• Strategy: Work with AI&D teams to develop vision and strategy for the enterprise data platform, 360 data products, AI and data analytics solutions to drive effective outcomes across the enterprise
• Ownership: Align with strategy for various business teams and create and drive a portfolio of AI & Data cross-functional initiatives to deliver on core elements of the business strategy
• Definition: Articulate business problems, gather evidence from users and outside sources, clarify the potential solutions with assumptions, guiding principles, strategic connections
• Roadmap: Define the roadmap and prioritization across the portfolio and create functional & non-functional requirements and user stories to manage product backlog and execution through scrum teams
• Delivery: Partner with AI&D cross functional teams and Business Unit product managers and technology partners to ensure high-quality, efficient execution of key initiatives in a scaled agile delivery framework
• Communication: Serve as primary evangelist of AI&D strategy and product capabilities with internal, business, and executive stakeholders
• Outcomes: Drive outcomes aligned with business teams and AI&D OKRs and report key metrics driving product effectiveness, utilization and satisfaction

What You’ll Bring:

You will bring relevant product management industry experience having worked on enterprise data platforms, data governance, data integration technologies, 360 data products, AI models and services and analytics & reporting for the enterprise (ideally in the financial services industry).

Required Skills:

• Bachelor’s OR master’s degree in a technical field (Engineering/Computer Science or related) or business-related discipline
• 15+ years of industry experience with related product management, design, or business-facing product development experience
• 10+ years of product management experience, including developing and managing roadmaps, writing product specifications and managing agile processes
• 5+ years of experience working with data & analytics products and experience with cloud technologies, data governance, data science and analytics
• 5+ years of direct people management experience, including growing and mentoring a product team and recruiting (and retaining) talent
• Strong written and oral communication skills, including experience in developing influential presentations. Ability and executive presence to communicate persuasively with stakeholders at all levels in the organization as well as external partners
• Demonstrated success in creating measurable business benefit from products and analytics while interacting with cross functional stakeholders in a complex organization

Preferred Skills:

• Proven track record of successfully managing end-to-end product lifecycles, from ideation to launch and ability to think strategically and translate insights into actionable product strategies
• Experience in insurance products, asset management or wealth management a plus
• Fluency in technical delivery, including scaled agile processes and product management tools like Confluence, Jira, Monday, a plus
• Strong organization skills with the ability to collaborate across cross functional groups such as Technology, Data, Compliance, Legal, etc. as well as third-party data and technology partners

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Pay Transparency

Salary Range:  $155,000-$267,500 

Overtime eligible: Exempt 

Discretionary bonus eligible: Yes 

Sales bonus eligible: No 

Actual base salary will be determined based on several factors but not limited to individual’s experience, skills, qualifications, and job location. Additionally, employees are eligible for an annual discretionary bonus. In addition to base salary, employees may also be eligible to participate in an incentive program.

Our Benefits

We provide a full package of benefits for employees – and have unique offerings for a modern workforce, including leave programs, adoption assistance, and student loan repayment programs. Based on feedback from our employees, we continue to refine and add benefits to our offering, so that you can flourish both inside and outside of work. Click here to discover more about our comprehensive benefit options or visit our NYL Benefits Site.

Our Diversity Promise

We believe in a diverse workforce because it is our mission to advocate for the financial security and success of people in every community. This is why diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) are guiding principles that are embedded in our brand and our culture. Click here to learn more about how we have been recognized for our leadership.

Recognized as one of Fortune’s World’s Most Admired Companies, New York Life is committed to improving local communities through a culture of employee giving and volunteerism, supported by the Foundation. We're proud that due to our mutuality, we operate in the best interests of our policy owners. To learn more about career opportunities at New York Life, please visit the Careers page of www.NewYorkLife.com.

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Job Requisition ID: 90773