About the position
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.
Responsibilities
- Define the strategy, manage the roadmap & requirements and execute on the backlog across AI&D products portfolio and foundational initiatives.
- 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.
- 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.
- Articulate business problems, gather evidence from users and outside sources, clarify the potential solutions with assumptions, guiding principles, strategic connections.
- 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.
- 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.
- Serve as primary evangelist of AI&D strategy and product capabilities with internal, business, and executive stakeholders.
- Drive outcomes aligned with business teams and AI&D OKRs and report key metrics driving product effectiveness, utilization and satisfaction.
Requirements
- 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 on data analytics including data warehouse architecture, business data marts, enterprise metrics, self-service analytics, data storytelling, and Gen AI for data analytics.
- Thought leader with knowledge of market and technology trends driving the data analytics, Gen AI for data analysis and vendor landscape.
- 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.
Nice-to-haves
- 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.
- Knowledge of data platform and analytics tools including Databricks, dbt, data notebooks, Tableau, AWS Quicksight, ThoughtSpot etc.
- 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.
Benefits
- Full package of benefits for employees including leave programs, adoption assistance, and student loan repayment programs.
- Annual discretionary bonus eligibility.
- Incentive program participation eligibility.
