Vice President, Artificial Intelligence

Role Overview

• Define and execute the strategic roadmap to embed AI into our core product experience, enhancing differentiation, customer value, and market leadership.
• Partner with Product and Design to identify high-impact opportunities where AI can meaningfully improve user outcomes and experiences.
• Establish principles and guardrails to ensure AI capabilities are trustworthy, explainable, and aligned with company values.
• Lead the delivery of high-priority AI initiatives from concept through production, ensuring measurable business impact.
• Architect scalable AI solutions, including leveraging third-party models, building supporting infrastructure, and ensuring reliability and performance.
• Maintain a strong bias toward practical implementation, rapid experimentation, and iterative improvement.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, Security, Legal, Compliance, and Data teams to align on execution, governance, and risk management.
• Establish operating models, workflows, and collaboration patterns that enable safe and efficient AI adoption.
• Drive clear accountability, decision frameworks, and communication across stakeholders.
• Engage directly with clients and strategic partners to build trust, communicate our AI approach, and incorporate external feedback into priorities and safeguards.
• Champion the use of AI to improve engineering productivity, including AI-assisted coding, test generation and developer experience improvements.
• Encourage experimentation and best-practice sharing to accelerate adoption across tech teams.
• Measure and communicate productivity gains and impact.
• Build foundational AI capabilities and infrastructure that can be reused across teams.
• Establish patterns and tooling that enable teams to safely leverage AI without duplicating effort.

Requirements

• 12+ years of experience in software engineering and technology leadership roles, with responsibility for delivering complex, high-impact systems.
• Proven track record of bringing AI-enabled or data-driven capabilities into production products at scale.
• Strong understanding of modern applied AI capabilities and how to integrate them into real-world systems to deliver business value.
• Experience evaluating build vs. buy decisions and integrating third-party platforms and services.
• Ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear product value, business impact, and user outcomes.
• Experience establishing governance, security, and responsible use practices for emerging technologies.
• Strong cross-functional leadership and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to align technical and non-technical partners.
• Hands-on technical depth with a bias for execution and pragmatic problem solving.
• Experience deploying technology solutions in regulated or privacy-sensitive environments is a strong plus.

Benefits

• 100% coverage for Medical / Dental / Vision
• Stipend towards mental health benefits
• 401k plan
• Flexible PTO
• Passionate team dedicated to making a positive impact
• Awesome office with snacks and catered lunch in the Financial District
• Generous parental leave policy
• Unlimited career growth opportunity