Cigna Healthcare is dedicated to improving the health and vitality of those they serve. They are seeking a Senior Advisor to shape and govern AI capabilities within the Enterprise Operating Model, ensuring alignment with enterprise strategy and responsible data practices.
Responsibilities:
- Define and evolve how AI initiatives are ideated, evaluated, prioritized, and funded within the Enterprise Operating Model
- Establish clear AI product value propositions that align business outcomes with enterprise strategy and capacity
- Evaluate emerging AI technologies, market trends, and internal opportunities to guide enterprise-level investment decisions
- Partner with the AI Center of Excellence (AICoE) to create and maintain a structured approach for triaging and prioritizing AI requests across the enterprise
- Balance incoming AI demand against available skills, team capacity, delivery readiness, and risk profiles
- Provide senior leadership with visibility into AI demand, tradeoffs, and prioritization rationale
- Collaborate with Enterprise Data Strategy leadership to ensure AI solutions are built on trusted, high-quality, and compliant data
- Ensure alignment with enterprise standards for data integrity, quality, security, and ethical AI usage
- Embed governance mechanisms into AI workflows that support transparency, auditability, and long-term sustainability
- Ensure AI capabilities are fully integrated into the Enterprise Operating Model, enabling interoperability across teams, tools, and delivery frameworks
- Partner with Strategy and Delivery Product Managers to align AI strategy with upstream planning and downstream execution
- Help institutionalize AI-enabled ways of working across the enterprise, without creating fragmentation or duplication
- Serve as a trusted advisor to senior leaders on complex AI, product, and operating model decisions
- Translate complex AI concepts into clear, actionable guidance for business and technology stakeholders
- Provide thought leadership on how AI can responsibly accelerate value delivery, efficiency, and decision-making across the enterprise
- Works cross-functionally with executives, business leaders, technologists, data leaders, security partners, legal, and compliance teams
- May lead or influence large, cross-enterprise initiatives without direct authority
- Recognized internally as a go-to expert for AI product strategy and enterprise AI operating model integration
Requirements:
- Strong product leadership with demonstrated experience in AI, data, platform, or complex enterprise products
- Proven ability to operate at both strategic and execution levels in large, matrixed organizations
- Strong change leadership and stakeholder management skills
- Ability to evaluate complex tradeoffs across value, risk, capacity, and feasibility
- Experience aligning product strategy to enterprise governance and operating models
- High School Diploma / GED required
- Experience working with AI/ML platforms, GenAI capabilities, or advanced analytics products
- Familiarity with enterprise data governance, data quality, and compliance practices
- Experience operating within or alongside Centers of Excellence (AI, Agile, Data, etc.)
- Background in product management, organizational transformation, or enterprise delivery models
- Bachelor's Degree preferred
- Certifications in Product Management, AI/ML, Data, Agile, or Change Management are a plus