Corporate Vice President - Head of Enterprise AI Platform Job Details | New York Life Insurance Co

New York Life is building an enterprise AI platform and its first generation of agentic AI solutions. The Corporate Vice President will define and deliver the platform’s technical vision and roadmap, lead a senior engineering team, and advance secure, governed AI adoption across the enterprise.

Responsibilities:

• Define the technical vision and reference architecture across the enterprise AI platform, including agent lifecycle services, orchestration capabilities, retrieval and memory services, and AI control plane components that integrate with enterprise AI services
• Own and execute the multi-phase platform roadmap, delivering foundational AI platform capabilities, reusable platform services, enterprise knowledge capabilities, and end-to-end builder agents that accelerate AI solution delivery
• Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing team of senior AI engineers while maintaining hands-on ownership of architecture, engineering, and agent development. Establish a high engineering bar and champion AI-assisted software development practices
• Partner with Security, Risk, Legal, and enterprise stakeholders to operationalize AI governance, automate solution review processes, and ensure alignment with enterprise AI risk management standards and responsible AI practices
• Drive cloud architecture decisions, build-versus-buy evaluations, and platform portability strategies while leveraging Google Cloud capabilities without creating unnecessary vendor lock-in
• Establish AI FinOps capabilities, including model usage visibility, infrastructure cost attribution, dashboards, and budget guardrails that enable responsible scaling across the enterprise
• Partner with business and technology leaders to deliver the first generation of enterprise agentic AI solutions that demonstrate measurable business outcomes
• Build agents that improve the platform itself while leveraging AI-assisted engineering throughout the software development lifecycle