Senior Associate, Product Owner (AI & Data)

Location Designation: Hybrid - 3 days per week 

 

 

Senior Associate, Product Owner (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 Owner in AI&D product management organization and has accountability for creating the product functional and technical specifications/requirements, 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 functional and technical requirements, manage the roadmap and execute on the backlog across AI&D products portfolio and foundational initiatives.

 

• 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