Corporate Vice President - Gen AI Lead Data Scientist

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.

 

 

New York Life, the largest writer of retail life insurance in the U.S. and a top player in annuities, long-term care, and mutual funds, is seeking a Gen AI Lead Data Scientist in its AI and Data team.

 

The company has 179 years of history and while usable data does not quite go back that far, we have a wealth of internal information on consumers, policies, and their performance, as well as applicants, prospects and our 12,000 agents. We also have a multitude of external data from a vast variety of sources. Analytical challenges range from mortality risk to agent recruiting decisions, service optimization, consumer analytics (segmentation, response, conversion, retention, up-sell), fraud detection, advertising allocation and office footprint optimization.

 

When you join New York Life, you are 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 will 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.

 

New York Life’s AI and Data team delivers innovative data, insights, and AI solutions for the organization. Our AI team works on a diverse portfolio of AI and GenAI projects, by combining agile and entrepreneurial drive with industry-leading methods and tools. Our efforts are fully supported by executive leadership, and we work hand in hand with our Business Partners through all stages of model development from ideation to deployment. As it takes multiple skill sets to deliver AI models to production, our AI team includes product managers, data scientists, MLOps engineers, program managers, a model validation & governance group, and a communications & development group.

 

This role will support our newly formed generative AI practice and report to the director of data science for generative AI. The person in the role is expected to have prior experience with creating generative AI solutions for practical business use cases. NYL’s CEO has expressed that he wants the company to be a leader in generative AI in our industry. Hence, this role has the opportunity to help build out that vision. Since not every data science project may require generative AI, expert-level familiarity with regular statistical predictive modeling methodologies and practice is also essential.

 

Responsibilities

• Supports and helps build a generative AI practice within AI & Data. This includes supporting use case development and associated stakeholder management in various business areas. It also means influencing infrastructure and tooling (in collaboration with ML Ops and IT), education of stakeholders and community, and governance (in collaboration with model governance team and Legal).
• Managing various stakeholders at the same level during solution design and project execution to successfully create solutions and deploy them into full production.