AI Platform and Ops Lead, Vice President

Key Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end readiness and delivery coordination for AI-related initiatives from planning through production deployment.
• Partner with Product Managers, Engineering teams, and Architects to manage the delivery of AI-powered capabilities, including GenAI, Copilot, agentic workflow, and intelligent automation solutions.
• Cook up release planning, deployment activities, and go-live readiness across multiple products and platforms.
• Establish and maintain AI program governance, including status reporting, executive communications, risk tracking, and issue escalation.
• Lead capacity planning, release planning, and prioritization activities to support AI strategic objectives.
• Ensure readiness activities are fully integrated into the Product Development Lifecycle (PDLC) and Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC).
• Coordinate solution scoping, execution planning, testing readiness, deployment readiness, and post-launch support activities.
• Partner with Release Management and Operations teams to ensure operational, support, training, compliance, and deployment readiness requirements are met.
• Drive Jira adoption, dependency tracking, milestone management, and execution transparency across teams.
• Facilitate governance meetings, program reviews, and cross-functional working sessions.
• Build and maintain program dashboards, reporting, Confluence documentation, and executive-level status communications.
• Identify, assess, and proactively manage delivery risks, resource constraints, and cross-team dependencies.
• Work directly with Agile and Scrum teams to align delivery schedules, release commitments, and business priorities.
• Manage compliance and governance workstreams across Shared Services, including Jira SDLC releases, change ticket processing, deployment monitoring, and vulnerability remediation tracking.
• Cook up due-diligence checkpoints for Jira tollgate artifacts, release readiness, change deployment controls, and post-deployment support across platform and shared-services initiatives.
• Coordinate weekly vulnerability scan reviews, assignment, remediation follow-up, and executive reporting for patch, configuration, and cloud vulnerabilities.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years of experience in Product Management, Program Management, Product Readiness, Delivery Management, or related leadership roles.
• Strong experience leading complex, cross-functional technology initiatives in enterprise software or financial services environments.
• Demonstrated ability to drive execution across matrixed organizations and multiple stakeholder groups.
• Expertise in program governance, risk management, dependency management, and executive communications.
• Strong knowledge of Agile development methodologies, Jira, Confluence, and software delivery practices.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience managing enterprise compliance workstreams across SDLC releases, change management, deployment governance, and vulnerability remediation programs.
• Proven ability to translate compliance metrics, release controls, and vulnerability remediation status into concise executive updates, dashboards, and action-oriented governance reporting.

Preferred Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience working with AI/ML, GenAI, Copilot, intelligent automation, or data-driven product capabilities from concept through production deployment.
• Strong understanding of modern AI technologies, including Large Language Models (LLMs), Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), prompt engineering, model evaluation, AI governance, and Responsible AI principles.
• Experience partnering with Engineering, Architecture, UX, Data Science, Compliance, Security, and Go-to-Market teams to deliver enterprise AI solutions.
• Financial services and investment management domain expertise, including areas such as portfolio management, trading, investment operations, reconciliations, corporate actions, performance measurement and attribution, derivatives, bank loans, or collateral management.
• Experience leading large-scale platform, transformation, or modernization initiatives.
• Lever Six Sigma, PMP, Agile, or related program management certifications preferred.
• Hands-on experience supporting platform compliance across Jira releases, change tickets, deployment governance, IT compliance checks, and remediation execution in regulated financial services environments.