Senior Principal, AI Business Partner

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Collaborate with SBU executive sponsors and functional leaders to pinpoint large-scale AI opportunities.

• Structure AI opportunities with financial, strategic, and technical rigor to inform portfolio and SteerCo investment choices.

• Rank and promote AI initiatives based on their value, feasibility, execution risk, and alignment with strategic goals.

• Deliver Gate 1-ready recommendations and executive summaries.

• Assist in making architectural decisions, conducting trade-off analyses, and designing solutions for complex projects.

• Establish reusable AI patterns, engagement models, and reference architectures.

• Influence enterprise decisions on building, buying, and adapting with a focus on scalability, security, and responsible AI practices.

• Set benchmarks for execution-ready use case definitions, specifications, and acceptance criteria.

• Review and mentor Principal AIBPs and initiative teams on product thinking, user value, viability, and iterative processes.

• Lead or supervise complex POCs, pilots, and initial production activities.

• Model specification-driven and agentic workflows while normalizing AI-first development practices.

• Guide business units through discovery, qualification, value realization, and transition to operational status.

• Co-lead portfolio management efforts alongside PMO and AI Enablement.

• Manage prioritization perspectives, track value realization, and establish escalation paths for at-risk initiatives.

• Mentor Principal AIBPs and assist in hiring, onboarding, and skill development.

• Communicate updates, risks, and impacts to C-suite and technology executive stakeholders.

• Advocate for enterprise AI frameworks, governance, and best practices.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of two from the following: formal education in engineering, computer science, data science, or a related field; professional training in AI/ML; practical experience in building AI or data-intensive systems.

• Demonstrated experience in an AI-first approach utilizing modern agentic development tools.

• Experience in senior product management, product engineering, or technical program leadership.

• Proven track record of guiding executive narratives through portfolio outcomes and delivering solutions at scale.

• Experience collaborating with engineering and data science leaders as a technical peer and thought partner.

• Financial and analytical skills to evaluate portfolio-level value, trade-offs, and execution risks.

• Executive presence when engaging with C-suite, CIO, and engineering leadership.

• Typically requires 12+ years of relevant experience, including leading AI or digital initiatives in complex enterprise settings.

• Experience in mentoring senior individual contributors or leading a group of technical product leaders.

• Preferred: experience covering multiple business units, domains, or governance of enterprise portfolios.

• Preferred: knowledge of LLM application design, enterprise AI architecture patterns, and responsible AI principles at scale.

• Preferred: a history of advancing multiple AI initiatives from POC to production and transitioning ownership to business operations.

• Preferred: experience contributing to operating models, playbooks, or COE standards accepted beyond a single team.

🏝️ Benefits

• Eligibility for an annual bonus.

• Participation in a long-term incentive plan.

• Comprehensive medical benefits.

• Vision insurance options.

• Dental coverage.

• Well-being and behavioral health programs.

• 401(k) retirement plan.

• Company-paid life insurance.

• Tuition reimbursement assistance.

• A minimum of 18 days of paid time off each year.

• Paid holidays.

• Various leaves of absence.

• Flexible remote work arrangements.

• High-speed cable broadband or fiber optic internet service with a minimum of 10Mbps download and 5Mbps upload for home working.