Corporate Vice President - Product Manager

New York Life • New York, NY

4d • Hybrid

About The Position

This role serves as a Product Manager, AI & AI Products within the AI&D Product Management organization. The position is responsible for setting product vision and strategy, managing the roadmap, and driving backlog execution while partnering with teams across data engineering, data governance, data science, and data analytics. 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 experience leading development and execution of cutting-edge AI-driven products and driving strategy, roadmap, and delivery of AI-based solutions leveraging models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and other leading AI providers and knowledge of agentic workflows, reasoning models, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) frameworks, and other advanced AI techniques.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s OR master’s degree in a technical field (Engineering/Computer Science or related) or business-related discipline
• 7+ years of industry experience with related product management, design, or business-facing product development experience
• 3+ years of product management experience, including developing and managing roadmaps, writing product specifications, and managing agile processes.
• 2+ years of experience working with data & analytics products and experience with cloud technologies, data governance, data science and analytics.
• Proven experience in shipping AI-based products from ideation to launch and deep understanding of LLMs, RAG frameworks, agentic workflows, and reasoning models.
• Strong written and oral communication skills, including experience in developing influential presentations. Ability and executive presence to communicate persuasively with stakeholders at all levels in the organization as well as external partners.
• Demonstrated success in creating measurable business benefit from products and analytics while interacting with cross functional stakeholders in a complex organization.

Nice To Haves

• Proven track record of successfully managing end-to-end product lifecycles, from ideation to launch and ability to think strategically and translate insights into actionable product strategies.
• Experience in insurance products, asset management or wealth management a plus
• Fluency in technical delivery, including scaled agile processes and product management tools like Confluence, Jira, Monday, a plus.
• Strong organization skills with the ability to collaborate across cross functional groups such as Technology, Data, Compliance, Legal, etc. as well as third-party data and technology partners.

Responsibilities

• Work with AI&D teams to develop vision and strategy for AI and AI products solutions to drive effective outcomes across the enterprise
• 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
• Articulate business problems, gather evidence from users and outside sources, clarify the potential solutions with assumptions, guiding principles, strategic connections
• 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
• 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
• Serve as primary evangelist of AI&D strategy and product capabilities with internal, business, and executive stakeholders
• Drive outcomes aligned with business teams and AI&D OKRs and report key metrics driving product effectiveness, utilization, and satisfaction

Benefits

• We provide a full package of benefits for employees – and have unique offerings for a modern workforce, including leave programs, adoption assistance, and student loan repayment programs.
• employees are eligible for an annual discretionary bonus.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level