Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Symetra is seeking an Assistant Vice President to join a fast-growing team of builders inside their Data Analytics organization, the AI Enablement team. This role involves leading cross-functional teams, setting strategy, and owning delivery for AI integration across the company.
Responsibilities
- Own the strategy, roadmap, and business impact for your part of AI Enablement including key performance indicators and return on investment
- Lead several teams and the managers who run them
- Partner with senior leaders across the organization to translate AI into plans and roadmaps for technical and non-technical audiences
- Use good judgment on when to apply AI vs a simpler solution, and stay close enough to the technology to guide builders
- Grow leaders and stay close to the work to guide technical decisions and uphold high standards
Skills
- A seasoned leader with 12+ years of experience running data, analytics, or engineering function(s) and owning strategy
- 3+ years of proven experience leading, mentoring and developing technical teams
- A track record of delivering AI or analytics solutions with real, measurable business impact
- Significant technical depth in data science and AI
- Strong executive presence: you build trust with senior business and IT leaders and bring others along
- Hands-on with AI: fluent with AI coding agents and modern AI (LLMs, RAG, and the like)
- High School Diploma required, bachelor's degree or higher preferred
- Ability to travel occasionally as needed
- Experience standing up or scaling an AI or advanced-analytics function a plus
- Experience shipping AI or ML products (LLMs, RAG, evaluations) at scale a plus
Benefits
- Flexible full-time or hybrid telecommuting arrangements
- Plan for your future with our 401(k) plan and take advantage of immediate vesting and company matching up to 6%
- Paid time away including vacation and sick time, flex days and ten paid holidays
- Give back to your community and double your impact through our company matching
- All newly hired people leaders with direct reports are required to complete a comprehensive leadership development program within their first year. This program includes both virtual and in-person training. The in-person sessions will take place at Symetra's corporate headquarters in Bellevue, Washington. Symetra covers all travel and accommodation expenses.
- Symetra is committed to providing equitable access to all job-related responsibilities, including required travel. If reasonable accommodations are needed for travel, Symetra's HR department will work to provide appropriate solutions in alignment with individual needs and company policies.
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