Strategic Transformation AI Senior Lead

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Position Overview:

Our Single-Family division is seeking a highly skilled Strategic Transformation Senior Business Lead to establish standardize and optimize the operating model for our Generative AI program across the organization. This role combines strategic program management and product management responsibilities to ensure AI initiatives are governed effectively prioritized appropriately and delivered in a way that creates measurable business value. The role will lead the development of scalable frameworks portfolio processes product roadmaps and cross-functional delivery models to support the full lifecycle of AI-enabled capabilities in a highly regulated financial environment.

Our Impact:

We support the Single-Family Acquisitions division head and divisional leadership by integrating Generative AI across the division to streamline operations improve decision quality and accelerate digital transformationempowering teams to deliver measurable business value.

Your Impact:

• Program Process & Product Lifecycle Design: Design and implement comprehensive governance frameworks templates and standardized processes to manage AI initiatives from ideation and discovery through development deployment adoption and optimization.
• Product Strategy & Roadmap Ownership: Support and manage the roadmap for Generative AI capabilities in partnership with business technology data and control partners ensuring alignment with strategic priorities user needs and enterprise objectives.
• Portfolio Intake & Prioritization: Establish and maintain structured intake evaluation and prioritization processes for AI use cases and initiatives balancing value feasibility risk regulatory requirements and organizational capacity.
• Requirements & Value Definition: Partner with stakeholders to define business problems user needs product requirements use cases and success metrics that guide solution design and delivery.
• Performance Adoption & Outcome Measurement: Create and maintain dashboards and KPI frameworks to monitor initiative status roadmap progress adoption customer impact operational effectiveness and business value realization.
• Cross-Functional Delivery Leadership: Coordinate across business units technology teams data teams model governance legal compliance and other stakeholders to ensure effective execution decision-making and issue resolution.
• Change Management & Enablement: Develop communication training and adoption strategies to support successful rollout and sustained use of AI-enabled capabilities across the organization.
• Risk Governance & Control Alignment: Ensure product and program processes incorporate appropriate governance compliance and control requirements consistent with operating in a regulated financial services environment.

Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree in Business or related field (Masters Degree preferred) with 10 years of related experience and 4 years of management experience
• 10 years of program or project management experience preferably in technology or financial services
• Knowledge of AI/ML technologies particularly generative AI applications and their business implications
• Proven ability to manage large complex programs with cross-functional teams in a matrixed environment
• Experience in regulatory environments and familiarity with compliance requirements in the financial industry
• Exceptional communication negotiation and customer management skills
• Certification in program or project management (e.g. PMP PgMP Agile) is a plus
• Familiarity with financial services processes products and operations is preferred
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills with the ability to make data-driven decisions
• Experience with GenAI/AI program leadership including use-case identification value tracking responsible AI governance and change adoption preferred
• Familiarity with mortgage industry concepts (selling/servicing underwriting credit policy loan delivery investor guidelines) or adjacent capital markets domains preferred
• MBA or advanced degree in business public policy analytics or a related field (or equivalent experience) preferred

Keys to Success in this Role:

• Operate as the integrator for the division: Connect strategy execution and day-to-day operations so leaders have clarity momentum and control.
• Build trusted partnerships: Earn credibility with policy product technology risk legal/compliance and enterprise teams to unblock decisions quickly.
• Deliver outcomes not activity: Define success metrics early; manage to benefits realization and transparent reporting.
• Balance innovation with safety: Advance GenAI and digital modernization while embedding responsible AI privacy security and model risk management practices.
• Create a scalable operating model: Standardize governance intake prioritization and communications so transformation becomes repeatable and sustainable.
• Lead through change: Drive adoption with strong change managementstakeholder engagement training communications and feedback loops.
• Maintain customer focus: Ensure transformation outcomes measurably improve clarity effectiveness and customer experience

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