Vice President – AI Engineering

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🌽 Illinois – Remote

🌽 Illinois – Remote

💵 $265k - $290k / year

⏰ Full Time

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🤖 AI Engineer

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Alight Solutions

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10,000+ employees

🤝 B2B

🏥 Healthcare

☁️ SaaS

💰 $22.5M Post-IPO Secondary - Alight Solutions on 2023-08

B2B • Healthcare • SaaS

Alight Solutions is a leading benefits administration provider that delivers health, wealth, leave, and related HR point solutions for large organizations and their employees. The company helps manage benefits administration and human capital-related processes for enterprises, serving many of the world’s largest organizations and over 30 million people. Alight also emphasizes product and technology roles, corporate sustainability, total rewards, and a focus on transforming lives and organizations by maximizing health, financial and work wellbeing.

📋 Description

• Define Alight’s AI strategy and translate it into a focused portfolio • Decide where Alight builds, partners, buys, and stops investing • Govern AI investment for cost per outcome • Mature the AI reference architecture into the operating standard • Shape an operating model balancing enterprise standards with speed and ownership • Lead a reusable platform for secure, reliable, repeatable AI development and operation • Oversee agentic foundations, orchestration, retrieval, knowledge access, and model selection • Lead evaluation, observability, and integration with enterprise data and services • Establish the AI Development Lifecycle with standards, testing, security, and quality gates • Deliver agentic AI-powered benefits experiences that help participants understand and act on their benefits • Own outcomes from shipping through adoption, reliability, and user experience • Scale intelligent automation across complex operational processes while preserving human oversight • Build responsible AI into solution design, evaluation, release, monitoring, and improvement • Partner with risk, security, privacy, legal, and compliance leaders on AI controls • Recruit, develop, and lead a world-class AI organization • Represent Alight’s AI strategy to clients, partners, executives, and the broader market

🎯 Requirements

• Proven technology and AI leadership with real systems built, significant organizations led, and accountability for business outcomes • Experience leading a multi-team AI, machine learning, software, or platform organization through senior leaders • Experience deploying AI or complex technology products into production for a large user population with measurable value • Current fluency in generative AI, large language models, agentic systems, retrieval, evaluation, and production AI engineering • Experience building shared platforms or foundational capabilities used by multiple product and engineering teams • Experience owning a meaningful investment portfolio or budget and making build, buy, and partner decisions • Experience operating in a regulated, high-trust environment • Practical command of AI risk, privacy, security, and lifecycle governance • Experience recruiting and developing senior technical leaders • Essential technical depth in architecture, evaluation approaches, and production-ready systems • Successful completion of a background check if offered employment • Work authorization in the employing country without current or future visa sponsorship requirement • Ability to attend virtual interviews on video and occasional travel to a physical office location

🏖️ Benefits

• Health, dental and vision coverages starting Day One • Wellbeing programs • Retirement plans with contribution matching • Generous time off • Parental leave • Continuing education • Career growth opportunities • Flexible working arrangements wherever possible • Competitive total rewards package • Continuing education and training • Potential with a growing worldwide organization