Senior Principal, AI Strategy

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $175.1k - $291.8k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

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The Cigna Group

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10,000+ employees

🏥 Healthcare

🛡️ Insurance

Healthcare • Insurance

The Cigna Group is a global health services company that provides medical, dental, pharmacy, behavioral and supplemental insurance products and benefits to individuals, families, employers, brokers, providers and Medicare beneficiaries. It offers employer-sponsored group plans, individual and family plans (including Open Enrollment offerings), Medicare, international health insurance covering more than 200 countries, and digital member services through the myCigna platform (including telehealth and claims management). Its products are delivered through operating subsidiaries such as Cigna Health and Life Insurance Company and other regional affiliates.

📋 Description

• Identify, frame, validate, and prioritize AI opportunities with potential for significant enterprise revenue and margin growth • Advise company leadership on which opportunities to pursue, how to approach them, and what to initiate, accelerate, or stop • Partner with enterprise, SBU, finance, operations, clinical, and pharmacy leaders to identify high-value business problems • Frame opportunities in terms of customers or clinicians served, value, risk, success conditions, and required investment • Conduct qualitative and quantitative user and market research to validate opportunities • Distinguish problems where AI offers non-linear advantages and decompose leverage points using first principles • Translate enterprise and SBU challenges into measurable financial, outcome, and experiential opportunities • Recommend whether to proceed, sequence, partner, or stop • Rank opportunities by strategic alignment, value, feasibility, risk, cost, and speed to value • Develop business cases, investment theses, value realization models, and roadmaps • Assess buy, build, partner, and hybrid paths and identify duplicate investments • Explore venture investment, incubation, and M&A routes with relevant colleagues • Define success metrics and measurement instrumentation before work is staffed • Revisit the AI portfolio and retire or reframe work that is not earning further investment • Establish stage-gates and evidence expectations for concept, pilot, and broader adoption decisions • Identify workflow, operating-model, and organizational changes required for value realization • Use live-work results to refine future enterprise funding decisions • Partner with DD&AI program and technology functions on portfolio tracking and value reporting • Align recommendations with clinical realities, regulatory context, and member or provider impact • Partner with legal, compliance, privacy, information security, governance, and model risk management • Apply Responsible AI principles including transparency, fairness, privacy, reliability, human oversight, and accountability • Recommend where AI should automate, assist, recommend, or escalate, while naming accountable humans • Advise business, clinical, product, and operations leaders using rigorous analyses and data • Communicate recommendations through business narratives, decision frameworks, and financial or outcome models • Align stakeholders with competing priorities and variable AI fluency • Represent AI Strategy in intake, planning, and investment conversations • Mentor colleagues on problem-framing quality

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Healthcare Administration, Public Health, Information Systems, or a related discipline, or equivalent combination of education and experience • Typically 8+ years in strategy, product strategy, management consulting, business operations, finance, digital transformation, or a related field inside a large or regulated enterprise • Demonstrated experience framing business problems, writing investment cases, and helping leaders make fund, sequence, or stop decisions • Ability to evaluate value, adoption risk, implementation complexity, and total cost of ownership at a decision-quality level, in partnership with technology counterparts • Working literacy in current AI capabilities and limitations • Knowledge of what it takes to build great products, including appreciation of user needs and experience expectations • Experience operating in a matrix with competing stakeholders and incomplete information • Clear written and verbal communication with senior business leaders, with ability to make recommendations • Cable broadband or fiber optic internet service with at least 10 Mbps download/5 Mbps upload when working from home • Master's degree, MBA, or equivalent advanced degree preferred • Healthcare payer, provider, pharmacy, clinical, benefits, or healthcare services experience preferred • Familiarity with clinical workflows, claims, utilization management, prior authorization, care management, provider operations, or member engagement preferred • Deep expertise in leveraging AI to solve problems at a root cause level preferred • Responsible AI, privacy, or regulatory experience preferred • Innovation or digital portfolio management/advisory experience preferred • Experience partnering with product, technology, and delivery teams without owning their work preferred

🏖️ Benefits

• Annual bonus eligibility • Long term incentive plan eligibility • Medical benefits • Vision benefits • Dental benefits • Well-being and behavioral health programs • 401(k) • Company paid life insurance • Tuition reimbursement • Minimum of 18 days of paid time off per year • Paid holidays • Leaves of absence