Senior Associate- Strategy

As a Senior Associate- Strategy within the Line of Business(LOB) Strategic Engagement team, you will be responsible for developing insights and collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders to explore various Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML) use cases.

You will define the value proposition and business impacts, and support execution and implementation to deploy the resulting products and solutions.

In this role, you will gain expertise across AI/ML use cases, and the workings of a variety of functions and businesses, while honing your problem-solving, business case modeling, communications and leadership skills in an environment of active mentorship and coaching.

Job Responsibilities:


* Drive execution of the firm's top AI/ML priorities and strategic initiatives by participating on project teams and partnering with / providing leverage to senior stakeholders


* Conduct competitor and industry research through both public and non-public sources to identify market trends & developments, including new AI capabilities and frameworks being introduced


* Coordinate strategic engagement with internal LOBs to shape their AI strategy


* Identify and prioritize problems that may benefit from the new developments in AI technologies and structure and build quantitative, qualitative, and conceptual analyses, identifying implications and key insights to drive recommendations on solving the prioritized problems


* Develop and syndicate business cases for the prioritized initiatives, including the scope of work, target state solutions, staffing and timelines, performing analysis of operational / financial data as needed


* Collaborate with team members across LOBs and corporate functions, incl.

working closely with Product and Technology teams on prioritization of deliverables from a business and tech perspective


* Exercise sound judgment, anticipate bottlenecks, evaluate and mitigate potential risks, escalate effectively, make trade-offs and balance business needs versus technical constraints to drive the execution of strategic initiatives


* Participate in and conduct internal, external and stakeholder interviews with SMEs and stakeholders


* Engage in working groups, problem solving and brainstorming sessions that prepare analysis to support leadership decision making


* Contribute to executive communication materials for senior management and present project analyses and recommendations to senior executives


* Develop relationships with key AI/ML related functions firmwide, establishing a network and an understanding of the stakeholders engaged in responsible AI/ML development practices and perform ad-hoc product and operational analysis to identify opportunities related to AI/ML adoption, impact, efficiencies etc.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:


* 4+ years of experience in product or strategy role within a complex and dynamic environment with Bachelor's degree is ...