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Apogem Capital · 17 hours ago

Corporate Vice President - AI Leader

New York, NY

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$180K/yr - $258K/yr

10+ years exp

Apogem Capital is a leading company focused on integrating AI and data-driven strategies into their operations. The Corporate Vice President - AI Leader will provide strategic leadership across AI initiatives, mentor a high-performing AI team, and drive the implementation of innovative AI solutions aligned with business needs.

Financial Services

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Provide strategic leadership across AI initiatives, driving the integration of advanced analytics and GenAI into enterprise decision-making and long-term strategy

Partner with the COO and embedded Tech leads to establish strategic, long-term collaboration frameworks that align functional objectives

Mentor and grow a high-performing AI team, fostering cross-functional collaboration to scale impact and accelerate AI maturity

Own and deliver business-aligned OKRs, ensuring AI initiatives are outcome-driven and tied to enterprise value creation

Independently lead and deliver large-scale AI/GenAI initiatives, ensuring end-to-end execution from design to deployment with minimal oversight

Oversee full Model Development Life Cycle (MDLC) from data exploration and feature engineering to model training, validation, deployment, and performance monitoring

Collaborate with product, data, engineering, and MLOps teams to align AI initiatives with business needs and ensure scalable, production-ready deployment

Champion integration of AI and GenAI into operational workflows, partnering with MLOps to operationalize models using platforms like AWS SageMaker. Drive change management across business unit

Demonstrate strong technical skills, including Python, SQL, and working knowledge of cloud platforms (e.g., AWS), as well as UI tools such as React, Streamlit, or APIs to enable model consumption

Drive data and software vendor evaluations for small to mid-scale PoCs, ensuring alignment with technical requirements, integration feasibility, and business impact

Infuse industry perspective by actively participating in relevant conferences and disseminating key insights across broader internal and external audiences

Qualification

AI leadershipMachine learningModel Development Life CyclePythonAWS SageMakerSQLSupervised ML modelsGenAI architecturesCross-functional collaborationExecutive communicationData-driven strategiesBusiness intelligenceMentoring

Required

Degree in AI, Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, Mathematics or a related field; advanced degree preferred

10+ years of experience in AI, advanced analytics, or business intelligence roles with a strong record of delivering measurable business impact

5+ years of experience managing and scaling AI teams, with a focus on driving enterprise-wide initiatives

3+ years of experience delivering production grade models for core business domains. Experience with Bias testing framework is a plus

Familiarity with modern platforms including Snowflake/Databricks, GitHub, and Python/SQL-based ecosystems, and demonstrated ability to lead teams leveraging these tools

Deep expertise in supervised and unsupervised ML models (e.g., XGBoost, deep learning, k-means), including regularization (Ridge, Lasso, Elastic Net), variable selection, feature creation (e.g., binning, transformations, category reduction), and validation methods (hold-outs, CV, bootstrap)

Executive-level communication and presentation skills, with the ability to influence and align senior stakeholders

Possess working knowledge and theoretical understanding of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) based GenAI architectures, including vector databases, embedding models, and orchestration layers

Cross-functional collaboration experience, enabling enterprise-wide analytics adoption and capability building

Working knowledge of AWS SageMaker, and familiarity with building or enabling UI components using React, Streamlit, or APIs for model interaction

Preferred

Experience delivering real-time AI/ML solutions in the consumer finance domain, with emphasis on speed, reliability, and compliance

Benefits

Leave programs

Adoption assistance

Student loan repayment programs

Company

Apogem Capital

Apogem Capital is an alternatives investor, with decades of experience investing in the middle market.

Founded in 2022

New York, New York, USA

201-500 employees

https://apogemcapital.com/

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