Ameriprise Financial Services, LLC · 2 days ago
Vice President, Columbia Analytics & EDAI AI Strategy
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$197K/yr - $270K/yr
10+ years expAmeriprise Financial Services, LLC is a diversified financial services leader with a focus on client-centered solutions. The Vice President of Columbia Analytics and EDAI AI/GenAI Strategy will drive data-driven growth and AI innovation across the organization, leading the EDAI Columbia analytics team and collaborating with senior business leaders to implement effective analytic solutions.
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Responsibilities
Engage collaboratively with senior business leaders and/or analysts to provide analytical thought leadership and support for business problems. Identify and interpret business needs, define high-level business requirements, strategy, technical risks, and scope. Develop, document, and communicate business-driven analytic solutions and capabilities, translating modeling and analytic output into understandable and actionable business knowledge
Lead process with business partners to agree on analytic strategy and support business in embedding insights into work-flows and driving adoption. Identify, develop and implement complex analytical solutions leveraging tools such as predictive modeling, advanced machine learning techniques, simulation, optimization solutions, etc
Provide coaching and leadership to team of analytic resources. Align strategic objectives and tactical demands and translate into goals for the team. Conduct performance management, hiring, coaching/development, goal writing and 1:1 meetings
Champion ongoing expansion of data science expertise and credentials by keeping up with industry best practices, developing new skills, and knowledge sharing. Ensure adherence to data and model governance standards that are set and enforced by industry standards and/or enterprise and business unit data governance polices and leaders
Define and lead the strategic roadmap for AI and generative AI, ensuring alignment with business priorities, risk frameworks, and shareholder value
Foster strong partnerships across Enterprise AI Strategy, IA, Technology, Risk and support the AI Leadership council to help advance AI mandate for the firm
Oversee and manage dataset creation including data extraction, derived and dependent variable creation, and data quality control processes for analytics, model development, and validation. May monitor execution of analytical solutions, including criteria specification, data sourcing, segmentation, analytics, selection, delivery, and back-end data capture results
Qualification
Required
Masters degree or equivalent
10+ years experience
Previous people leadership experience
Knowledge of advanced statistical concepts and techniques; (e.g. skilled in linear algebra.)
Experience conducting hands-on analytics projects using advanced statistical methods such as generalized regression models, Bayesian methods, random forest, gradient boosting, neural networks, machine learning, clustering, or similar methodologies
Experience with statistical programming (Python, SQL etc.) & data visualization software in a data-rich environment
Demonstrated experience in driving business partnerships in a complex, matrixed organization
Proven ability to present/communicate complex, technical materials in a way that facilitates decision making and drives outcomes; ability to communicate to less technical partners
Proven ability to apply both strategic and analytic techniques to provide business solutions and recommendations
Demonstrated ability to work and influence effectively in a collaborative team environment
Preferred
PhD
Degree in Finance, Statistics, Computer Science, Actuarial Science, Economics, Engineering, or similar
Experience with Cloud Computing Environments (including container creation, management & deployment), etc
5+ years in people leadership role
Familiarity with Gen AI capabilities, Observability etc
Benefits
Vacation time
Sick time
401(k)
Health, dental and life insurances
Company
Ameriprise Financial Services, LLC
At Ameriprise Financial, we have been helping people feel more confident about their financial future for 130 years.
5001-10000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageLeadership Team
Angela Grabovsky, CFP®, CRPC®, MBA, APMA®
Private Wealth Advisor, Chief Executive Officer
Anthony C. Barone
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