Director, AI Strategy

COMPANY OVERVIEW

Global Atlantic Financial Group is a leading insurance company meeting the retirement and life insurance needs of individuals and institutions. With a strong financial foundation and risk and investment management expertise, the company delivers tailored solutions to create more secure financial futures. The company's performance has been driven by its culture and core values focused on integrity, teamwork, and the importance of building long-term client relationships. Global Atlantic is a wholly-owned subsidiary of KKR, a leading global investment firm. Through its relationship, the company leverages KKR's investment capabilities, scale and access to capital markets to enhance the value it offers clients. KKR's parent company is KKR & Co. Inc. (NYSE: KKR).

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POSITION SUMMARY:

The Director of AI Strategy will identify problem fits for AI, leading solutions, exploring different models and driving these solutions through these problems. They will be a strategic thinker and define this capability moving forward for Global Atlantic. This role is highly visible within technology and business leadership. This position must sit out of either Boston, MA or Hartford, CT.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, develop, and deploy LLM driven solutions & machine learning models.
• Work with large-scale data sets, including structured and unstructured data.
• Implement and optimize machine learning algorithms and deep learning models.
• Utilize AWS technologies such as Bedrock and Sagemaker for model training and deployment.
• Experience with fine tuning LLM’s to customize these to solution for business problems
• Experience with operating models on GPU rendered machines
• Develop solutions using publicly available AI Transformer libraries (e.g., Hugging Face).
• Participate in code reviews, testing, and debugging.
• Stay up to date with the latest developments in AI and machine learning.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Data Science, or related field required
• 5+ years of experience working within AI and machine learning
• Strong proficiency in Python development.
• Experience with machine learning frameworks and deep learning toolsets.
• Familiarity with AWS services (e.g., Bedrock, Sagemaker).
• Knowledge of AI Transformer libraries (e.g., Hugging Face).
• Ability to develop and deploy solutions using publicly available models.
• This position is not currently open to visa sponsorship

Preferred Skills:

• Experience with natural language processing (NLP) and understanding (NLU).
• Knowledge of cloud-based infrastructure and distributed computing.
• Strong problem-solving skills and a passion for innovation.

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Global Atlantic’s base salary range is determined through an analysis of similar positions in the external labor market. Base pay is just one component of Global Atlantic’s total compensation package for employees and at times we hire outside the boundaries of the salary range. Other rewards may include annual cash bonuses, long-term incentives (equity), generous benefits (including immediate vesting on employee contributions to a 401(k), as well as a company match on your contributions), and sales incentives. Actual compensation for all roles will be based upon geographic location, work experience, education, licensure requirements and/or skill level and will be finalized at the time of offer. Compensation for our more senior positions have a larger component of short-term cash bonus and long-term incentives.

The base salary range for this role is$95,000—$180,600 USD

TOTAL REWARDS STATEMENT

Global Atlantic’s employees thrive in a fast-paced, high-performing culture with strong benefit options and wellbeing resources that support innovation, accountability and stewardship. At Global Atlantic, being an employer of choice means we are committed to offering employees a customizable and comprehensive benefits package. Global Atlantic’s total rewards package is reflective of our corporate values, particularly diversity, excellence and innovation, with a focus on inclusion, pay equity, and flexibility. We strive to foster a culture of total well-being through community outreach and charitable giving programs. Click HERE to learn more about our charitable giving programs.

Our highly competitive health, retirement, life and disability plans can be tailored to best suit your needs and those of your whole family. Global Atlantic was proudly named: Best in Perks & Benefits, Best Company Work-Life Balance, Best Company Happiness and Best Company Compensation. Learn more about our Benefits offerings.

Global Atlantic is committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone can meaningfully contribute to our success. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate in employment on any basis that is prohibited by federal, state or local laws. More than that, we strive to be inclusive of all backgrounds and experiences, which we feel gives us a competitive advantage in the market and within our firm. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age, or veteran status. Find out more about GA’s commitment to creating a culture of belonging: DE&I and Strategic Pillars

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