USAA seeks to empower its members to achieve financial security through competitive products, exceptional service, and trusted advice, and is looking for an AI Strategy Leader to develop and communicate its AI strategy and lead cross-functional initiatives.
Requirements
- Deep expertise in industries such as financial services and/or insurance.
- Ability to identify strategic needs and lead all aspects of projects with sound business recommendations and alignment with key business partners.
- Demonstrated experience influencing business decisions and driving strategic outcomes.
- Demonstrated experience translating complex business strategy and vision into an executable business process and technology plan and successfully delivering component.
- Demonstrated technical Consulting Skills including but not limited to, Hypothesis-driven problem solving; Primary Market research (e.g. interviews); Secondary Market research (e.g. desk research); Data analysis (e.g. what-if, sensitivity, etc.); Story Telling; PowerPoint / Excel; Presentation skills; Meeting Leadership
- Background in Analytics / AI
- Advanced quantitative, analytical, written, and oral communication, and collaboration skills
Responsibilities
- Leverages expert business acumen, critical thinking, abstract thinking, and empathy to independently reframe business problems into business opportunities.
- Develops custom project approaches to uniquely address the specific needs of each defined initiative, ensuring a deep focus on achieving business objectives.
- Conducts comprehensive strategic analysis employing advanced data analysis skills, to manipulate, interpret and study additional data sources to translate findings into comprehensive actionable insights for further business strategy development.
- Synthesizes and interprets large amounts of quantitative and qualitative data to create narratives that communicate strategic recommendations
- Defines and delivers recommendations to enhance the business strategy practice, ensuring alignment of business strategies to the enterprise corporate strategy
- Elevates experience related opportunities to USAA strategic planning process.
- Implements and evolves functional strategies developed in partnership with the CoSA strategy team.
Other
- Bachelor’s Degree; OR 4 years of related experience (in addition to the minimum years of experience required) may be substituted in lieu of degree.
- 8 years of business strategy experience to include 4 years of experience leading strategy engagements.
- Ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams and stakeholders at all levels.
- Advanced degree (MBA Preferred)
- USAA does not provide visa sponsorship for this role.
