Entry Level Ai Business Development Jobs (NOW HIRING)

If you’re looking for a place where you can make a meaningful difference, you’ve found it. The work we do at Markel gives people the confidence to move forward and seize opportunities, and you’ll find your fit amongst our global community of optimists and problem-solvers. We’re always pushing each other to go further because we believe that when we realize our potential, we can help others reach theirs. Join us and play your part in something special! Join the U.S. & Bermuda Center for AI Enablement to help drive enterprise-wide AI adoption at scale. In this role, you’ll partner with business leaders to identify and advance high-impact AI opportunities that improve efficiency, quality, and customer experience. You will guide teams through AI use case development, support solution selection and execution, and connect stakeholders to the right tools, resources, and delivery paths. This role also promotes scalable, well-governed AI practices by supporting standardization, tracking outcomes, and ensuring responsible and secure use aligned to enterprise standards.

• Serve as a trusted AI advisor to business leaders, helping identify, refine, and prioritize AI opportunities aligned to strategic business outcomes.
• Guide business stakeholders through AI use case development, problem definition, benefit realization, and implementation planning.
• Facilitate intake, assessment, and prioritization of AI opportunities, directing work to the appropriate business-led, technology-led, or vendor-supported delivery path.
• Partner with business and technology teams to evaluate solution options, including buy-versus-build decisions and platform selection.
• Connect teams with AI resources, subject matter experts, solution architects, and delivery partners to accelerate execution.
• Help establish repeatable patterns, reusable assets, prompt libraries, and use case inventories that support scaled adoption and reduce duplication of effort.
• Share success stories and emerging opportunities to demonstrate the art of the possible and inspire broader adoption across the organization.

• 2+ years of specialty insurance experience required and 1-2+ years of experience using AI tools preferred.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.
• Experience partnering with business leaders to identify and deliver technology, automation, digital transformation, or AI initiatives.
• Ability to translate business challenges into practical, scalable solutions that drive measurable outcomes.
• Strong stakeholder management, consulting, facilitation, and influencing skills.
• Experience leading change management, adoption, training, or capability-building initiatives.
• Familiarity with AI technologies, generative AI tools, automation platforms, and responsible AI principles.
• Ability to communicate complex concepts in clear, business-friendly language.
• Experience working across business and technology teams in a collaborative, matrixed environment.
• Demonstrated ability to balance strategic thinking with hands-on execution.

• The base salary offered for the successful candidate will be based on compensable factors such as job-relevant education, job-relevant experience, training, licensure, demonstrated competencies, geographic location, and other factors.
• The national average salary range for the Associate AI Business Partner is $62,400 - $85,800 with 12% incentive and the national average salary range for the AI Business Partner is $116,080 - $159,610 with 25% incentive.

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US Work Authorization required.

Markel Group (NYSE – MKL) a fortune 500 company with over 60 offices in 20+ countries, is a holding company for insurance, reinsurance, specialist advisory and investment operations around the world. We’re all about people | We win together | We strive for better We enjoy the everyday | We think further

• In keeping with the values of the Markel Style, we strive to support our employees in living their lives to the fullest at home and at work.
• We offer competitive benefit programs that help meet our diverse and changing environment as well as support our employees’ needs at all stages of life.
• All full-time employees have the option to select from multiple health, dental and vision insurance plan options and optional life, disability, and AD&D insurance.
• We also offer a 401(k) with employer match contributions, an Employee Stock Purchase Plan, PTO, corporate holidays and floating holidays, parental leave.

Markel is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis of any protected characteristic. This includes race; color; sex; religion; creed; national origin or place of birth; ancestry; age; disability; affectional or sexual orientation; gender expression or identity; genetic information, sickle cell trait, or atypical hereditary cellular or blood trait; refusal to submit to genetic tests or make genetic test results available; medical condition; citizenship status; pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions; marital status, civil union status, domestic partnership status, familial status, or family responsibilities; military or veteran status, including unfavorable discharge from military service; personal appearance, height, or weight; matriculation or political affiliation; expunged juvenile records; arrest and court records where prohibited by applicable law; status as a victim of domestic or sexual violence; public assistance status; order of protection status; status as a smoker or nonsmoker; membership or activity in local commissions; the use or nonuse of lawful products off employer premises during non-work hours; declining to attend meetings or participate in communications about religious or political matters; or any other classification protected by applicable law. Should you require any accommodation through the application process, please send an e‑mail to the rarecruiting@markel.com.