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The Director, Technical Product Management - Applied AI leads the strategy, development, and delivery of AI-enabled products and technology solutions that improve Finance operations and decision-making. Working across Finance, Engineering, Data, and Architecture teams, this leader translates complex business needs into practical product strategies, prioritized roadmaps, and scalable enterprise solutions.

The ideal candidate combines strong technical product leadership with a working knowledge of modern AI, data platforms, and enterprise architecture. This individual thrives in a global, matrixed environment, and drives cross-functional teams from concept through adoption and measurable business impact.

Key Responsibilities

Product Strategy and Portfolio Leadership

• Define and execute the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for Finance AI products and enabling technology capabilities.
• Partner with Finance process owners and technical leaders to identify high-value opportunities, clarify user needs, and convert business problems into prioritized product requirements.
• Make product decisions that balance business value, user experience, technical feasibility, risk, and long-term maintainability.
• Promote reusable capabilities and scalable solution patterns that can be applied across Finance rather than creating isolated point solutions.

Technical Product Delivery

• Lead cross-functional delivery across discovery, solution design, development, testing, deployment, and post-launch optimization.
• Coordinate complex technical dependencies, integrations, and sequencing across Engineering, Data, Architecture, and other enterprise partners.
• Ensure products meet enterprise expectations for scalability, reliability, supportability, security, data integrity, and architectural alignment.
• Establish clear outcomes, milestones, and decision points; surface risks early and drive timely resolution of delivery barriers.

Stakeholder Partnership and Adoption

• Build trusted partnerships with Finance process owners, technology teams, and program leaders to align product delivery with strategic priorities and desired business outcomes.
• Communicate progress, risks, dependencies, and tradeoffs clearly to executive sponsors and steering forums, enabling informed decisions.
• Drive readiness, adoption, and operationalization of delivered capabilities.
• Influence across a global matrixed organization, aligning stakeholders with different priorities around a shared product direction.

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience building, managing, or delivering enterprise platforms or technology products, including significant technical product management responsibilities.
• Demonstrated experience partnering with Engineering and Architecture teams to deliver complex, integrated solutions.
• Strong understanding of enterprise technology, data platforms, and AI capabilities, with the ability to evaluate practical use cases, constraints, and tradeoffs.
• Ability to translate business problems into clear product requirements, roadmaps, and executable delivery plans.
• Experience leading initiatives in a global, matrixed organization and influencing stakeholders.
• Executive-level communication skills, including the ability to present recommendations, delivery risks, and tradeoffs to business and technical leaders.
• Demonstrated ability to navigate ambiguity, manage competing priorities, and drive results in an evolving environment.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or Business Administration or related field.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience delivering AI-enabled products or data-intensive solutions
• Finance or healthcare industry experience.
• Experience supporting product adoption, operating model changes, or enterprise-scale transformation.
• Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or Business Administration or related field.
• Locations: Hybrid work arrangement in Bloomfield, CT, Philadelphia, PA, Morris Plains, NJ, St Louis, MO. Open to remote if not aligned to office location with a strong preference East Coast.

This role is also anticipated to be eligible to participate in an annual bonus and long term incentive plan.

At The Cigna Group, you'll enjoy a comprehensive range of benefits, with a focus on supporting your whole health. Starting on day one of your employment, you'll be offered several health-related benefits including medical, vision, dental, and well-being and behavioral health programs. We also offer 401(k), company paid life insurance, tuition reimbursement, a minimum of 18 days of paid time off per year, paid holidays, and leaves of absence. For more details on our employee benefits programs, click here.

About The Cigna Group

Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, age, disability, sex, childbirth (including pregnancy) or related medical conditions including but not limited to lactation, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, religion, national origin, ancestry, marital or familial status, genetic information, status with regard to public assistance, citizenship status or any other characteristic protected by applicable equal employment opportunity laws.

If you need a reasonable accommodation to complete the online application process, please email seeyourself@thecignagroup.com for assistance. Please note that this email inbox is dedicated to accommodation requests only and cannot provide application updates or accept resumes.

The Cigna Group has a tobacco-free policy and reserves the right not to hire tobacco/nicotine users in states where that is legally permissible. Candidates in such states who use tobacco/nicotine will not be considered for employment unless they enter a qualifying smoking cessation program prior to the start of their employment. These states include: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nebraska, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, Vermont, and Washington State.

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