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About the Role

The Corporate Vice President, Business Discovery & Solution Strategy provides senior leadership at the intersection of business strategy, product thinking, technology, data, analytics, and AI. The role is accountable for translating complex enterprise business problems into clearly defined outcomes, future-state workflows, solution strategies, capability roadmaps, and prioritized investments.

Responsibilities

Lead discovery across complex enterprise domains, working directly with senior executives, business leaders, practitioners, and technology stakeholders.
Start with the decisions, users, business outcomes, and underlying problems that matter rather than accepting current processes, systems, reports, or stated requirements as the definition of the solution.
Structure ambiguous business problems, develop hypotheses, identify critical assumptions, and determine what evidence is required before committing significant technology investment.
Develop a deep understanding of user personas, decision journeys, workflows, pain points, information needs, and desired outcomes.
Distinguish requested features from underlying business needs and constructively challenge senior stakeholders when a different approach may create greater value.
Define future-state business workflows and experiences that materially improve how work is performed and decisions are made.
Identify where AI, agentic capabilities, analytics, automation, and modern technology can fundamentally change a workflow rather than simply digitize or accelerate the current state.
Determine which activities should remain human-led, which should be augmented by technology, and which can increasingly be performed autonomously with appropriate governance and controls.
Bring external perspectives and emerging practices into discovery to challenge internal assumptions and identify new possibilities.
Use prototypes, experiments, and working solutions to validate hypotheses with users and refine the future state.
Translate business discovery into clear product and solution strategies, capability definitions, boundaries, roadmaps, and prioritized outcomes.
Make deliberate tradeoffs across business value, user needs, complexity, feasibility, dependencies, reuse, and speed to learning.
Establish clear value hypotheses and success measures for major capabilities and investments.
Ensure MVPs test meaningful business and product hypotheses rather than simply deliver smaller versions of predetermined solutions.
Define a coherent evolution path from MVP through subsequent increments and broader enterprise adoption.
Translate future-state strategy into prioritized roadmaps, requirements, hypotheses, backlogs, and delivery increments.
Partner closely with Integrated Delivery, Domain Technology Leads, Product Owners, Solution Engineering & Architecture, Data Architecture, Data Engineering, and strategic partners.
Maintain continuity between the original business outcome and what ultimately gets engineered and deployed.
Participate throughout delivery to validate whether working solutions continue to solve the intended problem and recommend changes as new evidence emerges.
Ensure solution decisions account for enterprise architecture, data, controls, security, operational requirements, and reuse without allowing current technology constraints to unnecessarily define the future state.
Develop trusted relationships with senior business, Finance, investment, and Technology executives and serve as a strategic thought partner on transformation opportunities.
Facilitate complex discussions involving competing stakeholder perspectives and drive groups toward clear choices and decisions.
Communicate complex business and technology concepts through clear executive narratives, recommendations, and visual artifacts.
Influence senior stakeholders without relying solely on formal authority and constructively challenge established assumptions where necessary.
Help establish and mature Business Discovery & Solution Strategy as an enduring leadership capability across New York Life strategic transformations.
Lead discovery and solution strategy for Performance Management, NEXUS, and related enterprise decision-support capabilities.
Challenge approaches that simply reproduce existing PDFs, reports, or dashboards in a new interface and define what would make the experience materially more useful and decision-oriented.
Determine what insights should be proactively surfaced, what users should explore dynamically, what analysis agents can perform on their behalf, and what actions should follow from the insights generated.
Partner with business performance and analytics leaders to identify common enterprise metrics and decision needs while preserving appropriate business-specific depth.
Define how NEXUS should evolve as a cross-EPP decision-support experience, including persona needs, product boundaries, value hypotheses, MVP priorities, and future increments.
Build, lead and develop high performing teams with strong domain knowledge and modern technology and engineering capabilities.
Attract, develop and retain forward deployed and other high caliber technology talent, while building technology leadership and domain expertise across the organization.
Establish clear accountability and a culture of collaboration, innovation, engineering discipline and continuous improvement.
Lead effectively through both direct authority and matrixed relationships across Business, Product, Technology and partner teams.

Requirements

15+ years of progressively responsible experience in business or technology strategy, product strategy, digital transformation, management consulting, technology, data and AI, or related disciplines, including significant leadership responsibility in complex enterprise environments.
Demonstrated experience framing ambiguous business problems and translating them into clear strategies, future-state capabilities, roadmaps, and executable initiatives.
Strong experience working directly with senior business and technology executives and influencing consequential decisions across organizational boundaries.
Proven ability to lead cross-functional initiatives involving business, technology, engineering, data, architecture, operations, and risk and control stakeholders.
Experience translating customer, user, or business needs into future-state workflows, capabilities, and technology-enabled solutions.
Demonstrated ability to prioritize among competing opportunities and make explicit choices based on business value, user outcomes, evidence, feasibility, dependencies, and speed to learning.
Strong understanding of modern technology, data, analytics, automation, generative AI, and agentic capabilities and their potential to transform business workflows and decision-making.
Experience moving initiatives from early-stage ambiguity and discovery through solution definition, roadmap development, delivery, and value realization.
Experience operating within large federated or matrixed enterprises and navigating complex stakeholder environments.
Strong analytical, facilitation, communication, and executive-presentation capabilities, with demonstrated learning agility and ability to rapidly develop domain depth.
Experience with performance management, management reporting, executive decision support, FP&A, analytics, or enterprise performance capabilities.
Experience designing executive or practitioner experiences that combine data, analytics, AI, and workflow.
Experience in enterprise product management, product strategy, design thinking, service design, management consulting, or strategic transformation.
Experience leading AI-enabled or agentic business transformation in a highly regulated enterprise.
Experience working with multidisciplinary product and engineering teams using rapid prototyping, iterative customer validation, and outcome-based roadmaps.

Skills

Product Mindset
Strategic Problem Framing
Business Discovery
Future-State Reimagination
AI & Agentic Transformation
Product & Solution Strategy
Executive Influence
Business & Technology Fluency
Systems Thinking
Value Orientation
Learning Agility
People Management

Location

Hybrid

Work Type

Hybrid - 3 days per week

Experience Level

15+ years of experience

Salary/Compensations

$185,000-$264,500

Benefits

Full package of benefits
Unique offerings for a modern workforce
Leave programs
Adoption assistance
Student loan repayment programs

About the Company

At New York Life, our 180-year legacy of purpose and integrity fuels our future.
As we evolve into a more technology, data, and AI-enabled organization, we remain grounded in the values that drive lasting impact.
Our diverse business portfolio creates opportunities to make a difference across industries and communities—inviting bold thinking, collaborative problem-solving, and purpose-driven innovation.
Here, you’ll find the rare balance of long-standing stability and forward momentum.
As a Fortune 100 mutual company, we offer a place to grow your skills, contribute to meaningful work, and deliver solutions that matter.
Your ideas drive what’s next, and your growth powers it.

Equal Opportunity

At New York Life, fostering an inclusive workplace is fundamental to who we are and how we serve our communities.
We have a longstanding commitment to creating an environment where individuals can contribute their best and succeed together.
This foundation is rooted in our core values of humanity and integrity, ensuring that every employee feels valued and supported.
By embracing a broad range of perspectives and experiences, we achieve greater success and fulfill our promise of providing financial security and peace of mind to families across all communities.
Recognized as one of Fortune’s World’s Most Admired Companies, New York Life is committed to improving local communities through a culture of employee giving and volunteerism, supported by the Foundation.
We're proud that due to our mutuality, we operate in the best interests of our policy owners.