[Hiring] AI Strategy Senior Principal @Cigna Healthcare

Role Description

The AI Strategy role identifies, frames, validates, and prioritizes the AI opportunities that offer potential for significant enterprise revenue and margin growth. This individual acts as an organizational thought leader to our company's leadership to decide what opportunities to attack, how to attack them, how to prioritize them, and what to initiate, accelerate, or stop ahead of critical investment decisions.

This is a strategy and business-judgment role. It sits with SBU and functional leaders to turn financial, operational, and clinical problems into investment-ready theses:

• The problem
• The customer or clinician
• The first principles approach
• The opportunity value
• The investment required to unlock that value
• The risk
• The conditions under which the work should proceed or cease

This is not a builder role. Solution design, technical feasibility, and build execution sit with AI Business Partners, Product Builders, enterprise architecture, and technology colleagues. AI Strategy owns the quality of the question and the quality of the bet.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Healthcare Administration, Public Health, Information Systems, or a related discipline, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Typically 8+ years in strategy, product strategy, management consulting, business operations, finance, digital transformation, or a related field inside a large or regulated enterprise.
• Demonstrated experience framing business problems, writing investment cases, and helping leaders make fund, sequence, or stop decisions.
• Ability to evaluate value, adoption risk, implementation complexity, and total cost of ownership at a decision-quality level, in partnership with technology counterparts.
• Working literacy in what current AI capabilities can and cannot do.
• Knowledge of what it takes to build great products, including an appreciation and intuition around the user's needs and experience expectations.
• Experience operating in a matrix, with competing stakeholders and incomplete information.
• Clear written and verbal communication with senior business leaders.

Requirements

• Master's degree, MBA, or equivalent advanced degree (preferred).
• Experience in healthcare payer, provider, pharmacy, clinical, benefits, or healthcare services environments (preferred).
• Familiarity with clinical workflows, claims, utilization management, prior authorization, care management, provider operations, or member engagement (preferred).
• Deep expertise in leveraging AI to solve problems at a root cause level (preferred).
• Experience with Responsible AI, privacy, or regulatory considerations as they affect product and investment decisions (preferred).
• Experience managing or advising an innovation or digital portfolio, including stopping or redirecting work (preferred).
• Experience partnering with product, technology, and delivery teams without owning their work (preferred).

Benefits

• Annual salary of 175,100 - 291,800 USD / yearly, depending on relevant factors, including experience and geographic location.
• Eligible to participate in an annual bonus and long-term incentive plan.
• Comprehensive range of health-related benefits including medical, vision, dental, and well-being and behavioral health programs.
• 401(k) and company paid life insurance.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• A minimum of 18 days of paid time off per year, paid holidays, and leaves of absence.

Company Description

At The Cigna Group, we’re dedicated to improving the health and vitality of those we serve. Through our divisions Cigna Healthcare and Evernorth Health Services, we are committed to enhancing the lives of our clients, customers, and patients.