[Hiring] Director, People AI Engineering & Innovation @Assurant

Role Description

The Director, People AI Engineering & Innovation is Assurant’s hands-on AI technical and product leader for the People Organization. This leader establishes the People Organization’s technical AI strategy, architecture, platform roadmap, engineering standards and delivery framework while partnering with SLT sponsors, People Organization teams and the Execution COE to shape and evaluate demand. The Director determines the right solution path and turns prioritized opportunities into secure, production-grade AI products with measurable value.

The Director brings deep experience from outside traditional HR and works directly in discovery, prototyping, design review, troubleshooting and delivery when needed. Safety, security, privacy, roles and access, infrastructure readiness, responsible AI and human controls are built into every stage with enterprise technology and control partners. The role establishes clear operating interfaces and decision rights across AI Innovation, Workday and People Technology, People Data and Analytics, ERIN/Unify Experience, the Execution COE, People functional teams and enterprise partners.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, data science or a related technical field, or equivalent relevant experience.
• 10+ years of progressive technology, software, data or AI experience, including leadership of production and enterprise-grade solutions and teams.
• 3+ years of deep hands-on experience designing and delivering AI products, agents, grounded solutions, workflows, integrations and enterprise applications in production.
• Demonstrated technical depth in solution architecture, APIs, data flows, identity, roles and access, security, monitoring, evaluations and production readiness.
• Experience developing technical AI strategies, architecture roadmaps, reusable patterns and engineering frameworks.
• Experience with Microsoft Copilot, UnifyApps, Leena AI, Claude or comparable enterprise AI platforms.
• Experience embedding security, privacy, responsible AI, human oversight and auditability throughout a product lifecycle.
• Strong product judgment and experience translating ambiguous business problems into practical solutions and measurable outcomes.
• Ability to personally prototype, inspect designs, review technical work, troubleshoot complex issues and lead alongside engineers.
• Experience establishing decision rights and operating interfaces across business, product, platform, data, portfolio and control teams.
• Demonstrated talent leadership, including differentiated development, bench building, succession planning, hiring and effective use of external partners.

Requirements

• Advanced degree in computer science, engineering, AI, data science or a related field.
• Experience building AI products outside traditional HR or People Technology environments.
• Experience with enterprise copilots, agentic workflows, retrieval-augmented generation, orchestration platforms and model evaluation.
• Experience operating in highly regulated or data-sensitive environments.
• Familiarity with People processes or People technology is helpful but not required.

Benefits

• Pay Range: $122,400.00 - $204,400.00
• Any posted pay range considers a wide range of compensation factors, including candidate background, experience and work location, while also allowing for salary growth within the position.