[Hiring] Lead Director, AI FinOps @CVS Health

Role Description

CVS Health is seeking a visionary Lead Director, AI FinOps to establish and lead the enterprise-wide AI FinOps capability at one of the nation's largest and most innovative healthcare organizations. This highly visible senior individual contributor role offers a rare opportunity to define a new strategic discipline that will govern how AI investments are planned, measured, financed, and optimized across the enterprise.

The Lead Director, AI FinOps will:

• Create the financial and operational framework necessary to support sustainable innovation at scale.
• Design and implement the strategy, operating model, governance structure, and financial management practices that provide comprehensive visibility into AI spending and value realization.
• Establish methodologies, metrics, and decision frameworks required to assess the economics of AI initiatives.
• Serve as a strategic bridge between Technology and Finance, partnering with various departments to bring greater transparency and accountability to AI investments.
• Translate complex consumption patterns, model utilization trends, and infrastructure costs into actionable business insights.
• Define how CVS Health measures the business value of AI, developing enterprise frameworks that connect technology investments to operational outcomes.
• Influence senior leadership decisions regarding AI adoption, platform strategy, vendor optimization, capacity planning, and portfolio management.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in FinOps, cloud financial management, technology finance, or a related discipline within large-scale enterprise environments.
• 5+ years of experience building and scaling FinOps programs from inception.
• 2+ years of experience in AI cost governance.
• 2+ years of experience implementing chargeback and showback models.
• 2+ years of experience working with enterprise AI services.

Requirements

• Experience managing LLM and API‑based AI spend.
• Experience establishing a FinOps and/or AI Center of Excellence (CoE).
• Experience in regulated industries, with exposure to audit, compliance, and cost allocation requirements.
• Experience developing executive‑level financial dashboards using BI tools.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package designed to support physical, emotional, and financial well-being.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Paid time off.
• Retirement savings options.
• Wellness programs and other resources, based on eligibility.