AVP, GenAI & Agentic Data Science at Unum Group in Portland, OR

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Job Posting End Date: November 15 When you join the team at Unum, you become part of an organization committed to helping you thrive. Here, we work to provide the employee benefits and service solutions that enable employees at our client companies to thrive throughout life’s moments. And this starts with ensuring that every one of our team members enjoys opportunities to succeed both professionally and personally. To enable this, we provide: Award-winning culture Inclusion and diversity as a priority Performance Based Incentive Plans Competitive benefits package that includes: Health, Vision, Dental, Short & Long-Term Disability Generous PTO (including paid time to volunteer!) Up to 9.5% 401(k) employer contribution Mental health support Career advancement opportunities Student loan repayment options Tuition reimbursement Flexible work environments *All the benefits listed above are subject to the terms of their individual Plans . And that’s just the beginning… With 10,000 employees helping more than 39 million people worldwide, every role at Unum is meaningful and impacts the lives of our customers. Whether you’re directly supporting a growing family, or developing online tools to help navigate a difficult loss, customers are counting on the combined talents of our entire team. Help us help others, and join Team Unum today! General Summary: We are seeking an accomplished AVP, GenAI & Agentic Data Science to lead a team of Data Scientists and GenAI Engineers building, deploying, and scaling GenAI and agentic solutions across the enterprise. This is a technical leadership role for someone who has successfully taken agentic AI from experimentation into production at scale. The ideal candidate combines deep expertise in GenAI and Agentic AI with strong foundations in Data Science and Machine Learning, and knows how to turn emerging technology into trusted, scalable solutions that solve real business problems. As a leader in advanced analytics within Unum, you will play a critical role in transforming Unum from a traditional insurance player to a leading AI-first digital insurance company. 1. Own and drive strategic AI-based products/offerings, with particular focus on GenAI and Agentic AI solutions 2. Influence senior executives around strategies and investments related to AI 3. Lead a world-class team of Data Scientists and GenAI Engineers with cross-discipline partnerships with other functional areas across Finance, Marketing, Operations 4. Support efforts to evangelize and democratize AI across the enterprise 5. Identify high-value business opportunities for GenAI and Agentic AI and lead solutions from concept through production and scale Principal Duties and Responsibilities Provide inputs and support execution on the advanced analytics roadmap. Lead efforts for AI-first digital products/offerings/capabilities, including GenAI and Agentic AI solutions. Partner with Product Innovators/Managers to integrate and operationalize AI into business processes and digital product offerings to deliver measurable business value. Lead the design and deployment of production Agentic AI solutions, including agent orchestration, tool use, RAG, memory and state management, multi-agent architectures, and human-in-the-loop workflows. Establish practices for AI and agent evaluation, observability, monitoring, guardrails, governance, security, reliability, and responsible AI. Influence senior executives and business leaders around strategies and investments related to AI. Lead and manage a team of Data Science and Information Technology professionals working within agile/infrastructure or operations teams, working across a wide range of environments, supporting the analysis, development, design, creation, modification and testing of Unum data analytics, GenAI, Agentic AI, and machine learning software and related applications. Develops, coaches and engages people to higher levels of performance. Lead cross-functional, cross-disciplinary teams to