Head of AI Product

Fitch Group • Chicago, IL

5d • $300,000 - $350,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

Fitch Solutions is seeking a Head of AI Products to be based in their New York, Chicago, or London office. Fitch Solutions is a leading provider of insights, data, and analytics that inform investment strategies, strengthen risk management, and identify strategic opportunities. As part of Fitch Group, a global leader in financial information services owned by Hearst, the company offers a dynamic environment where innovation and collaboration are encouraged to meet the evolving needs of global markets. Joining Fitch Solutions means contributing to a company known for its expertise and commitment to excellence, delivering critical data, insightful research, and comprehensive analytics to empower clients.

This role is situated at the intersection of applied AI, product strategy, and financial markets knowledge, distinct from pure research or engineering management. The ideal candidate will possess hands-on familiarity with current language model and search technologies, with a clear understanding of their commercial value and associated risks.

Requirements

• Applied experience delivering natural language processing, semantic search, or large language model-based products in a production environment; not solely in research or proof-of-concept settings.
• Working knowledge of retrieval-augmented generation architectures, vector databases, and embedding models, alongside a realistic view of their limitations.
• Experience managing model risk in a regulated or compliance-sensitive environment; financial services, legal technology, or healthcare data preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to translate AI capability into product propositions with clear commercial logic, not technology for its own sake.
• Track record of leading cross-functional teams through the ambiguity of early-stage AI product development.

Nice To Haves

• Familiarity with financial markets content including credit research, sovereign risk, and macroeconomic data, and the precision requirements this imposes on AI-generated output.
• Experience with MCP or API-first product delivery models.
• Prior exposure to knowledge graph or structured ontology integration with language models.

Responsibilities

• Own the AI product strategy for Fitch Solutions, defining where AI creates measurable value in content processing, search, delivery, and analyst workflow.
• Lead the design and delivery of semantic and vector search capabilities that make the unified content estate discoverable across BUs and delivery channels.
• Define the approach to entity extraction, document classification, and content enrichment using natural language processing and large language model techniques.
• Establish governance standards for AI-generated or AI-assisted content, including accuracy, auditability, and model risk management appropriate to a regulated financial data environment.
• Partner with the Head of Data Products to ensure AI capabilities are built on a well-structured, consistently tagged content layer.
• Evaluate, select, and manage relationships with AI infrastructure and model providers, making build versus buy decisions with a long-term commercial lens.
• Own the model operations and lifecycle framework, ensuring models in production are monitored, evaluated, and updated systematically.
• Represent AI capabilities to commercial and client-facing teams, translating technical capability into product propositions that resonate in financial markets.

Benefits

• Hybrid Work Environment: 3 days a week in office required based on your line of business and location
• A Culture of Learning & Mobility: Dedicated trainings, leadership development and mentorship programs designed to ensure that your time at Fitch will be a continuous learning opportunity
• Investing in Your Future: Retirement planning and tuition reimbursement programs that empower you to achieve your short and long-term goals
• Promoting Health & Wellbeing: Comprehensive healthcare offerings that enable physical, mental, financial, social, and occupational wellbeing
• Supportive Parenting Policies: Family-friendly policies, including a generous global parental leave plan, designed to help you balance career and family life effectively
• Inclusive Work Environment: A collaborative workplace where all voices are valued, with Employee Resource Groups that unite and empower our colleagues around the globe
• Dedication to Giving Back: Paid volunteer days, matched funding for donations and ample opportunities to volunteer in your community

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed