SVP, Head of Intelligence

Cross River•Fort Lee, NJ

2d•$280,000 - $310,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Cross River is building the financial infrastructure of the Intelligence Age - the regulated backbone on which AI-era finance runs. The Intelligence organization is where that ambition becomes operational: the models, platforms, and data products that power credit, compliance, payments, and strategic decision-making across the bank. We are hiring an SVP, Head of Intelligence to own this organization end to end. This is not a caretaker role. You will inherit a function mid-transformation - a Modeling Organization being rebuilt around automation, a data infrastructure team being re-platformed, and a new class of intelligence products being stood up from redeployed talent - and you will own the whole build chain. This is a Commercial Product Role – you need to of course be an Engineering Leader but Commercial Strategist First. You report directly to the EVP & Chief AI Officer.

Requirements

12+ years across data/ML platform engineering and quantitative or decision-science organizations (not engineering only).
5+ years leading multi-team engineering orgs (30+ people) through platform transitions.
High Pressure Experience - Trading desks, Quant shops, Algorithmic houses is a HARD requirement.
P&L-first architect: commercial outcomes are the design input.
Proven ownership of an ML/AI platform in production at scale - model lifecycle, feature/data infrastructure, serving, observability - ideally in a regulated environment (banking, payments, lending, insurance).
AI Native and Bias for automation - small senior teams over headcount; measure yourself on throughput per engineer.
Demonstrated ability to lead senior, technically formidable direct reports - including leaders who previously ran their own organizations - and make them more effective.
Fluency in model governance realities: SR 11-7, first-line/second-line separation, and how to build controls into systems rather than committees.
Product instinct: have turned internal data capabilities into products with customers, roadmaps, and adoption metrics, not just dashboards.
Comfort operating across organizational seams: negotiating SLAs with peer organizations, consuming shared platforms, and escalating on contract rather than on relationship.

Nice To Haves

Commercial Strategist First.

Responsibilities

Own CRB Intelligence, the bank's intelligence platform - the models, tooling, and serving layer purpose-built for the Intelligence organization, built vertically on top of the bank's horizontal enterprise AI platform.
Own the architecture and engineering of the data foundation Intelligence runs on, including a senior architecture team reporting to you.
Define the roadmap, ship the products, and prove the P&L logic for Intelligence Products, a new product line turning the bank's data exhaust into decision products for the business: credit intelligence, counterparty intelligence, market and network analytics.
Oversee the bank's model development organization - credit and compliance modeling.