VP, Tech Strategy Execution

New York Life • New York, NY

13d • $250,000 - $300,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

The VP, Tech Strategy Execution is the enterprise leader accountable for turning technology strategy into delivered outcomes across the Technology, Data, AI & Ventures organization. Reporting to the SVP & COO, this leader owns the execution engine that modernizes how technology is planned, funded, built, and run, with a focus on faster delivery, disciplined portfolio execution, and measurable business value.

This is a hands-on role for a proven technology execution leader who can orchestrate complex, multi-year programs across engineering, data, AI, infrastructure, vendors, and workforce in a highly matrixed environment. The VP will bring rigor to prioritization, delivery, and governance, and will be held accountable for results, not just roadmaps.

Requirements

• 15+ years of progressive leadership experience, including significant experience leading enterprise-scale technology delivery or transformation programs.
• Demonstrated success executing large technology initiatives, such as legacy modernization, cloud, data platform, or AI adoption, with measurable business outcomes.
• Deep understanding of modern technology, data, and AI operating models, including agile, DevOps, product and platform models, and portfolio management.
• Experience leading workforce, vendor, and operating model change in a large, complex organization.
• Strong financial acumen, including experience building business cases, managing program budgets, and tracking benefits realization.
• Exceptional executive communication and influence skills, with the ability to drive alignment and change from engineering teams to the C-suite.
• Track record of leading cross-functional teams through multi-year technology change.
• Execution-driven, with a strong bias for action and a record of delivering measurable outcomes on time and on budget.
• Enterprise mindset that balances technology priorities with business strategy, risk, and financial discipline.
• Ability to navigate ambiguity, competing priorities, and legacy constraints while keeping teams focused.
• Credibility and collaborative approach that earns trust with technical and business leaders through expertise, transparency, and emotional intelligence.
• Resilient change leadership that sustains momentum through setbacks and brings people along through difficult change.

Nice To Haves

• Financial services or other regulated industry experience.
• Experience modernizing and decommissioning legacy technology environments.
• Experience establishing an execution office, transformation office, or enterprise PMO with demonstrated impact.
• Relevant certifications or training in agile at scale, portfolio management, or strategy execution.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end execution roadmap for Technology, Data & AI, translating strategic priorities into funded, sequenced programs with clear owners, milestones, and value targets.
• Lead large-scale technology modernization, including legacy application and platform retirement, cloud migration, data platform consolidation, and enterprise adoption of AI and automation.
• Accelerate delivery by improving release cadence, reducing cycle times, and removing cross-team dependencies and bottlenecks.
• Establish and monitor delivery performance metrics, including throughput, predictability, quality, time-to-market, and cost-to-deliver, and intervene when programs drift off course.
• Design and implement modern technology operating models, including product-aligned delivery, agile and DevOps practices, platform engineering, and clear role and decision-rights structures.
• Standardize delivery practices, tooling, and quality gates across portfolios.
• Partner with engineering, architecture, security, and data leaders to embed modern engineering standards, automation, and resilience into delivery.
• Define and operationalize how AI and data capabilities are taken in, prioritized, built, governed, and scaled across the enterprise.
• Establish strategy execution governance, including an execution office, executive steering forums, stage gates, and escalation paths that support timely decisions.
• Own portfolio prioritization and capacity planning to align investment with enterprise strategy and delivery capacity.
• Track benefits realization and financial impact, including cost efficiency, productivity gains, and run-versus-change shifts, in partnership with Finance.
• Identify and mitigate execution, technology, vendor, regulatory, and change risks, with transparent reporting to senior leadership.
• Lead workforce strategy execution, including skills development, role redesign, talent mix, and AI-enabled productivity, in partnership with HR and senior technology leaders.
• Drive vendor and sourcing strategy changes, including partner consolidation, performance management, and onshore/offshore/nearshore models.
• Manage change adoption across large, distributed teams to ensure new ways of working take hold and last.
• Build and lead a high-performing strategy execution team that models collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Influence and align senior stakeholders across Technology, Business, Finance, Risk, and HR to drive decisions and sustain momentum through change.
• Advise the SVP & COO and technology leadership team, communicating progress, risks, and trade-offs clearly and candidly.

Benefits

• Full package of employee benefits.
• Leave programs.
• Adoption assistance.
• Student loan repayment programs.
• Annual discretionary bonus; employees may also be eligible to participate in an incentive program.

What This Job Offers

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