Head of Tech & AI - Risk Advisory and Global Chief Underwriting Office
Listed on 2026-08-08
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IT/Tech
IT Project Manager, IT Consultant, IT Business Analyst, AI Business & Operations
AXA XL is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Head of Technology & AI, Risk Advisory and Global Chief Underwriting Office
Locations: US
AXA XL’s Head of Technology & AI, Risk Advisory and Global Chief Underwriting Office (GCUO) is a key senior executive, leadership team role in the Technology & AI function, accountable for acting as the strategic technology and AI partner to deliver for Risk Advisory and GCUO, in cooperation with the Tech & AI organization.
The role ensures business strategy is translated into a coherent technology and AI roadmaps, aligning investment, engineering capacity, operating model change, and measurable outcomes. This leader shapes demand, challenges priorities, drives decision-making, and ensures delivery accountability within the Technology & AI function for Risk Advisory and GCUO.
Operating as a trusted executive peer, balancing innovation with value, risk, regulatory requirements, and operational resilience, this role reports to AXA XL’s Chief Technology & AI Officer with dotted line to Chief Executive Officer, Risk Advisory
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Executive Technology & AI Leadership
- Act as the primary technology and AI partner to the Risk Advisory and GCUO shaping business direction through technology-led opportunities.
- Provide insights on AI disruption, competitor landscape, and modern digital and AI business models relevant to insurance.
- Translate complex technology concepts into commercial and operational implications for executive decision-making.
Strategy-to-Execution Translation
- Convert business strategy into a prioritized and funded technology and AI roadmap.
- Define the sequencing of initiatives based on value, feasibility, regulatory constraints, and delivery capacity.
- Ensure roadmaps integrate digital, data, AI, automation, and core platform modernization.
- Drive robust partnerships within the Tech & AI leadership team to ensure common principles, frameworks and guidelines are deployed and executed with effective coordination across all disciplines in the function.
Enterprise Alignment & Investment Governance
- Represent Risk Advisory and GCUO’s needs into enterprise technology investment forums.
- Own business unit-level investment cases, ensuring clarity of ROI, outcomes, and measurable benefits.
- Challenge the business on value definition and ensure initiatives meet enterprise architecture, security, and AI governance requirements.
Portfolio Ownership & Delivery Oversight
- Own the technology and AI portfolio for Risk Advisory and GCUO, ensuring delivery performance, dependencies, and risks are actively managed.
- Hold delivery teams accountable for execution outcomes while ensuring the business fulfils its accountabilities (SMEs, process change, adoption).
- Provide clear reporting to Global Leadership Team partner(s) on delivery confidence, risks, financial position, and benefits tracking.
Stakeholder Management & Executive Influence
- Challenging and influencing senior stakeholders with poise and composure, facilitating decision-making forums, resolving prioritization conflicts and driving outcomes.
- Build alignment across business functions including underwriting, claims, pricing, finance, customer operations, and distribution.
AI Adoption & Business Transformation
- Drive enterprise AI adoption within Risk Advisory and GCUO, ensuring:
- high-value use cases are identified
- adoption and operating model impacts are planned
- workforce readiness is supported
- human-in-the-loop and control frameworks are implemented
- Ensure AI is embedded into workflows rather than delivered as standalone tools.
Risk, Resilience & Regulatory Partnership
- Partner with Risk, Compliance, Legal, and Security to ensure delivery aligns to regulatory and control requirements.
- Ensure AI initiatives comply with Responsible AI, privacy, and model risk expectations.
- Ensure technology resilience and service continuity risks are visible and actively managed.
Commercial and Vendor Leadership
- Partner with Procurement and Technology leadership to shape vendor strategy aligned to business unit priorities.
- Support contract negotiations, supplier performance management, and strategic partnerships.
- Ensure commercial outcomes align to delivery outcomes…
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