AI Acceleration Lead

Job Description

Providing for loved ones, planning rewarding retirements, saving enough for whatever lies ahead – our policyholders count on us to be there when it matters most. It’s a big ask, but it’s one that we have the power to deliver when we work together. We collaborate and innovate – pushing one another to transform not just Pacific Life, but the entire industry for the better.

Why? Because it’s the right thing to do. Pacific Life is more than a job, it’s a career with purpose. It’s a career where you have the support, balance, and resources to make a positive impact on the future – including your own. We’re actively seeking a talented AI Acceleration Lead to join our CMD team in Newport Beach, CA.

As an AI Acceleration Lead you’ll move Pacific Life, and your career, forward by coordinating GenAI initiatives, driving cross‑functional alignment, and turning complex inputs into clear plans, communications, and next steps. It combines AI program execution, stakeholder management, and structured problem‑solving to help accelerate adoption and value realization. You will fill a new role that sits on a team of 3 people in the CMD division.

Your colleagues will include AI Acceleration Leads fellow professionals. You will partner closely with PMO program leads, Enterprise teams, and CMD advance analytics.

• Support the identification, assessment, and shaping of GenAI opportunities by gathering use cases, conducting initial analysis, and helping prioritize work.
• Coordinate and support execution across AI initiatives, including project tracking, meeting facilitation, vendor coordination, and follow‑up actions.
• Partner with business, analytics, technology, and PMO teams to drive alignment, resolve dependencies, and support delivery across cross‑functional programs.
• Identify and communicate risks, issues, resource needs, and interdependencies, and help develop mitigation or resolution plans.
• Define, monitor, and report on success metrics and value realization in partnership with business stakeholders and program leads.
• Prepare clear, concise communications, leadership updates, presentation materials, and structured summaries to support decision‑making and program visibility.

• Experience supporting AI programs, digital transformation, or analytics initiatives.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with ability to translate between business and technical teams.
• Familiarity with GenAI concepts, enterprise AI platforms, and applied analytics.
• Comfort operating in complex, cross‑functional environments with evolving priorities.
• Experience as project and program management, or technical delivery, including managing complex initiatives from planning through execution.
• Experience in Financial Services and/or Life Insurance.

• Strong business judgment and the ability to identify high‑value AI opportunities.
• Comfort with ambiguity, with a bias toward creating structure, clarity, and momentum.
• Cross‑functional influence and the ability to work effectively across business, analytics, technology, and PMO teams.
• Practical GenAI fluency, including understanding how AI tools, governance, and delivery considerations come together in an enterprise setting.
• A proactive, ownership mindset, with the ability to anticipate risks, drive follow‑through, and keep work moving.
• Understanding of Sales and Marketing processes and workflows is a plus;
  Distribution (Sales and Marketing) experience is a plus.

Base Pay Range: $ - $. The actual compensation offered to a candidate will be dependent on several factors, including but not limited to experience, qualifications and geographic location. Most employees are eligible for additional incentive pay.

Benefits start day 1: include Medical, Dental, Vision, Wellbeing Reimbursement Account, generous paid time off options (Paid Time Off, Holiday Schedules, Financial Planning Time Off), Paid Parental Leave, Adoption Assistance Program, Competitive 401k savings plan with company match and additional contribution regardless of participation. Focus on physical, financial, emotional, or social wellbeing.

Pacific Life Insurance Company is an Equal Opportunity /Affirmative Action Employer, M/F/D/V. If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran, you have the right to request an accommodation if you are unable or limited in your ability to use or access our career center as a result of your disability. To request an accommodation, contact a Human Resources Representative at Pacific Life Insurance Company.