Vice President, AI Engineering

Our Story

At Alight, we believe a company’s success starts with its people. Alight embraces values that come directly from our people – purposeful, human, united and growth-minded – reflecting our inclusive culture and promise that our clients expect. We are passionate about connecting purpose with impact. Alight empowers clients to build a healthier and more financially secure workforce by unifying the benefits ecosystem across health, wealth, wellbeing, navigation, and absence management.

Our Benefits

With a comprehensive total rewards package, Alight offers programs and plans that support your mind, body, wallet, and life. Benefits include health, dental and vision coverages starting Day One. Additionally, Alight colleagues enjoy wellbeing programs, retirement plans with contribution matching, generous time off, parental leave, continuing education, and career growth opportunities – all within a thriving global organization.

Flexible Working

So that you can be your best at work and home, we consider flexible working arrangements wherever possible. Alight has been a leader in the flexible workspace and “Top 100 Company for Remote Jobs” 6 years in a row.

Great Place to Work

Thanks to the work of every colleague, Alight has received multiple awards of recognition including “Great Place to Work” for the past 7 years and Fortune’s “Best Companies to Work For”.

More than 30 million people rely on Alight to navigate the biggest decisions of their lives, across their health, their wealth, and their time away from work. Alight is seeking a Vice President of Artificial Intelligence to lead how we build, deploy, and scale AI across our products, services, and operations, and to use agentic AI to transform how people understand and act on their benefits.

The first generation of AI capabilities is already in production. This leader inherits that foundation and is accountable for its next phase, scaling it into a coherent capability across the company. The opportunity is grounded in a combination few companies hold:

• Deep domain expertise in health, wealth, and benefits administration
• Rich data on the moments that matter to participants
• Operational workflows where intelligent automation can change outcomes
• An established enterprise where trust, privacy, and responsible AI are essential

The role reports to the senior executive leading Alight’s data, AI, and transformation agenda, with direct access to executive leadership and partnership across product, technology, operations, commercial, risk, and compliance. It carries the visibility, sponsorship, and accountability of a true enterprise leadership role.

If you want to lead AI where the problems are complex, the data is consequential, trust matters, and the work reaches a population that depends on it, this is that opportunity.

Set the AI direction

Define a clear and differentiated AI strategy rooted in the problems Alight is uniquely positioned to solve, and translate it into a focused portfolio.

• Make explicit choices about where Alight builds, partners, buys, and stops investing
• Concentrate investment where it delivers the most value, governing for cost per outcome as the platform matures
• Mature the reference architecture into the operating standard, so speed, reuse, and compliance are inherited by default
• Shape an operating model that balances enterprise standards with speed and ownership

Scale the AI platform

Lead the reusable platform that lets teams build and operate AI securely, reliably, and repeatedly. The point is impact, not infrastructure for its own sake, so each new capability is faster, safer, and less expensive to deliver than the one before.

• Agentic foundations, orchestration, retrieval and knowledge access, and…