Director, Emerging Technology

Finance of America helps homeowners 55+ access the equity they’ve built while staying in full control of their home and their financial future. Through a range of reverse mortgage solutions, we help customers shape the retirement they’ve earned while continuing to evolve how we serve and work together.

Joining Finance of America now means stepping into a period of momentum and growth, with teams actively shaping what comes next and opportunities to make an impact and grow your career.

Responsible for advancing Finance of America’s proficiency with and adoption of innovative new technologies, including generative AI, by leveraging emerging tech in a way that optimizes cost and realizes tangible business results for program stakeholders across the company. Also responsible for the exploration, scoping, and cost modeling of emergent solutions.

• Leads and manages resources across multiple Innovation programs including, but not limited to Data Science, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence.
• Supports the enterprise strategy through a balance of long-range planning and objectives, budget management, vendor selection, and tactical solutions that immediately reduce friction in core data engineering and access disciplines or otherwise add direct and tangible business value.
• Oversees and fuses comprehensive data operations programs into the risk and privacy frameworks that surround them.
• Provides strategic leadership to the Emerging Tech Programs across Finance of America Companies to ensure consistent and high-quality emerging technology management in support of sustain, optimize, and transform business objectives.
• Serves as an expert advisor to senior management in the development, implementation, and maintenance of information systems to ensure best practice control objectives are achieved in protecting information assets.
• Leads Innovation compliance and risk initiatives with stakeholders across technology teams and business units to drive awareness of, and compliance with, SOX IT General Controls and FFIEC best practices.
• Facilitates a metrics and reporting framework to measure the efficiency and effectiveness of the program, including success measures for experimental tech use cases and pilot programs.
• Deploys and leverages available resource allocation optimally, and increases, through waved iterations, the maturity of the Emerging Technology Program, reviewing it with all relevant stakeholders across the business as it matures over time.
• Designs, implements, and monitors a comprehensive innovation vision and strategy that is aligned to organizational priorities and enables the organization’s business objectives as defined in its Objective Key Result (OKR) framework or otherwise expressed.
• Exposes the corporate environment to use cases that can facilitate process optimization, data mining, marketing campaigns, or other areas relevant to core business operations.
• Empowers Finance of America Companies’ pursuit of effective technology selection programs through the direct reduction of cost or the contribution to growth.
• Communicates Emerging Technology goals, vision, strategy, and polices across Finance of America Companies in partnership with Legal, Privacy, 2nd Line Risk Management, the Technology Risk Management Team and a broad cross-section of business partners as well as the general user population.
• Creates and champions working groups or other coalition models to socialize complex topics with and build support for pilot use cases of emerging tech and measured risk tolerance for tactical solutions.
• Leads the Innovation Program, actively identifying, evaluating, and implementing emerging technologies to bolster corporate capabilities and create business…