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Director of AI
AVP, AI Enterprise Architecture
Unum · Insurance / Employee Benefits · 📍 Chattanooga, TN
Unum is hiring a senior AI architecture leader to define and operationalize enterprise-wide AI strategy, governance, and reusable platforms as it accelerates a digital transformation across its employee benefits business.
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CTO
Company stage
public
Source
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Key responsibilities
- Define and evolve enterprise AI architecture strategy, standards, and reference architectures
- Represent enterprise architecture in AI governance committees and shape compliance frameworks
- Design scalable, modular, and secure agentic AI solutions aligned to business outcomes
- Establish reusable patterns and enterprise platforms to industrialize AI at scale on cloud/hyperscaler infrastructure
- Evaluate emerging AI technologies and guide cost-effective platform/tool selection
- Maintain and update enterprise AI platform roadmaps as technology evolves
- Ensure consistent adoption of architecture standards across delivery teams
Requirements
- Deep expertise in enterprise AI/ML architecture design and governance
- Experience with agentic AI systems and scalable, cloud-based AI platforms (hyperscalers)
- Ability to define and enforce architecture standards across large, complex organizations
- Strong stakeholder influence skills at senior leadership level
- Background in regulated industries requiring responsible AI practices
Signals
- ⚠ No salary or compensation range disclosed
- ⚠ Job description cut off mid-sentence ('across sta...') suggesting incomplete posting
- ⚠ Team size and direct reports not specified — scope of leadership unclear
- ⚠ Remote/hybrid policy not stated for a Chattanooga, TN-based role
- ✓ Fortune 500 employer with stated digital transformation mandate
- ✓ Role has direct seat on AI governance committees — institutional authority is real
- ✓ Explicit focus on agentic AI and enterprise industrialization signals meaningful AI investment
- ✓ Cross-functional orchestrator role with business and technology alignment — not siloed