SVP, Head of Development Practices & AI Product Development Lifecycle (AI)

Location: Austin, TX; other locations: Fort Mill/Charlotte and New York, United States

Base salary: $240,000–$290,000 per year

Company

hirify.global is a U.S. wealth management firm providing advisor affiliation models, investment solutions, fintech tools, and practice management services to financial advisors and institutions.

What you will do

• Define and own the target-state AI-native Product Development Lifecycle, including its operating model, stage gates, decision rights, success measures, and transformation roadmap.
• Design AI-augmented team structures, agent roles, human-agent collaboration patterns, escalation paths, pilot sequencing, and migration from current delivery models.
• Establish enterprise standards for agentic development, workflow orchestration, prompt and context management, secure data handling, auditability, and human oversight.
• Lead the PDLC platform and toolchain strategy across IDE integrations, CI/CD, test automation, observability, knowledge systems, and agent orchestration platforms.
• Define outcome-based measures and executive reporting for delivery performance, quality, developer experience, resilience, cost, technical debt, adoption, risk, and business value.
• Lead organizational transformation, workforce evolution, governance, executive advisory, and a leadership team covering PDLC strategy, platform enablement, transformation delivery, engineering excellence, and developer experience.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field.
• 15 or more years of progressive leadership experience spanning software engineering, product development, platform engineering, or enterprise technology transformation in large, complex organizations.
• Proven success leading enterprise-scale delivery transformation involving modern PDLC/SDLC design, DevOps, CI/CD, platform engineering, shift-left quality, operating-model redesign, or product-led delivery.
• Production experience with AI-assisted and agentic development, including large language model coding assistants, agent frameworks, workflow automation, retrieval-augmented generation or knowledge systems, and human oversight.
• Experience embedding security, privacy, compliance, risk, and audit controls into technology delivery in a regulated or similarly control-intensive environment.
• Executive leadership, enterprise influence, strategic planning, technology investment prioritization, cross-functional partnership, executive communication, and outcome-based accountability.
• Experience with end-to-end PDLC design, developer experience, quality engineering, continuous delivery, prompt and context engineering, automation, responsible AI governance, team topology, operating-model design, workforce transformation, and change leadership.

Nice to have

• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Business Administration, or a related discipline.
• Experience in financial services, healthcare, or another highly regulated industry, including secure software development, model risk, privacy, audit, and operational resilience.
• Cloud, architecture, agile, or DevOps credentials such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Solutions Architect, Certified Scrum Professional, SAFe Practice Consultant, or DevOps Institute certification.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time executive leadership role reporting directly to the Chief Technology Officer.
• Culture emphasizing integrity, collaboration, continuous improvement, client success, and shared accountability.
• Benefits include 401(k) matching, health benefits, employee stock options, paid time off, and volunteer time off.
• LPL supports financial advisors and institutions through flexible business models, services, and technology resources.

Hiring process

• Apply by logging in or creating an account; principals only.
• LPL communicates with applicants only from an @lplfinancial.com email address and will not conduct interviews online or in chatroom forums.
• During interviews, LPL will not request payment or bank or credit card information.