AI Operations Lead (Fintech)

TL;DR

AI Operations Lead (Fintech): Responsible for establishing governance and scaling AI capabilities across the organization with an accent on operationalizing and integrating AI solutions into business workflows. Focus on implementing responsible AI practices, operational controls, and monitoring frameworks, ensuring AI systems remain compliant, reliable, and aligned with business objectives.

Location: Greenwich, Connecticut, New York, New York. Employees in this role will work in the office Monday-Thursday, with the flexibility to work remotely on Friday.

Salary: $180,000 to $250,000 depending on experience and level.

Company

hirify.global is powering the world’s alternative investment marketplace, transforming how advisors, wealth management firms, asset managers, and banks evaluate and recommend bespoke public and private market strategies for their high-net-worth clients.

What you will do

• Oversee the deployment, monitoring, and lifecycle management of AI/ML systems in production, ensuring reliability, security, and scalability.
• Design and optimize AI-powered workflows across the firm, enabling Agentic AI in areas such as fund onboarding, document processing, and client servicing.
• Partner with the Sales, Distribution, Product, and Operations teams to identify high-value AI use cases across the private markets’ lifecycle.
• Define and operationalize governance frameworks for responsible AI use, ensuring alignment with business priority, regulatory expectations, and compliance requirements.
• Establish monitoring and analytics for AI systems, tracking performance, usage, costs, and measurable business impact.
• Manage relationships with AI technology vendors and model providers, including evaluation, integration, and roadmap alignment.

Requirements

• 10+ years AI Operational experience.
• 7+ years of experience in data science, machine learning or AI-related roles, with 4+ years leading cross-functional initiatives at scale.
• Experience operationalizing AI/ML or advanced analytics solutions in production, ideally within financial services, fintech, or data-driven platforms.
• Strong understanding of LLMs, data science, AI/ML, and modern AI architectures.
• Experience designing and implementing agentic AI workflows, including multi-step AI agents that automate complex processes and integrate with enterprise systems, data, and APIs.
• Experience working with regulated environments, with knowledge in model governance, data privacy, and compliance considerations relevant to financial services.

Nice to have

• Familiar with private markets data ecosystems, including structured and unstructured data from fund documents, subscription materials, and performance reporting.
• Knowledge of private markets or alternatives investment workflows.
• Experience driving AI adoption in large organizations, including training, change management, and KPI tracking.
• Experience leading AI innovation teams or functions, driving experimentation and rapid prototyping from concept to enterprise-wide adoption.

Culture & Benefits

• hirify.global offers a compensation package which includes salary, equity for all full-time employees, and an annual performance bonus.
• Comprehensive benefits package that includes an employer matched retirement plan, generously subsidized healthcare with 100% employer paid dental, vision, telemedicine, and virtual mental health counseling.
• Parental leave and unlimited paid time off (PTO).
• We believe the best ideas and innovation happen when we are together.