Job Classification:

Technology - Agile, Delivery, & Product

Are you energized by building and scaling core capabilities that drive innovation, speed, and measurable business value? Prudential is advancing a bold data and AI agenda, and this role offers the opportunity to help translate that ambition into business impact. Join a team where transformation is central to how we operate and where you can make a visible difference at one of the world’s leading financial services institutions.

Location
This role is ideally based in Newark, New Jersey, with a strong preference for a hybrid work arrangement that includes three days per week in the office. A remote work arrangement may be considered for the right candidate, provided they are able to be in Newark frequently, as needed.

Your Team & Role

As the Vice President, Delivery in the Chief Data and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDOAI), you will play a central leadership role in shaping and executing Prudential’s data and AI agenda. This is a leader-and-doer role requiring both strategic leadership and hands-on execution. Sitting at the intersection of strategy and delivery, you will translate business priorities into actionable plans, operating discipline, aligned governance, and measurable results across a broad, company-wide portfolio. This role requires a leader with high standards, strong follow-through, and a bias for action who can move seamlessly between strategy, execution, and stakeholder leadership. You will work across the organization to drive a complex portfolio, solve problems directly, and deliver progress against business outcomes, value realization, financial discipline, and adoption.

Success in Role
Success in this role will be defined by the ability to translate strategy into execution, create clarity in complex environments, and deliver measurable results with speed, rigor, and consistency. The right leader will establish operating discipline, hold a high bar for performance, build trusted partnerships, and drive enterprise outcomes with humility, urgency, and sound judgment.

Here is What You Can Expect on a Typical Day

• Drive execution of a large-scale, high-visibility portfolio spanning multiple strategic initiatives and senior stakeholder groups, with accountability for delivery, ROI, value realization, and enterprise adoption.
• Translate enterprise data and AI strategy into a pragmatic execution agenda, aligning priorities, sequencing work, and establishing the operating mechanisms required to deliver results.
• Lead the Senior Data Leadership Forum and related governance mechanisms to drive alignment, decision-making, visibility, and accountability across the broader data and AI agenda.
• Create operating discipline across the portfolio by defining metrics, tracking outcomes, surfacing risks, and ensuring leaders have the information needed to make timely, effective decisions.
• Lead and develop a high-impact team of execution professionals, including globally distributed teams, by setting a high bar for performance, fostering trust and accountability, and creating an environment where talented people can move quickly, collaborate effectively, and deliver excellent outcomes.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with internal and external partners to align talent, budgets, capacity, and critical skill sets in support of enterprise priorities.
• Own financial and performance alignment across the portfolio by partnering with Finance and Portfolio Management to validate KPIs, monitor value realization, and ensure investment decisions support strategic priorities.

The Skills & Expertise You Bring

• Bachelor’s degree in business, information systems, data management, or a related field, or equivalent experience; advanced degree a plus.
• 10+ years of experience leading large-scale business transformation, strategy execution, or delivery initiatives, ideally within global financial services organizations.
• Strong fluency in lean delivery, agile methodologies, and modern operating models.
• Exceptional communication and storytelling skills, with experience presenting to senior leadership and shaping executive-level materials.
• Strong strategic thinking and problem-solving capabilities, with a bias for action and a willingness to work directly in the details when needed.
• Demonstrated ability to influence across highly matrixed organizations, align diverse stakeholders, and hold teams accountable for results.
• Proven ability to lead through ambiguity, simplify complexity, and create clarity in fast-paced, evolving environments.
• Strong ownership mindset, sound judgment, and executive presence, with the ability to build trust, foster candid dialogue, and drive outcomes with humility, urgency, and credibility across business, technology, finance, and operations.

Experience That Will Help You Succeed

• Enterprise Transformation: Experience helping organizations move from strategy and experimentation to scaled execution, with a focus on adoption, workflow change, measurable business value, and stronger customer outcomes.
• Operating Model and Governance Leadership: Experience establishing the operating rhythms, governance forums, decision rights, and performance mechanisms that help complex transformation agendas move with speed, clarity, and accountability.
• Value Realization and Financial Discipline: Experience defining success measures, tracking outcomes, partnering with Finance, and ensuring investments are aligned to enterprise priorities, ROI expectations, and long-term value creation.
• Cross-Functional Leadership at Enterprise Scale: Success leading complex initiatives across business, technology, finance, operations, and risk, with the ability to influence senior stakeholders and build alignment in highly matrixed environments.
• Business, Technology, and Workforce Integration: Understanding of how data, AI, operating models, and talent strategy must come together to drive sustainable transformation and enterprise-wide outcomes.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working within or alongside a Chief Data Office, AI office, digital transformation, or enterprise strategy function.
• Background in financial services, insurance, or another highly regulated environment, with an understanding of how governance, risk, and controls shape technology and data transformation.
• Experience partnering with senior executives to drive governance, prioritization, funding decisions, and cross-functional operating rhythm for complex transformation agendas.
• Demonstrated experience supporting value realization, investment discipline, or KPI-driven performance management for large-scale technology, data, or AI initiatives.
• Exposure to workforce strategy, change management, or organizational design in support of operating model evolution and enterprise transformation.

What we offer you:

Prudential is required by state specific laws to include the salary range for this role when hiring a resident in applicable locations. The salary range for this role is from $178,600.00 to $267,800.00. Specific pricing for the role may vary within the above range based on many factors including geographic location, candidate experience, and skills.

• Market competitive base salaries, with a yearly bonus potential at every level. 

• Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability insurance, Paid Time Off (PTO), and leave of absences, such as parental and military leave. 

• 401(k) plan with company match (up to 4%). 

• Company-funded pension plan. 

• Wellness Programs including up to $1,600 a year for reimbursement of items purchased to support personal wellbeing needs. 

• Work/Life Resources to help support topics such as parenting, housing, senior care, finances, pets, legal matters, education, emotional and mental health, and career development.  

• Education Benefit to help finance traditional college enrollment toward obtaining an approved degree and many accredited certificate programs.  

• Employee Stock Purchase Plan: Shares can be purchased at 85% of the lower of two prices (Beginning or End of the purchase period), after one year of service. 

Eligibility to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program is subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance. To find out more about our Total Rewards package, visit Work Life Balance | Prudential Careers. Some of the above benefits may not apply to part-time employees scheduled to work less than 20 hours per week.