VP, AI Innovation & Enablement Leader

VP, AI Innovation & Enablement Leader

LPL Financial San Diego, CA

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At LPL, people leaders hold the key to the employee experience — shaping culture, driving performance, and guiding individuals to new heights. Because when that happens, we all win – clients, LPL, and most importantly our, employees. If you're ready to lead with intention and discover what's possible, LPL Financial invites you to apply today.

Why This Role Matters

This VP, AI Innovation & Enablement leader will lead the organization responsible for identifying emerging AI technologies, developing reusable patterns, and enabling teams across the enterprise to adopt them effectively. The team serves as the bridge between new AI capabilities and production implementation, ensuring the organization stays current with advances in generative AI and agent-based systems while maintaining strong engineering discipline. This group works closely with the AI platform team, architecture, cybersecurity and AI solutions teams to translate experimentation into reusable patterns, reference architectures, and enterprise adoption.

Job Overview

• Maintain strong awareness of the rapidly evolving AI ecosystem
• Translate new AI capabilities into practical engineering patterns
• Accelerate adoption of the enterprise AI platform across engineering teams
• Ensure experimentation leads to reusable capabilities rather than isolated prototypes
• Provide a clear feedback loop to the AI Platform organization on emerging needs

Key Responsibilities

AI Capability Discovery

• Large language models and reasoning models
• Agent frameworks and orchestration patterns
• Advanced retrieval architectures
• Multimodal AI systems
• Evaluation and benchmarking techniques

Applied Experimentation

• Agent-based workflows
• Retrieval and knowledge access patterns
• Prompt engineering and reasoning workflows
• Tool-using AI systems

Reusable Asset Development

• Reusable templates for AI applications
• Agent workflow frameworks
• RAG and knowledge integration patterns
• Small models/ synthetic data

Enterprise Enablement

• Advising teams designing AI-enabled systems
• Providing guidance on safe and reliable AI system design
• Running internal technical workshops and onboarding sessions
• Documenting best practices for AI application development

AI Adoption & Technical Evangelism

• Demonstrating practical AI use cases and reference implementations
• Showcasing successful AI deployments internally
• Organizing engineering showcases, workshops, and hackathons
• Promoting consistent use of the enterprise AI platform

Demonstrations are expected to evolve into reusable patterns or production implementations.

What are we looking for?

We're looking for strong collaborators who deliver exceptional client experiences and thrive in fast-paced, team-oriented environments. Our ideal candidates

pursue greatness,

act with integrity

and are driven to help our clients succeed. We value those who embrace creativity, continuous improvement, and contribute to a culture where we

win together

and create and share joy in our work.

Requirements

• Minimum of 10 years experience in software engineering, machine learning engineering, or applied AI
• Experience designing or experimenting with modern AI systems (LLMs, RAG, or agent workflows)
• Experience with architecture thinking and ability to translate experimentation into practical engineering patterns
• Experience advising engineering teams or leading platform adoption initiatives

Core Competencies:

• Strong communication skills with the ability to engage both engineers and technical leadership
• Experience working in enterprise platforms or developer platforms
• Experience evaluating and delivering emerging technologies and frameworks
• Background in generative AI systems or applied machine learning
• Experience establishing and growing high performing teams
• Executive presence and ability to translate technology to business value

Pay Range: $163,900.00 - $273,100.00 Actual base salary varies based on factors, including but not limited to, relevant skill, prior experience, education, base salary of internal peers, demonstrated performance, and geographic location. Additionally, LPL Total Rewards package is highly competitive, designed to support your success at work, at home, and at play – such as 401K matching, health benefits, employee stock options, paid time off, volunteer time off, and more. Your recruiter will be happy to discuss all that LPL has to offer!

Company Overview:

LPL Financial Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq: LPLA) is among the fastest growing wealth management firms in the U.S. As a leader in the financial advisor-mediated marketplace, LPL supports over 32,000 financial advisors and the wealth management practices of approximately 1,100 financial institutions, servicing and custodying approximately $2.3 trillion in brokerage and advisory assets on behalf of approximately 8 million Americans. The firm provides a wide range of advisor affiliation models, investment solutions, fintech tools and practice management services, ensuring that advisors and institutions have the flexibility to choose the business model, services, and technology resources they need to run thriving businesses. For further information about LPL, please visit At LPL, independence means that advisors and institution leaders have the freedom they deserve to choose the business model, services, and technology resources that allow them to run a thriving business. They have the flexibility to do business their way. And they have the freedom to manage their client relationships, because they know their clients best. Simply put, we take care of our advisors and institutions, so they can take care of their clients. For further information about LPL, please visit Join the LPL team and help us make a difference by turning life's aspirations into financial realities. Please log in or create an account to apply to this position. Principals only. EOE.

Information on Interviews:

LPL will only communicate with a job applicant directly from an @lplfinancial.com email address and will never conduct an interview online or in a chatroom forum. During an interview, LPL will not request any form of payment from the applicant, or information regarding an applicant's bank or credit card. Should you have any questions regarding the application process, please contact LPL's Human Resources Solutions Center at View phone number on click.appcast.io. EAC 5.19.26

Seniority level: Executive

Employment type: Full-time

Job function: Engineering and Information Technology

Industries: Financial Services

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