AVP, AI Platform

Where Ambition Meets Innovation

Build a career that matches all your initiative with an impressive dose of innovation. From cutting-edge resources and a collaborative environment to the freedom to make an impact and more, you’ll find the ingredients you need at LPL Financial to shape your success while helping clients pursue their financial goals.

Job Overview:

The Assistant Vice President, AI Platform, owns the services that enable LPL teams to register AI, connect approved models, tools, and data, operate products in production, and maintain visibility into platform activity and outcomes.

This role sets the product strategy, roadmap, priorities, and operating measures for the platform. Cybersecurity, Risk, Compliance, Privacy, Supervision, Records Management, and FinOps retain ownership of specialist decisions. The platform operationalizes those decisions and records the resulting activity and evidence.

Responsibilities:

• Own the product strategy and roadmap for the shared AI platform.

• Maintain registries for agents, tools, models, prompts, MCP servers, and A2A workflows, including ownership, versioning, approved use, dependencies, and status.

• Provide product teams with a defined process for registration, testing, certification, launch, monitoring, change management, suspension, and retirement.

• Own runtime services supporting routing, access controls, policy enforcement, rate limiting, tenant and entitlement boundaries, PII handling, and AI firewall integration.

• Establish shared approaches for knowledge access, data permissions, memory management, expiration, and deletion.

• Provide output evaluation, production monitoring, drift detection, adversarial testing, and observability across models, tools, data, latency, failures, and workflow outcomes.

• Partner with engineering teams on provider outages, incidents, kill switches, quarantine procedures, fallback behavior, and recovery testing.

• Connect audit records, supervisory data, certification evidence, exceptions, and retention requirements to the responsible review teams.

• Collect usage and cost data, apply rate limits, and provide FinOps with information supporting showback, chargeback, forecasting, and optimization.

• Track adoption, onboarding time, availability, latency, failures, control coverage, exceptions, and cost, and use those measures to prioritize platform improvements.

What Are We Looking For?

We are seeking a product leader who is motivated to pursue greatness , consistently act with integrity , and is driven to help our clients succeed through scalable technology solutions. The ideal candidate collaborates effectively across technical and business functions to win together , while helping teams innovate responsibly and create and share joy through exceptional platform experiences.

Requirements:

• 7+ years of product management experience, including ownership of a shared platform, developer platform, infrastructure product, or enterprise technical capability.

• Experience owning product strategy, delivery, adoption, and production performance.

• Technical fluency in APIs, gateways, identity and authorization, cloud and data architecture, distributed systems, telemetry, and AI or machine-learning platforms.

• Experience building services used by several product and engineering teams.

• Experience working with engineering, Cybersecurity, Risk, Compliance, Privacy, Legal, data, Records Management, Supervision, and FinOps.

Preferences:

• Strong communication skills, including the ability to explain technical choices, dependencies, and production issues to senior leaders.

• Experience with AI agents, LLM gateways, Kong, MCP, A2A, tool registries, model registries, prompt management, or policy engines.

• Experience with AI evaluation, drift detection, red teaming, observability, or model lifecycle management.

• Experience in financial services or another regulated industry with records, supervision, privacy, audit, and cost-allocation requirements.

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Pay Range:

$108,665.00 - $181,177.00Actual 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(6) , 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.

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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 aiapply.co.

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