Senior Associate - AI Product Scientist, Decision Intelligence

Location Designation: Hybrid - 3 days per week


Role Overview

Join Enterprise Intelligence as an AI Product Scientist supporting Decision Intelligence products that help field professionals make better decisions through data-driven insights and AI-powered recommendations. This role combines applied machine learning, experimentation, product strategy, and generative AI to create intelligence products that drive measurable business outcomes.

As an AI Product Scientist, you will own a product domain end-to-end, including model development, signal generation, experimentation frameworks, content personalization, and roadmap planning. Working closely with product leaders, engineers, designers, and business stakeholders, you will translate complex behavioral and transactional data into actionable intelligence while ensuring solutions are scalable, measurable, and aligned with user needs. This role is ideal for a senior individual contributor who thrives at the intersection of data science, product management, and business impact.

What You'll Do:

• Design, develop, deploy, and monitor machine learning models, propensity scores, and behavioral signal frameworks that power decision intelligence products and influence business outcomes.
• Lead experimentation efforts, including hypothesis development, measurement strategy, holdout design, causal analysis, and performance reporting to evaluate the effectiveness of intelligence products.
• Develop and optimize generative AI solutions, including prompt strategies, personalization logic, content generation workflows, and testing methodologies that enhance user engagement and decision-making.
• Partner with product leaders to define priorities, shape roadmaps, evaluate opportunities, and translate business objectives into scalable AI and analytics solutions.
• Contribute to shared machine learning platforms, reusable feature assets, and enterprise intelligence capabilities that accelerate innovation across multiple products and business domains.

What You'll Bring:

Required Skills

• Bachelor's degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Engineering, or a related quantitative field; advanced degree preferred.
• Experience developing, deploying, and supporting production machine learning models that directly influence business processes or customer outcomes.
• Strong proficiency in Python and SQL, including large-scale data analysis, feature engineering, model development, and experimentation workflows.
• Experience designing and evaluating experiments, including A/B testing, holdout methodologies, causal inference techniques, and statistical measurement frameworks.
• Ability to communicate complex analytical concepts, model behavior, and business implications to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Demonstrated experience influencing product direction, prioritizing work, and partnering with cross-functional stakeholders to deliver measurable outcomes.

Preferred Skills

• Experience developing generative AI or LLM-powered applications, including prompt engineering, content generation, personalization, and governance frameworks.
• Familiarity with Databricks, MLflow, dbt, cloud-based data platforms, feature stores, and modern machine learning infrastructure.
• Experience with recommendation systems, propensity modeling, graph analytics, behavioral scoring, or decision intelligence applications.
• Background in financial services, insurance, distribution analytics, or other highly regulated industries.

Pay Transparency

Salary Range: $100,000-$143,000


Overtime eligible: Exempt


Discretionary bonus eligible: Yes


Sales bonus eligible: No


Actual base salary will be determined based on several factors but not limited to individual's experience, skills, qualifications, and job location. Additionally, employees are eligible for an annual discretionary bonus. In addition to base salary, employees may also be eligible to participate in an incentive program.

Company Overview

At New York Life, our 180-year legacy of purpose and integrity fuels our future. As we evolve into a more technology-, data-, and AI-enabled organization, we remain grounded in the values that drive lasting impact.


Our diverse business portfolio creates opportunities to make a difference across industries and communities-inviting bold thinking, collaborative problem-solving, and purpose-driven innovation. Here, you'll find the rare balance of long-standing stability and forward momentum, supported by an inclusive team that honors tradition while embracing progress.


As a Fortune 100 mutual company, we offer a place to grow your skills, contribute to meaningful work, and deliver solutions that matter. Your ideas drive what's next, and your growth powers it.


Our Benefits

We provide a full package of benefits for employees - and have unique offerings for a modern workforce, including leave programs, adoption assistance, and student loan repayment programs. Based on feedback from our employees, we continue to refine and add benefits to our offering, so that you can flourish both inside and outside of work.Click hereto discover more about our comprehensive benefit options or visit our NYL Benefits Site.

Our Commitment to Inclusion
At New York Life, fostering an inclusive workplace is fundamental to who we are and how we serve our communities. We have a longstanding commitment to creating an environment where individuals can contribute their best and succeed together. This foundation is rooted in our core values of humanity and integrity, ensuring that every employee feels valued and supported. By embracing a broad range of perspectives and experiences, we achieve greater success and fulfill our promise of providing financial security and peace of mind to families across all communities. Click here to learn more about New York Life's leadership in this space.

Recognized as one of Fortune's World's Most Admired Companies, New York Life is committed to improving local communities through a culture of employee giving and volunteerism, supported by the Foundation. We're proud that due to our mutuality, we operate in the best interests of our policy owners. To learn more about career opportunities at New York Life, please visit the Careers page of

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About NY Life Insurance Company

Diversity & Humanity-two values that are deeply rooted in the New York Life culture and have laid the foundation for over 175 years of commitment to our employees, agents, policy owners, and the communities where we live and work. At New York Life you become a valued part of a welcoming, inclusive, and caring culture that has a long-standing legacy in stability and growth. The strength of New York Life revolves around our diversified, multi-dimensional business portfolio that goes beyond life insurance, and we want you to be a part of our legacy.

As a Fortune 100 company and industry leader, we provide an environment where you can explore your career ambitions, offering opportunities to tackle meaningful challenges and stretch your skills while balancing work and life priorities. You will be part of a diverse team guided by our belief to always be there for each other-providing the support and flexibility to grow and reach new heights while making an impact in the lives of others.

You are our future, and we commit to investing in you accordingly.

Visit our Linkedin to see how our employees and agents are leading the industry and impacting communities.

Visit our Newsroom to learn more about how our company is constantly evolving to meet our clients' and employees' needs.

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