AI Strategy & Solutions Director

Franklin Templeton; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 200,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid Time Off

Health Coverage

401(k) plan with match

Employee Stock Investment Plan (ESIP)

LEAP education assistance

Educational reimbursement

Job summary

Franklin Templeton seeks an AI Solutions Director who will lead the AI solutions team, translating business needs into a prioritized roadmap and guiding POC development to value-creating outcomes. This is a product‑leadership role with offshore collaboration and executive engagement in a hybrid NY setting.

You will own relationships with strategic lines of business, drive incubation initiatives, shape strategy, and ensure a disciplined handoff to product teams or FDEs, while measuring business

Qualifications

• Proven product or solution leadership delivering AI or data products with measurable business impact.
• Track record in AI incubation and rapid POC build — taking ideas from concept to validated proof of value.
• Strong business acumen and executive presence; credible with senior stakeholders in a strategic setting.
• Discovery and requirements expertise — able to translate ambiguous business problems into buildable solution definitions.
• Experience shaping AI strategy & roadmaps and leading business transformation at enterprise scale.
• Sufficient technical fluency in AI and agentic systems to direct and translate for an engineering team, without needing to build personally.
• Experience managing distributed or offshore delivery teams and cross‑team handoffs.
• A track record of prioritization and saying no — protecting finite build capacity.
• People‑leadership and coaching experience.

Responsibilities

• Own the business interface — build trusted relationships with strategic LOB and executive stakeholders.
• AI Incubation: lead working session, hackathons, discovery to surface, qualify, and incubate high‑value AI opportunities.
• Strategy & Roadmap: shape LOB AI strategy and translate business needs into a prioritized solution roadmap.
• POC Build: direct the build team to move solutions rapidly from concept to functional POC with clear success criteria.
• Transformation: drive business transformation by reimagining end‑to‑end workflows with AI.
• Graduation: ensure each POC transitions to an LOB product team or is sunset if not viable.
• Handoff: manage the interface with peer product and delivery teams so nothing lands on them by surprise.
• Line‑manage US‑based Solutions Leads; coach on business‑facing solutioning.
• Business Value: define metrics up front and track value delivered and adoption of shipped solutions.

Skills

AI product leadership

POC delivery

Executive presence

Discovery expertise

AI strategy

Offshore delivery

Prioritization

People leadership

Job description

Franklin Templeton seeks an AI Solutions Director who will lead the AI solutions team, translating business needs into a prioritized roadmap and guiding POC development to value-creating outcomes. This is a product‑leadership role with offshore collaboration and executive engagement in a hybrid NY setting.

You will own relationships with strategic lines of business, drive incubation initiatives, shape strategy, and ensure a disciplined handoff to product teams or FDEs, while measuring business