Unum
Director, Product and Transformation (AI/ML Focus)
Unum provides comprehensive financial insurance products to industries of all sizes.
- Built and led the Product & Transformation (AI/ML) function — defined strategy, multi-year roadmap and governance for model-driven productization across claims, underwriting and customer experience.
- Launched production ML solutions for claims triage and underwriting risk-scoring, operationalizing models via ML‑Ops pipelines to move from proof-of-concept to live deployments.
- Reduced manual claims review and adjudication touchpoints by automating workflows and model-assisted decisioning, shortening cycle time and improving customer responsiveness.
- Established model governance, explainability and data-privacy controls to meet insurance regulatory and actuarial requirements while enabling faster model refresh cycles.
- Partnered with actuarial, legal, IT and operations to embed AI into core processes — delivered measurable improvements to accuracy, throughput and operational cost.
- Recruited and mentored cross-functional teams of product managers, data scientists and ML engineers; introduced outcome-based KPIs and continuous experimentation.