Company
Shared Services
Argo and Farm Family are specialty property and casualty insurance brands whose underwriting companies are wholly-owned subsidiaries of Clearbrook Holdings Inc. Argo and Farm Family partner with agents and brokers to provide insurance solutions that enable businesses to manage risks with confidence.
Job Description
Business Title(s): Vice President, Data & AI Strategy
Employment Type: Full-Time
FLSA Status: Exempt
Location: In-office - Any employee, in any Clearbrook office, can apply for this opportunity and stay in their current location.
Summary:
Clearbrook is seeking a hands-on, execution-focused Vice President, Data & AI Strategy to operationalize the enterprise's data and AI capability. Reporting to the SVP, Data & AI Strategy, this role translates enterprise strategy and governance frameworks into working processes, tooling, and day-to-day practice across business domains.
The VP will work directly with business stakeholders, data stewards, analysts, data scientists, and engineers to implement governance standards, integrate external data, mature master data capabilities, and keep the data & AI portfolio running on schedule and visible to leadership.
This is a 100% in-office position. Candidates must be able to work on-site at a designated company office during standard business hours.
Operating Principles
Accelerate engineering and delivery
Deploy repeatable processes with a light footprint
Build confidence and/or leave a trail (GitHub)
Essential Responsibilities
Data Governance Execution
Implement our recently defined enterprise data governance framework and operating model, adapting it to the realities of each domain
Maintain and enforce data ownership assignments, standards, best practices, and quality processes; facilitate prioritization decisions; escalate gaps and conflicts to leadership and drive resolution
Drive day-to-day adoption of governance practices within business domains (e.g., Policy, Claims, Finance, Pricing, Compliance)
Work directly with data stewards, engineers, and analysts to build and maintain the centralized data dictionary and standardized business definitions
Embed governance checkpoints into existing business and
technology workflows without adding friction to delivery
External Data Integration
Execute the enterprise external data strategy, including intake, evaluation, and onboarding of new sources
Manage relationships with data providers day to day; support the SVP on provider selection, negotiation, and renewal decisions
Coordinate with data engineering to integrate external data into platforms and cloud environments on committed timelines
Ensure external data assets are governed, documented, and monitored for quality and usage after onboarding
Master Data Management (MDM)
Build out and operate MDM capabilities for assigned core data domains under the enterprise MDM strategy
Implement stewardship and lifecycle processes for master data; run the matching, survivorship, and remediation workstreams
Partner with underwriting, claims, finance, and AI teams to connect master data capabilities to live use cases
Data and AI Program Management
Run program management for strategic initiatives across the data and AI portfolio, including planning, tracking, and delivery
Operate the standardized intake, prioritization, and delivery frameworks; recommend refinements based on what's working
Produce regular status, risk, and outcome reporting for leadership and enterprise stakeholders
Coordinate cross-functional execution across business, IT, data engineering, analytics, and data science teams
Surface risks, dependencies, and resourcing constraints early
Qualifications/ Experience Required
7+ years of experience in data strategy, data governance, data management, or a related discipline
3–5+ years of people leadership experience managing teams or cross-functional workstreams
Demonstrated experience delivering data governance or data management programs at enterprise…