Senior Director, Frontier Technology

About The Role

The Fitch Tech and Data team is looking for a Senior Director, Frontier Tech Lead to accelerate how we discover, evaluate, and adopt transformative technologies. As the Lead, your role will be to keep Fitch fully aware of the latest emerging technologies and their potential impact. You will be equal parts strategist, technologist, evangelist, and entrepreneur—with the autonomy to shape something new and the accountability to make it matter for the enterprise.

What You’ll Build

• Technology Radar: Systematic horizon scanning across AI/ML, quantum, blockchain, and beyond. Your focus will be to track the latest trends before they become mainstream. You will build the process that turns noise into signal—publishing assessments that shape emerging technology decisions across Fitch.
• Hot‑Takes / Quick Trials: Lead the team on quick trials (including hands‑on work), rapid understanding of the latest emerging technologies with rapid turn‑around.
• Communications Hub: Demo days, playbooks, and knowledge sharing that makes the work accessible and actionable for the entire enterprise.
• External Ecosystem: Relationships with model providers, cloud vendors, startups, and academia to stay abreast of the latest advancements.
• Knowledge Sharing: Systematically share the knowledge through various channels including presentations and hands‑on demonstrations.

What You’ll Do

• Recruit and lead a small team of technologists who thrive on ambiguity and move fast.
• Publish technology perspectives that inform strategy—not just "what's new" but "what it means for Fitch" across Emerging Technologies (AI/ML, Blockchain, Knowledge Graph, Quantum Computing, AR/VR).
• Hands‑on testing of cutting edge capabilities and provide rapid views.
• Evangelize relentlessly—demo days, lightning talks, executive briefings that build momentum and demand to share the latest capabilities.
• Partner with different teams across Tech and Data and businesses to help share the knowledge.
• Navigate ambiguity with confidence—making decisions with incomplete information and course‑correcting quickly.

Who You Are

You are technically deep but strategically minded. You can prototype with the best engineers and present to the C‑suite the same afternoon. You understand AI/ML, cloud architecture, and emerging tech at a hands‑on level—but you also see the bigger picture. You have relentless curiosity. You are already tracking what Anthropic, OpenAI, and the open‑source community are shipping. You have opinions on what’s hype versus what’s real. You communicate with clarity and conviction. Complex technical concepts become compelling narratives in your hands. You can sell a vision and bring people along.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in technology roles with increasing scope and leadership.
• Track record of building something new—a product, a team, or a capability.
• Deep hands‑on experience with AI/ML, cloud platforms, and other emerging technologies.
• Experience conducting technology evaluations, vendor assessments, and build‑vs‑buy analyses.
• Experience in financial services, credit/risk, or regulated industries (preferred but not required).
• Demonstrated ability to influence without authority and build coalitions across organizational boundaries.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.

Why Fitch

At Fitch Group, the combined power of our global perspectives is what differentiates us. Our global network of colleagues comes together to accomplish things greater than they ever could alone. Every team member is essential to our business, and each perspective is critical to our success. We embrace a diverse culture that encourages a free exchange of ideas, guaranteeing your voice will be heard and your work will have an impact, regardless of seniority. We are building incredible things at Fitch, and we invite you to join us on our journey.

About Fitch Group

Fitch Group is a global leader in financial information services with operations in more than 30 countries. Wholly owned by the Hearst Corporation, we are comprised of three main businesses: Fitch Ratings | Fitch Solutions | Fitch Learning. For more information please visit our websites: www.fitchratings.com | www.fitchsolutions.com | www.fitchlearning.com.

Fitch is committed to providing global securities markets with objective, timely, independent and forward‑looking credit opinions. To protect Fitch's credibility and reputation, our employees must take every precaution to avoid conflicts of interests or any appearance of a conflict of interest. Should you be successful in the recruitment process at Fitch Ratings you will be asked to declare any securities holdings and other potential conflicts prior to commencing employment. If you, or your immediate family, have any holdings that may conflict with your work responsibilities, you may be asked to divest yourself of them before beginning work.

Fitch Group is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, and other statuses protected by law.