The Head of AI-First Development at Citi is a Managing Director role responsible for redefining the firm's Product Development Lifecycle (PDLC) to integrate AI as the default across all stages. This leader will establish reference workflows, standards, and patterns for AI-first product development, partnering with Tech and Product organizations to ensure consistent adoption. Key responsibilities include building an agentic developer-experience platform that includes requirements tools, testing frameworks, coding solutions, and deployment agents, while also managing vendor relationships and setting engineering productivity metrics. The ideal candidate has over 15 years of progressive leadership experience in developer platforms or engineering productivity at scale, with deep expertise in modern AI tooling and a proven track record of influencing change within matrixed environments. This role demands fluency in agentic coding tools, strong product instincts, and an understanding of cybersecurity and regulatory compliance in the financial services sector.