Director - AI

Ally and Your Career

Ally Financial only succeeds when its people do - and that’s more than some cliché people put on job postings. We live this stuff! We see our people as, well, people - with interests, families, friends, dreams, and causes that are all important to them. Our focus is on the health and safety of our teammates as well as work-life balance and diversity and inclusion.

From generous benefits to a variety of employee resource groups, we strive to build paths that encourage employees to stretch themselves professionally. We want to help you grow, develop, and learn new things. You’re constantly evolving, so shouldn’t your opportunities be, too?

Work Schedule:

Ally designates roles as (1) fully on-site, (2) hybrid, or (3) fully remote. Hybrid roles are generally expected to be in the office a certain number of days per week as indicated by your manager. Your hiring manager will discuss this role's specific work requirements with you during the hiring process. All work requirements are subject to change at any time based on leader discretion and/or business need.

As a leader in digital financial services, our customer and employee experiences are powered by data and AI. Our cloud-based data, analytics, and GenAI platform enables thousands of employees to make data-driven decisions every day. We are seeking a Director, Responsible AI to operationalize and advance AI governance at scale across machine learning, generative AI, and agent-based systems. This leader drives the implementation of RAI standards and oversees governance enablement mechanisms that embed Responsible AI into the AI development lifecycle—translating policy and risk requirements into practical, reusable engineering patterns, tooling, and metrics that accelerate safe adoption.

This role also leads direct governance support for Ally’s key AI initiatives.

At this time, Ally will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.

• Advance responsible AI practices by integrating AI governance best practices into every stage of model development and deployment.
• Collaborate closely with risk and other partners to evolve enterprise-wide AI governance standards and processes.
• Drive AI adoption at scale and on schedule across the enterprise, within the governance framework.
• Deliver governance support for strategic AI projects and initiatives.
• Drive end-to-end operational excellence in AI governance in predictive models, GenAI and agentic systems, from model development, evaluation, deployment to operational performance monitoring.

• 9+ years of relevant experience.
• Bachelor’s Degree in relevant field(s) of study or equivalent.

• Highly preferred:
  Demonstrated expertise in model risk areas and mitigations (e.g., bias/fairness, explainability, PII handling, monitoring) and in supporting full model lifecycle.
• Highly preferred:
  Exceptional ability to translate Risk Management and Model Risk expectations into practical development standards for AI systems in banking or regulated environments.
• Highly preferred:
  Strong communication skills and executive influence. Drive alignment across diverse stakeholders, create clarity and build consensus.
• 7+ years of experience in applied machine learning / data science delivering measurable business impact in real-world systems.
• 3+ years of experience in risk management, regulatory compliance or similar functions.
• Master's degree.
• Third-party/vendor AI governance experience.
• Governance experience in state-of-the-art ML/GenAI topics such as agents, RAG, LLM observability, etc.
• People management experience.

Ally's compensation program offers market-competitive base pay and pay-for-performance incentives (bonuses) based on achieving personal and company goals. Our Total Rewards program includes industry-leading compensation and benefits plus additional incentives that are designed to meet your needs and those of your family so you can get the most out of your career and your life, including:

• Time Away:
  Program starts at 20 paid time off days in addition to 11 paid…