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Join a purpose driven winning team, committed to results, in an inclusive and high-performing culture.
We are hiring a forward‑thinking Director, AI Product Ownership to lead delivery and responsible lifecycle management of AI solutions across our global wealth businesses. This role combines business strategy, AI innovation, compliance rigor, and agile execution. You will be responsible for identifying high‑value AI opportunities, shaping product vision, and working with business partners, engineering teams, data teams, risk partners, and model governance to deliver safe, scalable, and impactful AI products.
You will act as the initial AI Product Owner and over time scale a team of AI Product Owners which you will manage.
Is this role right for you? In this role you will:
Define and own the roadmap for AI products
Evaluate new AI use cases and prioritize based on business impact, feasibility, data readiness, regulatory considerations, and risk profile
Stay current on AI model capabilities, emerging tooling, vector databases, and model orchestration patterns
Work with Business Teams, Operations, Data Teams, Technology, Compliance, and Risk partners to identify and validate AI opportunities
Translate business workflows and pain points into AI product requirements and user journeys
Communicate product vision and measurable outcomes to senior leadership
Lead day‑to‑day product delivery across cross‑functional agile teams
Translate AI capabilities into clear user stories
Partner closely with technology teams to build intuitive, compliant AI‑powered experiences
Ensure products meet high standards of reliability, latency, security, and scalability
Partner with Model Risk, Compliance, Privacy, and Legal on use case risk assessments, fairness, safety, and hallucination controls, prompt and model testing approaches, human‑in‑the‑loop review mechanisms and documentation for AI model governance
Ensure all AI solutions adhere to enterprise AI policies and regulatory expectations relevant to financial institutions
Understand how LLMs, embeddings and prompt architectures work
Partner with technical teams on retrieval strategies and knowledge curation, evaluation frameworks (e.g., quality, safety, hallucination rates) and model monitoring, usage analytics, and continuous improvement
Support experiments, iteration, and user‑feedback loops
Work with business partners, to roll out and support change management for advisors, employees, and client‑facing AI tools
Define success metrics and track realized value (OKRs related to productivity, efficiency, user satisfaction)
Gather user feedback and continuously enhance the product
Do you have the skills that will enable you to succeed in this role? – We’d love to work with you if you have:
5+ years in product management or AI/analytics roles; experience within financial services is strongly preferred
A strong understanding of AI concepts, such as large language models
Experience delivering AI or digital products in agile environments
The ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear business language
Experience partnering with compliance, privacy, and model risk functions
Familiarity with responsible AI frameworks and regulatory expectations for AI in financial institutions
Experience in Wealth Management
Hands‑on exposure to LLM platforms (e.g., OpenAI ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Anthropic Claude, Microsoft CoPilot)
An understanding of MLOps and LLMOps concepts
Comfort working with unstructured and structured data, knowledge sources, and document repositories
A background in UX for AI or conversational experience design
Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills
Strong stakeholder management skills, with a proven ability to unite Business, Functional, and technical partners around a common goal
Strong leadership and influencing abilities, with a track record of successfully leading cross‑functional teams without direct authority
A data‑driven approach to decision‑making and are a strategic and analytical thinker
Location(s):
Canada :
Ontario :
Toronto
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