Senior Vice President, AI Strategy Lead

We’re seeking a future team member for the role of Senior Vice President, AI Strategy Lead. This role is located in London.

In this role, you’ll make an impact in the following ways:

• Lead complex AI strategy work streams and translate enterprise priorities into strategic themes, investment choices, operating-model recommendations, roadmaps, and executable plans.
• Shape AI Hub’s strategic agenda across AI-native platforms, digital employees, workflow automation, knowledge management, process reimagination, governed AI capabilities, and continuous intelligence.
• Identify, assess, and prioritize AI opportunities based on business value, client impact, operational efficiency, strategic alignment, technical feasibility, control readiness, adoption potential, and implementation complexity.
• Develop business cases, value hypotheses, cost-benefit analyses, KPI frameworks, adoption measures, and benefit-realization plans for priority initiatives.
• Define how AI capabilities can help platforms become more intelligent, context-aware, governed, reusable, and scalable across enterprise workflows.
• Advance continuous‑intelligence priorities by connecting trusted data, governed AI, human judgment, operational context, and enterprise controls to practical business outcomes.
• Develop recommendations for AI operating models, prioritization mechanisms, portfolio governance, investment sequencing, adoption strategies, and cross‑functional accountability.
• Produce executive‑ready strategy narratives, decision papers, presentations, portfolio updates, and recommendations that simplify complex AI topics without overstating maturity or expected benefits.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, Data, Operations, Finance, Risk, Governance, Legal, Compliance, Audit, and business teams to align strategy with execution feasibility and enterprise standards.
• Ensure strategic recommendations address data readiness, responsible AI, model and technology risk, cybersecurity, privacy, resiliency, human oversight, regulatory considerations, and change management.
• Track emerging developments across GenAI, agentic workflows, enterprise AI platforms, automation, data products, model providers, and market practices to inform strategic choices.
• Establish portfolio transparency by defining consistent measures for initiative status, strategic alignment, adoption, value, dependencies, control readiness, and delivery progress.
• Lead senior‑stakeholder discussions, frame decision options, clarify tradeoffs, and drive alignment on priorities and recommended actions.
• Build durable internal AI strategy capability by creating reusable strategic frameworks, analysis methods, decision templates, and value‑measurement approaches.
• Operate independently as a senior individual contributor, bringing structured judgment and executive‑quality output to high‑priority and often ambiguous enterprise initiatives.

To be successful in this role, we’re seeking the following:

• Experience in corporate strategy, strategy consulting, product strategy, AI/data strategy, enterprise transformation, or digital transformation.
• Experience leading AI, GenAI, automation, data, analytics, or technology‑enabled transformation initiatives.
• Strong commercial judgment and experience developing business cases, roadmaps, KPIs, and executive recommendations.
• Demonstrated ability to influence senior stakeholders in a global, matrixed organization.
• Financial‑services and responsible‑AI experience are preferred.
• Bachelor’s degree required; MBA or relevant Master’s degree preferred.

At BNY, our culture allows us to run our company better and enables employees’ growth and success. As a leading global financial services company at the heart of the global financial system, we influence…