Senior Director, AI Business Enablement

Job Description

Senior Director, AI Business Enablement

What's the opportunity?

We're looking for a transformational leader who can serve as a strategic peer to senior business executives and drive AI-powered business transformation across an entire Line of Business or Function. As a Senior Director on the AI Business Enablement team, you will own the full AI transformation ambition for your domain — setting the vision, building the opportunity pipeline, and ensuring executive alignment from ideation through to program framing and handoff.

You will be expected to challenge, provoke, and co-develop transformation roadmaps with senior business leaders — bringing a combination of strategic rigour, AI fluency, and the credibility that comes from having built and shipped solutions, not just recommended them.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Executive partnership: Holding sustained, peer-level strategic relationships with senior business leaders (SVP+); co-developing and communicating the AI-enabled transformation vision for your domain
• Pipeline origination: Identifying, sizing, and prioritising a rigorous pipeline of AI transformation opportunities — including new ideas not yet on the business' horizon — with quantified value hypotheses ready for delivery intake
• AI solution concept development: Generating innovative AI solution concepts for large business problems and validating them through rapid POC cycles (weeks, not quarters)
• Business model & process re-engineering: Helping leaders fundamentally rethink business processes and operating models through an AI-enabled lens
• Program framing: Partnering with business leaders beyond ideation — through business case development, go-to-market strategy, and program framing — to ensure ambition translates into execution
• Delivery partnership: Working closely with our world-class AI Solutions and Research teams to ensure business context and outcomes expectations are carried through into delivery — maintaining alignment between the transformation ambition and the technical execution path
• Cross-enterprise pattern recognition: Surfacing reuse opportunities, multi-LOB programs, and horizontal themes that no single vertical would initiate alone
• Team leadership: Leading and developing a small team of high-performing leaders aligned to sub-segments within your domain

You're our ideal candidate if you:

• Have 15+ years of progressive experience in management consulting, technology, AI/ML product development, or a combination thereof
• Have a track record of building AI or technology-driven solutions that created material business impact — strategy and advisory experience is valued, but must be complemented by accountability for delivery outcomes
• Possess the executive gravitas and communication skills to challenge and influence senior business leaders (SVP+) as a peer
• Have demonstrated experience in process re-engineering or business model redesign , ideally enabled by technology or data
• Have experience partnering with technical or engineering teams to translate business requirements into solution design and ensure delivery stays aligned to intended business outcomes
• Bring a consultative problem-solving approach — able to structure ambiguous problems, develop hypotheses, and drive to action quickly
• Have a working knowledge of AI/ML technologies, LLMs, and data platforms — sufficient to credibly assess feasibility, shape solution concepts, and engage technical teams
• Banking or financial services experience is welcome but not required ; what matters is the ability to rapidly develop domain depth and business-model understanding in complex industries

What's in it for you:

• Lead AI transformation at one of Canada's largest and most respected financial institutions, with direct…