Agentic AI Program Manager - Enterprise Platform Lead

Canadian Tire Corporation; Toronto; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 131,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits and retirement

Performance incentives

Career growth opportunities

Product discounts

Job summary

Canadian Tire Corporation is seeking an Agentic AI Program Manager to lead the program execution, stakeholder alignment, delivery governance, and people leadership needed to mature this capability from foundational build-out to enterprise adoption.

This role is not hands-on engineering; you will collaborate with architecture, security, governance, data, cloud, and vendor teams to shape platform capabilities and ensure enterprise-wide rollout with strong governance and measurable outcomes.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading complex cross-functional technology programs.
• Strong program management discipline with RAID, roadmap planning, governance cadence.
• Ability to operate in ambiguity and create structure across fast-moving initiatives.
• Strong communication for executive stakeholders.
• Experience with architecture, security, governance, vendors, and senior stakeholders.
• People leadership experience.
• Understanding of enterprise technology delivery, agile planning, release management.

Responsibilities

• Lead the enterprise program responsible for building and maturing Canadian Tire’s foundational Agentic AI platform.
• Manage integrated plans, milestones, risks, dependencies, decision logs, status reporting, and executive communications.
• Coordinate across architecture, engineering, security, privacy, AI governance, data, cloud, infrastructure, vendor, and business stakeholders.
• Support platform readiness and adoption, including onboarding materials, delivery playbooks, operating models, and path-to-production guidance.
• Partner with technical teams to understand current and emerging platform capabilities including Microsoft Foundry, agent hosting, identity integration, model access, observability, networking, and CI/CD evolution.
• Track and elevate key delivery dependencies and platform maturity gaps, including items such as APIM, hosted agent libraries, ACR, evaluation framework, and environment readiness where applicable.
• Provide clear, concise updates to senior leaders on progress, risks, trade-offs, funding considerations, decisions required, and future roadmap needs.
• Monitor industry adoption of Agentic AI and help shape future platform capabilities and operating models for Canadian Tire.
• Lead, coach, and support team members or matrixed contributors working across the Agentic AI program.

Skills

Program leadership

RAID management

Executive reporting

Stakeholder alignment

Ambiguity navigation

People leadership

Enterprise delivery

Tools

Microsoft Foundry

Databricks

Azure

APIM

Job description

Canadian Tire Corporation is seeking an Agentic AI Program Manager to lead the program execution, stakeholder alignment, delivery governance, and people leadership needed to mature this capability from foundational build-out to enterprise adoption.

This role is not hands-on engineering; you will collaborate with architecture, security, governance, data, cloud, and vendor teams to shape platform capabilities and ensure enterprise-wide rollout with strong governance and measurable outcomes.