Manager, AI Governance Enablement

Canadian Tire Corporation; Front of Yonge; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 131,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits and retirement

Performance incentives

Continuing Education Programs

Career growth opportunities

Product discounts

Job summary

Canadian Tire Corporation is seeking an AI Governance Enablement Manager to drive adoption of AI governance practices across the organization. You will partner with AI practitioners, product teams, and business stakeholders, translating governance requirements into practical guidance and supporting teams through risk assessments and approvals.

You will lead enablement programs, develop templates and tools, and monitor governance adoption across business units to improve maturity and reduce

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in AI, analytics, data governance, change management, or enablement roles.
• Strong facilitation, communication, and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Experience translating policies, standards, and risk requirements into practical, actionable guidance.
• Proven ability to influence and build relationships across business and technical teams.
• Collaborative, service-oriented mindset focused on balancing governance with innovation.

Responsibilities

• Drive adoption of AI governance practices across the organization.
• Partner with AI practitioners, product teams, and business stakeholders to embed governance requirements into delivery processes.
• Provide guidance and support through AI risk assessments, reviews, and approvals.
• Lead enablement programs, training sessions, and communities of practice.
• Develop practical tools, templates, and guidance to simplify governance adoption.
• Monitor and report on governance adoption, maturity, and process effectiveness across business units.
• Identify opportunities to reduce friction and improve user experience navigating governance requirements.

Skills

AI governance

Stakeholder engagement

Policy translation

Influence and relationships

Collaboration

Job description

What you'll do

The AI Governance Enablement Manager drives the adoption of AI governance practices across the organization by partnering with AI practitioners, product teams, and business stakeholders. This role translates governance requirements into practical guidance, supports teams through the AI governance process, and helps build a culture of responsible AI at scale.

Partner with AI practitioners, product teams, and business stakeholders to embed AI governance requirements into delivery processes.

Provide guidance and support through AI risk assessments, reviews, and approval processes.

Lead enablement programs, training sessions, and communities of practice to build AI governance capabilities.

Develop practical tools, templates, and guidance to simplify governance adoption.

Monitor and report on governance adoption, maturity, and process effectiveness across business units.

Identify opportunities to reduce friction and improve the user experience for teams navigating AI governance requirements.

What you bring

5+ years of experience in AI, analytics, data governance, change management, or enablement roles.

Strong facilitation, communication, and stakeholder engagement skills.

Experience translating policies, standards, and risk requirements into practical, actionable guidance.

Proven ability to influence and build relationships across business and technical teams.

Collaborative, service-oriented mindset focused on balancing governance with innovation.

What Success Looks Like

High adoption of AI governance processes and standards across the organization.

Increased AI governance knowledge and capability among practitioners and business teams.

Streamlined engagement between governance and delivery teams through effective enablement and support.

Consistent application of responsible AI practices across business units.

About Us

We’re always looking for great talent! In addition to competitive pay, we offer:

• Comprehensive benefits and retirement programs
• Performance incentives
• Continuing Education Programs
• Other perks to support your well-being
• Career growth opportunities and product discounts
• Broadband

Salary Range: $80,000.00 – $131,000.00

Salary decisions are also dependent on other factors such as your experience, industry benchmarks, internal equity and other role-specific requirements.

For critical roles, the compensation offering will be reviewed to ensure alignment with market rate and conditions and the unique value you bring to the role.

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We may use artificial intelligence tools as part of our recruitment process to assist in the initial screening of resumes. All hiring decisions, including candidate evaluation, selection, and disposition, are made by human recruiters.

Canadian Tire Corporation, Limited (“CTC”) is one of Canada’s most admired and trusted companies. With more than 90 Owned Brands, over 1,600 retail locations, financial services, exemplary e-commerce capabilities, and exciting market-leading merchandising strategies. We dream big and work as one to innovate with purpose for our customers at every level of our business, investing in new technologies and products, and doubling down on top talent to drive the company forward. We offer competitive salaries and wages to CTC employees, as well as store discounts, supported learning through our Triangle Learning Academy, Canadian Tire Profit Sharing, and retirement and savings programs for eligible employees. As part of our enhanced flex benefits program, we offer mental health benefits in the amount of $5,000 per year for benefits-eligible employees and their families, including total well-being, and mental health tools and resources for all employees.

Join us in helping to make life in Canada better through living and working our Core Values: we are innovators and entrepreneurs at our core, outcomes drive us, inclusion is a must, we are stronger together and we take personal responsibility. It is an especially exciting time to join CTC and its family of companies where career opportunities are wide-ranging! Join us, where there's a place for you here.

We are committed to fostering an environment where belonging thrives, and diversity, inclusion and equity are infused into everything we do.

We believe in building an organizational culture where people are consistently treated with dignity while respecting individual religion, nationality, gender, race, age, perceived ability, spoken language, sexual orientation, and identification.

We are united in our purpose of being here to help make life in Canada better.

Accommodations We stand firm in our Core Value that inclusion is a must. We welcome and encourage candidates from equity-seeking groups such as people who identify as racialized, Indigenous, 2SLGBTQIA+, women, people with disabilities, and beyond. Should you require any accommodation in applying for this role, or throughout the interview process, please make them known when contacted and we will work with you to help meet your needs.

We are one of Canada’s most admired and trusted companies. With world-class owned brands and exciting market-leading merchandising strategies, we are continually innovating with purpose: to excite and serve Canadian customers from coast-to-coast. We are connected to communities, big and small, from coast-to-coast, offering products and services that reflect the diverse nature of every one of them. From sports to outdoors, automobiles to homes, we know and understand life in Canada like no other retailer can.

We are always on the lookout for curious, creative people who are able to navigate and excel in a rapidly evolving retail environment.