Manager, Responsible AI

Thomas Reuters; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

A global leader in data and analytics is seeking a Manager of AI Enablement to drive Responsible AI practices across the enterprise. This role involves leading risk management, enhancing organizational workflows, and ensuring compliance with governance standards while fostering an innovative and strategic approach to AI technologies.

Benefits

Hybrid Work Model

Flexibility & Work-Life Balance

Career Development and Growth

Industry Competitive Benefits

Workplace culture of inclusion and belonging

Opportunities for volunteerism and social impact

Qualifications

• Experience in AI governance and risk management.
• Strong ethical framework in AI data management.
• Proven leadership in managing cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead AI risk management and promote Responsible AI culture.
• Monitor AI models and implement governance strategies.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams for AI initiatives.

Skills

AI governance

Risk management

Leadership

Collaboration

Strategic thinking

Communication

Education

Advanced degree in Computer Science, Data Science, or AI

Job description

Manager, AI Enablement

We are seeking a motivated Manager of AI Enablement to join our Data and Analytics organization. In this role, you will promote a culture of Responsible AI across the enterprise, ensuring governance and ethical data management in all business units.

You will lead AI risk management, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and integrate governance into the AI lifecycle. Your strategic thinking will enhance efficiency and optimize workflows, while your leadership will explore new AI technologies and manage proof of concepts to keep the organization competitive. Responsibilities include monitoring AI models for responsible use, equipping teams with best practices, empowering staff, and ensuring the right talent is onboarded for AI initiatives. You will coordinate with our Data and Model Stewards Network to implement and monitor Model Policies and Ethics Frameworks across key domains. This role also involves working on AI ethics research projects and using AI to enhance the organization's efficiency and optimize workflow. This role is crucial in upholding regulatory standards and mitigating AI-related risks, contributing to the future of AI governance and enablement.

Do you have a passion for ensuring AI systems are robust, reliable, and responsible? Are you ready to lead the charge in transforming AI practices across an organization? Join our team as the Manager of AI Enablement and be at the forefront of AI innovation and governance.

About the Role

As the Manager of AI Enablement, you will play a critical role in our AI Enablement team within the Data and Analytics organization. This position is vital in embedding responsible AI practices across all business units, ensuring that our AI initiatives are innovative, ethically sound, and compliant with governance standards. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive AI risk management and help the organization stay ahead of market trends through strategic AI implementations.

In this opportunity as Manager - AI Enablement, you will:

• Champion the development of a culture that values Responsible AI and data across the enterprise.

• Oversee AI risk management processes and collaborate closely with cross-functional teams.

• Think creatively about using AI to increase organizational efficiency and optimize workflow.

• Explore new AI technologies and work with vendors or partners on proof of concepts and implementations.

• Monitor AI models for responsible considerations and equip business functions with responsible AI development and deployment practices.

• Coordinate and collaborate with our distributed Data and Model Stewards Network.

• Define, implement, and monitor Model Policies, Standards, and Ethics Framework across critical business domains.

About You

You're a fit for the role of Manager of AI Enablement if your background includes:

• Experience in AI governance, risk management, and validation.

• Strong understanding of ethical considerations in AI and data management.

• Proven leadership skills with experience in managing cross-functional teams.

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

• Ability to think strategically and drive innovation within an organization.

• Experience in implementing AI technologies and managing proof of concepts.

Additional preferred qualifications include:

• Experience working with vendors and partners in AI technology implementations.

• Familiarity with regulatory standards related to AI and data governance.

• Advanced degree in a relevant field such as Computer Science, Data Science, or AI

• Join us and be a part of a team that is shaping the future of AI governance and enablement!

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What’s in it For You?

• Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected.

• Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities, whether caring for family, giving back to the community, or finding time to refresh and reset. This builds upon our flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year, empowering employees to achieve a better work-life balance.

• Career Development and Growth: By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development, we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrow’s challenges and deliver real-world solutions. Our Grow My Way programming and skills-first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future.

• Industry Competitive Benefits: We offer comprehensive benefit plans to include flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days off, access to the Headspace app, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.

• Culture: Globally recognized, award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, work-life balance, and more. We live by our values: Obsess over our Customers, Compete to Win, Challenge (Y)our Thinking, Act Fast / Learn Fast, and Stronger Together.

• Social Impact: Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute. We offer employees two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives.

• Making a Real-World Impact:We are one of the few companies globally that helps its customers pursue justice, truth, and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.

About Us

Thomson Reuters informs the way forward by bringing together the trusted content and technology that people and organizations need to make the right decisions. We serve professionals across legal, tax, accounting, compliance, government, and media. Our products combine highly specialized software and insights to empower professionals with the data, intelligence, and solutions needed to make informed decisions, and to help institutions in their pursuit of justice, truth, and transparency. Reuters, part of Thomson Reuters, is a world leading provider of trusted journalism and news.

We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness, and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.

As a global business, we rely on the unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences of all employees to deliver on our business goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

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