Responsible AI Mobilisation Lead

Lloyds Banking Group; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 83,000 - 97,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading banking institution is seeking a Responsible AI Mobilisation Lead to guide AI development with a strong focus on ethical standards. The role involves developing enterprise AI guardrails, accelerating responsible AI initiatives, and influencing senior leadership to promote a safe AI culture. Ideal candidates possess a PhD in AI, significant industry experience, and proven skills in managing AI risks. A hybrid working model is available.

Benefits

Generous pension contribution of up to 15%

Annual bonus award

Share schemes including free shares

30 days’ holiday

Wellbeing initiatives

Generous parental leave policies

Qualifications

• Significant industry experience in a technical data role.
• Proven experience developing AI solutions aligned with ethical standards.
• Expertise in mitigating AI risks.

Responsibilities

• Deliver enterprise AI guardrails and monitoring solutions.
• Accelerate responsible AI development and deployment.
• Shape responsible AI standards across the organization.

Skills

AI ethics

Cloud technologies

Relationship management

Team leadership

Education

PhD in AI or related field

Tools

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

Responsible AI tooling

Job description

Job Description Summary

A transformative leader in responsible AI, enabling the Business and Platform. This role will inform the standard for ethical AI development and deployment for the Group especially when it comes to guardrails and technical AI risk mitigation approaches.

Job Description

JOB TITLE: Responsible AI Mobilisation Lead

SALARY: £90,440 + (dependent on location and experience)

LOCATION(S): Bristol, Edinburgh or London

HOURS: Full time

WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in one of the above office locations

At this exciting time when Lloyds Banking Group is starting to adopt AI at scale, we are seeking a deep expert in responsible AI to join our AI Centre of Excellence in the Chief Data and Analytics Office! This hands-on role will play a critical part in enabling the Business and Platforms in Responsible AI approaches and techniques, guiding a team of specialists who do the same!

The role will partner with the Platforms to define and build enterprise guardrails and help to mitigate AI risks in some of our key AI use cases. You will be at the front of responsible AI development.

This role is essential to helping Lloyds Banking Group scale responsible AI. You'll be expected to act as a transformative leader, with a strong vision, promoting a culture of safe and ethical AI throughout the organisation, advising our senior leaders.

In this role, you'll

• Help to deliver best-in-class enterprise AI guardrails and AI monitoring solutions, working as a partner to our Machine Learning, Generative AI and Agentic Labs.
• Accelerate the responsible development and deployment of frontier AI use cases, including AI agents.
• Demonstrate leadership on responsible AI, helping to shape Lloyds Banking Group’s standard of responsible AI adoption.
• Identify opportunities and support embedding best-in-class approaches into AI development workflows.
• Guide a team of Responsible AI Specialists who equally build out guardrails and enable key use cases.

About us

If you think all banks are the same, you’d be wrong. We’re an innovative, fast-changing business that’s shaping finance as a force for good. A bank that’s empowering its people to innovate, explore possibilities and grow with purpose.

What you’ll need

• PhD in AI or a related field or equivalent, significant industry experience working in a technical data role.
• Proven experience developing AI solutions to the highest ethical standards, including directly engaging with AI product teams.
• Expertise in AI risks particularly as it relates to Generative AI and Agentic AI, and how to mitigate these risks through tooling and procedures.
• A good understanding of Cloud technologies including Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and the Responsible AI tooling available on GCP / VertexAI.
• Excellent relationship management with the ability to influence senior partners and course correct initiatives towards strategic outcomes.
• Experience in team leadership.

About working for us

Our focus is to ensure we\'re inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms.

We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture.

We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative.

And it’s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups.

We’re disability confident. So, if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.

Benefits

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance
• Share schemes including free shares
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
• 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Want to do amazing work, that’s interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey.

At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.

We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person.

We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.