Sr. Manager, AI

citicclsa; Hong Kong; On-site; HKD 1,200,000 - 1,900,000; Full time

Job summary

Cit ic CLSA is seeking a Sr. Manager, AI to drive AI initiatives across business groups in Hong Kong.

You will partner with front, middle and back office teams and technology partners to identify opportunities, translate needs into practical AI programs, and govern adoption and value realization across the organization. The role focuses on building an AI opportunity pipeline, prioritising initiatives, and ensuring delivery within governance and risk frameworks, while aligning AI investments with

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in AI, Computer Science or related discipline.
• Around 15 years of experience with business stakeholders to identify opportunities and drive adoption.
• Strong stakeholder management in Financial Services or Tech organizations.
• Exposure to AI, analytics, data or digital transformation initiatives.
• Experience building business cases, requirements and prioritisation frameworks.
• Excellent communication and facilitation capability.
• Ability to translate business problems into structured opportunities.
• Strong written and verbal communication in English and Chinese.
• Familiarity with AI and Generative AI use cases preferred.
• Experience with portfolio governance and prioritisation frameworks preferred.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain relationships with business stakeholders across Front Office, Back Office and Corporate Functions.
• Identify opportunities where AI can improve productivity, decision making and business outcomes.
• Support stakeholder engagement activities and AI opportunity discovery across departments.
• Facilitate workshops, requirements discussions and ideation sessions with business teams.
• Work alongside AI and technology colleagues to translate business needs into AI initiatives.
• Maintain awareness of departmental priorities and emerging opportunities.
• Coordinate AI opportunity intake, qualification, and backlog.
• Assist with portfolio reviews, prioritisation discussions and roadmap planning.
• Help ensure ownership, sponsorship and delivery accountability are defined.
• Track progress, benefits and adoption metrics across active initiatives.
• Support AI governance processes and portfolio controls.
• Coordinate adoption campaigns, clinics, training and enablement activities.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Excellent communication

Analytical and organizational skills

Bilingual English & Chinese

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in AI or CS

Job description

Sr. Manager, AI will join a growing team focused on helping business groups realize value from Artificial Intelligence across the organization. Working closely with business stakeholders, Forward Deployment Engineers, AI engineers and technology teams, the role helps identify opportunities, drive adoption and ensure AI investment is aligned to measurable business outcomes. The role combines business engagement, portfolio coordination, governance and adoption activities, helping departments understand how AI can support their objectives while ensuring opportunities are assessed, prioritized and delivered in a structured and scalable manner.

Key Areas of Responsibilitie s

Build Engagement

• Build and maintain relationships with business stakeholders across Front Office, Back Office and Corporate Functions.
• Identify opportunities where AI can improve productivity, decision making and business outcomes.
• Support stakeholder engagement activities and AI opportunity discovery across departments.
• Facilitate workshops, requirements discussions and ideation sessions with business teams.
• Work alongside AI and technology colleagues to help translate business needs into practical AI initiatives.
• Maintain awareness of departmental priorities, strategic objectives and emerging opportunities .

AI Portfolio and Opportunity Management

• Support the intake and qualification of AI opportunities.
• Coordinate use-case assessment, prioritisation and business-value analysis.
• Maintain the AI opportunity pipeline and portfolio backlog.
• Assist with portfolio reviews, prioritisation discussions and roadmap planning.
• Help ensure ownership, sponsorship and delivery accountability are clearly defined.
• Track progress, benefits and adoption metrics across active initiatives.

Governance and Delivery Enablement

• Support AI governance processes and portfolio controls.
• Ensure initiatives follow agreed delivery, risk and compliance frameworks.
• Maintain portfolio reporting, status tracking and management updates.
• Coordinate benefits tracking and value measurement.

Adoption and Enablement

• Partner with departments to accelerate adoption of AI capabilities and tools.
• Support awareness campaigns, clinics, training programmes and AI enablement activities.
• Gather user feedback and identify opportunities to improve adoption and business outcomes.
• Monitor adoption trends, engagement metrics and value realisation.
• Help departments develop practical AI roadmaps aligned to business goals.

Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's degree or above in AI, Computer Science or related discipline
• Around 15 years of relevant experience in working directly with business stakeholders to identify opportunities, gather requirements and drive adoption of technology solutions
• Strong stakeholder management skills and experience working with business stakeholders in Financial Services or Technology organizations.
• Exposure in AI, analytics, data or digital transformation initiatives.
• Experience developing business cases, requirements and prioritisation frameworks.
• Excellent communication and facilitation capability
• Ability to translate business problems into structured opportunities.
• Strong analytical and organizational skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in English and Chinese
• Familiarity with AI and Generative AI use cases will be preferred
• Experience with portfolio governance and prioritisation frameworks will be preferred