Director: AI Innovation & Productivity

TD Bank Group; New York (NY); On-site; USD 220,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

TD Bank Group seeks a Director of AI Innovation & Productivity in New York to lead the AI strategy and experimentation portfolio across TD Securities. You will drive practical AI initiatives, coordinate across technology and business units, and shape the roadmap for scalable AI delivery.

The role requires proven leadership in AI/ML portfolios within regulated environments, strong product judgment, and executive communication.

Qualifications

• Experience leading AI/ML portfolios in a large, regulated organization.
• Strong grounding in generative AI, LLMs, RAG, agentic systems, evaluation, and observability.
• Experience building technology roadmaps and investment cases for senior leaders.

Responsibilities

• Track industry trends and model evolution; translate into practical recommendations for leadership.
• Run experiments, POCs and applied research with clear value, feasibility, data readiness, security and governance criteria.
• Shape AI innovation roadmap for TD Securities tech and present insights to executives.
• Advance engineering productivity; drive AI-assisted software delivery across design, development, testing and operations.
• Convert validated concepts into scalable AI Platform and Product Engineering, encouraging reuse across domains.

Skills

AI leadership

ML portfolio

Data science

Software engineering

Executive communication

Education

MS/PhD in CS/AI

Tools

Cloud platforms

DevSecOps tooling

Model governance

Job description

TD Bank Group seeks a Director of AI Innovation & Productivity in New York to lead the AI strategy and experimentation portfolio across TD Securities. You will drive practical AI initiatives, coordinate across technology and business units, and shape the roadmap for scalable AI delivery.

The role requires proven leadership in AI/ML portfolios within regulated environments, strong product judgment, and executive communication.