TEMPO- AI Enablement Director - Productivity & Efficiency Leader

Truist; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental & Vision coverage

401k plan

Job summary

Truist is seeking an AI Enablement Director to lead enterprise AI and data initiatives in a highly regulated financial services environment. You will shape strategies, govern data platforms, and drive scalable AI capabilities across business, technology, legal, and risk functions.

You will influence senior stakeholders, design end-to-end delivery models, and build automation and testing capabilities to minimize incidents while delivering measurable business outcomes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in CS/DS/AI, or related field; 12+ years in AI/data domains.
• Experience leading enterprise AI/data transformations in regulated financial services.
• Strong delivery governance, risk and regulatory engagement capability.

Responsibilities

• Recommends and shapes AI and data strategies and operational plans.
• Designs AI platforms, data architectures, and analytics solutions.
• Leads large cross-divisional technical initiatives with no formal authority.
• Establishes enterprise standards for AI development, deployment, monitoring, lifecycle.
• Oversees model performance, risk controls, explainability, and ethical AI.
• Partners with senior leaders to identify high-impact AI opportunities.
• Acts as senior technical advisor on emerging AI technologies and trends.
• Mentors senior technical talent and drives capability maturity.
• Drives innovation through PoC leadership and continuous improvement.
• Ensures regulatory compliance and governance across AI initiatives.

Skills

AI leadership

Enterprise transformation

Governance & risk

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional collaboration

Automation capabilities

Data governance

Regulatory engagement

Delivery leadership

Architecture & delivery

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/DS/AI/Engineering

Tools

Cloud platforms

Data platforms

Job description

Regular or Temporary:

Regular

Language Fluency: English (Required)

Work Shift:

1st shift (United States of America)

Please review the following job description:

The AI Enablement Director – AI Enablememnt requires a leader who brings the right blend of enterprise transformation leadership, technology expertise, and governance discipline to accelerate AI and data adoption at scale. The role calls for deep experience across technology delivery, data governance, privacy, regulatory engagement, risk management, and AI oversight, with the ability to work across business, technology, legal, compliance, and risk functions to translate complex challenges into practical, sustainable solutions. Success requires a leader who can redesign processes, influence senior stakeholders, establish effective controls, and drive measurable outcomes in a highly regulated financial-services environment.
Equally important is a demonstrated ability to build and scale enterprise capabilities rather than simply manage existing processes. Relevant experience includes establishing new delivery models and automation capabilities from the ground up, developing business cases and reliable estimates, demonstrating value after implementation, and gaining support across business, testing, technology, security, data management, and governance organizations. Experience building automation and test-data capabilities, developing robust regression and production-validation approaches, and using technology to enable more comprehensive testing, earlier identification of issues, and fewer production incidents illustrates the type of disciplined transformation and execution this position requires.
The role manages and directs the execution of AI and data strategies, overseeing the development and deployment of AI models, data products, architectures, and capabilities to enhance business processes and system performance. The leader drives cross-team collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement; enforces governance and risk standards; manages multiple teams; and influences senior business and technology decisions by applying AI, analytics, and data to solve complex, real-world business challenges.
This leader partners closely with senior Finance, Risk, and Regulatory business leaders to define and execute the enterprise data strategy supporting critical reporting and decision-making capabilities. The position leads large-scale, complex data and transformation initiatives that enable Finance, Risk, and Regulatory Reporting functions through modern data platforms, scalable data products, AI-enabled capabilities, automation, and robust governance frameworks.
The individual is accountable for establishing the strategic vision, architecture, and operating model for delivering trusted, high-quality data and data products that meet evolving business, regulatory, and reporting requirements. Working across business and technology organizations, this leader drives the end-to-end delivery of solutions, from identifying high-value opportunities and developing the business case through architecture, implementation, controls, adoption, and measurement of business outcomes.
The role requires strong executive engagement and the ability to influence senior stakeholders, establish strategic priorities, and lead cross-functional teams through complex transformation. The leader must be equally comfortable creating new capabilities, navigating enterprise governance and risk requirements, and driving execution through implementation, ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, sustainable, and aligned with enterprise and regulatory expectations.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Following is a summary of the essential functions for this job. Other duties may be performed, both major and minor, which are not mentioned below. Specific activities may change from time to time.

• Recommends and shapes AI and data strategies, architectures, and operational plans with short- to mid-term (0–3 year) impact on divisional outcomes.
• Designs, evolves, and governs advanced AI platforms, data architectures, and analytics solutions to ensure scalability, security, performance, and regulatory compliance.
• Leads large, complex, cross-divisional technical initiatives of strategic importance without formal reporting authority.
• Establishes and advances enterprise standards, patterns, and best practices for AI development, deployment, monitoring, and lifecycle management.
• Provides expert oversight of model performance, risk controls, explainability, and ethical AI usage, ensuring alignment with enterprise governance requirements.
• Partners with senior leaders to identify high-impact opportunities where AI and data capabilities can materially improve business outcomes.
• Serves as a senior technical advisor to management and stakeholders on emerging AI technologies, data strategies, and industry trends.
• Mentors and develops senior technical talent across the organization, influencing skill development and capability maturity at scale.
• Drives innovation through intellectual property creation, proof-of-concept leadership, and continuous improvement of AI-enabled solutions.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Engineering, a related technical field, or equivalent education, training, and work-related experience.
• Typically 12+ years of progressive experience in AI, data engineering, advanced analytics, or related technical domains.
• Demonstrated mastery of multiple technical areas, including AI/ML, data architecture, analytics platforms, and cloud-based technologies.

Preferred Qualifications

1. Experience in the financial services industry.
2. Expertise in solution designs based upon business requirements.
3. Strong knowledge of data tools and technologies.
4. Experience leading enterprise cloud data modernization initiatives and data product operating models.

General Description of Available Benefits for Eligible Employees of Truist Financial Corporation: All regular teammates (not temporary or contingent workers) working 20 hours or more per week are eligible for benefits, though eligibility for specific benefits may be determined by the division of Truist offering the position.Truist offers medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability, accidental death and dismemberment, tax-preferred savings accounts, and a 401k plan to teammates. Teammates also receive no less than 10 days of vacation (prorated based on date of hire and by full-time or part-time status) during their first year of employment, along with 10 sick days (also prorated), and paid holidays. For more details on Truist’s generous benefit plans, please visit our Benefits site. Depending on the position and division, this job may also be eligible for Truist’s defined benefit pension plan, restricted stock units, and/or a deferred compensation plan. As you advance through the hiring process, you will also learn more about the specific benefits available for any non-temporary position for which you apply, based on full‑time or part‑time status, position, and division of work.

Truist is an Equal Opportunity Employer that does not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, color, religion, citizenship or national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, veteran status, or other classification protected by law. Truist is a Drug Free Workplace.