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We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Director of AI Deployment Assurance to ensure all AI adoption across a complex, multinational financial services organization is safe, ethical, and compliant. You will lead the design and execution of assurance frameworks, position papers, and represent the company in regulatory and industry forums.

Reporting to the Director - AI Deployment Acceleration and Assurance, you will provide independent oversight of adoption initiatives, strengthen AI governance practices, and ensure compliance with regulatory standards and ethical principles.

• Define and maintain AI assurance frameworks, policies, and standards across the enterprise.
• Anticipate and embed global regulatory requirements, and influential AI frameworks (EU AI Act, MAS, NIST, GDPR, etc.) into assurance practices.
• Develop position papers, assurance guidelines, and whitepapers to support governance leadership.
• Provide assurance reviews and audits of AI initiatives, escalating risks as required.
• Present assurance findings and risk assessments to executive and board-level governance forums.
• Ensure assurance checkpoints are consistently embedded into adoption roadmaps.
• Represent the company in regulatory consultations, supervisory engagements, and industry associations.
• Draft and present submissions, updates, and assurance positions to regulators and internally.
• Contribute to shaping external standards and reinforcing the company’s thought leadership in AI safety.
• Partner with business, compliance, legal, and technology leaders to align AI adoption with assurance expectations.
• Provide expert guidance to project teams on balancing innovation with oversight.
• Support adoption enablement programs by embedding assurance awareness and practices.
• Define and track assurance KPIs and business impact (e.g., % of initiatives reviewed, remediation rates, assurance maturity, ROI, financial benefit).
• Report on AI assurance performance to senior management, risk committees, and regulators.
• Continuously refine AI methodologies based on lessons learned and regulatory feedback.

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Business Administration, Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, or related discipline.
• 12+ years in AI, digital transformation, or enterprise adoption in multinational organizations.
• Deep knowledge and proven track record of ML and generative AI full lifecycle development and deployment.
• Proven track record shaping adoption strategies and scaling initiatives in federated environments.
• Experience in regulated financial services institutions as in-house professionals or professional services firms (Big 4 and/or other leading consulting companies).
• Proven capability in change management, stakeholder engagement, and knowledge-sharing.
• Strong communication, story-telling, and facilitation skills across business and technical audiences.
• Strategic acumen balanced with hands‑on technical insight in risk measurement and assessment.
• Fluent English.

We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 years, we've worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If you're looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents and we can't wait to see the talents you can bring us.

Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you'll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion.

Together we:

• Do the right thingand are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
• Never settle,continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
• Are better together,we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

In line with our Fair Pay Charter,we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.

• Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.
• Time-offincluding annual leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum.
• Flexible workingoptions based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
• Proactive wellbeing supportthrough Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
• A continuous learning cultureto support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning.
• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation,one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.