AI Strategy & Transformation Leader

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Role Overview

The  AI Strategy & Transformation is a senior enterprise leader responsible for shaping how AI strategy is translated into scalable, high-impact outcomes across the organization. Reporting to the Head of AI Strategy and Portfolio, this role serves as a strategic partner—guiding portfolio direction, enabling transformation, and orchestrating internal and external capabilities to accelerate AI adoption and value realization. The role also supports AI is deployed responsibly by embedding governance, risk, compliance, privacy, and security requirements into enterprise AI portfolio, operating models, and delivery practices.

Core Responsibilities

Enterprise AI Strategy Enablement

Partner with the Head of AI Strategy to operationalize enterprise AI strategy through roadmaps, RAI principles, and transformation priorities.

Drive cross-business alignment to ensure AI initiatives reinforce a unified enterprise direction while enabling domain-specific tailoring.

Enable AI product/platform strategy execution by translating strategy into reusable enterprise capabilities, reference patterns, and adoption plans.

Responsible AI, Governance, Risk & Compliance

Partner with Risk, Compliance, Legal, Privacy, Security, and Model Risk Management to align AI initiatives with enterprise governance requirements and emerging regulatory expectations.

Establish and scale governance mechanisms (e.g., model inventory, approval workflows, controls, auditability, monitoring) that support safe and compliant AI deployments.

Portfolio Shaping, Value Realization & Measurement

Shape and prioritize high-impact AI use cases and transformation initiatives; ensure the pipeline balances quick wins, strategic bets, and foundational platform capabilities.

Implement measurement frameworks to evaluate business impact, efficiency, risk reduction, customer outcomes, and ROI for AI deployments; continuously inform strategy and solution improvements based on measurable outcomes.

Drive organizational engagement through outreach, workshops, and collaborative forums to instill an AI-first mindset and best practices at scale.

Transformation Enablement & Cross-Functional Delivery

Guide large, cross-functional AI programs to ensure alignment, execution discipline, and value realization across business and technology teams.

Identify and support breakthrough transformation initiatives (e.g., workforce transformation through advanced automation) to accelerate readiness and adoption across the organization.

Influence without direct authority to align stakeholders across business lines, enterprise architecture, engineering, data, operations, and risk functions.

Strategic Vendor & Ecosystem Leadership

Lead strategic AI vendor and ecosystem partnerships across hyperscalers, AI platforms, data providers, and system integrators.

Inform build-vs-buy decisions and enterprise investment trade-offs; ensure vendor choices align with architectural standards, responsible AI controls, and operating model requirements.

Preferred Qualifications

• 12–15 years of progressive experience spanning enterprise strategy, technology leadership, and large-scale transformation, with increasing responsibility at the executive or senior leadership level.

• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Engineering, Information Systems, Business Administration, or a closely related field; PhD preferred but not required.

• Demonstrated experience defining and operationalizing enterprise AI strategies, including generative AI, advanced analytics, and intelligent automation in complex, regulated environments.

• Proven track record of leading AI architecture and platform decisions at scale, including cloud-based AI services, data platforms, and integration patterns.

• Extensive experience partnering with C-suite leaders and business executives to translate strategy into measurable business outcomes and transformation roadmaps.

• Strong background in vendor and ecosystem management, including evaluation, governance, and delivery accountability across partners.

• Experience leading cross-functional teams and influencing without direct authority across business, technology, risk, compliance, privacy, and security functions.

• Deep understanding of responsible AI, model governance, security, and regulatory considerations, with the ability to embed these principles into enterprise architecture and operating models.

• Exceptional executive communication skills, with the ability to influence strategy, align stakeholders, and present complex technical concepts to non-technical audiences.

**The role offers a hybrid/flexible schedule, which means there's an in-office expectation of 3 or more days per week and the flexibility to work outside the office location for the other days.**

If there’s anything we can do to accommodate a disability during any portion of the application or hiring process, please refer to our disability accommodations for applicants.

Benefits: 

Our approach to benefits and total rewards considers our team members’ whole selves and what may be needed to thrive in and outside work. That's why our benefits are designed to help you and your family boost your health, protect your financial security and give you peace of mind. Our benefits include the following:

• Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)

• Basic term and optional term life insurance

• Short-term and long-term disability

• Pregnancy disability and parental leave

• 401(k) and employer-funded retirement plan

• Paid vacation (from two to five weeks depending on salary grade and tenure)

• Up to 11 paid holiday opportunities

• Adoption assistance

• Sick and Safe Leave accruals of one hour for every 30 worked, up to 80 hours per calendar year unless otherwise provided by law

Review our full benefits available by employment status here.

U.S. Bank is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or veteran status, and other factors protected under applicable law.

E-Verify

U.S. Bank participates in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security E-Verify program in all facilities located in the United States and certain U.S. territories. The E-Verify program is an Internet-based employment eligibility verification system operated by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Learn more about the E-Verify program.

U.S. Bank will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment. U.S. Bank conducts background checks consistent with applicable local laws, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance and the California Fair Chance Act as well as the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. U.S. Bank is subject to, and conducts background checks consistent with the requirements of Section 19 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act (FDIA). In addition, certain positions may also be subject to the requirements of FINRA, NMLS registration, Reg Z, Reg G, OFAC, the NFA, the FCPA, the Bank Secrecy Act, the SAFE Act, and/or federal guidelines applicable to an agreement, such as those related to ethics, safety, or operational procedures.

Applicants must be able to comply with U.S. Bank policies and procedures including the Code of Ethics and Business Conduct and related workplace conduct and safety policies.

Posting may be closed earlier due to high volume of applicants.