AI Lead – Generative AI Strategy

About the role

The AI Lead orchestrates and enables Artificial Intelligence initiatives across the bank, ensuring strategic alignment, regulatory compliance and measurable business value. Acting as the central liaison between the CEO and AI SPOCs across business and control functions, the role operates through functional leadership in a federated, highly regulated environment, providing enterprise-wide visibility to generative AI adoption without line management responsibility.

Key responsibilities

• Coordinate AI initiatives across business lines and control functions (Business, Risk, Compliance, Legal, IT, Operations, HR).
• Own and coordinate the bank's AI use-case portfolio, ensuring prioritization and alignment with strategic objectives.
• Liaise with Global AI and Group-level stakeholders, sharing relevant AI use cases and solutions from other countries.
• Orchestrate a federated AI operating model across distributed AI SPOCs without hierarchical authority.
• Ensure AI initiatives comply with banking regulations, supervisory expectations and Responsible AI principles.
• Contribute to enterprise AI standards, governance frameworks, ethical guidelines and model lifecycle principles aligned with model risk management.
• Define and monitor value-tracking indicators (adoption, impact, scalability) and prepare decision-ready materials for the CEO and executive forums.
• Monitor market, technological and regulatory developments (e.g. GenAI trends, EU AI Act) and advise senior leadership.

Required profile

• Experience in AI, advanced analytics, digital innovation or transformation roles within banking or other regulated industries.
• Proven ability to work in complex, matrix and federated environments.
• Strong senior stakeholder management skills, including with executive leadership.
• Ability to balance innovation, risk and compliance with a pragmatic, value-driven mindset.

Required skills

• Solid understanding of AI and GenAI concepts (LLMs, automation, decision-support systems) in financial services.
• Exposure to AI governance, model risk management or banking regulatory frameworks.
• Clear, structured communication suited to executive audiences.

What we offer

• Permanent employment contract, full-time (37 hours per week), hybrid in Milan.
• Annual base salary from 67,000 EUR, with variable pay linked to role, group and business-line outcomes.
• Smart working, meal vouchers, health and accident insurance, pension fund and welfare plan.
• Training, international talent program and a birthday day off.