AI Product Owner Director
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About the Role
CIBC is looking for a Director, AI Product Owner to lead the prioritization and sequencing of AI operations use cases within the Advanced Analytics Delivery team. This role involves owning the product backlog, maintaining a roadmap, and driving reusability of AI assets across lines of business.
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Responsibilities
- Own the prioritization and sequencing of the operations use case backlog based on ROI, feasibility, and reusability
- Translate stakeholder needs into structured product briefs and define clear success criteria for each use case
- Maintain an up to date product roadmap across all AI solutions, making it visible and actionable for leadership and team members
- Identify and productize reusable components, models, and patterns to accelerate future delivery and maximize value
- Act as the external face of the AI portfolio, communicating capabilities and pipeline to operations stakeholders
- Collaborate with the Senior Director to report on portfolio progress, ROI realization, and capacity planning for leadership
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in product management with a track record of owning roadmaps and making strategic prioritization decisions in data, analytics, or AI environments
- Technically fluent: understand how AI solutions are constructed and can engage credibly with data scientists and ML engineers
- Deep familiarity with operations workflows, ideally within financial services
- Decisive and clear: reduce ambiguity by making informed decisions and documenting them
- Passionate about people: excel at stakeholder management and comfortable presenting product strategies to senior leadership
- Degree or diploma in Computer Science
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What You'll Be Doing
- As a Director, AI Product Owner within the Advanced Analytics Delivery, Artificial Intelligence team, you'll play a pivotal role in shaping the direction of our AI product portfolio.
- You will own the prioritization and sequencing of a diverse backlog of operations use cases, ensuring the team is consistently focused on the most impactful and scalable solutions for the bank.
- Your day to day will involve translating business opportunities into actionable product decisions, maintaining a dynamic roadmap, and driving the reusability of AI assets across lines of business.
- You'll be the primary point of contact for stakeholders, communicating both capabilities and upcoming initiatives, and partnering with leadership to report on progress and strategic allocation.
How You'll Succeed
- Backlog Ownership & Prioritization – Continuously prioritize and sequence the operations use case backlog based on ROI, feasibility, and reusability.
- Product Requirements & Success Criteria – Translate stakeholder needs into structured product briefs and define clear success criteria for each use case.
- Portfolio Road mapping – Maintain an up to date product roadmap across all AI solutions, making it visible and actionable for leadership and team members.
- Reusability & Asset Strategy – Identify and productize reusable components, models, and patterns to accelerate future delivery and maximize value.
- Stakeholder Communication – Act as the external face of the AI portfolio, communicating capabilities and pipeline to operations stakeholders and guiding engagement.
- Leadership Partnership – Collaborate with the Senior Director to report on portfolio progress, ROI realization, and capacity planning for leadership.
Who You Are
- You can demonstrate 7+ years of experience in product management. You bring a track record of owning roadmaps and making strategic prioritization decisions in data, analytics, or AI environments.
- You are technically fluent. You understand how AI solutions are constructed and can engage credibly with data scientists and ML engineers, even if you don’t build models yourself.
- You look beyond the moment. You understand operations workflows. Ideally, you have deep familiarity with operations within financial services.
- You are decisive and clear. You reduce ambiguity for your team by making informed decisions, documenting them, and moving forward efficiently.
- You're passionate about people. You excel at stakeholder management and are comfortable presenting product strategies to senior leadership.
- You have a degree or diploma in Computer Science. Your educational background supports your technical and strategic expertise.
- Values matter to you. You bring your real self to work, and you live our values trust, teamwork, and accountability.
What CIBC Offers
- We work to recognize you in meaningful, personalized ways including a competitive salary, incentive pay, banking benefits, a benefits program, defined benefit pension plan, an employee share purchase plan, a vacation offering, wellbeing support, and MomentMakers.
- Our spaces and technological toolkit will make it simple to bring together great minds to create innovative solutions.
- We cultivate a culture where you can express your ambition through initiatives like Purpose Day; a paid day off dedicated for you to use to invest in your growth and development.
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