Senior Manager, AI Enablement and Scalability
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About the Role
BMO Financial Group is seeking a Senior Manager, AI Enablement and Scalability to drive AI adoption and scale AI investments across InvestorLine. You will own business enablement strategy, lead change management, and partner across lines of business to extend AI initiatives.
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Responsibilities
- Own business enablement strategy and execution for AI across InvestorLine, driving measurable, value accretive adoption of internal AI tools
- Lead change management efforts to embed AI into workflows, including communications, activation plans, and champion networks
- Define and execute the AI Learning & Development strategy, including role based learning paths, workshops, and capability building programs
- Build and maintain a centralized AI knowledge ecosystem (e.g., use case libraries, prompt/skill/agent libraries, playbooks)
- Partner cross functionally to identify practical, role relevant AI use cases that improve productivity and decision making
- Partner with technology, data science, AI, and risk teams to activate value accretive internal use cases
- Establish and track adoption and impact metrics, translating insights into actionable direction for leadership
- Reinforce responsible AI usage aligned to enterprise governance, risk, and data privacy requirements
- Design the future state agentic operating model for InvestorLine
- Partner across Wealth and BMO business & technology teams to identify shared AI opportunities and overlapping demand
Requirements
- Minimum of six years of relevant experience and post secondary degree in related field or equivalent
- Minimum of two years of management consulting experience, with an emphasis on AI; MBB experience is an asset
- Deep understanding of AI technology and delivery, including SDLC, agentic solution architecture, AI harness development
- Expert level understanding of modern applied AI capabilities and their application in business contexts
- Demonstrated experience driving adoption of AI tools, capabilities, and ways of working at scale
- Proven ability to operate cross functionally and influence senior stakeholders without direct authority
- Experience translating business needs into practical, scalable solutions
- Working knowledge of responsible AI, governance considerations, and data/privacy requirements in a regulated industry
- Verbal & written communication skills – Expert
- Analytical and problem solving skills – Expert
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Role Overview
- This role supports the advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AI) at BMO InvestorLine by empowering teams to understand, adopt, and leverage AI across workflows.
- The role reports into the Head of AI, Digital Investing, and owns two core mandates: AI business enablement and scalability of AI investments.
AI Business Enablement
- Own business enablement strategy and execution for AI across InvestorLine, driving measurable, value accretive adoption of internal AI tools.
- Lead change management efforts to embed AI into workflows, including communications, activation plans, and champion networks.
- Define and execute the AI Learning & Development strategy, including role based learning paths, workshops, speaker series, and ongoing capability building programs.
- Build and maintain a centralized AI knowledge ecosystem (e.g., use case libraries, prompt/skill/agent libraries, playbooks, best practices).
- Partner cross functionally across a highly matrixed business to identify practical, role relevant AI use cases.
- Partner with technology, data science, AI, and risk teams to activate value accretive internal use cases with pace.
- Establish and track adoption and impact metrics, translating insights into clear, actionable direction for leadership.
- Reinforce responsible AI usage aligned to enterprise governance, risk, and data privacy requirements.
- Design the future state agentic operating model for InvestorLine, including a pragmatic, multi stage operationalization approach.
- Continuously evolve enablement approaches based on feedback, usage patterns, and emerging AI capabilities.
AI Scalability & Enterprise Alignment
- Partner across Wealth and BMO business & technology teams to identify shared AI opportunities and overlapping demand.
- Lead across multiple lines of business to shape initiatives with scalability in mind.
- Support collaboration on AI initiatives by bringing clarity to scope, ownership, and delivery approach.
- Lead the development of cost sharing and value attribution approaches for jointly developed capabilities.
- Define what elements of a solution are scalable versus what requires tailored builds.
- Establish repeatable approaches for extending AI initiatives beyond InvestorLine.
- Work within and adapt to the evolving Wealth and BMO AI landscape.
- Maintain awareness of external trends and approaches to scalable AI deployment.
Qualifications
- Minimum of six years of relevant experience and post secondary degree in related field or equivalent.
- Minimum of two years of management consulting experience, with an emphasis on AI; MBB experience is an asset.
- Deep understanding of AI technology and delivery, including SDLC, agentic solution architecture, AI harness development.
- Expert level understanding of modern applied AI capabilities and their application in business contexts.
- Demonstrated experience driving adoption of AI tools, capabilities, and ways of working at scale.
- Proven ability to operate cross functionally and influence senior stakeholders without direct authority.
- Experience translating business needs into practical, scalable solutions.
- Working knowledge of responsible AI, governance considerations, and data/privacy requirements within a highly regulated industry.
- Verbal & written communication skills – Expert.
- Analytical and problem solving skills – Expert.
Culture & Ways of Working
- Acts with a strong sense of ownership and accountability for outcomes.
- Highly collaborative, with the ability to build trust and influence across business, technology, and risk partners.
- Comfortable operating in ambiguity and shaping structure where it does not yet exist.
- Balances strategic thinking with hands on execution.
- Maintains a client and employee first mindset when designing and scaling AI enabled ways of working.
- Continuously learns and adapts as AI capabilities and industry practices evolve.
Salary
- CAD 103,200.00 CAD 192,000.00 annually.
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