linkedin
Senior Manager, AI
ML6 Search + Talent Advisory
Greater Toronto Area, CAN
Full Time
Manager
Yesterday
AI StrategyMachine LearningGenerative AILarge Language ModelsAI AgentsRAG Architectures
Free
Job Fit Check
Base Career helps you apply smarter for this job.
?%
Ready to ScanKey skills for this role
AI StrategyMachine LearningGenerative AI
About the Role
Our client, a market-leading North American organization, is seeking a Senior Manager, AI to build and lead an enterprise AI program. The role involves defining AI strategy, building the team, driving adoption, and establishing governance.
Key Skills for This Role
AI StrategyMachine LearningGenerative AILarge Language ModelsAI AgentsRAG Architectures
Responsibilities
- Define and execute the organization's enterprise AI strategy, roadmap, and operating model
- Lead the development and growth of an emerging AI practice, including AI engineers, product resources, and external partners
- Partner with executive stakeholders to identify, prioritize, and deliver high impact AI use cases
- Establish governance frameworks, best practices, and responsible AI standards
- Drive AI literacy and adoption initiatives across the organization
- Evaluate emerging technologies and make recommendations on architecture and build versus buy decisions
- Oversee end to end delivery of AI solutions from opportunity assessment through optimization
- Build and mature an AI Centre of Excellence
- Establish success metrics and communicate progress to senior leadership
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in software engineering, solution architecture, data, AI, or related technology leadership roles
- Proven experience building, delivering, or scaling AI, Machine Learning, Generative AI, or LLM solutions in production
- Demonstrated success developing technology strategies, roadmaps, or transformation programs from concept through execution
- Experience leading technical teams and influencing stakeholders across complex enterprise environments
- Strong understanding of modern AI technologies including LLMs, AI agents, RAG architectures, enterprise AI platforms, and cloud based AI services
- Familiarity with platforms such as Azure AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI, OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, Microsoft Copilot, or similar
- Ability to balance technical depth with business acumen
- Strong communication and executive presence
- Experience navigating ambiguity and building new capabilities
Full Job Posting
The Opportunity
- Our client, a market leading North American organization, is looking to add a Senior Manager, AI to their growing technology leadership team.
- Unique opportunity to build and lead an enterprise AI program at a pivotal stage; executive sponsorship and investment already secured.
- Shape how AI is leveraged across the business, influence technology decisions, and build an AI function that delivers measurable value.
What You'll Be Doing
- Define and execute the organization's enterprise AI strategy, roadmap, and operating model.
- Lead the development and growth of an emerging AI practice, including AI engineers, product resources, and external delivery partners.
- Partner closely with executive stakeholders to identify, prioritize, and deliver high impact AI use cases.
- Establish governance frameworks, best practices, and responsible AI standards.
- Drive AI literacy and adoption initiatives.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and make recommendations on architecture and build versus buy decisions.
- Oversee end to end delivery of AI solutions.
- Build and mature an AI Centre of Excellence.
- Work with senior leadership to establish success metrics and communicate progress.
- Serve as a trusted advisor to technical and non technical stakeholders.
What You'll Need To Be Successful
- 8+ years of experience in software engineering, solution architecture, data, AI, or related technology leadership roles.
- Proven experience building, delivering, or scaling AI, Machine Learning, Generative AI, or LLM solutions in production.
- Demonstrated success developing technology strategies, roadmaps, or transformation programs.
- Experience leading technical teams and influencing stakeholders across complex enterprise environments.
- Strong understanding of modern AI technologies including LLMs, AI agents, RAG architectures, enterprise AI platforms, and cloud based AI services.
- Familiarity with platforms such as Azure AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI, OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, Microsoft Copilot, or similar.
- Ability to balance technical depth with business acumen.
- Strong communication and executive presence.
- Experience navigating ambiguity and building new capabilities.
- A builder's mindset with passion for innovation.
Compensation Range
- CAD 175,000 CAD 215,000 + Bonus.
Apply for this job in 1 click
Skip the repetitive application forms
Install the Base Career Chrome Extension and autofill job applications across major job boards with your profile.
Trusted by over 500,000 job seekers on Base Career