Head of AI Strategy and Portfolio

 

At U.S. Bank, we’re on a journey to do our best. Helping the customers and businesses we serve to make better and smarter financial decisions and enabling the communities we support to grow and succeed.  We believe it takes all of us to bring our shared ambition to life, and each person is unique in their potential. A career with U.S. Bank gives you a wide, ever-growing range of opportunities to discover what makes you thrive at every stage of your career. Try new things, learn new skills and discover what you excel at—all from Day One.

Job Description

We are seeking an exceptional leader to serve as the Head of AI Strategy and Portfolio, overseeing the strategy and portfolio for all AI-driven products and platforms across our enterprise. Reporting directly to the Chief AI Officer, this role is pivotal in developing and harmonizing AI strategies, optimizing portfolios, evangelizing best practices, and enabling large transformational programs. The Head of AI strategy and Portfolio engages with business line leadership to ensure the organization leverages AI for innovation, operational excellence, and sustainable growth.

This role will own the future of how one of America’s largest banks leverages AI to serve customers, manage risk, and transform operations—delivering scalable, reusable, and extraordinary digital experiences at unprecedented scale.

The Head of AI Strategy and Portfolio will have overall responsibility of enterprise-wide AI portfolio across all business lines and will define, lead, and scale strategies for all AI-powered products across the bank. It will be central to the organization’s ambitions to transform through AI. By driving a unified strategy, fostering responsible innovation, and tracking effectiveness, this leader ensures AI delivers maximum value and prepares teams for radical new ways of working and creating value at scale, all while maintaining the highest standards of security, compliance, and operational excellence.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

AI Product Strategy & Vision

• AI Strategy & Vision
• Develop, operationalize, and harmonize a comprehensive AI strategy that supports the enterprise mission and business objectives, ensuring a unified approach across all business units.
• Facilitate organizational alignment and consistency in AI adoption, standards, and execution, while supporting tailored solutions for specific needs.
• Collaborate with partners to define strategies for AI evangelization & Ways of Thinking
• Lead knowledge-sharing efforts to build enthusiasm and capability organization-wide.

Portfolio Optimization & outreach

• AI Portfolio Optimization & Outreach
• Manage and optimize the enterprise AI portfolio; proactively identify, evaluate, and champion high-value AI transformation opportunities.
• Drive organizational engagement through outreach, workshops, and collaborative forums to instill an AI-first mindset and best practices.

Synthetic Data stores

• Synthetic Data & Experimentation
• Build and oversee frameworks for synthetic data that enable responsible and accelerated AI experimentation while maintaining compliance and security.

Tracking AI Effectiveness, Governance, Risk & Compliance

• Align AI initiatives with governance, risk, and compliance frameworks, championing responsible AI use and ethical standards.
• Implement robust performance measurement frameworks to evaluate the impact, efficiency, and ROI of all AI deployments.
• Continuously inform strategy and solution improvements based on measurable outcomes and data-driven insights.
• Partner with Risk and Compliance organizations to influence and adopt standards to emergent AI landscape and promote internally to all teams engaged in building AI solutions for the Bank

Strategic Initiatives Enablement

• Identify and support breakthrough technology initiatives e.g., workforce transformation through advanced automation, accelerating experimentation and readiness across the organization.
• Cross-Functional Engagement
• Partner with business unit leadership to translate organizational needs into actionable AI solutions, fostering collaboration across domains.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Senior executive experience in AI, digital transformation, or strategic technology leadership at enterprise scale.
• Deep expertise in AI technologies, synthetic data, automation, advanced analytics.
• Thorough understanding of governance, risk management, compliance, and ethical AI principles.
• Proven success in portfolio management, cross-functional collaboration, and change management.
• Outstanding communication and stakeholder engagement skills, with demonstrated capacity to educate, inspire, and influence at all levels.
• Strategic thinker and results-driven operator, skilled in driving transformation from ideation through full-scale implementation.
• Willingness, desire and ability to travel 20% domestically
• The role offers a hybrid/flexible schedule, which means there's an in-office expectation of 3 or more days per week in our St. Louis, Chicago or Minneapolis office

PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCES

• Proven track record delivering enterprise-scale AI product portfolios (preferably in top-tier financial services), including successful AI transformations in highly regulated environments.
• Deep understanding of banking, operations, risk, and compliance—pairing technical fluency with business and regulatory acumen.

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 (some may vary based on role, location or hours):

• 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

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.

The salary range reflects figures based on the primary location, which is listed first. The actual range for the role may differ based on the location of the role. In addition to salary, U.S. Bank offers a comprehensive benefits package, including incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase 401(k) contribution and pension (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). Pay Range: $214,795.00 - $252,700.00

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.