Job Summary

Key Requirements for Accelaration :
We are looking for a dynamic and experienced professional to champion the adoption and scaling of AI across the Bank. The ideal candidate will bring a strong track record of delivering AI into production, exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills, collaborative ways of working, building momentum and confidence in AI across the bank.
Key Requirements
•    Proven Delivery Track Record: 13+ years in Data/AI with a demonstrable record of developing and deploying AI solutions into production across multiple jurisdictions, supporting enterprise transformation, change management and successful adoption of AI.
•    Technical Depth: Strong knowledge of traditional and generative AI across the full lifecycle.
•    Regulated Financial Services Experience: Proven track record of delivering AI solutions in regulated financial services institutions (banks, insurance companies, asset managers, security brokers and/or regulated FinTech/digital asset firms) and within institutional grade risk and compliance frameworks –as a member of an in-house team or professional services firm (Big 4 and/or other leading consulting firms).
•    Influencing and Stakeholder Management: Proven ability to inspire confidence – driving adoption and scaling of AI.  Experienced with translating business requirements into AI opportunities by engaging with business heads, technology teams, and adoption communities, supported with KPIs, and adoption insights.
•    Communication and Collaboration:  Exceptional storytelling, stakeholder management, and leadership - fostering cross-functional collaboration in a federated organisation, building strong working relationships across the bank.
•    Positive Energy: Optimistic and inspirational, fostering a collaborative, solutions-driven culture that builds momentum and confidence across the organisation.
•    Responsible AI: While prior Responsible AI experience is not mandatory, candidates must show clear motivation to ensure that all solutions adhere to safe AI standards.
•    Continuous Learning: Demonstrates a growth mindset with a commitment to ongoing upskilling in both AI technologies and AI assurance.

About Standard Chartered

We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 years, we've worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If you're looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents and we can't wait to see the talents you can bring us.

Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you'll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion.

Together we:

• Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
• Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
• Are better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

What we offer

In line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.

• Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.
• Time-off including annual leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum.
• Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
• Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
• A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning.
• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.