Director, AI and Advanced Analytics

06/26/2025

Address:

320 S Canal Street

Job Family Group:

Data Analytics & Reporting

At BMO, we are shaping the future of financial services by harnessing the power of artificial intelligence and advanced analytics to drive smarter risk management, sharpen financial decision-making, and create enduring value for our clients and communities. As the Director of AI and Advanced Analytics within Finance and EPRM, you will be at the forefront of this transformation—leading a team of experts and deploying cutting-edge technologies that are ethical, responsible, and enterprise-aligned.

Why This Role Matters:

This is more than a leadership opportunity—it’s a mission-critical role that bridges deep technical excellence with business strategy. You will lead create AI roadmaps for EPRM and Finance directly influencing how we protect our institution and help our customers thrive. You’ll help shape how one of North America’s largest and most innovative banks leverages data to make impactful, forward-looking decisions.

What You’ll Gain:

• Strategic Impact: Work at the intersection of data science and executive strategy, influencing decisions at the highest levels of the organization.

• Innovation with Integrity: Champion Responsible AI practices that prioritize fairness, transparency, and regulatory alignment—setting a benchmark for ethical AI in financial services.

• World-Class Team Leadership: Help  build and lead a high-performing team with the tools, autonomy, and vision to drive impactful innovation at scale.

• Enterprise Collaboration: Collaborate across risk, finance, product, and technology teams to craft scalable solutions that are deeply integrated with business goals.

• Talent & Culture Development: Be a people-first leader who cultivates inclusive, growth-oriented team environments that reflect BMO’s purpose and values.

Who You Are:

You’re a visionary AI leader with a solid foundation in financial services, a deep commitment to ethical innovation, and a passion for leading people to greatness. You blend analytical depth with strategic clarity and thrive in building future-ready solutions that advance both business and society.

This is a HYBRID role

Key Responsibilities:

• Strategic Leadership: Develop and execute a comprehensive AI and machine learning strategy aligned with the enterprise, organization's risk and finance objectives.

• Drive the strategic vision, development, and implementation of advanced AI and machine learning solutions to enhance risk management and financial decision-making processes.

• Team Management: Lead, mentor, and manage a team of data scientists, analysts, and AI specialists to deliver high-impact AI and machine learning solutions.

• Innovation and Development: Drive the development of innovative AI models and machine learning techniques to solve complex risk and finance challenges.

• Responsible AI: Establish and maintain robust practices for Responsible AI to ensure ethical, transparent, and accountable use of AI technologies. Ensure AI solutions are fair, unbiased, and comply with regulatory requirements.

• Stakeholder Engagement: Communicate insights and recommendations to senior leadership and key stakeholders to inform strategic decision-making.

• Data Mining: Use data mining and extract usable data from valuable data sources to assess the feasibility of AI/ML solutions for improved processing and usage of organization data.

• Business Recommendations: Use analysis to provide recommendations and advice for business leaders to maintain market competitiveness.

• Product Collaboration: Collaborate with the product team and partners to understand and provide data-driven decision-making, business planning, and future roadmap.

• Culture and Values: Foster a culture aligned to BMO purpose, values, and strategy. Role model BMO values and behaviors in all that you do. Ensure alignment between values and behavior that fosters diversity and inclusion.

• Team Building: Build interdependent teams that collaborate across functional and operating groups to create the highest value for all stakeholders. Attract, retain, and enable the career development of top talent. Improve team performance, recognize and reward performance, coach employees, support their development, and manage poor performance.

• Enterprise-Level Operations: Align closely at a group/enterprise-wide level and serve as a senior specialist resource across BMO. Influence how teams/groups work together. Apply expertise and think creatively to address unique or ambiguous situations and find solutions to multiple, interdependent, complex problems. Communicate abstract concepts in simple terms. Foster strong internal and external networks and work with and across multiple teams to achieve business objectives. Anticipate trends and respond by implementing appropriate changes. Broader work or accountabilities may be assigned as needed

KEY Skills/ Education:

• Deep understanding of Risk management and Financial modeling.

• 12+ Years experience in AI data and Analytics within the financial industry. Seasoned expert with extensive industry knowledge.

• Expert level of proficiency in mathematics, statistics, operations research, deep learning, machine learning

• Financial Industry Knowledge: In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry, including regulatory requirements and emerging trends in AI and analytics.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with proven strong cross-team collaboration, and ability to influence using strong data-driven decision approaches.

• 5+ years experience in people- leadership roles: Proven track record of leading and managing high-performing teams. Technical leader viewed as a thought leader for innovation.

• Communication Skills: Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to convey complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders

• Education: Advanced degree (Master's or Ph.D.) in Data Science, Computer Science, Statistics, Math, or a related field.

Salary:

$153,600.00 - $285,600.00

Pay Type:

Salaried

The above represents BMO Financial Group’s pay range and type.

Salaries will vary based on factors such as location, skills, experience, education, and qualifications for the role, and may include a commission structure. Salaries for part-time roles will be pro-rated based on number of hours regularly worked. For commission roles, the salary listed above represents BMO Financial Group’s expected target for the first year in this position.

BMO Financial Group’s total compensation package will vary based on the pay type of the position and may include performance-based incentives, discretionary bonuses, as well as other perks and rewards. BMO also offers health insurance, tuition reimbursement, accident and life insurance, and retirement savings plans. To view more details of our benefits, please visit: https://jobs.bmo.com/global/en/Total-Rewards

About Us

At BMO we are driven by a shared Purpose: Boldly Grow the Good in business and life. It calls on us to create lasting, positive change for our customers, our communities and our people. By working together, innovating and pushing boundaries, we transform lives and businesses, and power economic growth around the world.

As a member of the BMO team you are valued, respected and heard, and you have more ways to grow and make an impact.  We strive to help you make an impact from day one – for yourself and our customers.  We’ll support you with the tools and resources you need to reach new milestones, as you help our customers reach theirs. From in-depth training and coaching, to manager support and network-building opportunities, we’ll help you gain valuable experience, and broaden your skillset.

To find out more visit us at http://jobs.bmo.com/us/en

BMO is proud to be an equal employment opportunity employer. We evaluate applicants without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or any other legally protected characteristics. We also consider applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.

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