Desjardins Group

Artificial Intelligence Strategy Practice Leader

Desjardins Group$100K — $130K *
Finance & Insurance
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in a related field
  • Minimum of eight years of relevant experience
  • Alternative combinations of qualifications and experience may be considered
  • Knowledge of French is required
  • Advanced proficiency in English needed for duties and interactions

Benefits

  • 4 weeks of flexible vacation starting in the first year
  • Defined benefit pension plan for stable retirement income
  • Group insurance including telemedicine services
  • Reimbursement for health and wellness expenses
  • Reimbursement for telework equipment
Full Job Description
As an Artificial Intelligence Strategy Practice Leader, you play a key role in the Office of the Chief Data Officer, which helps various sectors across the organization generate, prioritize and implement analytics and AI initiatives. Your mandate is to help teams take full advantage of data and AI to achieve their business objectives. You work closely with business partners to understand their challenges, identify opportunities and align analytical efforts with the organization's strategic priorities. You also play a strategic role with senior management and decision-making bodies. You take part in governance committees, recommend priorities to design and prioritize AI initiatives and help update the organization's strategic and technological governance documents. This is a strategic position that requires expertise in AI and AI strategy, along with the ability to work in a complex and dynamic environment. More specifically, you'll be required to:
  • Help business sectors create, prioritize and adopt AI opportunities, aligned with business priorities.
  • Help business sectors develop their AI strategies.
  • Act as the main point of contact for AI between the business sectors and the Office of Desjardins Group's Chief Data and Analytics Officer.
  • Monitor market trends and internal AI activity across business sectors and support functions to identify analytical opportunities.
  • Hold brainstorming sessions to explore process-focused AI opportunities in different business sectors and decide which projects to prioritize.
  • Create mandate sheets for AI opportunities, capturing the business goal, context, expected value, data requirements, and level of complexity.


What we offer*
  • Competitive salary and annual bonus
  • 4 weeks of flexible vacation starting in the first year
  • Defined benefit pension plan that provides predictable, stable income throughout retirement
  • Group insurance including telemedicine
  • Reimbursement of health and wellness expenses and telework equipment

* Benefits apply based on eligibility criteria.

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What you bring to the table
  • Bachelor's degree in a related field: data science, engineering or business administration with a specialization in AI
  • A minimum of eight years of relevant experience
  • Please note that other combinations of qualifications and relevant experience may be considered
  • Experience in managing cross-sector projects, leading teams and communicating with senior management
  • Experience analyzing business processes to identify pain points, inefficiencies, and errors, and find tangible, value-added AI opportunities
  • Experience working collaboratively and building strong partnerships with various sectors of the organization
  • Experience providing support as part of a data- and analytics-driven organizational transformation
  • Experience in AI consulting
  • Knowledge of French is required
  • Advanced proficiency of English due to the nature of the duties or work tools or because the position involves interactions with English-speaking partners, members and/or clients
  • Expertise in identifying and exploiting AI opportunities related to tech trends
  • Knowledge of analytics tools (machine learning, visualization) and cloud-based data platforms
  • Knowledge of the banking, wealth management and/or insurance industries


Trade Union (If applicable)

Job Family
Data (FG)

Unposting Date
2026-07-17

About Desjardins Group

Desjardins Group is a Canadian cooperative financial group with headquarters in Montreal, Quebec. It was founded in 1900 and has since grown to become the largest cooperative financial group in Canada, with over 7 million members and clients. The group offers a range of financial services including banking, insurance, wealth management, and investment services. Desjardins Group operates primarily in Quebec and Ontario, but also has a presence in other Canadian provinces as well as in the United States and Europe. The group is committed to social responsibility and sustainability, and has implemented various initiatives to promote these values.
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