Citigroup, Inc

Head of AI Customer Experience

Citigroup, Inc • $170K — $300K *
Finance & Insurance
11 - 15 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 15+ years of experience in financial services or retail banking
  • Proven change leader with a flexible and resilient approach
  • Passionate about transforming consumer banking
  • Managerial experience leading high-performing teams
  • Significant experience in digital product strategy and execution
  • Strong collaborative skills across multiple stakeholders
  • Ability to manage large-scale business initiatives from concept to execution
  • Strategic and analytical thinker with a focus on continuous improvement

Responsibilities

  • Lead the strategy and roadmap for AI-powered customer experiences
  • Translate customer needs and business priorities into engaging products
  • Own product strategy and business outcomes for customer interactions
  • Define personalization and AI capabilities for customer experiences
  • Partner with cross-functional leaders to drive execution
  • Build alignment and influence strategic decisions in complex environments
  • Innovate customer journeys across acquisition and engagement
  • Establish metrics to evaluate customer and business outcomes
  • Ensure responsible AI deployment with compliance teams
  • Develop a culture of accountability and innovation within the team
  • Serve as a thought leader for AI-powered customer engagement

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • 401(k) retirement plan
  • Life, accident, and disability insurance
  • Wellness programs
  • Paid time off including vacation and sick leave
  • Paid holidays
Full Job Description
Are you energized by greenfield challenges? Do you thrive in ambiguity and enjoy building products that redefine how customers engage with financial services?

This role is responsible for helping define what a One Citi customer experience looks like in an AI-first world. The leader will bring together customer insights, business strategy, data, and emerging AI technologies to create experiences that anticipate customer needs, simplify financial decisions, and help customers realize the full value of their relationship with Citi. Working across businesses and functions, this individual will drive the strategy, roadmap, investments, and execution required to deliver a more connected, personalized, and intelligent customer experience at scale. The successful candidate will navigate ambiguity, influence senior stakeholders, and build alignment across product, technology, data, design, and business teams to transform a bold vision into measurable customer and business outcomes.

Responsibilities
  • Lead the strategy, vision, and multi-year roadmap for AI-powered customer experiences, helping define what a One Citi customer experience looks like in an AI-first world.
  • Translate customer needs, business priorities, and emerging AI technologies into products and experiences that deepen engagement, simplify financial decisions, and increase customer value.
  • Own the product strategy, investment priorities, and business outcomes for AI-powered customer experiences across engagement, rewards, benefits, lending, servicing, and intelligent customer interactions.
  • Define how Citi leverages personalization, recommendations, conversational AI, and emerging agentic capabilities to deliver more relevant, proactive, and contextual customer experiences.
  • Partner with business, technology, data, architecture, design, and operations leaders to drive execution from concept through delivery, adoption, and value realization.
  • Build alignment across multiple organizations and influence strategic decisions in an environment characterized by complexity, ambiguity, and competing priorities.
  • Lead customer journey innovation across acquisition, onboarding, engagement, servicing, and relationship growth, creating experiences that help customers realize the full value of their relationship with Citi.
  • Establish success metrics, adoption goals, and performance measures to evaluate customer, business, and AI outcomes.
  • Partner with Risk, Controls, Compliance, Legal, and Fraud teams to enable responsible AI deployment and ensure adherence to regulatory and governance requirements.
  • Build, lead, and develop a high-performing team of product managers and product leaders, creating a culture of accountability, innovation, and customer obsession.
  • Foster an inclusive, collaborative, and high-performance environment that encourages experimentation, continuous learning, talent development, and challenging the status quo.
  • Serve as a thought leader and trusted advisor to senior executives, helping shape Citi's long-term strategy for AI-powered customer engagement and experiences.


Qualifications:
  • 15+ years experience
  • Accomplished change leader, can execute flawlessly in ambiguous and changing environments and demonstrates both a flexible and resilient approach
  • Must possess passion for the transformation of the consumer banking business, with high energy
  • Managerial experience
  • Significant relevant experience driving strategy and execution of digital products, client segments, channel distribution, and customer experience in the retail banking/financial services space
  • Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively across multiple stakeholders and organizations - pushes self and colleagues to higher levels of performance by actively listening and engaging in constructive dialogue.
  • Treats people with respect and assumes the intentions of others are based on common purpose and shared goals
  • Demonstrated ability to manage and drive large scale, complex business initiatives -taking initiatives from concept to execution.
  • Ability to balance strategic thinking with process-oriented execution, with a high attention to detail and quality on both internal team work and external products delivered to the market
  • Strategic, analytical, and systematic thinker who consistently pushes the status quo and constructively challenges the team to drive change and continuous improvement and innovation


Education:
  • Bachelor's/University degree, Master's degree preferred


This job description provides a high-level review of the types of work performed. Other job-related duties may be assigned as required.

Job Family Group:
Business Strategy, Management & Administration

Job Family:
Business Management

Time Type:
Full time

Primary Location:
New York New York United States

Primary Location Full Time Salary Range:
$170,000.00 - $300,000.00

In addition to salary, Citi's offerings may also include, for eligible employees, discretionary and formulaic incentive and retention awards. Citi offers competitive employee benefits, including: medical, dental & vision coverage; 401(k); life, accident, and disability insurance; and wellness programs. Citi also offers paid time off packages, including planned time off (vacation), unplanned time off (sick leave), and paid holidays. For additional information regarding Citi employee benefits, please visit citibenefits.com. Available offerings may vary by jurisdiction, job level, and date of hire.

Most Relevant Skills
Please see the requirements listed above.

Other Relevant Skills
For complementary skills, please see above and/or contact the recruiter.

Anticipated Posting Close Date:
Oct 08, 2026

About Citigroup, Inc

Citigroup is a financial services holding company that provides financial products and services. The company operates through two segments, Global Consumer Banking (GCB) and Institutional Clients Group (ICG). The GCB segment offers traditional banking services to retail customers through retail banking, commercial banking, Citi-branded cards, and Citi retail services. The ICG segment offers various banking, and financial products and services to corporate, institutional, public sector, and high-net-worth clients. This segment provides wholesale banking products and services, including fixed-income and equity sales and trading, foreign exchange, prime brokerage, derivative services, equity and fixed-income research, corporate lending, investment banking, and advisory services, private banking, cash management, trade finance, and securities services. Citi is committed to sustainability and social responsibility, and the company invests in initiatives that promote economic progress.

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