Work Location:Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Hours:37.5
Line of Business:Business Management, Strategy & Support
Pay Details:$136,000 - $163,200 CAD
Job Description:Department OverviewThe AI Office is responsible for accelerating trusted AI at scale by providing enterprise governance, portfolio oversight, value realization, standards, and enabling capabilities. The team partners across Business, Technology, Data, Risk and Control functions to ensure AI initiatives are delivered at pace while operating within TD's risk appetite.
Job Description The AI Governance Lead is role responsible for enabling and accelerating AI delivery across TD's Big Rock programs through effective governance, risk orchestration, and cross-functional coordination. Acting as a key connector across lines of defense, the role ensures that AI initiatives move through risk-tiered pathways efficiently while maintaining adherence to enterprise standards, regulatory expectations, and TD's risk appetite.
This role will help shift AI governance to an enabling model that embeds controls early, removes unnecessary friction, promotes reuse, and supports the safe scaling of AI capabilities across the enterprise.
Accountabilities Enterprise AI Governance & Risk Enablement - Lead the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of TD's first-line AI governance framework supporting Big Rock and enterprise AI initiatives.
- Operationalize AI policies, standards, controls, intake processes, risk tiering methodologies, and governance workflows.
- Manage risk-proportionate governance pathways that accelerate delivery while maintaining effective oversight.
- Ensure governance processes align with TD's AI risk appetite, regulatory obligations, and enterprise risk management practices.
Big Rock AI Delivery Acceleration - Partner directly with Big Rock Business, Technology, Data and Risk Leads to identify governance bottlenecks and remove barriers to delivery.
- Support integrated planning, governance tollgates, approvals, and issue resolution across Big Rock initiatives.
- Drive adoption of standardized AI delivery and governance practices to improve speed, transparency, and consistency.
- Promote reuse of enterprise platforms, controls, data assets and governance artifacts across programs.
Cross-Line of Defense Leadership - Act as a liaison between 1LOD delivery teams and 2LOD oversight functions including AI Risk, Model Risk, Data Risk, Privacy, Compliance, Technology Risk, Operational Risk and Legal.
- Facilitate effective challenge and escalation processes while preserving clear accountability across lines of defense.
- Coordinate responses to emerging regulatory expectations, audit findings, and thematic reviews impacting AI initiatives.
- Build strong working relationships with Internal Audit to support independent assurance activities.
Governance Strategy & Executive Reporting - Develop executive-level reporting on AI governance maturity, risk posture, delivery velocity, issues, exceptions, and value realization.
- Prepare materials and recommendations for AI governance forums, executive steering committees, and senior leadership.
- Monitor portfolio-wide governance trends and recommend actions to improve delivery outcomes and governance effectiveness.
- Support enterprise decision-making through concise, data-driven insights and risk-informed recommendations.
AI Controls, Standards & Regulatory Readiness - Maintain oversight of enterprise AI governance standards, control requirements, and implementation effectiveness.
- Drive consistent application of governance requirements across the AI lifecycle from ideation through production monitoring.
- Support readiness for regulatory reviews, independent validation, and internal audits.
- Partner with stakeholders to ensure AI governance practices remain scalable, practical and aligned to evolving industry expectations.
Key Skills & Experience Experience - 10+ years of experience in governance, risk management, data, analytics, AI, technology, regulatory compliance, or related fields.
- Experience operating in a large, regulated financial institution.
- Demonstrated success leading enterprise-wide transformation initiatives involving multiple stakeholder groups.
- Strong understanding of AI, analytics, data governance, model governance, operational risk and technology governance practices.
Leadership Capabilities - Exceptional ability to influence without direct authority across diverse stakeholder groups.
- Proven ability to balance innovation, delivery speed, and risk management.
- Strong executive communication and presentation skills.
- Ability to translate complex risk and governance concepts into practical business solutions.
Technical & Governance Knowledge - Knowledge of AI governance frameworks, risk management principles, model lifecycle management, data governance and responsible AI practices.
- Familiarity with regulatory expectations impacting AI and model risk management.
- Understanding of three-lines-of-defense operating models and governance structures.
Success Measures The successful candidate will be measured on:
- Reduction in AI governance and approval cycle times.
- Increased adoption of standardized intake and risk-tiering processes.
- Percentage of AI initiatives progressing through governance pathways without rework.
- Improvement in stakeholder satisfaction across business, technology and control functions.
- Timely identification and escalation of material AI risks.
- Achievement of Big Rock delivery milestones while remaining within TD's risk appetite.
- Maturity and adoption of enterprise AI governance capabilities.
Our Total Rewards PackageOur Total Rewards package reflects the investments we make in our colleagues to help them and their families achieve their financial, physical, and mental well-being goals. Total Rewards at TD includes a base salary, variable compensation, and several other key plans such as health and well-being benefits, savings and retirement programs, paid time off, banking benefits and discounts, career development, and reward and recognition programs. Learn more
Additional Information:We're delighted that you're considering building a career with TD. Through regular development conversations, training programs, and a competitive benefits plan, we're committed to providing the support our colleagues need to thrive both at work and at home.
Please be advised that this job opportunity is subject to provincial regulation for employment purposes. It is imperative to acknowledge that each province or territory within the jurisdiction of Canada may have its own set of regulations, requirements.
Colleague Development If you're interested in a specific career path or are looking to build certain skills, we want to help you succeed. You'll have regular career, development, and performance conversations with your manager, as well as access to an online learning platform and a variety of mentoring programs to help you unlock future opportunities.
If you're passionate about helping clients and building deep, lasting relationships, TD offers diverse career paths where you can grow your expertise and make a meaningful impact.
We're committed to your success and foster a respectful workplace where diverse perspectives are valued, everyone has fair opportunities to grow, and you can unlock your full potential to achieve your career goals. Here at TD, we hire and develop the best.
Training & OnboardingWe will provide training and onboarding sessions to ensure that you've got everything you need to succeed in your new role.
Interview Process We'll reach out to candidates of interest to schedule an interview. We do our best to communicate outcomes to all applicants by email or phone call.
Accommodation Your accessibility is important to us. Please let us know if you'd like accommodations (including accessible meeting rooms, captioning for virtual interviews, etc.) to help us remove barriers so that you can participate throughout the interview process.
We look forward to hearing from you!
Language Requirement (Quebec only):Sans Objet
