CIBC

Vice-President, AI Products

CIBC$150K — $200K *
Finance & Insurance
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • University degree, MBA, or B.S./M.Sc. in quantitative disciplines (Statistics, Applied Science/Math, Engineering)
  • Proficient in analytical tools and predictive modeling for business problem-solving
  • Experience with large datasets (structured and unstructured) and relevant tools
  • Background in leading Agile teams with a focus on user-centered design
  • Extensive experience in Strategy, Consulting, or Client roles within client-focused industries
  • Deep understanding of the financial services industry and related client strategies
  • Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills to present and influence effectively

Responsibilities

  • Design and maintain a comprehensive library for AI/ML assets ensuring safe deployment and auditability
  • Act as the business product owner for AI/ML solutions, facilitating collaboration across domains
  • Establish standardized frameworks for model development and deployment adhering to best practices
  • Work with Data & AI and Risk teams to align on model validation and ongoing management standards
  • Ensure responsible data usage and compliance with AI ethics through collaboration with Risk and Compliance teams
  • Track KPIs and establish feedback loops for continuous improvement of AI models
  • Lead the development of Generative AI capabilities tailored to PBB-specific business challenges

Benefits

  • Personalized recognition and rewards including competitive salary and incentive pay
  • Comprehensive benefits program, defined benefit pension plan, and banking benefits
  • Employee share purchase plan and vacation offerings
  • Support for wellbeing and social recognition initiatives
  • Opportunities for personal and professional growth through programs like Purpose Day
Full Job Description

Reporting to the Head, Personal and Business Banking (PBB) AI, Data and Analytics Office, the Vice-President, AI Products will be responsible for leading the development of robust, reusable artificial intelligence tools and foundational capabilities to support Personal and Business Banking (PBB). This role is accountable for driving the creation and deployment of scalable AI solutions that empower teams to deliver seamless, personalized experiences to clients. The role will lead a cross-functional agile crew comprised of engineers from enterprise and PBB technology, business SMEs, change management experts and design leads. The squads in this crew will set the strategic vision for AI enablement, and ensure best-in-class technology practices are adopted throughout the organization.

The scope of accountability spans across PBB  Channels and strategic client segments as well as Simplii Financial to drive outstanding results in the areas of growth, revenue, and customer satisfaction.

What You’ll be Doing

Product Ownership & AI Solutions Lifecycle Management

  • Design, implement, and maintain a comprehensive library for AI/Machine Learning (ML) assets throughout their lifecycle, ensuring traceability, safe deployment, reuse, auditability, and rollback capabilities.

  • Serve as the business product owner for AI/ML deployment within PBB, facilitating cross-domain collaboration and enabling the use of a reusable library of model components and APIs to scale AI solutions across the business.

  • Develop and enforce standardized frameworks for model development, testing, and deployment aligned with enterprise-wide standards and best practices.

  • Collaborate closely with enterprise Data & AI and Risk teams to align on standards for AI model validation, monitoring, and ongoing management.

  • Partner with Risk and Compliance teams to ensure responsible data usage, adherence to privacy requirements, and compliance with AI ethics standards across all AI/ML initiatives.

  • Define, track, and manage objective and key results and KPIs and establish continuous feedback loops to drive ongoing improvement in model performance and business outcomes.

Generative AI / Agentic Services Configuration

  • Establish and lead a Generative AI capability focused on consuming, configuring, and applying enterprise-grade Large Language Models (LLM) services and foundational AI capabilities — such as Document Intelligence and Voice Recognition — to PBB-specific business problems and use cases.

  • Partner with the AI Platforms Hub on roadmap alignment and PBB-specific requirements, ensuring PBB's needs are clearly represented in the development and evolution of enterprise AI assets.

  • Collaborate with Digital and Client Solutions teams to embed Generative AI features into client-facing and employee interfaces, enhancing user experience and operational efficiency.

  • Drive the development and deployment of LLM use cases including knowledge retrieval, automated summarization, and conversational support for clients, leveraging enterprise foundational capabilities.

Responsible AI / Agentic Solutions

  • Develop and implement responsible AI frameworks to ensure transparency, mitigate bias, and enhance explainability of AI-driven outcomes across all solutions.

  • Continuously experiment with and evaluate emerging technologies, such as adaptive personalization, to advance and evolve the organization's AI capabilities and improve customer experiences.

Testing & Experimentation

  • Provide safe, repeatable test environments and a robust experimentation framework for new capabilities, enabling teams to evaluate models, LLM prompts, and decision policies both pre-and post-release.

  • Establish clear guardrails and unbiased measurement standards to ensure rigorous, consistent testing and reliable assessment of AI solutions prior to deployment.

What We’re Looking For

  • University degree, MBA, or B.S./M.Sc. in quantitative disciplines such as Statistics, Applied Science/Math or Engineering.

  • Strong knowledge of analytical tools and predictive modelling including how they may be leveraged to solve business problems.

  • Experience in working with large datasets including both structured and unstructured data and knowledge of related tools.

  • Experience leading Agile business teams and employing user-centred design and end-to-end process thinking.

  • Extensive Strategy, Consulting and/or Client experience roles in Client focused industries. Proven ability to design and implement innovative and impactful client experience initiatives.

  • Comprehensive knowledge of the financial services industry, lines of business and client strategy and segments, products and services.

  • Strong understanding and experience analyzing research / sample based data.

  • Ability to judge quality of data, interpret complex quantitative information to draw meaningful conclusions.

  • Strong influential/negotiation skills sufficient to respond to client issues, lead and shape business decisions using informed client insights and data driven solutions.

  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to develop unique solutions to complex and abstract issues and to provide interpretive advice to business and functional leaders.

  • Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to convey technical information in understandable terms, document insights, influence action, and effectively balance operating as a change champion and consultant to the business through strong relationship management.

  • Demonstrated leadership and people management skills, fostering and retaining top talent in a fast-paced, highly competitive environment.

What CIBC Offers

At CIBC, your goals are a priority. We start with your strengths and ambitions as an employee and strive to create opportunities to tap into your potential. We aspire to give you a career, rather than just a paycheck.

  • We work to recognize you in meaningful, personalized ways including a competitive salary, incentive pay, banking benefits, a benefits program*, defined benefit pension plan*, an employee share purchase plan, a vacation offering, wellbeing support, and MomentMakers, our social, points-based recognition program.

  • Our spaces and technological toolkit will make it simple to bring together great minds to create innovative solutions that make a difference for our clients.

  • We cultivate a culture where you can express your ambition through initiatives like Purpose Day; a paid day off dedicated for you to use to invest in your growth and development.

*Subject to plan and program terms and conditions

Job Location

Toronto-81 Bay, 25th Floor

Employment Type

Regular

Weekly Hours

37.5

Skills

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

About CIBC

The Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce is a Canadian multinational banking and financial services corporation headquartered in Toronto, Ontario. The bank is headquartered at Commerce Court in the city's Financial District. CIBC's Institution Number is 010, and its SWIFT code is CIBCCATT. It is one of two Big Five banks founded in Toronto, the other being the Toronto-Dominion Bank. The Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce was formed through the June 1, 1961, merger of the Canadian Bank of Commerce and the Imperial Bank of Canada, the largest merger between chartered banks in Canadian history. The bank has four strategic business units: Canadian Personal and Business Banking, Canadian Commercial Banking and Wealth Management, U.S. Commercial Banking and Wealth Management, and Capital Markets. It has international operations in the United States, the Caribbean, Asia, and United Kingdom; Globally. CIBC serves more than eleven million clients, and has over 40,000 employees. The company ranks at number 172 on the Forbes Global 2000 listing.
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