Director, AI Acceleration, Business Strategy (PL)
About The Position
Schwab is seeking a Director to lead the AI Acceleration function within the Strategy & Innovation organization. The organization partners with executive leadership and business units to shape Schwab’s direction and drive high-priority, cross-enterprise initiatives. The AI Strategy, Acceleration and Program team (ASAP) helps shape, organize, and accelerate Schwab’s AI goals in close partnership with business, technology, and data teams. The Director will translate AI strategy into measurable business outcomes and oversee the firm’s end-to-end AI execution model, from concept acceleration through enterprise-scale enablement. The role integrates multiple AI efforts, independently builds and drives the firmwide roadmap, and connects business strategy with technology needs. It leads functions such as the firmwide AI product roadmap, cross-enterprise platform partnerships with AI providers, and AI risk governance. This position reports to the Chief Strategy and Innovation Officer and is intended to be performed on site at the specified location(s).
Requirements
- 15+ years of experience in financial services, with broad and relevant exposure across multiple financial-services business teams.
- Demonstrated experience knowing and leading very large, enterprise-wide AI initiatives spanning multiple businesses and technology teams.
- Significant experience leading large-scale transformation programs, including AI Acceleration.
- Credible AI fluency, including strong knowledge of AI tools, vendors, and emerging trends, and familiarity with models, orchestration, context layers, Model Context Protocol (MCP), and core capabilities required to deploy AI at scale; engineering experience is not required.
- Experience operating at the intersection of business and technology leadership and moving comfortably between business and technology teams.
- Experience negotiating and managing complex agreements with AI and technology providers.
- Strong program leadership skills, including the ability to integrate multiple AI efforts, understand their interdependencies, and independently build and drive a roadmap across large, interdependent portfolios of work.
- Excellent executive communication skills, including the ability to explain complex technical concepts in business terms.
- Strong understanding of enterprise technology architectures, data platforms, and AI ecosystems.
- Experience overseeing both product-oriented teams and platform or enablement functions.
- Ability to balance strategic vision with execution focus.
- Strong stakeholder management and influence across executive leadership.
Responsibilities
- Develop and lead a high-performing AI Acceleration team, fostering collaboration across AI Strategy, AI Program, Technology, Data, Cybersecurity, Product, Risk, Legal, Finance, and HR.
- Own the collective picture of AI across the firm by building and driving the firmwide roadmap for the highest-priority AI products and use cases, integrating efforts and aligning them for coordinated delivery.
- Partner with executive leadership across financial-services businesses to shape their AI strategies and ensure technical teams understand the AI enablement and infrastructure needed to accelerate them.
- Build out functions that help Schwab accelerate and scale business impact from AI.
- Design and implement effective governance frameworks across AI initiatives, including model risk, compliance, supervision, and responsible AI.
- Provide executive-level reporting on AI progress, risks, and outcomes.
- Partner with external technology providers and lead negotiations for enterprise AI- and data-related agreements with strategic AI partners.
- Ensure coordination and integration of AI platforms, tooling, and data capabilities across the organization.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
Education Level
No Education Listed
