Senior Consultant, AI Risk Management

CIBC • Toronto, ON

12h • Hybrid

About The Position

The Enterprise AI Governance Office (AIGO) within the Enterprise Advanced Analytics and AI Hub at CIBC is responsible for ensuring that all AI activities at CIBC are governed in accordance with the Enterprise AI Framework and its associated processes and standards. AIGO develops, operationalizes, and continuously improves AI governance practices to manage AI-related risks, ensure regulatory readiness, and enable responsible innovation across the bank, including governed AI by design practices for emerging AI, generative AI, and Agentic AI capabilities. This Senior Consultant, AI Risk Management will support CIBC’s AI risk management practices by conducting and reviewing AI risk assessments, developing effective AI risk mitigation plans in partnership with business teams and other risk control groups, and by providing AI risk advisory services to the enterprise. The position will be responsible for ensuring that all AI solutions across the organization are appropriately risk-assessed, as required by the Enterprise AI Framework. The Sr. Consultant will work collaboratively with technology and business teams, control groups, audit, and oversight bodies to ensure that all CIBC AI Governance requirements are adhered to and are effective in managing AI-related risks. The role will also support the evolution of AI risk engineering practices, including the assessment of technical controls, guardrails, monitoring mechanisms, model and system lifecycle controls, and governance patterns for generative and Agentic AI solutions.

Requirements

• Demonstrate technical fluency in AI/ML.
• Understand predictive modeling, NLP, computer vision, generative AI, and Agentic AI, and have worked across the production lifecycle assessing controls and evidence in regulated environments.
• Fluently navigate AI risk frameworks and regulation.
• Fluent with NIST AI RMF, ISO/IEC AI risk standards, such as 23894 and 42001, and model risk expectations in financial services, and translate them into pragmatic, auditable controls.
• Apply an AI risk engineering mindset.
• Understand how AI risks can be mitigated through technical and process controls, including guardrails, access controls, monitoring, evaluation, testing, traceability, human-in-the-loop controls, and lifecycle governance.
• Can work with technology teams to assess whether controls are appropriately designed, implemented, evidenced, and monitored.
• Help embed governance expectations early in the AI lifecycle by supporting reusable control patterns, pre-approved guardrails, technical standards, and practical governance checkpoints that enable responsible innovation without creating unnecessary friction.
• Understand emerging Agentic AI governance considerations.
• Can assess risks associated with AI agents, autonomous workflows, tool use, memory, external connectivity, prompt injection, overreliance, human oversight, and escalation paths, and can help define appropriate controls for safe and accountable deployment.
• Uphold Trustworthy AI as a core principle, consistently applying data protection, fairness and bias mitigation, explainability, security-by-design, and third-party risk management to safeguard clients and the bank, while supporting positive outcomes for society.
• Communicate with clarity and influence across diverse stakeholders.
• Distill complex topics clearly for diverse audiences, build strong partnerships, and drive outcomes through stakeholder management and influence without formal authority.
• Know that collaboration can transform a good idea into a great one.
• Understand the power of an inclusive team that enjoys working together to bring a shared vision to life.
• Bring your authentic self to work and live our values - trust, teamwork, and accountability.

Nice To Haves

• Degree/diploma in a relevant field, such as Data Science, Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, or Risk Management.
• Certifications such as IAPP AIGP, ISO/IEC 42001, ISO/IEC 23894, CertNexus CEET, IEEE CertifAIEd, or IAPP CIPT are assets.

Responsibilities

• Champion Trustworthy AI in solving business problems - Work with business units to understand their AI Governance needs, opportunities, and pain points.
• Work with risk and control teams to ensure AI related risks are adequately managed.
• Focus on relationship building and become a trusted partner for AI Governance within the bank.
• Contribute to the development of AI risk management thought leadership and related educational resources both within the organization and externally.
• Ensure AI Solutions are managed and delivered in a governed manner - Work with AI development, technology, and risk/control/compliance teams in identifying, assessing, and mitigating AI-related risks in accordance with AI risk management best practices, tools and techniques to comply with governance requirements and accelerate CIBC’s leadership in ethical and responsible use of AI.
• Develop AI-related risk mitigation controls with key partners and assist with ongoing risk reporting and risk reviews for the Enterprise.
• Support governed AI by design by helping translate governance expectations into practical controls, guardrails, checkpoints, and evidence requirements across the AI solution lifecycle.
• Translate Research into Actionable Insights - Monitor, research, and report on the latest trends and developments around AI risk management, AI risk engineering, generative AI, and Agentic AI governance.
• Help ensure that all AI risk management processes, tools, and techniques are inclusive of the requirements necessary to meet the growing demands and advancements in AI by suggesting and making changes to the current state.
• Ignite Innovation, Drive Execution - Work as an internal consultant to drive results through the application of “governed” AI solutions.
• Provide support and help drive adoption of AI Governance across the organization by developing strategy and success metrics.
• Manage and participate in all AI Governance related bodies and committees.
• Support the responsible adoption of emerging AI capabilities by advising on appropriate governance patterns for AI agents, tool use, autonomy, human oversight, escalation, monitoring, and control design.

Benefits

• competitive salary
• incentive pay
• banking benefits
• a benefits program
• defined benefit pension plan
• an employee share purchase plan
• a vacation offering
• wellbeing support
• MomentMakers, our social, points-based recognition program
• Purpose Day; a paid day off dedicated for you to use to invest in your growth and development

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior