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About This Role
Requisition ID: 267894
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Purpose
The Director, AI Enablement is responsible for defining and leading the enterprise AI enablement strategy that drives adoption, value realization, and operational integration of Artificial Intelligence capabilities across the organization.
This role serves as the strategic bridge between business leadership, technology organizations, data \& AI teams, and end users to ensure AI investments translate into measurable business outcomes. The Director will establish the enablement operating model, adoption framework, governance processes, and organizational change strategies required to scale Generative AI, AI copilots, analytics, and intelligent automation capabilities enterprise\-wide.
The position requires strong leadership across business transformation, AI strategy, technology enablement, organizational change management, and stakeholder engagement.
What You'll Do
Enterprise AI Enablement Strategy
- Define and execute the enterprise AI enablement vision, strategy, and multi\-year roadmap aligned with business priorities.
- Develop scalable frameworks that accelerate AI adoption while ensuring governance, compliance, risk management, and responsible AI practices.
- Establish enterprise standards for AI adoption, enablement, value realization, and capability maturity.
- Partner with executive leadership to identify strategic opportunities where AI can improve productivity, decision making, and operational efficiency.
- Drive alignment across Data \& AI, Architecture, Security, Risk, Operations, HR, and business functions.
AI Adoption \& Transformation Leadership
- Lead enterprise\-wide AI adoption initiatives across business units and functional organizations.
- Develop and execute change management strategies that accelerate acceptance and sustained use of AI capabilities.
- Establish an enterprise AI Champions and Community of Practice program to create grassroots adoption and knowledge sharing.
- Drive organizational readiness planning for new AI capabilities and platform rollouts.
- Ensure enablement programs address varying maturity levels across technical and non\-technical audiences.
Platform Enablement \& Capability Management
- Oversee enablement strategies for enterprise AI platforms including:
o Microsoft Copilot
o Azure AI Services
o Azure OpenAI
o Databricks AI/ML capabilities
o Google AI platforms
o Emerging Generative AI solutions
- Evaluate emerging AI technologies and assess business applicability, readiness, and adoption approaches.
- Establish governance for AI use\-case intake, prioritization, onboarding, and lifecycle management.
- Collaborate with platform owners to ensure successful launch, adoption, and optimization of AI capabilities.
Business Value Realization
- Define enterprise AI success measures, KPIs, and value realization frameworks.
- Develop methodologies for measuring productivity gains, process efficiencies, cost savings, and business outcomes.
- Build executive dashboards and performance reporting that communicate AI impact to leadership.
- Identify adoption barriers and implement corrective actions to improve utilization and business value.
- Create repeatable approaches for documenting and scaling successful AI use cases.
AI Governance \& Responsible AI
- Partner with Security, Legal, Compliance, Risk, and Governance teams to establish responsible AI adoption frameworks.
- Ensure AI enablement programs align with enterprise governance standards and regulatory requirements.
- Advocate for ethical and responsible AI practices across the organization.
- Support AI risk assessments, controls, and operational governance processes.
- Provide leadership guidance on emerging AI risks and opportunities.
Executive Stakeholder Engagement
- Serve as a trusted advisor to executives and senior leaders regarding AI adoption and enablement strategies.
- Present adoption trends, business impact, roadmap recommendations, and investment priorities to executive leadership.
- Facilitate cross\-functional executive forums focused on AI innovation and transformation.
- Translate technical AI capabilities into business\-focused outcomes and recommendations.
Team Leadership \& Talent Development
- Build, mentor, and lead a high\-performing AI Enablement organization.
- Define organizational structures, capabilities, and roles required to scale AI adoption across the enterprise.
- Foster a culture of continuous learning, experimentation, and innovation.
- Provide coaching and career development for enablement specialists, analysts, and AI champions.
- Manage budgets, vendor relationships, and strategic partnerships supporting AI enablement initiatives.
What You'll Bring
Qualifications Required
- 10\+ years of experience in technology enablement, digital transformation, product management, business transformation, enterprise platforms, or AI\-related leadership roles.
- 5\+ years of people leadership experience managing cross\-functional teams.
- Demonstrated experience leading enterprise\-scale adoption programs and organizational change initiatives.
- Strong understanding of:
o Generative AI
o Large Language Models (LLMs)
o AI Copilots
o Enterprise AI Platforms
o Digital Productivity Solutions
- Experience working with Azure, Databricks, Google Cloud, and enterprise data ecosystems.
- Proven ability to influence senior executives and drive organizational transformation.
- Strong analytical, communication, and executive presentation skills.
- Experience defining KPIs, adoption metrics, value realization frameworks, and executive reporting.
Preferred
- Experience leading AI Centers of Excellence (CoE) or enterprise transformation organizations.
- Knowledge of Responsible AI, AI governance, and regulatory considerations.
- Experience managing enterprise software adoption and change management programs.
- Advanced degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Data Science, Business Administration, or related field.
- Spanish fluency (nice to have).
Success Measures
The Director will be accountable for:
- Enterprise AI adoption growth
- Active user engagement and utilization
- AI\-driven productivity improvements
- Business value realization and ROI
- Enablement program effectiveness
- Responsible AI compliance
- Employee AI literacy and capability development
- Executive stakeholder satisfaction
- Expansion of high\-value AI use cases
- Organizational AI maturity progression
Interested?
If your experience is closely related but doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification, we do encourage you to apply \- you might be the right candidate for this or other roles at Scotiabank!
At Scotiabank, every employee is empowered to reach their fullest potential, respected for who they are and, embraced for their differences. That’s why we work to grow and diversify talent and engage employees in a performance\-oriented culture.
What's in it for you?
Scotiabank wants you to be able to bring your best self to work – and life, every day. With a focus on holistic well\-being, our many flexible benefit programs are designed to help support your unique family, financial, physical, mental, and social health needs.
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Role Details
About This Role
AI/ML Engineers build and deploy machine learning models in production. They work across the full ML lifecycle: data pipelines, model training, evaluation, and serving infrastructure. The role has evolved significantly over the past two years. Where ML Engineers once spent most of their time on model architecture, the job now tilts heavily toward inference optimization, cost management, and integrating LLM capabilities into existing systems. Companies want engineers who can ship production systems, and the experimenter-only role is fading fast.
Day-to-day, you're writing training pipelines, debugging data quality issues, setting up evaluation frameworks, and figuring out why your model performs differently in staging than it did on your dev set. The best ML engineers are obsessive about reproducibility and measurement. They instrument everything. They know that a model is only as good as the data feeding it and the infrastructure serving it.
Across the 3,708 AI roles we're tracking, AI/ML Engineer positions make up 70% of the market. At Scotiabank, this role fits into their broader AI and engineering organization.
Demand for AI/ML Engineers has been strong and consistent. Unlike some AI roles that spike with hype cycles, ML engineering is a foundational need. Every company deploying AI models needs people who can keep them running, and the gap between research prototypes and production systems keeps growing.
What the Work Looks Like
A typical week might include: debugging a data pipeline that's silently dropping 3% of training examples, running A/B tests on a new model version, writing documentation for a feature flag system that lets you roll back model deployments, and reviewing a junior engineer's PR for a new evaluation metric. Meetings tend to be cross-functional since ML touches product, engineering, and data teams.
Demand for AI/ML Engineers has been strong and consistent. Unlike some AI roles that spike with hype cycles, ML engineering is a foundational need. Every company deploying AI models needs people who can keep them running, and the gap between research prototypes and production systems keeps growing.
Skills Required
Python and PyTorch dominate the requirements. Most roles expect experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and familiarity with ML frameworks like TensorFlow or JAX. RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) has become a top-3 skill requirement as companies integrate LLMs into their products. Docker and Kubernetes show up in about a third of postings, reflecting the production focus of the role.
Beyond the core stack, employers increasingly want experience with experiment tracking tools (MLflow, Weights & Biases), feature stores, and vector databases. Fine-tuning experience is valuable but less common than you'd think from reading Twitter. Most production LLM work is RAG and prompt engineering, not fine-tuning. If you have both, you're in a strong position.
Companies that are serious about AI/ML hiring tend to post specific infrastructure details in the job description: the frameworks they use, their model serving stack, their data pipeline tools. Vague postings that just say 'ML experience required' without specifics are often companies that haven't figured out what they need yet.
Compensation Benchmarks
AI/ML Engineer roles pay a median of $218,750 based on 3,817 positions with disclosed compensation. Director-level AI roles across all categories have a median of $272,150.
Across all AI roles, the market median is $217,500. Top-quartile compensation starts at $272,100. The 90th percentile reaches $325,000. For comparison, the highest-paying categories include AI Safety ($300,000) and Research Engineer ($280,000). By seniority level: Entry: $120,000; Mid: $200,000; Senior: $230,000; Director: $272,150; VP: $250,000.
Scotiabank AI Hiring
Scotiabank has 2 open AI roles right now. They're hiring across AI/ML Engineer. Based in Dallas, TX, US.
Location Context
Across all AI roles, 14% (508 positions) offer remote work, while 3,180 require on-site attendance. Top AI hiring metros: New York (1,045 roles, $220,000 median); San Francisco (810 roles, $277,088 median); Los Angeles (397 roles, $215,000 median).
Career Path
Common paths into AI/ML Engineer roles include Data Scientist, Software Engineer, Research Engineer.
From here, career progression typically leads toward ML Architect, AI Engineering Manager, Principal ML Engineer.
The fastest path into ML engineering is through software engineering with a self-directed ML education. A CS degree helps, but production engineering skills matter more than academic credentials. Build something that works, deploy it, and measure it. That portfolio project is worth more than a Coursera certificate. For career growth, the fork comes around the senior level: go deep on technical complexity (staff/principal track) or move into managing ML teams.
What to Expect in Interviews
Expect system design questions around ML pipelines: how you'd build a training pipeline for a specific use case, handle data drift, or design A/B testing infrastructure for model deployments. Coding rounds typically involve Python, with emphasis on data manipulation (pandas, numpy) and algorithm implementation. Take-home assignments often ask you to build an end-to-end ML pipeline from raw data to deployed model.
When evaluating opportunities: Companies that are serious about AI/ML hiring tend to post specific infrastructure details in the job description: the frameworks they use, their model serving stack, their data pipeline tools. Vague postings that just say 'ML experience required' without specifics are often companies that haven't figured out what they need yet.
AI Hiring Overview
The AI job market has 3,708 open positions tracked in our dataset. By seniority: 102 entry-level, 1,705 mid-level, 1,469 senior, and 432 leadership roles (Director, VP, C-Level). Remote roles make up 14% of the market (508 positions). The remaining 3,180 roles require on-site or hybrid attendance.
The market median for AI roles is $217,500. Top-quartile compensation starts at $272,100. The 90th percentile reaches $325,000. Highest-paying categories: AI Safety ($300,000 median, 21 roles); Research Engineer ($280,000 median, 147 roles); AI Architect ($254,798 median, 67 roles).
Demand for AI/ML Engineers has been strong and consistent. Unlike some AI roles that spike with hype cycles, ML engineering is a foundational need. Every company deploying AI models needs people who can keep them running, and the gap between research prototypes and production systems keeps growing.
The AI Job Market Today
The AI job market spans 3,708 open positions across 16 role categories. The largest categories by volume: AI/ML Engineer (2,605), Data Scientist (310), AI Software Engineer (259). These three account for the majority of open positions, though smaller categories often have higher per-role compensation because of specialized skill requirements.
The seniority mix tells a story about where AI teams are in their maturity. Entry-level roles (102) are outnumbered by mid-level (1,705) and senior (1,469) positions, reflecting that most companies are past the 'build a team from scratch' phase and need experienced engineers who can ship production systems. Leadership roles (Director, VP, C-Level) total 432 positions, representing the bottleneck between technical execution and organizational strategy.
Remote work availability sits at 14% of all AI roles (508 positions), with 3,180 requiring on-site or hybrid attendance. The remote share has stabilized after the post-pandemic correction. Senior and specialized roles (Research Scientist, ML Architect) are more likely to be remote-eligible than entry-level positions, partly because experienced hires have more negotiating power and partly because these roles require less hands-on mentorship.
AI compensation is structured in clear tiers. The market median sits at $217,500. Top-quartile roles start at $272,100, and the 90th percentile reaches $325,000. These figures include base salary with disclosed compensation. Total compensation (including equity, bonuses, and sign-on) runs 20-40% higher at companies that offer those components.
Category matters for compensation. AI Safety roles lead at $300,000 median, while Prompt Engineer roles sit at $140,000. The spread between highest and lowest-paying categories reflects the premium on specialized technical skills versus broader analytical roles.
The most in-demand skills across all AI postings: Python (1,890 postings), Aws (1,103 postings), Azure (877 postings), Rag (855 postings), Gcp (631 postings), Prompt Engineering (560 postings), Pytorch (545 postings), Claude (498 postings). Python dominates, appearing in the vast majority of role descriptions regardless of category. Cloud platform experience (AWS, GCP, Azure) is the second most common requirement. The newer entrants to the top skills list (RAG, vector databases, LLM APIs) reflect the shift from traditional ML toward generative AI applications.
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