Data & AI Capability Owner

Role Overview: As a Data & AI Lead at Standard Chartered Bank, you will be responsible for identifying, shaping, and delivering AI-enabled products that improve risk and compliance processes and deliver measurable business value. You will work within the AI Centre of Excellence (CoE) and act as the bridge between business, data, AI engineering, and governance teams, ensuring that AI solutions are aligned with strategic priorities, deliver tangible outcomes, and are successfully adopted by business users. Additionally, you will drive process excellence and value realization, ensuring that AI initiatives generate measurable productivity, risk reduction, and operational efficiency improvements. Key Responsibilities: - Define and maintain the Data & AI capability strategy and product roadmap for Risk & Compliance, ensuring alignment with business priorities, enterprise AI direction, and measurable value outcomes. - Own the AI use case portfolio across different types of automation, ensuring a coherent path from ideation to retirement. - Partner closely with Product Owners, Business Owners, and Process Owners to identify where AI, data, automation, and analytics can improve productivity, risk outcomes, user experience, and decision quality. - Lead opportunity discovery to identify areas where AI and data tools can deliver substantial benefits such as cycle-time reduction, effort elimination, quality improvement, and control uplift. - Challenge existing ways of working and bring practical ideas on various AI capabilities to stakeholders. - Support strategic decisions for AI capabilities, ensuring investment in scalable and value-accretive solutions. - Maintain a centralised AI backlog and product pipeline balancing business value, feasibility, risk, complexity, user adoption, delivery capacity, and strategic relevance. Qualifications Required: - Experience in product management, data analytics, or digital transformation. - Strong knowledge of risk, compliance, or financial services operations. - Ability to operate at the intersection of business, data, and technology. - Strong stakeholder engagement and strategic thinking capabilities. About Standard Chartered: Standard Chartered is an international bank that has been working for more than 170 years to make a positive difference for clients, communities, and employees. The bank values diversity and inclusion, advocating for a culture of celebrating unique talents and promoting inclusion. Standard Chartered offers competitive salary and benefits, core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, flexible working options, proactive wellbeing support, continuous learning culture, and an inclusive and values-driven environment. Role Overview: As a Data & AI Lead at Standard Chartered Bank, you will be responsible for identifying, shaping, and delivering AI-enabled products that improve risk and compliance processes and deliver measurable business value. You will work within the AI Centre of Excellence (CoE) and act as the bridge between business, data, AI engineering, and governance teams, ensuring that AI solutions are aligned with strategic priorities, deliver tangible outcomes, and are successfully adopted by business users. Additionally, you will drive process excellence and value realization, ensuring that AI initiatives generate measurable productivity, risk reduction, and operational efficiency improvements. Key Responsibilities: - Define and maintain the Data & AI capability strategy and product roadmap for Risk & Compliance, ensuring alignment with business priorities, enterprise AI direction, and measurable value outcomes. - Own the AI use case portfolio across different types of automation, ensuring a coherent path from ideation to retirement. - Partner closely with Product Owners, Business Owners, and Process Owners to identify where AI, data, automation, and analytics can improve productivity, risk outcomes, user experience, and decision quality. - Lead opportunity discovery to identify areas where AI and data tools can deliver substantial benefits such as cycle-time reduction, effort elimination, quality improvement, and control uplift. - Challenge existing ways of working and bring practical ideas on various AI capabilities to stakeholders. - Support strategic decisions for AI capabilities, ensuring investment in scalable and value-accretive solutions. - Maintain a centralised AI backlog and product pipeline balancing business value, feasibility, risk, complexity, user adoption, delivery capacity, and strategic relevance. Qualifications Required: - Experience in product management, data analytics, or digital transformation. - Strong knowledge of risk, compliance, or financial services operations. - Ability to operate at the intersection of business, data, and technology. - Strong stakeholder engagement and strategic thinking capabilities. About Standard Chartered: Standard Chartered is an international bank that has been worki