About the role
Job Overview
Under the direction of the Senior Enterprise Data Governance Manager, the Principal AI Lead serves as the strategic and technical authority on Artificial Intelligence (AI) across the organization. This role oversees the definition, governance, and implementation of the enterprise AI strategy, ensuring safe, ethical, and business-aligned AI adoption. The Principal AI Lead is the central point of contact for all AI-related initiatives, responsible for setting direction, evaluating new technologies, piloting use cases, building enterprise capabilities, and establishing controls to prevent unauthorized AI usage. The Principal AI Lead will work across legal, engineering, analytics, and transformation teams to ensure responsible AI innovation at scale.
What you will be doing
Defines and drives the organization's AI vision and strategic roadmap, ensuring alignment with enterprise goals, governance and innovation priorities, and technology infrastructure needs.
Serves as the single point of contact for AI across the organization, guiding teams and leadership on capabilities, risks, compliance, opportunities, and recommending strategic platforms and partnerships (e.g., Snowflake, AWS, Microsoft). Identifies, evaluates, and prioritizes AI use cases, supporting their advancement from ideation to scalable execution with measurable value.
Defines and track AI-specific KPIs to measure impact, reliability, and alignment of deployed solutions with business outcomes.
Stays at the forefront of AI trends, integrating emerging technologies, industry standards, and best practices into the enterprise AI strategy.
Architects enterprise-grade AI and GenAI solutions, works with technical teams to assess infrastructure needs, tool selection, and implementation paths (e.g., RAG, foundational model integration, ML pipelines).
Leads the selection and adoption of AI tools and platforms (e.g., Azure ML, Dataiku, Snowflake), balancing innovation with governance, scalability, and compliance requirements.
Establishes and enforce AI governance frameworks that ensures compliance with legal, ethical, and responsible AI usage across all enterprise initiatives.
Establishes MLOps…