Job Summary

This role could be based in Philippines and Singapore. When you start the application process you will be presented with a drop down menu showing all countries, Please ensure that you select a country where the role is based.

The Associate Director for AI Use Case Enablement is a business-savvy senior role to join our AI Platform Strategy team. This role focuses on translating business requirements into actionable, delivery-ready solution plans for AI, GenAI, and ML use cases. The role works closely with the AI Solutions team, who will deliver the build, while being accountable for producing clear, complete solution plans.

Responsibilities

Business

Engage with business stakeholders to understand requirements and priorities
Produce solution plans that clearly outline scope, timeline, cost, resource needs, and dependencies
Collaborate actively with the AI Solutions team to ensure plans are actionable and align with platform capabilities
Act as a bridge between business needs and technical delivery, ensuring clarity and feasibility
Apply pre-sales style soft skills: influencing without authority, presenting proposals, handling objections, and building consensus
Ensure all plans align with governance, compliance, and platform readiness requirements
Track progress of approved solution plans during delivery and flag risks or deviations to stakeholders
Support post-deployment review to ensure business requirements were met
Gather lessons learned to improve future solution planning processes

Regulatory & Business Conduct

Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group's Values and Code of Conduct.
Take personal responsibility for embedding the highest standards of ethics, including regulatory and business conduct, across Standard Chartered Bank. This includes understanding and ensuring compliance with, in letter and spirit, all applicable laws, regulations, guidelines and the Group Code of Conduct.
Lead achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank's Conduct Principles
Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Key Stakeholder

AI Solutions, Technology and Architecture, AI and Data Operations, ICS, Business Units, 3rd Parties

Other Responsibilities

Shape ideas into impact: translate high-level business ambitions into scoped, actionable use case plans that can move from prototype to production.
Champion innovation and agility, ensuring new GenAI/ML ideas are explored responsibly and scaled effectively when value is proven.
Act as a trusted advisor to business teams, bringing clarity and confidence in how AI/ML initiatives can deliver measurable business outcomes.
Collaborate across teams, building strong bridges with AI Solutions, business units, and governance partners.
Model responsible AI adoption, ensuring plans reflect compliance, ethics, and sustainability.
Support broader Data & AI transformation efforts as assigned, taking on double hat responsibilities where solution planning expertise can accelerate group priorities.
Live SCB's values by ensuring every plan is not only technically viable but also aligned to client trust and long-term growth.

Qualifications

Experience in AI/ML program delivery, product implementation, presales, solution architecture.
Strong stakeholder management and presentation skills
Commercial awareness and ability to articulate value propositions
Familiarity with GenAI and ML concepts
Experience with both Azure and AWS environments preferred

Our Ideal Candidate

Business & Analytical Skills: Ability to translate business requirements into clear, structured solution plans (scope, cost, resources, timeline).
Stakeholder Engagement: Strong influencing skills, pre-sales style communication, ability to present, negotiate, and build consensus.
AI/ML Familiarity: Understanding of GenAI, ML, and their application in financial services; able to contextualize business use cases.
Cloud Awareness: Working knowledge of Azure and AWS environments for AI/ML enablement.
Commercial Acumen: Ability to evaluate costs, benefits, and ROI of proposed initiatives.
Collaboration: Builds trust and alignment with AI Solutions, business teams, and governance stakeholders.
Adaptability: Works comfortably in a fast-changing, exploratory environment, balancing structure with agility.
Values Alignment: Embeds responsible AI principles and SCB's Here for good values in every plan.

Role Specific Technical Competencies

Gen AI
Cloud (AWS/ Azure)
AI, ML
Data Engineering
Solution Planning

About Standard Chartered

We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 years, we've worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If you're looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents and we can't wait to see the talents you can bring us.

Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you'll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion.

Together We

Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
Are better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

What We Offer

In line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.

Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.
Time-off including annual leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum.
Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning.
Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.

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