Job Description

Some careers have more impact than others.

If you’re looking for a career where you can make a real impression, join HSBC and discover how valued you’ll be.

We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Sr. Associate Director, Management

Business: AI MS

Req ID: 48513

Location: Guangzhou, TKH

Principal responsibilities

• Act as a key engagement lead and point of contact for AI CoE initiatives across lines of business, technology teams, and senior stakeholder groups.
• Establish engagement playbooks, intake processes, prioritisation approaches, governance forums, and repeatable operating models to accelerate AI opportunity discovery and delivery.
• Develop and manage a strong pipeline of prioritised, well defined AI use cases with clear business sponsorship, success measures, delivery feasibility, and expected outcomes.
• Translate business vision into requirements by leading analysis of business challenges, identifying opportunities, and shaping clear AI problem statements.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to define business objectives, project scope, delivery roadmap, adoption approach, and measurable value outcomes.
• Partner with product owners, engineers, data scientists, platform teams, and technology delivery teams to drive execution from ideation through production delivery and adoption.
• Define and track key performance indicators covering data pipeline progress, model quality, deployment readiness, user adoption, operational impact, and business value.
• Identify technical, delivery, governance, stakeholder, and programme risks early, and lead mitigation strategies to keep initiatives on track.
• Ensure appropriate transparency and reporting to the Sponsoring Steering Committee, Project Working Group, and related business, technology, risk, and governance stakeholders.
• Foster a high engagement team culture focused on inclusive leadership, quality delivery, strong followership, talent development, cross functional collaboration, and outcomes that exceed user expectations.

Requirements

• 10+ years of seasoned working experience in the financial industry, with a strong programme management, project management, product leadership, consulting, transformation, or engagement leadership background.
• Significant experience delivering software, data intensive, AI, analytics, digital transformation, platform, or enterprise technology initiatives in a large organisation.
• Strong understanding of banking domain knowledge, financial services operating models, enterprise controls, risk management, compliance expectations, and technology governance.
• Proven ability to engage senior business and technology stakeholders, build trusted relationships, clarify ambiguous needs, and align diverse groups around shared priorities.
• Experience translating business problems into structured requirements, AI opportunity statements, delivery roadmaps, success metrics, and governance ready proposals.
• Strong programme and delivery management capability, including planning, prioritisation, dependency management, risk management, KPI tracking, reporting, and stakeholder communication.
• Familiarity with cloud based data / AI platforms and the AI / ML lifecycle, including data collection, model training, evaluation, deployment, monitoring, and adoption.
• Practical experience with enterprise system integration, migration, implementation, or large scale technology change, ideally including AI applications in financial services.
• Inclusive leadership style with experience developing talent, coaching or mentoring technology teams, making difficult decisions, and bringing cross functional teams together to achieve ambitious outcomes.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present complex topics clearly to senior leadership, governance forums, delivery teams, and non technical stakeholders.

You’ll achieve more when you join HSBC.

HSBC is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a culture where all employees are valued, respected and opinions count. We take pride in providing a workplace that fosters continuous professional development, flexible working and, opportunities to grow within an inclusive and diverse environment. We encourage applications from all suitably qualified persons irrespective of, but not limited to, their gender or genetic information, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion, social status, medical care leave requirements, political affiliation, people with disabilities, color, national origin, veteran status, etc., We consider all applications based on merit and suitability to the role.

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***Issued By HSBC Software Development (GuangDong) Limited***