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Capital Partners AI Strategy & Transformation Leader

Brown Brothers Harriman · New York, United States · 4 days ago
HybridBusiness Development$230k/yrFull-time

About the role

The Capital Partners (CP) Artificial Intelligence (AI) Transformation Leader is responsible for owning and scaling AI as a core operating capability across the Capital Partners business. This role defines and leads the AI strategy, ensures AI is embedded into core workflows and decision making to drive measurable productivity gains, business insight, and competitive advantage. This role also serves as the senior business leader responsible for aligning AI priorities across business, technology, risk, and support functions to accelerate enterprise value realization.

Responsibilities

  • Own and scale AI as a core operating capability across the Capital Partners business.
  • Define and lead the AI strategy, ensuring AI is embedded into core workflows and decision making to drive measurable productivity gains, business insight, and competitive advantage.
  • Serve as the senior business leader responsible for aligning AI priorities across business, technology, risk, and support functions to accelerate enterprise value realization.
  • Develop and manage a program that not only identifies and implements effective initiatives, but also measures progress, owns budgeted expenditures, and manages internal resources to deliver results.
  • Establish the operating model, governance approach, and executive engagement needed to scale AI beyond pilots into repeatable business outcomes.
  • Identify, prioritize, and accelerate ROI driven AI use cases, ensuring initiatives progress from pilot to production ready solutions with measurable business outcomes.
  • Enable early AI adoption by identifying and scaling repeatable, high impact productivity use cases, moving teams from experimentation to consistent, daily AI usage embedded in workflows.
  • Leverage enterprise frameworks (including agentic approaches) to deploy reusable AI solutions across multiple CP business areas.
  • Promote behavioral change and practical usage, helping teams move from experimentation to consistent daily use.
  • Lead and support the rollout of AI tools across CP teams, establishing a foundation for sustained adoption, behavioral change, and AI fluency at scale while relying on the Enablement Lead to own day-to-day adoption programming and user engagement activities.
  • Maintain appropriate training, enablement, and support structures to drive confidence and engagement.
  • Monitor adoption trends and course correct as needed.
  • Lead and support the development of the CP AI strategy and roadmap, ensuring alignment with broader transformation priorities.
  • Communicate AI strategy, progress, and tradeoffs clearly to senior leadership and serve as a strategic advisor on prioritization, sequencing, and investment decisions.
  • Partner with business and technology leaders to identify ways to integrate AI tools into existing workflows rather than layering on new processes.
  • Build and lead a high impact, multidisciplinary CP AI team, setting clear operating rhythms, success metrics, and accountability to enable scale without central dependency, combining internal and external resources as needed.
  • Partner with Legal, Compliance, Risk, and Technology to ensure AI initiatives meet governance, privacy, and regulatory expectations, balancing innovation with responsible scale in a regulated environment.
  • Support the business areas in leveraging AI tools to deliver improved outcomes by identifying high value work processes and workflows and using AI tools and human expertise to create better business outcomes, more efficiently.
  • Prioritize the highest-value use cases and accelerate movement from experimentation to scaled implementation.
  • Accelerate data strategy and foundational capability development, ensuring alignment with broader transformation priorities.
  • Help to reprioritize near-term data investments toward foundational capabilities that enable AI optimization.
  • Support modular data approaches to enable AI initiatives in CP areas separate from enterprise systems.

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of relevant work experience in Financial Services.
  • Practical experience implementing new technologies, advanced analytics, or automation in a business environment; strong preference for practical experience implementing and applying AI.
  • Familiarity with responsible AI principles, data governance, and operating in regulated environments.
  • Experience partnering with technology and data teams to deliver scalable solutions.
  • A blend of strategic and operational skills and the ability to assess businesses, re-engineer processes, and work to deliver improved results.
  • Executive and communication skills necessary to navigate, communicate, and influence senior business leaders effectively in a productive and effective manner.
  • Experience leading cross-functional transformation initiatives that span business, technology, data, and operating model change.

Skills

  • Strategic thinking and execution.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
  • Ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams.
  • Experience with AI and machine learning concepts.
  • Experience with data strategy and governance.
  • Experience with regulatory compliance and governance.

Benefits

Salary Range: $190,000 - $230,000 plus annual incentive. BBH and its affiliates' compensation program includes base salary, discretionary bonuses, and profit-sharing. The anticipated base salary range(s) shown above are only for the indicated location(s) and may differ in other locations due to cost of living and labor considerations. Base salaries may vary based on factors such as skill, experience and qualification for the role. BBH's total rewards package recognizes your contributions with more than just a paycheck—providing you with benefits that enhance your experience at BBH from long-term savings, healthcare, and income protection to professional development opportunities and time off, our programs support your overall well-being.

Pay

Salary Range: $190,000 - $230,000 plus annual incentive. BBH and its affiliates' compensation program includes base salary, discretionary bonuses, and profit-sharing. The anticipated base salary range(s) shown above are only for the indicated location(s) and may differ in other locations due to cost of living and labor considerations. Base salaries may vary based on factors such as skill, experience and qualification for the role. BBH's total rewards package recognizes your contributions with more than just a paycheck—providing you with benefits that enhance your experience at BBH from long-term savings, healthcare, and income protection to professional development opportunities and time off, our programs support your overall well-being.

Schedule

Full-time position.

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