JOB SUMMARY
We’re seeking a forward-thinking and connected individual to join our Data & AI team in a newly created role focused on AI Advocacy & Alliances. This role is central to strengthening our institutional voice in AI, forging influential partnerships, and embedding AI more visibly into our internal and external narratives
Reporting into the AI leadership team/Global Head of AI Enablement and working closely with stakeholders across the bank’s WRB, CIB, CABM, Strategy and innovation teams, this role will serve as a bridge between our AI ambition and the ecosystems that shape its future — including think tanks, academic bodies, industry alliances, and public forums.

AI will shape the future of financial services, but voice, visibility, and credibility will define the leaders. This role is at the heart of ensuring our bank not only participates in the AI conversation — but helps shape it.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Strategy
Partner closely with the Corporate Affairs and Marketing teams to ensure consistent messaging across channels, platforms and markets.

Business
Build and maintain strong relationships with external partners, including industry groups, academic institutions, think tanks and strategic alliances to enhance the bank’s voice and credibility in the global AI ecosystem

Processes
Support internal education and engagement efforts to drive AI fluency across teams, including working with HR, training leads, and internal comms.
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.
•    Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.
•    Lead to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank’s Conduct Principles NA  

Key Stakeholders

Business Analysts, Business Partners, COO Business, ITO, CDO, internal staff, clients and 3rd parties.

Key Responsibilities

• Shape and drive the bank’s AI advocacy strategy, ensuring alignment with broader business and innovation goals.
• Identify and nurture strategic partnerships with think tanks, policy institutes, research bodies, AI forums, and event organisers globally.
• Develop and lead the bank’s participation in AI-focused global initiatives, dialogues, and consortia that shape policy, best practice and thought leadership.
• Champion the bank’s AI capabilities and impact stories internally — partnering with communications teams to amplify where appropriate, but owning the narrative from a content and positioning perspective.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to the AI leadership team on reputational, regulatory and ecosystem trends relevant to AI.
• Track and engage with key opinion leaders, regulators, academics and convening platforms to build relevance and influence for the bank in the AI space.
• Work with internal teams to support education and awareness efforts on the ethical, responsible, and commercial use of AI across the organisation.
• Maintain a view of emerging conversations and standards in responsible AI, ensuring the bank stays ahead in how it is seen and how it acts.

Our Ideal Candidate 

• 8+ years of experience in roles spanning AI strategy, innovation ecosystems, public affairs, partnerships, or policy — ideally with exposure to financial services or technology.
• Deep understanding of AI and data-driven transformation, with the ability to engage confidently on both technical and strategic themes.
• Proven track record of building influential partnerships and working across multifunctional global teams.
• Strong ecosystem awareness — comfortable navigating external institutions, policy networks, research bodies, and international events.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to influence without authority and operate across different levels of the organisation.
• A self-starter who is independent and proactive and who combines intellectual curiosity, operational drive, and strong stakeholder instincts.

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Strong writing and narrative development skills across different formats and audiences.
• Proven track record in working cross-functionally across global teams and senior stakeholders.
• Experience managing external partnerships, preferably in the AI, tech or innovation space.
• Confident navigating complexity and ambiguity in a fast-evolving topic like AI.
• A self-starter who brings creativity, initiative, and sound judgment.

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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