Director - Responsible AI

Opportunity

As a leader in digital financial services, our customer and employee experiences are powered by data and AI. Our cloud‑based data, analytics, and GenAI platform enables thousands of employees to make data‑driven decisions every day. We are seeking a Director, Responsible AI to operationalize and advance AI governance at scale across machine learning, generative AI, and agent‑based systems. This leader drives the implementation of RAI standards and oversees governance enablement mechanisms that embed Responsible AI into the AI development lifecycle—translating policy and risk requirements into practical, reusable engineering patterns, tooling, and metrics that accelerate safe adoption. This role also leads direct governance support for Ally’s key AI initiatives.

At this time, Ally will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.

Work Schedule

Ally designates roles as (1) fully on‑site, (2) hybrid, or (3) fully remote. Hybrid roles are generally expected to be in the office a certain number of days per week as indicated by your manager. Your hiring manager will discuss this role’s specific work requirements with you during the hiring process. All work requirements are subject to change at any time based on leader discretion and/or business need.

The Work Itself

• Advance responsible AI practices by integrating AI governance best practices into every stage of model development and deployment.
• Collaborate closely with risk and other partners to evolve enterprise-wide AI governance standards and processes.
• Drive AI adoption at scale and on schedule across the enterprise, within the governance framework.
• Deliver governance support for strategic AI projects and initiatives.
• Drive end‑to‑end operational excellence in AI governance in predictive models, GenAI and agentic systems, from model development, evaluation, deployment to operational performance monitoring.

Skills

Minimum qualifications

• 9+ years of relevant experience.
• Bachelor's Degree in relevant field(s) of study or equivalent.

Preferred qualifications

• Highly preferred: Demonstrated expertise in model risk areas and mitigations (e.g., bias/fairness, explainability, PII handling, monitoring) and in supporting full model lifecycle.
• Highly preferred: Exceptional ability to translate Risk Management and Model Risk expectations into practical development standards for AI systems in banking or regulated environments.
• Highly preferred: Strong communication skills and executive influence. Drive alignment across diverse stakeholders, create clarity and build consensus.
• 7+ years of experience in applied machine learning / data science delivering measurable business impact in real‑world systems.
• 3+ years of experience in risk management, regulatory compliance or similar functions.
• Master's degree.
• Third‑party/vendor AI governance experience.
• Governance experience in state‑of‑the‑art ML/GenAI topics such as agents, RAG, LLM observability, etc.
• People management experience.

Compensation and Benefits

Ally's compensation program offers market‑competitive base pay and pay‑for‑performance incentives (bonuses) based on achieving personal and company goals.

Base Pay Range : $135,000 - $235,000 USD.

Incentive Compensation: This position is eligible to participate in our annual incentive plan.

Our Total Rewards program includes industry‑leading compensation and benefits. Highlights:

• Time Away: Program starts at 20 paid time off days in addition to 11 paid holidays and 8 hours of volunteer time off yearly.
• Planning for the Future: 401(k) retirement savings plan with matching and company contributions, student loan pay‑down and 529 educational savings assistance, tuition reimbursement, employee stock purchase plan, and a financial learning center.
• Health & Well‑Being: flexible health and insurance options—medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability, HSA, FSA, critical illness, accident & hospital indemnity insurance, and a total well‑being program.
• Family: adoption, surrogacy and fertility assistance, paid parental and caregiver leave, dependent day‑care FSA, back‑up child and adult/elder care days and childcare discounts.
• Work‑Life Integration: Employee Assistance Program, subsidized and discounted Weight Watchers program and other employee discount programs.
• Other compensations: travel allowances, relocation assistance, a signing bonus and/or equity.

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Who We Are

Ally Financial is a customer‑centric, leading digital financial services company with passionate customer service and innovative financial solutions. For more information, visit

Equal Opportunity Employer

Ally is an equal‑opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, sex, religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy status, marital status, military or veteran status, genetic disposition or any other reason protected by law. We are committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with physical or mental disabilities. For accommodation requests, email us at View email address on click.appcast.io. Ally will not discriminate against any qualified individual who is capable of performing the essential functions of the job with or without reasonable accommodation.