The AI Lead is responsible for orchestrating and enabling Artificial Intelligence initiatives across the bank, ensuring strategic alignment, regulatory compliance and measurable business value.
The role acts as the central liaison between the CEO and AI SPOCs across business and control functions, operating through functional leadership in a federated and highly regulated environment. The position provides enterprise‑wide visibility and coherence to generative AI adoption, without line management responsibility.

Key responsibilities
- Act as the single point of coordination for AI initiatives across business lines and control functions (e.g. Business, Risk, Compliance, Legal, IT, Operations, HR).
- Own and coordinate the bank’s AI use‑case portfolio, ensuring prioritization, coherence, and alignment with strategic objectives.
- Act as liaison with Global AI and Group-level stakeholders, ensuring alignment with enterprise AI initiatives and proactively identifying AI use cases,



solutions or practices developed in other countries that may be relevant and scalable to the Italian context.
- Orchestrate a federated AI operating model, enabling collaboration across distributed AI SPOCs without hierarchical authority.
- Support the identification, shaping and prioritization of AI use cases, ensuring clear articulation of objectives, benefits, risks and scalability.
- Ensure AI initiatives are aligned with banking regulations, supervisory expectations, and internal policies, including Responsible AI principles.
- Contribute to the definition and adoption of enterprise AI standards, including governance frameworks, ethical guidelines and escalation mechanisms.
- Support the definition of AI and model lifecycle principles, in alignment with model risk management and regulatory requirements.
- Define and monitor value‑tracking indicators for AI initiatives (e.g., adoption, impact, scalability) and consolidate insights at enterprise level.
- Prepare decision‑ready materials, i

📌 AI Lead (Italia)
🏢 ING ITALIA
📍 Italia