Which large banks are hiring AI leaders (director and above)?

Data checked Oct 27, 2026 · 42 of 141 banks qualify · 76 sources cited · template updated Oct 30, 2026

AI hiring · computed from careers-site snapshots; nothing on this page is written by a model. All ranked answers: /banks/leaders

On the public record as of Oct 27, 2026, 42 of the 141 large banks profiled have an open AI posting at leadership level (head, director, VP, managing director, chief). Ranked by matching open roles, the top 5 are JPMorgan (12 open roles), Citi (12 open roles), BNY (12 open roles), State Street (12 open roles) and HSBC USA (11 open roles). JPMorgan's strongest evidence: Senior Executive Director of Data & AI; Applied ML and Generative AI Leader - Executive Director; Executive Director Machine Learning Engineer-MLOps and 9 more (snapshot capped at 12).

141 banks profiled (120 US, 21 non-US) · 42 with matching evidence · top 40 shown · ranked answer, not a comparison

Which of the large banks are hiring AI leaders (director and above)?

Checked 2026-10-27 · careers-site snapshots
#BankMatching open rolesRole titlesStatusDateOn this siteSources
1JPMorgan12Senior Executive Director of Data & AI; Applied ML and Generative AI Leader - Executive Director; Executive Director Machine Learning Engineer-MLOps and 9 more (snapshot capped at 12)12 open AI roles+Oct 27, 2026JPMorgan · open AI roles →Careers site ↗ · Posting ↗
2Citi12Head of AI Solutions, COO Technology - MD (C16); Principal AI Architect - Director; AI Agentic Development & Implementation, Global Services - Director and 9 more (snapshot capped at 12)12 open AI roles+Oct 27, 2026Citi · open AI roles →Careers site ↗ · Posting ↗
3BNY12Senior Director, AI / Machine Learning Data Engineer; Director, Artificial Intelligence Risk Management; Director, AI / Machine Learning Software Engineer and 9 more (snapshot capped at 12)12 open AI roles+Oct 27, 2026BNY · open AI roles →Careers site ↗ · Posting ↗
4State Street12Agentic AI (Global Delivery Simplification), Managing Director; Global Head of AI, MD; Global Head of Data & AI Governance & Oversight, SVP and 9 more (snapshot capped at 12)12 open AI roles+Oct 27, 2026State Street · open AI roles →Careers site ↗ · Posting ↗
5HSBC USA11Director Group AI Platform Engineering; Head of Productivity Suite Engineering Lead - AI; VP - CRM (AI) and 8 more (snapshot capped at 12)12 open AI roles+Oct 27, 2026HSBC USA · open AI roles →Careers site ↗ · Posting ↗
6Morgan Stanley10Head of Product - AI Development Platform - ED; Quantitative AI and Data Analyst - Executive Director; Cyber Security AI Engineer - Director and 7 more (snapshot capped at 12)12 open AI roles+Oct 27, 2026Morgan Stanley · open AI roles →Careers site ↗ · Posting ↗
7OCBC9AI Governance (GDMO) (ED/VP); Data Scientist, AI Lab (AVP/VP); Data & AI Programme Manager (VP) and 6 more (snapshot capped at 12)12 open AI roles+Oct 27, 2026OCBC · open AI roles →Careers site ↗ · Posting ↗
8Capital One8Senior Director, Data Scientist - US Card; Sr. Director- Data, Models, and AI Risk Management | Retail Bank; Senior Director, Data Science and 5 more (snapshot capped at 12)12 open AI roles+Oct 27, 2026Capital One · open AI roles →Careers site ↗ · Posting ↗
9HSBC8Head of Productivity Suite Engineering Lead - AI; Director Group AI Platform Engineering; Sr. Associate Director, Data and Analytics (AI Agent Engineer) and 5 more (snapshot capped at 12)12 open AI roles+Oct 27, 2026HSBC · open AI roles →Careers site ↗ · Posting ↗
10Goldman7Risk, AI Model Validation, Vice President, New York; VP Applied AI - Deep Learning; Real Estate Data Science, Vice President and 4 more (snapshot capped at 12)12 open AI roles+Oct 27, 2026Goldman · open AI roles →Careers site ↗ · Posting ↗
11DBS7SVP/VP, Senior Cloud Engineer (Data & AI Platform), Group Technology; VP/AVP, Data Scientist, Group Legal, Compliance and Secretariat; VP/AVP, Tech Lead, Enterprise GenAI Platform, Data Platform, Group… and 4 more (snapshot capped at 12)12 open AI roles+Oct 27, 2026DBS · open AI roles →Careers site ↗ · Posting ↗
12Barclays6Director, Principal Engineer - Applied AI; Senior AI Product Owner - VP; Quant AI/ML Model Developer VP and 3 more (snapshot capped at 12)12 open AI roles+Oct 27, 2026Barclays · open AI roles →Careers site ↗ · Posting ↗
13RBC5Senior Director, AI Research; Senior Director, AI Product Management; Senior Director, AI and Data & Integration Platforms and 2 more (snapshot capped at 12)12 open AI roles+Oct 27, 2026RBC · open AI roles →Careers site ↗ · Posting ↗
14BMO Financial Group5Vice President, AI Strategy & Product Management; Vice President, Data Scientist; Director AI Platform Engineering and 2 more (snapshot capped at 12)12 open AI roles+Oct 25, 2026BMO Financial Group · open AI roles →Careers site ↗ · Posting ↗
15Scotiabank4Chief AI Architect; Director Artificial Intelligence; Director, AI Platform and 1 more (snapshot capped at 12)12 open AI roles+Oct 27, 2026Scotiabank · open AI roles →Careers site ↗ · Posting ↗
16TD Bank Group42LOD Director of AI Risk Oversight & Governance (US); Director, AI Governance, TDS Governance & Control; AVP, AI & Innovation and 1 more (snapshot capped at 12)12 open AI roles+Oct 27, 2026TD Bank Group · open AI roles →Careers site ↗ · Posting ↗
17Truist3Senior Director, Agentic Engineering; TEMPO- AI Enablement Director - Productivity & Efficiency Leader; AI & Data Director - Finance & Risk Data Delivery10 open AI rolesOct 27, 2026Truist · open AI roles →Careers site ↗ · Posting ↗
18Deutsche Bank3AI Security CoE Lead, VP; AFC Modelling - Data Scientist (Transaction Monitoring) - Vice…; Quality Assurance Engineer – AI Agentic Applications, AVP7 open AI rolesOct 27, 2026Deutsche Bank · open AI roles →Careers site ↗ · Posting ↗
19Synchrony3SVP, Head of AI Governance; VP, Head of AI Enablement; VP, Head of Program Management - AI3 open AI rolesOct 27, 2026Synchrony · open AI roles →Careers site ↗ · Posting ↗
20Bank OZK3VP, Principal AI/ML Engineer; AVP Senior AI ML Engineer; AVP Product Manager - AI Solutions3 open AI rolesOct 27, 2026Bank OZK · open AI roles →Careers site ↗ · Posting ↗
21Amex2Director - AI Engineering - Mobile Engineering; Director - Cyber Security / Agentic AI - IAM Engineering (snapshot capped at 12)12 open AI roles+Oct 27, 2026Amex · open AI roles →Careers site ↗ · Posting ↗
22Banco Santander2Head of Governance & Orchestration (Agentic Organization); Head of Platform & Enablement (Agentic Organization) (snapshot capped at 12)12 open AI roles+Oct 27, 2026Banco Santander · open AI roles →Careers site ↗ · Posting ↗
23Barclays US2Director, Principal Engineer - Applied AI; Liquid Financing Data/AI Engineer – VP10 open AI rolesOct 27, 2026Barclays US · open AI roles →Careers site ↗ · Posting ↗
24TD22LOD Director of AI Risk Oversight & Governance (US); Director, AI Governance, TDS Governance & Control7 open AI rolesOct 27, 2026TD · open AI roles →Careers site ↗ · Posting ↗
25UBS (US)2Director, AI Application Engineering; Director/Principle Engineer, Platform Engineering – TIP.AI Platform5 open AI rolesOct 27, 2026UBS (US) · open AI roles →Careers site ↗ · Posting ↗
26UBS Group AG2Director, AI Application Engineering; Director/Principle Engineer, Platform Engineering – TIP.AI Platform5 open AI rolesOct 27, 2026UBS Group AG · open AI roles →Careers site ↗ · Posting ↗
27Lloyds2Chief AI Engineer; Head of Engineering (Convo AI)3 open AI rolesOct 27, 2026Lloyds · open AI roles →Careers site ↗ · Posting ↗
28PNC1Software Engineering Group Manager- Artificial Intelligence (snapshot capped at 12)12 open AI roles+Oct 27, 2026PNC · open AI roles →Careers site ↗ · Posting ↗
29USAA1Director, Data Scientist (snapshot capped at 12)12 open AI roles+Oct 27, 2026USAA · open AI roles →Careers site ↗ · Posting ↗
30U.S. Bank1Vice President, People Analytics-Data Science11 open AI rolesOct 27, 2026U.S. Bank · open AI roles →Careers site ↗ · Posting ↗
31Schwab1Director, Internal Audit AI Technology11 open AI rolesOct 27, 2026Schwab · open AI roles →Careers site ↗ · Posting ↗
32BBVA1CIB AI Strategy & Control Vice President8 open AI rolesOct 27, 2026BBVA · open AI roles →Careers site ↗ · Posting ↗
33Axos Bank1VP, Senior Data Scientist - Marketing Intelligence7 open AI rolesOct 27, 2026Axos Bank · open AI roles →Careers site ↗ · Posting ↗
34BMO1Director AI Platform Engineering6 open AI rolesOct 25, 2026BMO · open AI roles →Careers site ↗ · Posting ↗
35SoFi1Sr Director, Head of Enterprise Applied AI4 open AI rolesOct 27, 2026SoFi · open AI roles →Careers site ↗ · Posting ↗
36First Citizens1AI Platform Director - Data Engineering4 open AI rolesOct 1, 2026First Citizens · open AI roles →Careers site ↗ · Posting ↗
37Ally1Senior Director - Applied Data & AI3 open AI rolesOct 27, 2026Ally · open AI roles →Careers site ↗ · Posting ↗
38BOK Financial1Director, Enterprise Data Architecture3 open AI rolesOct 13, 2026BOK Financial · open AI roles →Careers site ↗ · Posting ↗
39UOB1VP / AVP, AI Platform Specialist, Enterprise AI, Innovation Group2 open AI rolesOct 27, 2026UOB · open AI roles →Careers site ↗ · Posting ↗
40The Bancorp1Director AI Strategy & Intelligent Automation2 open AI rolesOct 5, 2026The Bancorp · open AI roles →Careers site ↗ · Posting ↗

Each row quotes one record from careers-site snapshots; the “On this site” link opens the bank's own page or sub-page with every source. Banks absent from the table have nothing matching on the record this site holds.

How is this ranked?

Data: the weekly open-AI-roles sweep (data/banks/open-roles.json): currently open AI-related postings read from each bank's own careers site, capped at 12 per bank; snapshots dated 2026-10-01 to 2026-10-27.

Rule: Postings whose title the sweep classes as leadership (head of, director, vice president, managing director, chief, executive director). Score = such postings.

Counts: 42 of 141 profiled banks qualify; the table shows the top 40; 76 distinct sources cited in the table. Data checked 2026-10-27; ranking template updated 2026-10-30.

What are the caveats?

Hiring is evidence of intent, not deployment. The snapshot is a point in time: postings close, and a careers site the sweep cannot read leaves the bank out.

Banks absent from the table have nothing matching on the record this site holds, which is not evidence that they do nothing. Each row links the bank's own page, where every entry carries its sources.

Which bank ranks first?

JPMorgan Chase leads with 12 open roles: Senior Executive Director of Data & AI; Applied ML and Generative AI Leader - Executive Director; Executive Director Machine Learning Engineer-MLOps and 9 more (snapshot capped at 12). Citi is second with 12.

How many large banks are hiring AI leaders?

42 of the 141 profiled banks (120 US, 21 non-US groups); the table shows the top 40. Among those listed, 26 are US banks and 14 non-US groups.

What counts, and what does not?

Postings whose title the sweep classes as leadership (head of, director, vice president, managing director, chief, executive director). Score = such postings. Source: the weekly open-AI-roles sweep (data/banks/open-roles.json): currently open AI-related postings read from each bank's own careers site, capped at 12 per bank; snapshots dated 2026-10-01 to 2026-10-27.

Is this a measure of capability?

No. Every row is a sourced fact on the public record: what the bank, a regulator, a filing or an independent outlet has put on the record. The page does not rate how well anything works.

When was this checked, and how often does it update?

The data behind the table was last checked on 2026-10-27 (careers-site snapshots). The page recomputes whenever that dataset changes and is republished with the site; it is never edited by hand.

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