Head of AiDI Enablement

Location: Minneapolis, MN

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The Head of AI, Data and Innovation (AiDI) Enablement is a senior executive and key member of the AiDI leadership team, accountable for accelerating U.S. Bank’s transformation into an AI‑native, data‑driven, and innovation‑led organization. This leader plays a central role in driving the execution of end-to-end process simplification, experience improvement, and digitization across the company’s highest priorities. Leveraging our AI, data, and innovation capabilities to ensure they are fully adopted and embedded into how the business operates, makes decisions, and delivers for customers, will be key.

This role serves as the critical bridge between enterprise strategy and business execution through process reengineering and innovation. Partnering closely with the AI Center of Excellence (CoE), Enterprise Data Office, Innovation, the business lines and technology, the Head of AiDI Enablement is accountable for scaled execution, adoption, and the measurable business impact across all lines of business.

This leader will activate and align a coordinated network of business-aligned AI, data, and innovation leaders—driving consistent integration of these capabilities into core processes, customer journeys, and decision frameworks. Unlike traditional enablement roles, this position is accountable for driving the reengineering, implementation, and enterprise-wide adoption and change management, ensuring these capabilities move beyond experimentation into sustained operational use.

Key Responsibilities

Enterprise AI, Data & Innovation Adoption

• Translate strategy into actionable transformation roadmaps and execution plans that embed AI, data, and innovation into core business processes, workflows, and customer journeys.
• Drive process reengineering and redesign efforts, leveraging AI and data capabilities to fundamentally improve efficiency, decisioning, and customer experience.
• Ensure capabilities are fully adopted, operationalized, and sustained within business operations—not remaining at pilot or experimental stages.
• Partner with business and functional leaders to prioritize, sequence, and scale initiatives that deliver measurable improvements in growth, efficiency, risk management, and customer outcomes.
• Drive measurable outcomes, including enterprise adoption at scale, operational integration, process simplification, and quantifiable business value realization.

Enterprise Enablement & Business Integration

• Lead the enterprise enablement approach that translates centralized AI, data, and innovation capabilities into business-owned execution and outcomes.
• Align and coordinate business-aligned AI, data, and innovation leaders to ensure prioritized, scalable delivery across lines of business.
• Identify and remove structural, process, and capability barriers that limit speed and scale of adoption.

Change Leadership

Drive enterprise change management strategies and execution that embed new ways of working into normal business operations.

Partner with senior business leaders and AI sponsors to establish clear accountability for adoption and help drive their business outcomes through AI, Data, and Innovation.

Business Value Realization & Transformation

Partner with business leaders to identify, prioritize, and execute process reengineering initiatives that deliver measurable improvements in growth, efficiency, risk management, and customer outcomes.

Ensure successful implementation, scaling, and sustainment of redesigned processes, embedding AI- and data-driven capabilities into day-to-day operations.

Establish and drive enterprise frameworks to measure adoption, performance, and value realization, including process efficiency gains, customer experience improvements, and financial impact.

Scale high-impact use cases and transformation initiatives across lines of business, ensuring repeatable, enterprise-wide application of proven solutions.

Drive accountability for enterprise-level adoption, utilization, and business impact, ensuring AI, data, and innovation capabilities deliver sustained and quantifiable results.

Cross-Functional Partnership

• Partner closely with the AI Center of Excellence to ensure alignment between strategy, platforms, and execution.
• Collaborate with Technology, Data, Risk, and Operations to ensure capabilities are scalable, compliant, and production ready.
• Ensure alignment with governance, risk, and control frameworks for responsible AI and data usage.
• Influence senior stakeholders to align on priorities and execute against shared enterprise outcomes.

Leadership & Talent

• Build and lead a high-performing enterprise enablement organization, including direct and dotted-line leadership of business-aligned roles.
• Develop future-ready capabilities across AI adoption, data-driven decisioning, and innovation execution.
• Foster a culture of accountability, speed, experimentation, and disciplined execution.
• Pivotal Experience, Skills, and Expertise
• The successful candidate will bring a strong track record of leading AI enabled enterprise-scale transformation, process reengineering, and driving adoption of new technologies capabilities across complex, matrixed organizations.

Key capabilities include

• Enterprise Transformation Leadership: Proven ability to lead large-scale transformation initiatives, embedding new capabilities into core business operations.
• AI, Data & Innovation Fluency: Strong understanding of how AI, data, and innovation capabilities are applied to drive business outcomes.
• Execution in Matrixed Environments: Experience leading in highly matrixed environments, driving results through influence and coordinated execution across business segments.
• Change Management & Adoption: Demonstrated success driving sustained behavioral and operational change at scale.
• Business & Financial Acumen: Ability to connect enablement efforts to measurable business impact, including growth, efficiency, and risk management.
• Cross-Functional Influence: Exceptional ability to influence senior leaders across business, technology, and control functions.
• Execution Discipline: Track record of translating strategy into action with clear accountability and measurable results.

Leadership Capabilities

Leads Enterprise Transformation at Scale – Drives the design and execution of end-to-end process reengineering, digitization, and experience improvement initiatives across the enterprise, ensuring AI, data, and innovation capabilities are embedded into how the business operates.

Leads Through Influence – Aligns stakeholders and delivers results in a complex, matrixed organization.

Builds Capability at Scale – Develops enterprise fluency in AI, data, and innovation.

Connects Strategy to Execution – Ensures enterprise priorities translate into measurable business outcomes.

Drives Accountability & Results – Establishes ownership and delivers against clear adoption and value targets.

If there’s anything we can do to accommodate a disability during any portion of the application or hiring process, please refer to our disability accommodations for applicants.

Benefits

Our approach to benefits and total rewards considers our team members’ whole selves and what may be needed to thrive in and outside work. That's why our benefits are designed to help you and your family boost your health, protect your financial security and give you peace of mind. Our benefits include the following:

Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)

Basic term and optional term life insurance

Short-term and long-term disability

Pregnancy disability and parental leave

401(k) and employer-funded retirement plan

Paid vacation (from two to five weeks depending on salary grade and tenure)

Up to 11 paid holiday opportunities

Adoption assistance

Sick and Safe Leave accruals of one hour for every 30 worked, up to 80 hours per calendar year unless otherwise provided by law

Review our full benefits available by employment status here.

U.S. Bank is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or veteran status, and other factors protected under applicable law.

E-Verify

U.S. Bank participates in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security E-Verify program in all facilities located in the United States and certain U.S. territories. The E-Verify program is an Internet-based employment eligibility verification system operated by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Learn more about the E-Verify program.

The salary range reflects figures based on the primary location, which is listed first. The actual range for the role may differ based on the location of the role. In addition to salary, U.S. Bank offers a comprehensive benefits package, including incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase 401(k) contribution and pension (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). Pay Range: $274,295.00 - $322,700.00

U.S. Bank will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment. U.S. Bank conducts background checks consistent with applicable local laws, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance and the California Fair Chance Act as well as the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. U.S. Bank is subject to, and conducts background checks consistent with the requirements of Section 19 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act (FDIA).

In addition, certain positions may also be subject to the requirements of FINRA, NMLS registration, Reg Z, Reg G, OFAC, the NFA, the FCPA, the Bank Secrecy Act, the SAFE Act, and/or federal guidelines applicable to an agreement, such as those related to ethics, safety, or operational procedures.

Applicants must be able to comply with U.S. Bank policies and procedures including the Code of Ethics and Business Conduct and related workplace conduct and safety policies.

Posting may be closed earlier due to high volume of applicants.

Additional Locations: Atlanta, GA, Chicago, IL, Irving, TX, New York, NY