Director

General information

Ref # 21865

Remote? No

Ally and Your Career

Ally Financial only succeeds when its people do - and that's more than some cliché people put on job postings. We live this stuff! We see our people as, well, people - with interests, families, friends, dreams, and causes that are all important to them. Our focus is on the health and safety of our teammates as well as work-life balance and diversity and inclusion. From generous benefits to a variety of employee resource groups, we strive to build paths that encourage employees to stretch themselves professionally. We want to help you grow, develop, and learn new things. You're constantly evolving, so shouldn't your opportunities be, too?

The 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.

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.

The Skills You Bring

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.

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How We'll Have Your Back

Ally's compensation program offers market-competitive base pay and pay-for-performance incentives (bonuses) based on achieving personal and company goals. But Ally's total compensation - or total rewards - extends beyond your paycheck and is designed to support and enrich your personal and professional life, including:

• Time Away: competitive holiday and flexible paid-time-off, including time off for volunteering and voting.
• Planning for the Future: plan for the near and long term with an industry-leading 401K retirement savings plan with matching and company contributions, student loan and 529 educational assistance programs, tuition reimbursement, and other financial well-being programs.
• Supporting your Health & Well-being: flexible health and insurance options including dental and vision, pre-tax Health Savings Account with employer contributions and a total well-being program that helps you and your family stay on track physically, socially, emotionally, and financially.
• Building a Family: adoption, surrogacy, and fertility support as well as parental and caregiver leave, back-up child and adult/elder day care program and childcare discounts.
• Work-Life Integration: other benefits including LifeMatters® Employee Assistance Program, subsidized and discounted Weight Watchers® program and other employee discount programs.

Who We Are:

Ally Financial is a customer-centric, leading digital financial services company with passionate customer service and innovative financial solutions. We are relentlessly focused on "Doing it Right" and being a trusted financial-services provider to our consumer, commercial, and corporate customers. For more information, visit

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.

Where permitted by applicable law, must have received or be willing to receive the COVID-19 vaccine by date of hire to be considered, if not currently employed by Ally.

We are committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with physical or mental disabilities. For accommodation requests, email us at [email protected]. Ally will not discriminate against any qualified individual who is capable of performing the essential functions of the job with or without reasonable accommodation.

Base Pay Range:

An individual's position in the range is determined by the scope and responsibilities of the role, work experience, education, certification(s), training, and additional qualifications. We review internal pay, the competitive market, and business environment prior to extending an offer.

Emerging: 135000

Experienced: 185000

Expert: 235000

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