# Director AI > Weekday AI · Bengaluru, India · Full-time · Posted 2026-10-30 **Salary:** INR 6,800,000–10,000,000 **Workplace:** on_site **Department:** Weekday's Client via platform ## Description **This role is for one of Weekday’s clients Salary range: Rs 6800000 - Rs 10000000 (ie INR 68 - 100 LPA)** Min Experience: 12+ years Location: Bangalore JobType: full-time We are seeking a strategic and hands-on Director – AI to lead the development and execution of the organisation's AI product strategy. The ideal candidate will be responsible for transforming high-value business challenges into secure, scalable, and commercially impactful AI products, taking them from initial discovery and prioritisation through development, launch, adoption, and continuous improvement. This is a high-impact leadership role at the intersection of AI, Product Management, Technology, and Business. You will define the organisation-wide AI vision and build a focused product portfolio that moves AI beyond isolated experiments into repeatable, reliable, and measurable business outcomes. The portfolio may span Generative AI, Predictive Machine Learning, Intelligent Automation, and AI-powered customer experiences across areas such as fraud detection, risk management, customer support, personalised payment experiences, and operational efficiency. ## Requirements ## Key Responsibilities - Define the AI product vision, strategy, and roadmap in collaboration with business and technology leadership. - Build and prioritise an AI product portfolio based on customer needs, business value, technical feasibility, risk, and speed of execution. - Own the complete product lifecycle, including problem discovery, use-case definition, experimentation, prioritisation, development, launch, adoption, and optimisation. - Partner with AI/ML engineers, data scientists, designers, platform teams, and business stakeholders to deliver reliable AI products at scale. - Evaluate and integrate external AI platforms and LLM solutions where they offer strategic and business advantages, ensuring security, privacy, cost, and performance considerations. - Establish modern AI product practices covering model evaluation, human-in-the-loop workflows, feedback mechanisms, observability, and continuous improvement. - Translate AI capabilities into measurable business outcomes, including revenue growth, monetisation, cost optimisation, productivity, risk reduction, and improved customer experience. - Establish governance frameworks for Responsible AI, regulatory compliance, data privacy, security, explainability, risk management, and auditability. - Build and strengthen AI Product Management capabilities through talent development, operating frameworks, decision-making processes, documentation, and best practices. - Lead, mentor, and develop high-performing teams while influencing senior stakeholders across the organisation. ## Key Success Metrics - Establish a focused AI roadmap aligned with strategic business priorities and customer outcomes. - Successfully launch and scale AI products with measurable improvements in value, quality, safety, reliability, and user experience. - Drive tangible business impact through improved productivity, operational efficiency, customer engagement, revenue, cost optimisation, and risk management. - Implement robust AI evaluation and governance frameworks that enable responsible experimentation and deployment. - Develop a repeatable AI product operating model and build a capable team that can take AI initiatives from discovery to measurable impact. ## Must-Have Skills and Qualifications - 12–18 years of overall experience, with 12–14 years specifically in Product Management. - At least 3 years of experience building or scaling AI-driven products. - Proven track record of launching B2C or B2B AI/ML-powered products at scale and driving sustained adoption beyond pilot stages. - Strong understanding of Generative AI and its product applications, including LLMs, transformers, embeddings, and modern AI application architectures. - Ability to translate technical AI capabilities into customer-focused solutions, commercial value, and actionable product strategies. - Experience leading high-performing product teams and collaborating across Engineering, Data Science, Design, Risk, Compliance, and Business functions. - Strong strategic thinking, analytical judgement, communication, and stakeholder management skills. - Ability to operate effectively in fast-paced, ambiguous, and highly regulated business environments. ## Good-to-Have Skills - Experience in Payments, FinTech, Financial Services, or other regulated technology environments. - Exposure to AI platforms, LLM providers, model evaluation, LLMOps, MLOps, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and AI-agent applications. - Experience with Machine Learning, Intelligent Automation, and predictive analytics. - Domain knowledge in fraud detection, risk management, and personalised customer experiences. - Demonstrated ability to balance innovation with data privacy, information security, Responsible AI, and regulatory requirements. ## What the Role Offers - Opportunity to shape and lead an organisation-wide AI strategy with direct visibility into business and customer impact. - Work on high-value AI use cases that improve customer trust, operational speed, experience, and efficiency. - Build the team, operating model, and product management practices for the next phase of AI-led growth. - Access to continuous learning opportunities, including 5,000+ courses from learning partners. - Work in a fast-paced, innovation-driven, and inclusive environment that encourages diverse perspectives and ownership. ## Key Skills **Must-Have:** Product Management, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Generative AI **Good-to-Have:** Machine Learning, Intelligent Automation, Fraud Detection ## Apply [Apply at Weekday AI](https://apply.workable.com/weekday-1/j/F1A8EF7D62/apply) --- Powered by [Workable](https://www.workable.com)