Corporate Functions AI Strategy and Adoption Lead, Director

Employer:              DWS Group Title:                       Corporate Functions AI Strategy and Adoption Lead, Director Location:                Madrid Job Code:              placeholder for LinkedIn job wrapping About DWS: Today, markets face a whole new set of pressures – but also a whole lot of opportunity too. Opportunity to innovate differently. Opportunity to invest responsibly. And opportunity to make change. Join us at DWS, and you can be part of an industry-leading firm with a global presence. You can lead ambitious opportunities and shape the future of investing. You can support our clients, local communities, and the environment. We’re looking for creative thinkers and innovators to join us as the world continues to transform. As whole markets change, one thing remains clear; our people always work together to capture the opportunities of tomorrow. As investors on behalf of our clients, it is our role to find investment solutions. Ensuring the best possible foundation for our clients’ financial future. And in return, we’ll give you the support and platform to develop new skills, make an impact and work alongside some of the industry’s greatest thought leaders. This is your chance to achieve your goals and lead an extraordinary career. This is your chance to invest in your future. Read more about DWS and who we are here. Team / division overview The role sits at the intersection of hands-on delivery and strategic influence. You will work directly with engineers, analysts, delivery leads, and business stakeholders to identify meaningful AI use cases, build practical examples, coach teams, and remove blockers to adoption. At the same time, you will translate what is being learned on the ground into clear recommendations for leadership, tooling, governance, roadmap choices, and ways of working.  Reporting into the Head of Corporate Functions (CF) Technology, you will be embedded in the area where AI adoption needs to happen. You will also work closely with the DWS AI Centre of Excellence, ensuring that Corporate Functions is both aligned to enterprise AI direction and actively shaping it through real delivery experience. You will help create and nurture the Corporate Functions AI Community of Practice, so that knowledge, experimentation, and adoption are shared across teams rather than remaining isolated in individual pockets.  Your responsibilities – As Corporate Functions AI Strategy and Adoption Lead, Director, you will: Act as the primary AI champion embedded within the delivery and operational teams, working alongside engineers, analysts, and delivery leads to embed AI into everyday practice.  Lead and facilitate the AI Open House and equivalent adoption programmes including curating peer wins, facilitating skill-building segments, and visibly resolving blockers.  Coach individuals and teams on practical AI use, from prompt engineering and gen-AI features through to building RAG pipelines and agentic workflows.  Serve as the primary convenor and energiser of the AI Community of Practice ensuring it has rhythm, relevance, and genuine peer ownership.  Curate and grow a shared knowledge base of AI use cases, prompt libraries, lessons learned, and emerging tools relevant to the team.  Design and run lightweight experimentation programmes including challenges, hackathons, discovery sprints that surface new AI applications and build confidence across teams.  Act as the CF technology team’s primary AI thought leader and strategic advisor to leadership translating field-level insight into strategic recommendations.  Stay current with AI developments across the industry particularly in financial services and bring relevant intelligence into AI CoE leadership conversations and roadmap decisions.  Advise CF business stakeholders on how AI can be applied to their specific domains, translating technical capability into