Director, Artificial Intelligence

1 month ago


Toronto, Canada Northbridge Financial Corporation Full time

Nous sommes la Financière Northbridge. Nous sommes fiers d’être une société canadienne à 100 %, détenue en propriété exclusive par Fairfax Financial. Nous offrons nos services par l’entremise de nos marques Northbridge Assurance, Les assurances Federated et TruShield Assurance. Nous sommes reconnus comme étant l’une des plus importantes sociétés d’assurance de dommages des entreprises au Canada. Nos employés sont engagés à comprendre les besoins de nos clients, et nous faisons tout en notre pouvoir pour aider les entreprises canadiennes à connaître un avenir meilleur et plus sécuritaire. Nous sommes une entreprise formée de personnes passionnées qui placent les gens au cœur de leurs préoccupations. Souhaitez-vous vous joindre à une équipe qui croit en l’importance de travailler fort, et d’avoir du plaisir au travail, tout en améliorant les choses? Ne cherchez pas plus loin que Northbridge.

Reporting to the VP, Data and Analytics, this is a key role to lead us as we look to advance our predictive and prescriptive capability using applied statistics, machine learning or artificial intelligence to build business solutions. A central partner to the business the AI/ML solutions team will be under this role’s leadership to help further unlock the value from our data and support our transformation in becoming an analytics data driven organization.

This role will lead a team of data scientists focused on delivering measured value through AI/ML use cases that span across the NBFC business. A major priority is to help increase the data and analytics literacy with the business and through partnering with different business areas help identify a suite of use cases that will contribute to a multi-year AI/ML roadmap. Key to the success of the role is being a functional expert, driven by delivering business value and help the team across the AI/ML lifecycle from business problem definition to feature engineering to deployment and measurement.

An ideal candidate will have a passion for AI/ML and to foster a team of AI/ML and business experts; an analytical mindset, be a self-starter, comfortable with ambiguity, detail oriented and have desire to work in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment. A keen interest in influencing business performance through insights is a must.

In other words, they’re awesome. If you are too, consider joining us….

You’re great at:  

Leading a team of data scientists in creating and delivering high quality AI solutions

Being a change champion and help the business conduct business problem opportunities and assessment identifying revenue generation and cost saving opportunities, developing proposals and make recommendations for model usage to the downstream partners.

Challenging the team to utilize creative thinking to modify or select the most suitable procedure/approach to solve a business problem balancing complexity and value.

Driving change within team and across broader Data & Analytics the importance of learning our business and the respective to help aid in our building the best solutions – be a business expert.

Collaborating and influence across a wide range of business and technical stakeholders

You have:

B. Sc Computer Science, Mathematics, Stats, Engineering

Masters in Management Analytics, MBA or equivalent work experience

8+ years of progressive AI/ML experience and 4+ years of leading a team in developing and implementing AI/ML solutions (predictive, prescriptive, ML etc.)

Advanced knowledge in scalable data engineering, software engineering and/or ML Ops practices

Experience in Microsoft Azure for model development, deployment, and monitoring is an asset

Experience in Property & Casualty insurance is an asset

We really mean it when we say we put you first. Here are a few ways how:

You get to work from the office and at home (50/50), so you can manage both worlds with the ease and flexibility you need.

We offer competitive salaries and support your financial health through our employee share purchase plan, pension plans, RRSP, discounts on staff insurance, and more

We help you prioritize your well-being from day one through flexible health benefits, early leave days, wellness programs, rewards, and recognition programs.

We are invested in helping you grow in your career through education assistance, internal mobility, and mentoring programs.

We care about the community and support the causes you believe in with donation matching and team volunteer days.

À la Financière Northbridge, nous avons à cœur de créer un milieu de travail inclusif où nous célébrons les employés et les accueillons comme ils sont. Peu importe qui vous êtes ou ce qui vous rend unique, nous vous accueillons à bras ouverts. Veuillez simplement nous indiquer comment nous pouvons vous aider ou vous accommoder au cours du processus de sélection.



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