VP, AI Learning & Development - Americas (12 Month Fixed Term Contract)

Do you want your voice heard and your actions to count? Discover your opportunity with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), one of the world’s leading financial groups. Across the globe, we’re 150,000 colleagues, striving to make a difference for every client, organization, and community we serve. We stand for our values, building long-term relationships, serving society, and fostering shared and sustainable growth for a better world.

With a vision to be the world’s most trusted financial group, it’s part of our culture to put people first, listen to new and diverse ideas and collaborate toward greater innovation, speed and agility. This means investing in talent, technologies, and tools that empower you to own your career.

Join MUFG, where being inspired is expected and making a meaningful impact is rewarded.

The selected colleague will work at an MUFG office or client sites four days per week and work remotely one day. A member of our recruitment team will provide more details.

The Global Talent, Learning & Culture team is responsible for a range of key HR areas and processes across the Global MUFG Bank and Securities business; including Learning & Development, Talent Management, Talent Acquisition & Mobility, and Culture & Engagement.

The role of Talent, Learning & Culture (TL&C) is to ensure that MUFG maintains a high performing workforce, and is an organization where people can join, accelerate, learn, develop and progress their careers alongside their personal goals. The team aims to provide sound expert advice and resources to both HR and business colleagues, and to deliver programs that support the development of highly performing and engaged teams.

The VP, AI Learning & Development Lead – Americas will shape and execute the Americas- wide AI workforce enablement roadmap, translating evolving AI capabilities and business needs into practical, role-based learning and adoption opportunities. The role will combine strong AI fluency and hands-on experience with enterprise generative AI tools and delivering AI Learning & Development programs to build workforce capability, enable practical use of AI, and help embed new ways of working across the region.

The role will lead cross-functional coordination across TL&C, Technology/IT, PMO, Corporate Communications, Risk, Legal, Compliance, Procurement, vendors, Business Unit AI Leads, HRBPs, and business stakeholders to align priorities, manage dependencies, and move the program from strategy through implementation.

Strategy, AI Enablement & Learning Design

• Establish the AI capability framework and learning architecture for the Americas, aligned to global foundations and adapted for regional business, technology, and regulatory requirements.
• Define target audiences, proficiency levels, and desired outcomes, including pathways for novice, intermediate, advanced/expert, senior leader, people manager, technical, and champion populations.
• Translate AI capabilities, business needs, and SME input into role-based learning pathways, instructor-led opportunities, clear learning objectives, and practical guidance for technical and non-technical audiences.
• Define the baseline proficiency approach and mandatory AI learning & development plan for all employees.
• Leverage and adapt existing global capability frameworks, audience segmentation, supplier criteria, learning architecture, current state/gap analysis, and governance approaches.
• Make recommendations to build, buy, reuse, or adapt learning solutions by evaluating internal and external offerings against capability and business requirements.
• Assess business demand, capability gaps, and emerging AI use cases through partnership with Business Unit AI Leads, HRBPs, Technology, and business stakeholders.
• Coordinate with Risk, Legal, and Compliance to incorporate requirements associated with new AI tools, capabilities, and use cases.
• Maintain strong fluency in emerging AI capabilities, tools, use cases, and workforce trends, translating relevant developments into practical learning and enablement opportunities for the Americas.

Program Leadership & Stakeholder Engagement

• Lead the cross-functional AI learning & development program across TL&C, PMO, Technology/IT, Procurement, Risk, Legal, Compliance, Corporate Communications, vendors, Business Unit AI Leads, HRBPs, and business stakeholders across MUFG’s bank, securities, trust bank, and investor servic…