AI Design Analyst (AI Foundry) in Leeds, Yorkshire

Location: YBS Leeds and Bradford (3 days a week onsite)

Role description:

We are looking for an experienced AI Design Analyst (AI Foundry) with 10 years of experience to take end-to-end ownership.

Key responsibilities:

• Assess and shape AI and Copilot Use Cases aligned to strategic business objectives, shaping them into well-defined proposals with clear value hypotheses and measurable success criteria.
• Engage with business teams to conduct deep analysis of business problems, workflows, processes and decision points to determine where AI can improve outcomes, efficiency or customer experience.
• Design AI enabled workflows, prompt patterns, user interactions and human in the loop models that maximise safety, transparency and user trust.
• Assess solution feasibility by evaluating data readiness, technical constraints, ethical considerations, compliance requirements and operational impacts.
• Map end to end processes, decision points, data dependencies and required human oversight.
• Support experimentation, prototyping and MVP definition with delivery teams.
• Ensure responsible AI principles (e.g., transparency, explainability, ISO42001) are incorporated into all designs.
• Provide structured analysis to support business cases, investment decisions, risk assessments, and prioritisation discussions at AI governance forums.
• Collaborate with teams to ensure designs are implementable, sustainable and aligned to enterprise architecture.
• Maintain a library of design artefacts, patterns and reusable assets to support repeatability and uplift design maturity across the AI Foundry.

Key skills/knowledge/experience:

• Translate Divisional priorities into plans and deliverables to deliver overall Group strategic priorities.
• Build the capability & capacity of functional resources to drive sustained commercial success.
• Interpret & communicate the priorities for the Function, motivating and developing a high performing team.
• Own functional priorities, applying specialist expertise to put the customer at the heart of everything and drive a profitable business.
• Initiate and develop critical external and internal relationships which create value, collaborating to deliver commercial and customer priorities.
• Role model YBS Values, champion diversity and challenge behaviour contrary to the Values.
• Identify, define & oversee management of risks associated with delivery across YBS.
• Uphold corporate legal & regulatory responsibilities.
• Implement and manage transformation activity & harness innovation to create a high performing & sustainable business.

Person specification:

Functional/Technical (Role Specific) Essential:

• Higher education qualification (or equivalent experience) in Ethics, Law, Risk Management, Social Sciences, Data/Computer Science or relevant field.
• Proven experience working in digital, data or AI programmes in complex or regulated environments.
• Skilled at mapping processes, decision flows and user journeys to identify where AI, automation or Copilot can add value.
• Understanding of core AI concepts including LLMs, prompt engineering, automation, decision support and responsible AI.
• Experience assessing data quality, readiness, lineage and feasibility for AI enabled solutions.
• Ability to design end to end AI workflows including prompts, orchestration, guardrails and human in the loop models.
• Skilled in user research, facilitation, co-design and requirements gathering workshops.
• Working knowledge of Copilot and Power Platform as well as Service Design/UX.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, including senior level engagement.
• Commercial awareness and a value driven mindset.

Sector (desirable):

• Understanding of financial services industry, markets and competitors.
• Understanding of how financial services organisations operate and the associated regulatory environment, or other regulated industries.
• Awareness of the Mutual Sector and the needs and interests of Members.

Commercial:

• Ability to work with autonomy and make operational decisions.
• Experience of delivering organisational change.
• Understanding of related functions and/or services outside of the role's direct remit.
• Experience of managing a set of internal and external stakeholder relationships.

Interpersonal:

• Good interpersonal skills and ability to build and maintain strong working relationships.
• Ability to work effectively in diverse teams.
• A problem-solving approach with curiosity and proactivity to engage and understand both the strategic business goals and our customer's needs.
• Ability to identify areas of improvement and create innovative approaches to delivering better quality service.
• Experience working in cross-functional teams and agile environments.
• Ability to identify, nurture and realise the potential in others.
• Strong communication, engagement and influencing skills.
• Ability to effectively represent YBS through building collaborative relationships.