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Investissement Québec

Public investment agency accelerating Quebec growth

Conseiller principal - Gouvernance et portefeuille IA, Montréal

Program ManagementUpdated on Nov 10
Full-timeMontreal, QC, CanadaNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

  • A bachelor's degree in administration, management, information systems, technology, organizational transformation, or a relevant field.
  • Eight years of relevant experience, including at least four years in an advisory, governance, portfolio management, transformation, or complex-initiative expertise role.
  • Knowledge of digital, data, and artificial intelligence issues, including value, adoption, governance, risks, and responsible use.
  • Demonstrated expertise in governance, cross-functional processes, and portfolio oversight, and in adapting frameworks, standards, and best practices to an organizational context.
  • Experience in prioritization, trade-offs, risk management, financial monitoring, and performance-indicator tracking.
  • Experience establishing, overseeing, and monitoring testbeds, experiments, or pilot projects, including defining success criteria, analyzing results, and formulating recommendations.
  • Experience preparing recommendations, dashboards, and decision files for executives or committees.
  • Demonstrated ability to influence, mobilize, and guide work without hierarchical authority.
  • Strong judgment and ability to make clear recommendations in complex or ambiguous situations.
  • Ability to provide cross-functional leadership and mobilize stakeholders at different levels toward common objectives.
  • Ability to take a broad view and connect governance, risk, cost, capacity, and value considerations.
  • Strong analytical, synthesis, and prioritization abilities.
  • Ability to communicate clearly and rigorously with business units, experts, executives, and committees.
  • Ability to work autonomously, rigorously, and methodically while ensuring traceability and organizational consistency.
  • Agility, curiosity, results orientation, and commitment to continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

  • Define, implement, and evolve governance for artificial intelligence initiatives, including roles and responsibilities, authority levels, stage-gate criteria, and escalation mechanisms, to provide consistent oversight proportionate to risk and organizational maturity.
  • Structure and improve processes across the artificial intelligence initiative lifecycle, from receiving requests through tracking results, including experimentation and indicator collection; maintain the templates, registers, and tools needed to apply them.
  • Exercise the functional authority established by governance processes, validate file compliance and completeness, request necessary corrections, and authorize progression to the appropriate governing bodies.
  • Oversee the artificial intelligence initiative portfolio and maintain an integrated view of priorities, resources, costs, forecasts, dependencies, risks, and expected benefits; analyze variances and recommend adjustments to support investment, prioritization, and resource-allocation decisions.
  • Define, consolidate, and track key performance indicators relating to value, adoption, progress, capacity, risks, and compliance to support accountability and decision-making.
  • Prepare decision files, recommendations, and presentations for committees and governing bodies.
  • Ensure traceability of decisions, risks, usage conditions, and commitments, and coordinate necessary follow-up.
  • Establish and oversee artificial intelligence testbeds, experiments, and pilot projects by defining their framework, objectives, success criteria, and indicators; mobilize stakeholders, analyze results, and recommend whether initiatives should continue, be adjusted, scaled, or stopped.
  • Advise the director and stakeholders by identifying cross-functional issues, dependencies, and required trade-offs, and formulating clear recommendations to support decision-making.
  • Advance organizational maturity in artificial intelligence by assessing existing practices, capabilities, and mechanisms, identifying gaps, and proposing an evolution path; adapt governance to remain practical, effective, and proportionate to risk.
  • Monitor frameworks, standards, and best practices in artificial intelligence governance and portfolio management, and translate findings into practical improvements.
  • Identify common needs, related use cases, and reusable assets to prevent duplication.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience in a complex or regulated organization is an asset.
  • A relevant certification in governance, portfolio, program, project, or process management is an asset.

About the Company

Investissement Québec

Public investment agency accelerating Quebec growth

Investissement Québec helps businesses grow by providing financing and support to accelerate growth and spur economic development in Quebec. It uses a team of experts across 17 Quebec offices and 12 international offices who understand local business conditions and unique challenges to offer tailored financial solutions and guidance. The company differentiates itself by its broad geographic reach, deep local knowledge, and ability to connect clients with a full suite of financing options and advisory services to support expansion. Its goal is to be the main growth partner for Quebec companies, helping them scale and contribute to the province’s economic development.

Company size
Not listed
Company stage
Not listed
Total funding
$2.8B
Headquarters
Montreal, Canada
Founded
1998

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