Head of AI/ML
Head of AI, Consumer
Westpac Group · 📍 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Lead Westpac's consumer banking AI strategy—home lending, everyday banking, consumer finance—embedding predictive models, agentic AI, and responsible AI practices across a major retail bank division.
Signals
- ⚠ no reporting line stated
- ✓ active bank-wide AI build-out with multiple parallel HEAD_AI hires
- ✓ broad mandate spanning frontier AI, agentic solutions, and executive advisory
Company history
Westpac is systematically hiring division-level AI heads (Enterprise Functions, Consumer, Platform Engineering) in 2026, signalling a structured, top-down AI industrialisation programme rather than isolated experimentation.