Director, AI Enablement

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Oversee the internal AI portfolio and its adoption throughout all functions at Ezurio.

• Identify high-impact AI opportunities, prioritize investments, and deliver quantifiable results.

• Analyze workflows comprehensively to decide whether AI, conventional automation, or process modifications are suitable.

• Create functional prototypes utilizing agent, automation, and API tools to demonstrate value.

• Establish evaluation methods, human-approval checkpoints, and success metrics.

• Transfer validated solutions to implementation partners for production enhancement.

• Manage the internal AI use-case portfolio, encompassing intake, prioritization, funding, and retirement.

• Deliver quarterly reports on projected benefits and actual outcomes.

• Maintain a strategic roadmap for decisions on building, buying, or waiting.

• Oversee the AI investment budget from annual planning through to approval and monitoring.

• Prepare both structured and unstructured company data for effective AI utilization.

• Collaborate with business and technology leaders on data quality, governance, accessibility, and scalability.

• Select and oversee technology vendors and implementation partners.

• Promote adoption through training, functional champions, usage analytics, and license optimization.

• Conduct regular effectiveness evaluations for each AI tool and agent; revise or retire unused tools.

• Collaborate with IT and Legal to establish acceptable-use policies, data management, and security protocols.

• Uphold AI governance practices in alignment with Ezurio's ethical standards and compliance with the EU AI Act, GDPR, and CCPA.

• Report on adoption rates, costs, risks, and business impacts to senior leadership.

• Report directly to the VP of IT and engage with an executive steering group as an individual contributor.

⛳️ Requirements

• Practical technical expertise: capable of building or configuring functional prototypes with contemporary agent, automation, and API tools.

• Proficient in reading architecture and code well enough to challenge vendors and internal teams effectively.

• Strong business and financial insight; aligns AI investment choices with strategic objectives and measurable results.

• Comprehensive understanding of AI solution patterns, decision intelligence, AI-enabled workflow redesign, business models, and operational optimization.

• Proven capability to achieve results across an organization without direct authority.

• Ability to clearly communicate complex AI concepts to non-technical audiences and senior executives.

• Familiarity with the EU AI Act, GDPR, CCPA, and applicable data protection regulations.

• Comfortable taking initiative and navigating through uncertainty in a high-paced environment.

• Bachelor's or master's degree in business, a STEM field, computer science, data science, or equivalent professional experience.

• 8+ years of leadership experience in business or technology, including managing cross-functional technology or transformation initiatives.

• Experience leading cross-functional business transformation or technology initiatives within a complex organization.

• Candidates must have legal authorization to work in the US.

• Experience in strategy or management consulting is advantageous.

🏝️ Benefits

• Opportunity for remote work.

• Equal opportunity employer.