Director, AI Strategy, Enablement – Workflow

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in California, +1 more state.

📋 Description

• Convert enterprise AI strategy into a practical portfolio and enablement plan.

• Establish the progression model, decision-making forums, and adoption priorities to transition opportunities from Sandbox experiments to Functional Programs and Enterprise Bets.

• Maintain overall portfolio health, encompassing ownership, pipeline status, adoption pathways, and value outcomes.

• Manage enterprise-wide AI transformation communications and executive narratives.

• Supervise workflow redesign across the portfolio, including current-state work baselining, friction-point identification, and redesigning roles and processes.

• Oversee Learning & Development (L&D) curriculum, playbooks, and tailored learning journeys for each audience.

• Ensure synchronized change management across HR and business units or skill teams.

• Manage enablement ROI and hold external agencies, third-party resources, and internal hubs accountable for upskilling and adoption metrics.

• Collaborate with Insight Generation to integrate portfolio, adoption, and enablement data into a reliable leadership scorecard.

• Lead a team focused on fundamentally transforming Ford's operations.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree.

• Over 8 years of experience in strategy, portfolio management, or leadership roles in transformation.

• Experience in managing managers or overseeing multiple functional teams.

• Direct experience handling a portfolio of competing initiatives, including prioritization, progression decisions, and tracking pipeline health.

• Experience in leading or closely collaborating on workflow redesign and organizational design initiatives.

• Background in overseeing an L&D or capability-building function, including curriculum development and deployment related to a specific technology or operational model change.

• Proven track record of leading change management initiatives requiring coordination across HR and various business units.

• Experience in managing external agencies or third-party vendors according to a defined scope and ROI expectations.

• Strong executive communication abilities, including creating narratives and materials for senior leadership decision-making.

• Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States.

• Visa sponsorship is not available.

• Preferred: experience in automotive, technology, or other large-scale enterprise environments with complex, matrixed operating structures.

• Preferred: background in leading an AI or digital transformation office, PMO, or center of excellence.

• Preferred: experience in building or scaling a Sandbox-to-Enterprise-style progression model.

• Preferred: familiarity with how AI agents and automation transform workflows.

• Preferred: experience presenting portfolio health, adoption, and enablement performance to senior executives or a board.

🏝️ Benefits

• Immediate medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage.

• Flexible family care days.

• Paid parental leave.

• New parent ramp-up programs.

• Subsidized back-up childcare.

• Family building benefits, including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement and fertility treatments.

• Vehicle discount program for employees and their family members.

• Management leases.

• Tuition assistance.

• Established and active employee resource groups.

• Paid time off for individual and team community service.

• Generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day.

• Paid time off.

• Option to purchase additional vacation time.