Head of AI Enablement

Job Description:

The Role:

The Head of the AI Enablement Hub leads J.D. Powers enterprise-wide AI adoption governance and enablement strategy. This role sits at the intersection of technology business transformation and responsible innovationdriving the programs guardrails and tools that accelerate AI use across the organization. You will combine a deep understanding of AI technologies with strong program leadership to ensure safe scalable and impactful enterprise adoption.

The Impact You Will Have in This Role:

You will establish the frameworks operating model and execution engine that enable J.D. Power to adopt AI confidently and responsibly. Your work will directly influence organizational readiness talent enablement productivity gains and the speed at which the business harnesses the value of reasoning-capable AI systems and adaptive intelligence workflows. You will also serve as a key advisor to executive leadership on AI strategy governance and enterprise adoption.

What Youll Be Doing in This Role:

• Own the enterprise portfolio of AI adoption initiatives including intake prioritization tracking governance alignment and value realization.
• Evaluation of AI tool selections influence on existing infrastructure.
• Define integration patterns for AI services across multi-cloud environments to align with organization standards.
• Establish and manage the use case intake process qualifying opportunities and routing them appropriately between Hub-led enablement and product development
• Lead cross-functional coordination with business units CDAO IT Legal Risk HR and Communications.
• Track and report AI adoption and usage metrics training progress and business impact.
• Chair the AI Steering Committee guiding decisions on priorities policies and enterprise investments.
• Define and operationalize J.D. Powers AI governance framework including policies guardrails and responsible use guidelines.
• Partner with Legal Risk and Compliance to ensure regulatory alignment and manage policy edge cases.
• Build and execute the enterprise AI tool strategyevaluating piloting and rolling out AI productivity tools (e.g. Microsoft Copilot ChatGPT Enterprise Claude).
• Identify high-value adoption opportunities and develop business cases for AI investments.
• Serve as the enterprise voice for AI innovation translating complex AI concepts into business-relevant narratives for executives and non-technical teams.
• Build and lead the AI Enablement Hub team and the network of AI Champions across the business.
• Partner with HR on AI skills learning pathways and workforce enablement.

Qualifications of this Role:

• Hands-on experience with AI/ML adoption AI product management or implementation of enterprise AI solutions.
• Demonstrable experience leading complex cross-functional programs or transformation initiatives.
• Experience standing up new functions centers of excellence or operating models.
• Deep understanding of theevolving AI landscape including agentic systems reasoning-capable models and enterprise AI orchestration platforms.
• Demonstrated ability to assess emerging capabilities and translate architectural implications into strategic advantage.
• Ability to influence and collaborate across business and technical teams without direct authority.
• Strong communication skillscomfortable presenting to executive leadership and facilitating working sessions.
• Experience driving technology adoption and organizational change at scale.
• Experience in data-intensive or research-driven environments (preferred).
• Familiarity with governance risk compliance or responsible AI frameworks (preferred).
• Understanding of data privacy regulations and enterprise AI platforms such as Microsoft Copilot Gemini Enterprise Claude or ChatGPT Enterprise (preferred).
• Relevant degree in technology business data or related fields is an asset but not required with equivalent experience.

The Hiring Manager says:

Im looking for someone who understands AI deeply enough to guide its responsible usebut is equally strong at orchestrating large cross-functional programs. Someone who is structured credible with senior stakeholders and passionate about enabling teams across the business to adopt AI confidently and effectively. This is a role for a true enterprise builder.

Company Mission

J.D. Power is clear about what we do to ensure our success into the future. We unite industry leading data and insights with world-class technology to solve our clients toughest challenges.

Our Values

We POWER Our Customers Success

We are Innovative Collaborative and Grounded in Data

We Make Things Easy

We Get It Done

We Start with Trust & Prove it Everyday

J.D. Power is committed to employing a diverse workforce. Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race color religion sex national origin age sexual orientation gender identity gender expression veteran status or disability.

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