Senior Manager, AI Enablement

Job Summary: The Sr. Manager AI Enablement plays a critical role in scaling Marriotts AI capabilities across the enterprise as AI transitions from a centralized function to an embedded domain-led capability across Data Analytics &AI and Technology teams..

This role designs and operates the enablement systems intake mechanisms and adoption frameworks that allow business and technology teams to responsibly and efficiently leverage AIwithout creating bottlenecks duplication or unmanaged risk.

Partnering closely with AI Product Technology Data & Analytics leaders and enterprise functions (Legal Privacy HR Change & Communications) the Senior Manager ensures AI initiatives are easy to access well-governed reusable and measurably valuable

This role reports to the Senior Director AI Strategy & Operations and serves as a key connector translating enterprise AI strategy into practical scalable ways of working.

Job Requirements / Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree required; advanced degree preferred (MBA MS in Information Systems Data Science Human-Centered Design or related field).

• Minimum 6 years of progressive experience in AI enablement digital transformation product operations platform adoption or enterprise technology strategy.

• Demonstrated experience scaling emerging technologies (AI automation analytics platforms) across large matrixed enterprises.

• Strong understanding of AI lifecycle concepts including use case intake experimentation deployment adoption and measurement (hands-on model development not required).

• Proven ability to operate effectively across business technology legal privacy and change functions.

• Experience designing and running enablement systems (front doors intake processes toolkits playbooks training communities of practice).

• Familiarity with Responsible AI principles data privacy considerations and risk-aware innovation in enterprise environments.

• Strong executive communication and storytelling skills; ability to translate complex AI concepts into clear action-oriented narratives.

• Experience working within Agile and hybrid delivery models; comfort navigating both structured governance and ambiguity.

Preferred (But Not Required)

• AI product management platform ops or design certifications

• Hospitality travel or consumer-facing digital experience exposure

• Prior experience working in a federated or hub-and-spoke AI mode

Job Duties / Responsibilities:

• Own the day-to-day operation and continuous improvement of the enterprise AI intake (Front Door) including triage routing and guidance to ensure requests are aligned to strategy capacity reuse opportunities and responsible AI guardrails.

• In partnership and collaboration with HR design maintain and evolve the AI Enablement Toolkittools templates playbooks training assets and SOPsto make it easy for teams across the enterprise to adopt and scale AI responsibly and efficiently.

• Operationalize enablement models for agent-based and emerging AI capabilities by clarifying ways of working onboarding paths governance touchpoints and success measures in partnership with product and technology teams.

• Lead and activate the AI Community of Practice as an adoption engine curating reusable patterns documenting lessons learned and reducing duplicative or disconnected AI efforts across the organization.

• Partner with AI Product Technology Delivery Insights & Performance and enterprise stakeholders (e.g. Legal Privacy HR Change & Communications) to support adoption track value signals and continuously refine enablement approaches based on what is working in practice.

• Serve as a trusted operational partner to the Senior Director AI Strategy & Operations supporting enterprise coordination leadership forums and executive readinesswithout functioning as a delivery PMO or owning solution execution.