Director, AI Programs & Enablement

• Lead execution of SPEs enterprise AI portfolio ensuring initiatives align with strategic priorities and business objectives.
• Drive coordination across AI workstreams maintaining clear objectives milestones accountability structures and success measures.
• Facilitate portfolio prioritization and resource allocation discussions to focus investment on the highest-value opportunities.
• Identify manage and resolve risks dependencies and barriers impacting successful delivery.
• Support development of enterprise AI roadmaps and transformation plans.
• AI Transformation & Initiative Delivery
• Directly lead strategic AI initiatives pilots and transformation efforts from opportunity identification through implementation adoption and scaling.
• Partner with business leaders to identify opportunities for AI-enabled process improvement workflow transformation innovation and business growth.
• Facilitate discovery workshops opportunity assessments business case development solution evaluation and implementation planning.
• Support development of future-state operating models workflows and organizational capabilities required for AI adoption.
• Accelerate scaling of successful pilots into sustainable enterprise capabilities.
• Business Engagement & Advisory
• Serve as a trusted advisor to business leaders on AI-enabled transformation opportunities.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across creative production post-production distribution marketing and corporate functions.
• Support executive decision-making through structured analysis recommendations and strategic guidance.
• Foster alignment among diverse stakeholder groups to advance enterprise priorities.
• Operations & Responsible AI Enablement
• Partner with stakeholders to ensure AI initiatives align with legal privacy security intellectual property and responsible AI requirements.
• Support operations forums by providing portfolio insights recommendations and escalation of strategic decisions.
• Contribute to the development of governance frameworks standards policies and operating procedures.
• Adoption & Value Realization
• Establish and maintain approaches for measuring AI adoption business outcomes productivity improvements and value realization.
• Monitor initiative performance and ensure expected benefits are achieved.
• Identify opportunities to replicate and scale successful use cases across the enterprise.
• Support enterprise AI communications change management and enablement activities.

• 10 years of experience in strategy operations transformation consulting program leadership technology leadership or related disciplines.
• Demonstrated success leading large-scale cross-functional transformation initiatives in complex enterprise environments.
• Strong understanding of artificial intelligence generative AI automation and emerging technology trends.
• Experience driving organizational change business transformation and operating model evolution.
• Strong executive communication facilitation and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to influence across organizations without direct authority.

• Experience within media entertainment content production distribution or technology-enabled creative industries.
• Experience supporting enterprise AI digital transformation automation or innovation initiatives.
• Experience working within governance-intensive environments.
• Leadership Characteristics
• Strategic thinker with strong business and operational acumen.
• Comfortable leading through ambiguity and helping define emerging operating models.
• Skilled facilitator capable of aligning diverse stakeholders around complex decisions.
• Strong consultative mindset with the ability to influence without authority.
• Results-oriented leader who balances innovation governance and execution.
• Demonstrated ability to drive organizational change and business transformation.

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