Director, AI Enablement

Job Description:

• Lead Ezurio's internal AI portfolio and adoption across every function
• Find high-value AI opportunities, prioritize investment, and deliver measurable results
• Map workflows end to end and determine whether AI, conventional automation, or process change is appropriate
• Build working prototypes with agent, automation, and API tools to prove value
• Define evaluations, human-approval points, and success criteria
• Hand proven solutions to implementation partners for production hardening
• Own the internal AI use-case portfolio, including intake, prioritization, funding, and retirement
• Provide quarterly reporting on expected benefits and actual results
• Maintain a roadmap for build, buy, or wait decisions
• Manage the AI investment budget from annual planning through approval and tracking
• Prepare structured and unstructured company information for reliable AI use
• Partner with business and technology leaders on data quality, governance, accessibility, and scalability
• Select and manage technology providers and implementation partners
• Drive adoption through training, functional champions, usage reporting, and license optimization
• Run scheduled effectiveness reviews for every AI tool and agent; rework or decommission unused tools
• Partner with IT and Legal to define acceptable-use, data-handling, and security guardrails
• Maintain AI governance practices supporting Ezurio's ethical standards and compliance with the EU AI Act, GDPR, and CCPA
• Report adoption, cost, risk, and business impact to senior leadership
• Report to the VP of IT and work with an executive steering group as an individual contributor

Requirements:

• Hands-on technical fluency: builds or configures working prototypes with current agent, automation, and API tools
• Reads architecture and code well enough to challenge vendors and internal teams
• Business and financial acumen; connects AI investment decisions to strategic goals with measurable outcomes
• Strong understanding of AI solution patterns, decision intelligence, and AI-enabled workflow redesign, business models, and operations optimization
• Proven ability to drive results across an organization without direct authority
• Ability to explain complex AI topics clearly to non-technical audiences and senior leadership
• Familiarity with the EU AI Act, GDPR, CCPA, and relevant data protection standards
• Comfortable taking initiative and working through ambiguity in a fast-moving environment
• Bachelor's or master's in business, a STEM field, computer science, data science, or equivalent professional experience
• 8+ years of business or technology leadership, including leading cross-functional technology or transformation programs
• Experience leading cross-functional business transformation or technology programs across a complex organization
• Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the US
• Strategy or management consulting experience is a plus

Benefits:

• Remote work arrangement
• Equal opportunity employer