Senior Applied AI Specialist (AI Enablement)

Air New Zealand; Auckland; On-site; NZD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Air New Zealand is seeking a Senior Applied AI Specialist to design self‑service insights and AI‑native workflows that empower colleagues to access trusted information and make better decisions.

You will help unlock value from data, analytics, and AI at scale, shaping how teams use AI, BI, and governance to deliver explainable outcomes. Ready to take off? Apply now.

Qualifications

• Experience in analytics, business intelligence, data products, process design, or digital solution delivery.
• Strong understanding of self‑service analytics, data storytelling, and insight design.
• Experience with AI‑enabled tools, workflow automation, prompts, agents, or decision‑support solutions.
• Ability to translate business needs into practical and scalable solutions.
• Strong stakeholder engagement, communication, and influencing skills.

Responsibilities

• Design self‑service insight capabilities using AI, BI, and semantic layer tools.
• Create AI‑native workflows with effective human decision points and governance controls.
• Develop standards, guardrails, and reusable patterns for insight generation and AI‑enabled solutions.
• Translate business challenges into scalable data, analytics, and AI solutions.
• Partner with business, Digital, Data, and governance teams to deliver trusted and explainable outcomes.
• Support adoption and continuous improvement of AI‑enabled ways of working.

Skills

Analytics experience

Self-service analytics

AI tools exposure

Business translation

Stakeholder engagement

Job description

Kia ora!

Help shape the future of AI-enabled decision‑making at Air New Zealand.

As a Senior Applied AI Specialist within our Data & AI team, you'll design self‑service insight experiences and AI‑native workflows that empower our people to access trusted information, make better decisions, and work more effectively. You'll play a key role in helping Air New Zealand unlock the value of data, analytics, and AI at scale.

Air New Zealand is on an accelerated journey to become the world's leading digital airline. This is your opportunity to combine data, AI, and human‑centred design to create meaningful impact across the business.

About the role

• Design self‑service insight capabilities using AI, BI, and semantic layer tools
• Create AI‑native workflows with effective human decision points and governance controls
• Develop standards, guardrails, and reusable patterns for insight generation and AI‑enabled solutions
• Translate business challenges into scalable data, analytics, and AI solutions
• Partner with business, Digital, Data, and governance teams to deliver trusted and explainable outcomes
• Support adoption and continuous improvement of AI‑enabled ways of working

What we're looking for

• Experience in analytics, business intelligence, data products, process design, or digital solution delivery
• Strong understanding of self‑service analytics, data storytelling, and insight design
• Experience with AI‑enabled tools, workflow automation, prompts, agents, or decision‑support solutions
• Ability to translate business needs into practical and scalable solutions
• Strong stakeholder engagement, communication, and influencing skills

If you meet the majority of the criteria and are excited by the opportunity, we'd love to hear from you.

Ready for take‑off?

Join us and help shape how data, AI, and people come together to create smarter decisions and better outcomes across Air New Zealand.

Applications close 24 July 2026.

Additional Information

At Air New Zealand, we are proudly committed to diversity, equity and inclusion and believe in creating a truly inclusive workplace where everyone can be themselves and thrive. Our people are our greatest asset – because while everything else we do in our operation can be replicated by our competitors, it is our people that truly set us apart. We are firm believers in celebrating the differences and diversity of thought our people bring to their roles. We encourage candidates from diverse backgrounds, including those with a disability, additional health and mental health needs, and/or are neurodiverse to apply for our roles.

If you have encountered any accessibility barriers and require further information or reasonable accommodations to our recruitment process, please reach out to the recruiter listed on this job advert so they are able to support you to freely participate equitably in our recruitment and selection process.

Whāia te pae tawhiti kia tata. Ko te pae tata whakamaua, kia tina.

“Seek to bring distant horizons closer. Once near, seize them and make them your reality.”