Director (AI Program and Adoption Lead), ETO

A*STAR - Agency for Science, Technology and Research; Singapore; On-site; SGD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

A*STAR - Agency for Science, Technology and Research seeks an AI Programme and Adoption Lead to drive integrated delivery across the AI Factory. You will oversee programme management, capability building, and change efforts to move AI-enabled workflows from development to sustained use.

Lead governance, prioritisation, and portfolio reporting while aligning stakeholders and embedding AI-enabled approaches across the organisation.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in programme management, transformation delivery, change and adoption, or cross-functional operations.
• Hands-on experience implementing AI technology in real-world, professional applications.
• Proven ability to lead and coach teams delivering complex enterprise programmes.
• Strong capability in portfolio planning, milestones, governance, RAID, and value tracking.
• Experience aligning senior leaders, technical teams, and business owners in matrixed environments.
• Track record of turning AI ambition into sequenced roadmaps and measurable outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Lead the programme and adoption function: set priorities and coordinate delivery across teams.
• Oversee end-to-end programme delivery, milestones, risks, and blockers.
• Demonstrate best practices in implementing AI workflows to the team and stakeholders.
• Own governance, prioritisation, portfolio reporting, and executive updates.
• Define and track KPIs for deployment, usage, proficiency, and outcomes.
• Set adoption strategy with an organisation-wide roadmap for AI-enabled workflows.
• Drive rollout, onboarding, communications, and user adoption campaigns.
• Build organisational capability through scalable training and playbooks.
• Lead change efforts, manage readiness, and promote responsible AI practices.
• Translate user insights into product backlogs and operational plans.
• Coordinate execution with business owners, product teams, governance, HR and change groups.
• Maintain core management artefacts and provide concise updates to senior leaders.

Skills

Programme management

Change management

AI enablement

Leadership

Stakeholder alignment

Portfolio management

Governance

Strategic judgment

Executive communication

Delivery excellence

Job description

About The Role

The AI Programme and Adoption Lead drives integrated delivery and organisation-wide adoption across the AI Factory. The role leads programme management, capability building, and change efforts to move priority AI-enabled workflows from development to sustained use, while aligning stakeholders, removing blockers, and embedding AI-enabled ways of working across A*STAR.

The AI Programme and Adoption Lead drives integrated delivery and organisation-wide adoption across the AI Factory. The role leads programme management, capability building, and change efforts to move priority AI-enabled workflows from development to sustained use, while aligning stakeholders, removing blockers, and embedding AI-enabled ways of working across A*STAR.

What You Will Do

• Lead the programme and adoption function: Set priorities, allocate work, coach team members, and ensure coordinated delivery across programme management, adoption, capability building, and change.


• Manage end-to-end programme delivery: Oversee priority initiatives, milestones, risks, issues, decisions, dependencies, and blockers across AI Factory pods.


• Lead by example: There will be many projects that require implementing AI workflows. As these are being developed, the Adoption Lead should have the capacity to demonstrate best practices to the broader team he/she leads, and to those to whom AI products are developed. Hence, skills and experience on hands-on use of AI tools is necessary.


• Own governance, prioritisation, and portfolio reporting: Evaluate and prioritise initiatives, run portfolio reviews and leadership forums, and provide an integrated view of delivery, adoption, risk, value, and decisions.


• Link delivery to value: Define and track KPIs covering deployment, usage, proficiency, productivity, user experience, and organisational outcomes.


• Set the adoption strategy: Maintain an organisation-wide roadmap for priority AI-enabled workflows based on user needs, readiness, and change impacts.


• Drive rollout and sustained use: Lead onboarding, communications, demonstrations, office hours, campaigns, and champions networks that embed AI in daily work.


• Build organisational capability: Partner with Learning and Organisation Development and functional leaders to deliver scalable training, practical guidance, playbooks, and role-based enablement.


• Lead change and build trust: Address adoption barriers, strengthen organisational readiness, and reinforce responsible AI practices.


• Measure and improve adoption: Use analytics, segmentation, feedback, and change indicators to identify friction and refine interventions.


• Close the user feedback loop: Translate user insights and adoption data into product backlogs, workflow improvements, release priorities, and operational plans.


• Coordinate execution and resolve blockers: Align business owners, product and platform teams, governance stakeholders, communications, HR, and change teams; escalate critical issues for timely resolution.


• Maintain programme controls and executive communication: Own core management artefacts and provide senior leaders with concise updates, decisions, and actions required.

Team Leadership Responsibilities

• Provide clear direction, performance expectations, and decision rights for team members across programme delivery and adoption workstreams.


• Translate AI Factory priorities into team objectives, capacity plans, and sequenced work.


• Coach and develop team members, build succession and capability plans, and foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, learning, and responsible experimentation. Coaching will include demonstration of best practices in implementing applied AI technology in practical scenarios.


• Review the quality of programme plans, stakeholder strategies, adoption interventions, reporting, and executive materials.


• Create an inclusive, high-trust team environment in which risks are surfaced early, constructive challenge is encouraged, and lessons are shared across initiatives.


• Mobilise internal and external resources as required and manage delivery partners against agreed outcomes.

What You Bring

• Relevant experience: 10+ years in programme management, transformation delivery, change and adoption, digital enablement, or cross-functional operations with at least 3 years of experience on implementing applied AI technology in real world, professional applications.


• People leadership: Proven ability to lead, coach, and develop teams delivering complex enterprise programmes and adoption initiatives.


• Transformation delivery: Track record of taking technology, data, digital, or AI initiatives from planning through deployment, adoption, operational transition, and continuous improvement.


• Programme discipline: Strong capability in portfolio planning, milestone tracking, governance, RAID and decision management, dependency coordination, and value tracking.


• AI and change knowledge: Working knowledge of AI-enabled workflow lifecycles, agile delivery, responsible AI, security, organisational change, and run-and-maintain considerations.


• Adoption leadership: Experience designing and executing adoption, capability-building, and change programmes that deliver measurable behaviour change and sustained usage.


• Enterprise influence: Ability to align senior leaders, technical teams, business owners, and enabling functions in complex matrixed environments.


• Strategic judgement: Able to translate AI ambition into a sequenced roadmap and make timely trade-offs across value, speed, risk, capacity, and adoption readiness.


• Executive communication: Strong facilitation and communication skills, with the ability to turn complex programme and technical information into clear decisions and actions.


• Leadership attributes: Collaborative, calm under pressure, highly organised, outcome-oriented, adaptable, and comfortable operating with ambiguity while maintaining delivery momentum.