AI Enablement Lead

Cervin; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 185,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision insurance

Unlimited PTO

Remote-first team

Learning budget $1,000

Startup equity

Job summary

Arkestro in the United States (remote-first) is seeking an AI Enablement Lead to drive universal AI adoption across departments. You will manage the AI Center of Excellence, coach champions, and drive measurable business value while building scalable, cross-functional programs.

You will recruit and train champions, publish shared skills, manage tooling spend, and report outcomes to executives. This role blends technical and PM leadership to scale AI initiatives across Arkestro.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of professional experience
• Former hands-on software engineer (Python or TypeScript) now in PM/TPM/Forward Deployed Engineer or Implementation role
• 1+ years leading adoption of a tool or workflow within an organization
• 1+ year in the last 2 years directly building, leading, influencing AI at the company level
• Hands on builder: you script, call APIs, and wire automations
• Proven training and facilitation skill: you have taught both technical and non technical audiences and can show the adoption curve that followed
• Relentless resourcefulness with AI: you build pipelines and clean data across trackers
• High empathy operator: you learn workflows across departments and earn trust quickly
• Evidence of measured outcomes: you can point to before/after results you produced

Responsibilities

• Own company-wide AI adoption end to end: awareness, training, activation, and measured business value in every department
• Run the AI Center of Excellence operating cadence: champions network, office hours, intake, prioritization, and adoption scoreboard
• Recruit, coach, and support at least one champion in every department with protected time
• Run cross functional AI pods: pair an AI proficient engineer with a department SME in a ten day sprint that ships a measured before/after result
• Train through the layers: an AI fluency foundation for everyone, deeper training for dedicated positions and champions
• Own the shared skills library and its distribution with Engineering: build once, publish once, and every channel receives it
• Instrument adoption and outcomes: workflows converted, hours returned, and dollar impact; report to executives
• Manage the AI tooling portfolio and spend against budget caps; evaluate vendors
• Publish wins with numbers in shared channels; showcase wins recruit the next builder

Skills

AI adoption

Cross-functional leadership

Python

TypeScript

Product management

Technical program management

Change management

Training and facilitation

Tools

APIs

Automation pipelines

Job description

Arkestro's Predictive Procurement Platform applies AI, game theory, and behavioral science to enterprise negotiations. It moves teams away from reactive supplier bidding toward data-driven offers that reduce friction and help both buyers and suppliers reach better outcomes faster. Arkestro helps procurement teams influence more enterprise spend and uncover savings that traditional sourcing approaches often leave behind by applying predictive intelligence to how sourcing events are designed and executed. We’re a hyper-growth company looking for people who take ownership and are comfortable working through complexity. This is a tremendous opportunity if you want to do meaningful work and help shape how large enterprises run procurement… Arkestro is a place where you can have a big impact. See Arkestro in action at arkestro.com.

About This Role

We are looking for an AI Enablement Lead to lead AI adoption across every department at Arkestro. You will run the Arkestro AI Center of Excellence (AI CoE) day to day, build with the dedicated department positions, coach a cross functional champions network, and fan every win out to everyone through the centralized system. Your charter is universal adoption with measured business value behind it. This is an influence role, not a control role: you build with the dedicated few, champions spread it, and everyone wins. Build once at the center; land it in every function.

Responsibilities

• Own company wide AI adoption end to end: awareness, training, activation, and measured business value in every department
• Run the AI Center of Excellence operating cadence: champions network, office hours, intake, prioritization, and the adoption scoreboard
• Recruit, coach, and support at least one champion in every department, with protected time, and grow the bench behind them
• Run cross functional AI pods: pair yourself or an AI proficient engineer with a department subject matter expert in a ten day sprint that ships a measured before and after result
• Train through the layers: an AI fluency foundation for everyone, deeper training for dedicated positions and champions, so each layer lifts the next
• Own the shared skills library and its distribution pipeline with Engineering: build once, publish once, and every channel receives it
• Instrument adoption and outcomes: workflows converted, hours returned, and dollar impact; report monthly to executive staff
• Manage the AI tooling portfolio and spend against budget caps; evaluate vendors and retire tools that do not earn their keep
• Publish wins with numbers in shared channels; every showcased win recruits the next builder

Preferred Qualifications

• 3-5 years of professional experience
• Former hands-on software engineer (Python or TypeScript) now working as a Product Manager, Technical Program Manager, Forward Deployed Engineer, or in an Implementation role
  • Including 1+ years leading adoption of a tool or workflow within an organization
  • Including 1+ year in the last 2 years directly building, leading, influencing AI at the company level
• Hands on builder: you script, call APIs, and wire automations yourself, and you have shipped AI workflows that other people now depend on
• Proven training and facilitation skill: you have taught both technical and non technical audiences and can show the adoption curve that followed
• Relentless resourcefulness with AI: where others clean one spreadsheet, you build the pipeline that cleans every tracker before the team wakes up
• High empathy operator: you thrive dropping into any department, learning its workflow, and earning trust fast
• Evidence of measured outcomes: you can point to before and after numbers you produced, not just activities you ran

Bonus Qualifications

• Forward deployed engineering experience at an AI lab, consultancy, or product company
• Procurement, supply chain, or B2B SaaS domain experience
• Familiarity with AI governance frameworks such as ISO 42001, the NIST AI RMF, and SOC 2
• Experience standing up a center of excellence or a champions program

Pay Range

$150,000—$185,000 USD

Arkestro is committed to providing our employees with a benefits package designed to give you the flexibility you need to ensure a healthy life/work balance. Arkestro offers our employees great benefits and perks, including, but not limited to:

• Competitive salary and startup equity
• Medical, Dental, Vision insurance premiums covered up to 100% (employee only)
• 401K discretionary employer matching
• Unlimited PTO
• A remote-first team with regular opportunities to get together in person for team building, design sprints, and customer visits
• Annual budget of $1,000 for learning and professional development
• Diverse, inclusive, highly collaborative, and vibrant culture

Arkestro is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state, or local laws.

Disclaimer

Please note this job description may not be inclusive of all assigned duties, responsibilities, or aspects of the job described and that additional tasks may be assigned to the employee from time to time; or the scope of the job may change as necessitated by business demands. Arkestro reserves the right to change duties, responsibilities and activities at any time with or without notice.