AI Enablement Leader for Enterprise Platforms

McKesson Corporation; Columbus (OH); On-site; USD 175,000 - 291,000; Full time

Job summary

McKesson is seeking a Senior Director of AI Enablement to lead AI strategy, governance, and engineering platforms for CoverMyMeds. The role focuses on building AI-enabled products with an agentic-native approach and scaling safe AI adoption across engineering and business teams.

The candidate will partner with Legal, Privacy, Security, and Compliance to ensure regulatory alignment, and will manage a multimillion‑dollar AI portfolio with measurable ROI.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• Typically requires 13+ years of relative software engineering and technology leadership experience, including 5+ years leading engineering or platform teams.
• 3+ years of hands‑on leadership in AI or ML, including generative AI, LLMs, and agentic AI in production environments.
• Proven track record of driving AI adoption at scale with measurable outcomes in productivity, quality, or delivery speed.
• Demonstrated experience building and delivering AI-powered products or agents to production, with measurable business impact.
• Experience establishing AI governance, responsible AI practices, or technology standards in a regulated environment.
• Experience managing people, budgets, vendor relationships, and a portfolio of concurrent initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the AI enablement strategy and multi‑year roadmap for CoverMyMeds, aligned with business priorities and McKesson's enterprise AI direction.
• Own the build and delivery of AI products and agents end to end, from discovery and design through production release and ongoing improvement.
• Chair the AI Review Board and own AI usage policy, model‑selection frameworks, and token allocation and cost management.
• Lead the teams that build and run reusable AI capabilities, including the AI Skills Marketplace, MCP servers, agents, and developer tooling.
• Scale AI adoption beyond engineering to product, business, legal, finance, privacy, call center, and platform teams.
• Partner with McKesson's Enterprise AI team, architecture, product, and platform leaders to align standards and avoid duplicate effort.

Skills

Software leadership

AI/ML leadership

Governance experience

People management

Budget management

Vendor management

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Master's degree preferred

Tools

Claude

Claude Code

GitHub Copilot

MCP

FHIR

Cloud (GCP/AWS)

Job description

McKesson is seeking a Senior Director of AI Enablement to lead AI strategy, governance, and engineering platforms for CoverMyMeds. The role focuses on building AI-enabled products with an agentic-native approach and scaling safe AI adoption across engineering and business teams.

The candidate will partner with Legal, Privacy, Security, and Compliance to ensure regulatory alignment, and will manage a multimillion‑dollar AI portfolio with measurable ROI.