AI Lead - Adoption and Enablement

Diamondback Energy, Inc.; Midland (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Diamondback Energy, Inc. is seeking a senior leader to drive the enterprise AI adoption and workforce enablement strategy at its Midland, Texas operation.

The role focuses on developing a comprehensive roadmap, assessing readiness, and building practical learning experiences to help employees apply AI responsibly and effectively. Responsibilities include coordinating with AI Product Owners, measuring program impact, and overcoming barriers across workflows, skills, trust, and usability.

Qualifications

• Minimum 8+ years in technology adoption, organizational capability, or learning and development.
• Experience designing enterprise literacy programs for diverse workforces.

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise AI adoption and workforce enablement strategy, roadmap, and success metrics.
• Assess AI readiness and capability gaps; develop targeted adoption strategies.
• Create learning experiences, playbooks, and hands-on programs to enable practical AI use.
• Partner with AI Product Owners to plan adoption, training, and launch support.
• Identify barriers to adoption; propose interventions to accelerate value realization.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Facilitation

Program measurement

AI literacy training

Education

Bachelor's degree in Learning and Development

Tools

AI platforms

Job description

Job Responsibilities

• Lead Diamondback's enterprise AI adoption and workforce enablement strategy, roadmap, standards, and success measures
• Assess workforce roles, workflows, AI readiness, and capability gaps to develop targeted strategies to increase effective AI adoption
• Develop AI capability pathways for executives, business functions, technical disciplines, managers, and individual contributors
• Design practical learning experiences, guidance, playbooks, job aids, use‑case examples, and hands‑on programs that enable employees to apply AI effectively and responsibly in their work
• Partner with AI Product Owners and business stakeholders to develop adoption strategies for AI products, including stakeholder readiness, workflow integration, communications, training, launch support, and reinforcement
• Identify barriers to adoption and value realization, including workflow, skill, trust, usability, process, incentive, and organizational barriers, and recommend interventions
• Develop and support a network of AI champions, power users, and practitioners that accelerates peer learning, experimentation, and reuse across the enterprise
• Maintain the enterprise AI knowledge hub and support an internal practitioner community that promotes peer learning and knowledge sharing
• Measure AI fluency, learning effectiveness, and adoption readiness, and use results to improve programs and priorities
• Monitor the AI deployment roadmap and adjust enablement priorities to keep workforce capabilities ahead of implementation

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Learning and Development, Organizational Development, Instructional Design, Communications, Business, or a related field
• 8+ years of experience in technology adoption, organizational capability, digital transformation, change management, learning and development, product adoption, or workforce enablement
• Experience developing enterprise technology adoption strategies and role-based literacy programs for diverse workforce audiences
• Experience supporting technology implementations, digital transformation, or enterprise change initiatives
• Experience designing interventions that address organizational, behavioral, workflow, skill, and trust barriers to technology adoption
• Strong stakeholder management, facilitation, communication, and program measurement skills
• Experience with generative AI, enterprise data tools, and responsible AI principles

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building AI, data, or digital adoption and literacy programs in a complex enterprise environment
• Ability to translate technical concepts into practical guidance for technical and non-technical audiences
• Experience in oil and gas, energy, or another industrial sector
• Relevant certification in instructional design, adult learning, change management, or talent development

Diamondback is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer.

Diamondback provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, color, age, religion, veteran or disability status, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other status protected by law.

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Diamondback Energy is an independent oil and natural gas company headquartered in Midland, Texas focused on the acquisition, development, exploration, and exploitation of unconventional, onshore oil and natural gas reserves in the Permian Basin in West Texas.