AI Specialist

OU Health; Oklahoma City (OK); On-site; USD 110,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

PTO

401(k)

Medical and dental plans

Relocation assistance

Job summary

OU Health is seeking an AI Specialist to lead governance and strategic AI initiatives within the IT Information Security department. The role focuses on creating and enforcing governance practices, driving AI literacy, and partnering with stakeholders to realize business value from AI across OU Health.

You will oversee AI architectures, portfolio management, and platform selection while collaborating with security, legal, and ethics teams to ensure compliant and responsible AI deployment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required in a relevant field.
• 5+ years IT experience including AI.
• Certifications in AI preferred: CAIE or AIFC.
• Experience leading governance and stakeholder collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Attend AI governance bodies and participate in decision making.
• Evolve AI governance, data usage, explainability, fairness and privacy policies.
• Collaborate with security, risk, legal, ethics and other stakeholders.
• Manage AI portfolio across initiatives.
• Measure ROI and business value of AI initiatives.
• Advance AI literacy and lead change management.
• Define operating model and delivery capabilities for AI projects.
• Lead AI architectures and select platforms/technologies.
• Foster partnerships with vendors, research institutes, and industry groups.
• Align AI strategy with enterprise vision and goals.

Skills

AI concepts

Strategic leadership

Governance

Stakeholder communication

Regulatory compliance

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Job description

Position Title:

AI Specialist

Department:

IT Information Security

Job Description:

New to OU Health? Ask your recruiter about our competitive wages and total rewards package including a sign-on bonus and possible relocation assistance if you are located outside of 100 miles!

General Description:

The AI Specialist is responsible for assisting with strategic AI innovation and AI Governance processes. It is a transformative role that merges business acumen, strategic insight, innovation, and technological expertise to realize the full potential of AI within OU Health. The role is focused on improving enterprise AI literacy, creating AI strategies and facilitating the evolution of AI capabilities, implementing participative operating models, and codifying governance practices that reduce risk and increase differentiating business value.

Essential Responsibilities:

Responsibilities listed in this section are core to the position. Inability to perform these responsibilities, with or without an accommodation, may result in disqualification from the position.

• Attends the AI governance bodies.
• Evolves responsible AI policies and governance programs to address AI's unique regulatory and compliance requirements - data usage, model explainability, fairness, and privacy - while ensuring appropriate audit controls and adherence to ethical mandates.
• Establishes effective collaboration between security, risk, compliance, legal, ethics, safety, and other stakeholders to rapidly adapt practices as necessary.
• Supports the management of the AI portfolio for AI initiatives across the organization.
• Establishes transparent AI portfolio evaluation and management practices to estimate, measure, and foster accountability for business value and ROI of AI initiatives.
• Fosters and cultivates AI literacy across the enterprise, leading transformation efforts and developing change management programs.
• Builds and maintains the vision for how AI will drive value aligned with strategic objectives.
• Fosters collaboration to develop cross-organizational and functional alignment in accordance with the enterprise AI vision.
• Establishes internal and external AI partnerships, building working relationships with vendors, partners, research institutes, industry associations, and other external stakeholders.
• Maintains an AI strategy that aligns with the company's overarching enterprise vision, including goal setting and measuring AI initiative success / failure.
• Defines the operating model and delivery capabilities to engineer and operationalize AI initiatives, overseeing the execution of advanced AI products and solutions, ensuring their scalable and seamless integration across the organization.
• Leads the strategy and creation of AI architectures and the selection of AI platforms and technologies.

General Responsibilities:

• Performs other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications:

Education:

Bachelor's Degree required.

Experience:

5 years of relevant IT experience, including AI experience, required.

License(s)/Certification(s)/Registration(s) Required:

Certified AI Engineer (CAIE) issued by the United States Artificial Intelligence Institute (USAII), AI Foundations Certification (AIFC) issued by the AI Risk Institute, or other relevant certification in AI required.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Understands business objectives and goals.
• Industry domain expertise and knowledge of AI concepts, methods, and techniques.
• Exceptional interpersonal and leadership skills.
• Strong understanding of business concepts, practices, and business-domain language to engage in problem-solving sessions and discuss business issues in stakeholder language.
• Able to align AI initiatives with the organization's overarching vision, strategic goals, current market circumstances, and competitor activities. This includes understanding how AI will impact business objectives beyond financial metrics.
• Able to articulate AI's transformative impact on current and future business objectives, including its potential to drive new business models, regenerate existing workflows, optimize operations, and deliver measurable value based on key performance indicators (KPIs).
• Proficient with how decision intelligence, agentic AI, and other AI practices/approaches/application areas can transform work.
• Able to pinpoint where AI can yield the most significant impact and competitive advantage, while also identifying relevant business risks and opportunities, including how AI can disrupt or extend existing business models.
• Ability to bridge communication gaps and foster cross-functional synergy to align AI initiatives seamlessly across diverse business units and functions and effectively communicating complex AI topics to various stakeholders.
• Familiar with regulatory requirements and relevant data protection laws and regulations, such as HIPAA.
• Must have a proven track record of applying and orchestrating AI throughout an organization, coordinating complex, multidisciplinary talent teams in new endeavors and delivering solutions.
• Be a self-starter with an entrepreneurial spirit that thrives in dynamic environments, able to build teams, execute influence strategies, and advance ideas.

OU Health is an equal opportunity employer. We offer a comprehensive benefits package, including PTO, 401(k), medical and dental plans, and many more. We know that a total benefits and compensation package, designed to meet your specific needs both inside and outside of the work environment, create peace of mind for you and your family.