AI Strategy & Enablement Lead (Hybrid NYC)

The New York Times Company; New York, Northern (NY, KY); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Restricted stock

Medical benefits

401(k) plan

Employee stock purchase plan

Paid vacation

Paid parental leave

Tuition reimbursement

Professional development

Job summary

The New York Times Company in New York, NY seeks a Manager, AI Strategy & Enablement to translate AI priorities into actionable tools and workflows across Marketing. You will determine when AI, process changes, or software is best, lead AI projects end-to-end, and enable teams with governance, training, and adoption metrics.

You will partner with IT, Product, Data, Security, Legal, Privacy, and Procurement to deliver scalable AI-enabled solutions while upholding journalistic independence and the

Qualifications

• 4+ years of product or program management, digital transformation, marketing technology, automation, enablement, or a related field.
• 2+ years applying generative AI tools to business problems and workflows.
• Working knowledge of AI agents and related concepts, with experience building or configuring agents, automations, retrieval systems, or AI-enabled workflows.
• Experience leading cross-functional work from discovery and prototyping through implementation and adoption.
• Experience translating ambiguous business problems into requirements, implementation plans, and measurable outcomes.
• Experience evaluating AI quality, privacy, security, data governance, legal risk, and AI-human workflows.

Responsibilities

• Identify opportunities to automate or improve Marketing work and translate ambiguous business problems into practical use cases.
• Recommend whether AI, process changes, or conventional software are the best approach to each problem.
• Lead assigned AI projects from discovery through rollout and ongoing improvement, managing requirements, timelines, owners, dependencies, risks, and success measures.
• Build, configure, test, and improve AI tools and workflows using approved enterprise, low-code, and development tools.
• Apply established standards for instructions, reference materials, data, permissions, testing, monitoring, human oversight, and failure handling.
• Partner with technical teams when solutions require production engineering, data access, integrations, or complex system architecture.
• Create role-specific documentation and enablement, track adoption and impact, and use the results to improve tools, workflows, and training.
• Evaluate AI tools and vendors for business fit, quality, integration requirements, risk, and cost. Work with governance partners to ensure solutions meet established legal, privacy, security, data, and AI oversight requirements.
• Demonstrate support and understanding of our value of journalistic independence and a strong commitment to our mission to seek the truth and help people understand the world.

Skills

Product management

AI strategy

Digital transformation

Cross-functional leadership

Requirements gathering

AI concepts

Tools

Notion

Glean

Gemini Notebook

Make

Replit

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Job description

The New York Times Company in New York, NY seeks a Manager, AI Strategy & Enablement to translate AI priorities into actionable tools and workflows across Marketing. You will determine when AI, process changes, or software is best, lead AI projects end-to-end, and enable teams with governance, training, and adoption metrics.

You will partner with IT, Product, Data, Security, Legal, Privacy, and Procurement to deliver scalable AI-enabled solutions while upholding journalistic independence and the