Director, AI Academy & Transformation

Janus Henderson Group; Denver (CO); Hybrid; USD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and wellbeing benefits

Volunteer time off

Tuition/qualification reimbursement

Parental leave

Job summary

Janus Henderson Group is seeking a strategic leader to own and evolve the AI Academy, aligning training programs with the firm’s AI transformation goals. You will oversee learning pathways, governance, and a global community of AI champions, ensuring scalable enablement across departments.

The role requires strong leadership, deep AI knowledge, and hands-on experience with Copilot Studio and M365. Hybrid work model and comprehensive benefits are offered.

Qualifications

• Proven leadership experience across teams and networks.
• Strong understanding of AI/GenAI concepts and ability to translate for non-technical audiences.
• Hands-on familiarity with Copilot Studio and M365.
• Experience designing and running training, curriculum or capability-building programs at scale.
• Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills across senior audiences.
• Practical change-management and adoption experience to remove blockers.
• Strong measurement literacy with ability to design scorecards and dashboards.
• Self-directed, able to operate with ambiguity and scale enablement efforts.
• Documentation instincts to produce reusable curriculum, pathways and playbooks.

Responsibilities

• Own the AI Academy strategy end-to-end as the upskilling and cultural-change pillar.
• Evolve the operating model to balance decentralised ownership with central standards.
• Lead the proficiency pathways and curriculum across three tiers and advanced programs.
• Develop and grow the ATC network and coach champions across business units.
• Own the Academy platform, content, Use Case Library and communications cadence.
• Provide governance and reporting through the ExCo scorecard and adoption metrics.

Skills

Leadership experience

AI knowledge

Copilot Studio

Change management

Stakeholder management

Measurement literacy

Documentation

Tools

Microsoft Copilot

Copilot Studio

M365

Job description

Janus Henderson Group is seeking a strategic leader to own and evolve the AI Academy, aligning training programs with the firm’s AI transformation goals. You will oversee learning pathways, governance, and a global community of AI champions, ensuring scalable enablement across departments.

The role requires strong leadership, deep AI knowledge, and hands-on experience with Copilot Studio and M365. Hybrid work model and comprehensive benefits are offered.