Director, AI Enablement

Ezurio; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Ezurio is seeking a senior AI initiatives leader to drive internal AI portfolio design, prototyping, and adoption across the enterprise. You will prototype value with agents, automation, and APIs, then hand solutions to partners for production while ensuring governance, data readiness, and compliance.

You will partner with IT, finance, and business leaders to align AI investments with Ezurio's strategic goals, reporting quarterly benefits and maintaining a practical roadmap for build/buy/wait

Qualifications

• Hands-on prototyping using current agent, automation, and API tools.
• Ability to translate AI investments into strategic business outcomes.
• Strong understanding of AI solution patterns and how to redesign workflows.
• Influence-based leadership across a large organization without direct authority.
• Clear communication of complex AI topics to executives.
• Familiar with EU AI Act, GDPR, and CCPA.

Responsibilities

• Design and prototype AI solutions, then hand to partners for production.
• Own internal AI use-case portfolio: intake, prioritization, funding, retirement; quarterly benefits reporting.
• Maintain a practical roadmap for build/buy/wait decisions.
• Manage the AI investment budget from planning through tracking.
• Prepare structured company data for AI tooling; ensure data quality and governance.
• Drive adoption of existing tools with training, champions, and usage reporting.
• Run effectiveness reviews for AI tools and decommission unused ones.
• Define acceptable-use, data-handling, and security guardrails with IT and Legal.

Skills

Hands-on prototyping

Business and financial acumen

AI transformation expertise

Influence‑based leadership

Communication

Regulatory fluency

Ambiguity management

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in business, STEM, CS, or data science

Tools

Architecture review

Job description

Leads Ezurio's internal AI portfolio and adoption, working with every function to find high-value opportunities, prioritize investment, and deliver measurable results. This is a hands‑on role that prototypes solutions to prove value, then hands them to implementation partners to build for production. This role will also make sure our data and knowledge are ready for AI to use, and work with the executive team to evolve our AI strategy. The role reports to the VP of IT and works with an executive steering group. It is an individual contributor role that delivers through business teams, partners, and IT. Product and customer‑facing AI are out of scope, though you will collaborate with product teams where tools or data overlap. This is a remote position. Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the US.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Solution Design and Prototyping

• Map workflows end to end with process owners and decide where AI, conventional automation, or a process change is the right answer.
• Build working prototypes using current agent, automation, and API tools to prove value before committing budget or partner effort.
• Define evaluations, human‑approval points, and success criteria, then hand proven solutions to implementation partners to harden for production, with the business owner accountable for adoption and results.

Portfolio and Strategy

• Own the internal AI use‑case portfolio: intake, prioritization, funding, and retirement. Provide quarterly reporting on expected benefits and actual results.
• Maintain a practical roadmap showing where Ezurio should build, buy, or wait.
• Manage the AI investment budget from annual planning through approval and tracking.

Data and Knowledge Readiness

• Prepare structured and unstructured company information so AI tools can use it reliably.
• Partner with business and technology leaders to ensure data quality, governance, accessibility, and scalability.

Delivery and Adoption

• Select and manage technology providers and implementation partners, working with them to deliver solutions within Ezurio's security and integration standards.
• Drive adoption of the tools we already own, focused on training, identifying functional champions, usage reporting, and license optimization.
• Run scheduled effectiveness reviews for every AI tool and agent. Rework or decommission what we don't use.

Governance and Reporting

• Partner with IT and Legal to define acceptable‑use, data‑handling, and security guardrails.
• Maintain AI governance practices that support Ezurio’s ethical and standard and comply with the EU AI Act, GDPR, and CCPA.
• Create straightforward reporting on adoption, cost, risk and business impact for senior leadership.

REQUIREMENTS

• Hands‑on technical fluency: Builds or configures working prototypes with current agent, automation, and API tools. Reads architecture and code well enough to challenge vendors and internal teams.
• Business and financial acumen: Communicates effectively with peers and executives in clear business terms; connects AI investment decisions to Ezurio's strategic goals with measurable outcomes.
• AI transformation expertise: Strong understanding of AI solution pattern, decision intelligence, and how AI can be used to redesign workflows, create new business models, and optimize operations.
• Influence‑based leadership: Proven ability to drive results across an organization without direct authority; builds trust, earns executive backing, and keeps competing stakeholders aligned.
• Communication: Explains complex AI topics clearly to non‑technical audiences and senior leadership.
• Regulatory fluency: Familiar with the EU AI Act, GDPR, CCPA, and relevant data protection standards.
• Mindset: Comfortable taking initiative and working through ambiguity in a fast‑moving environment

EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE

• Bachelor's or master's in business, a STEM field, computer science, data science, or equivalent professional experience.
• 8+ years of business or technology leadership, including leading cross‑functional technology or transformation programs.
• Experience leading cross‑functional business transformation or technology programs across a complex organization.
• Strategy or management consulting experience is a plus.

Qualifications

Education

Required

Bachelors or better in a related field.

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