Director, AI Strategy, Enablement & Workflow

Ford Motor Company; Dearborn (MI); On-site; USD 170,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Dental coverage

Vision coverage

Parental leave

Back-up childcare

Tuition assistance

Vacation & holidays

Job summary

Ford Motor Company is seeking a Director of AI Strategy, Enablement & Workflow to turn AI vision into a working portfolio. You will guide strategy, prioritize initiatives, and lead cross-functional teams across HR, IT, and business units to deliver measurable value.

You'll own the progression model, enablement efforts, and learning journeys while driving cohesive change management and executive storytelling at the highest levels.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field required.
• 8+ years in strategy, portfolio management, or transformation leadership roles.
• Experience leading multiple functional teams and managing managers.

Responsibilities

• Translate enterprise AI strategy into an actionable portfolio and enablement plan.
• Own total portfolio health with clear ownership and credible adoption path.
• Oversee AI transformation communications and executive narrative.
• Direct workflow redesign efforts across the portfolio.
• Oversee L&D curriculum and learning journeys for audience-specific adoption.
• Ensure cohesive change management across HR and business units.
• Manage enablement ROI and external partner performance.
• Partner with Insight Generation for a single leadership scorecard.

Skills

Strategic portfolio management

AI strategy

Transformation leadership

Executive communication

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree

MBA preferred

Tools

PMO tools

Job description

We are the movers of the world and makers of the future. We get up every day, roll up our sleeves, and build a better world – together. At Ford, we're all a part of something bigger than ourselves. Are you ready to change the way the world moves?

This role translates enterprise strategy into a portfolio of initiatives, evaluating and prioritizing every opportunity. From intake to workflow redesign, to communications and change management and enablement, this role leads a team charged with fundamentally changing how Ford operates.

In this position...

Ford is building a new capability at the center of our enterprise AI strategy. We are looking for a Director, AI Strategy, Enablement & Workflow to help turn our AI vision into a working portfolio. If you thrive at the intersection of strategy, transformation, and emerging technology, we want to hear from you.

This role owns the progression model and team that moves opportunities from Sandbox experiment to Functional Program to Enterprise Bets, well as the teams that enable those opportunities via Workflow Redesign, and Learning and Development. This leader integrates these capabilities into one coordinated system behind every bet.

The ideal candidate has run a portfolio of competing initiatives in the past, and understands what it takes to change how people work.

What You'll Do

• Translate enterprise AI strategy into an actionable portfolio and enablement plan, defining the progression model, decision forums, and adoption priorities that move opportunities from Sandbox experiments to Functional Programs and Enterprise Bets
• Own total portfolio health, ensuring every active bet has a clear owner, an accurate pipeline status, and a credible path to defined adoption and value outcomes
• Oversee enterprise-wide AI transformation communications and executive narrative, sharing how AI capabilities translate into business value and scaled adoption
• Direct workflow redesign efforts across the portfolio, ensuring teams baseline current-state work, identify friction points, and redesign roles and processes around what AI can enable
• Oversee the L&D team's curriculum, playbooks, and learning journeys, ensuring training is tailored to each audience to maximize adoption
• Ensure cohesive change management across HR and business unit / skill teams, so Ford's workforce experiences one coordinated transformation plan
• Manage enablement ROI, holding external agencies, third-party resources, and internal hubs accountable for whether their work moves upskilling and adoption metrics
• Partner with Insight Generation to make sure portfolio, adoption, and enablement data feeds a single, trusted scorecard for leadership

You'll have

• Bachelor's degree
• 8+ years of experience in strategy, portfolio management, or transformation leadership roles, including experience managing managers or leading multiple functional teams
• Direct experience running a portfolio of competing initiatives, including prioritization, progression decisions, and pipeline health tracking
• Experience leading or closely partnering with workflow redesign and organizational design work, including translating a new capability into a changed process or role
• Experience overseeing an L&D or capability-building function, including curriculum design and rollout tied to a specific technology or operating model change
• Track record of leading change management efforts that required coordination across HR and multiple business units
• Experience managing external agencies or third-party vendors against a defined scope and ROI expectation
• Strong executive communication skills, with experience building narratives and materials for senior leadership decision-making

Even better, if you have

• Experience in automotive, technology, or another large-scale enterprise environment with a complex, matrixed operating structure
• Background leading an AI or digital transformation office, PMO, or center of excellence
• Experience building or scaling a Sandbox-to-Enterprise-style progression model for new technology or innovation initiatives
• Familiarity with how AI agents and automation reshape workflows, and what a credible role-redesign conversation with technical teams looks like
• Experience presenting portfolio health, adoption, and enablement performance directly to senior executives or a board

As an established global company, we offer the benefit of choice. You can choose what your Ford future will look like: will your story span the globe, or keep you close to home? Will your career be a deep dive into what you love, or a series of new teams and new skills? Will you be a leader, a changemaker, a technical expert, a culture builder…or all of the above? No matter what you choose, we offer a work life that works for you, including:

• Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage
• Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up childcare and more
• Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, and more
• Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases
• Tuition assistance
• Established and active employee resource groups
• Paid time off for individual and team community service
• A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year's Day
• Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.

This position is a leadership level 4.

Final determination of salary grade will be based on candidate's skills and experience, and base salary will be set within the applicable range according to job scope, responsibility and competitive market value.

Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

Candidates for positions with Ford Motor Company must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, age, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status or protected veteran status. In the United States, if you need a reasonable accommodation for the online application process due to a disability, please call 1-888-336-0660.