Director, AI Strategy, Enablement & Workflow Transformation

Ford Motor Company; Lincoln (NE); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Tuition assistance

Paid time off

Employee discounts

Job summary

Ford Motor Company in the United States seeks a Director of AI Strategy, Enablement, & Workflow to translate AI strategy into a working portfolio and drive enterprise adoption. This leader will oversee the progression model, ensure clear ownership, and align workflow redesign with measurable value across the organization.

You’ll guide an L&D curriculum, manage enablement ROI, and align change management with HR and business units to drive cohesive transformation.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in strategy, portfolio management, or transformation leadership.
• Experience managing managers or multiple functional teams.
• Direct experience running a portfolio of competing initiatives.
• Experience with workflow redesign and organizational design.
• Leadership of an L&D or capability-building function.
• Strong executive communication skills for senior leadership.

Responsibilities

• 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 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

Skills

Portfolio management

Strategy development

Change management

Executive communications

Leadership of multiple teams

Workflow redesign

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Job description

Ford Motor Company in the United States seeks a Director of AI Strategy, Enablement, & Workflow to translate AI strategy into a working portfolio and drive enterprise adoption. This leader will oversee the progression model, ensure clear ownership, and align workflow redesign with measurable value across the organization.

You’ll guide an L&D curriculum, manage enablement ROI, and align change management with HR and business units to drive cohesive transformation.