Director of Agentic Leadership

UCSF Health, AG; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

UCSF Health seeks a Director to establish and scale its Future of Work & Leadership Innovation capability, applying an AI mindset to design AI-enabled workflows, digital assistants, and practical tools that improve leadership and enterprise work while safeguarding patient care. This is a full-time, one-year contract role.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree/eqv. experience required.
• Master's degree or higher preferred.
• 7–10 years progressive work experience.
• Experience applying AI to leadership effectiveness, organizational capability, or enterprise workflows.

Responsibilities

• Establish and scale UCSF's Future of Work & Leadership Innovation capability.
• Design AI-enabled workflows, digital assistants, and practical tools for leadership and OE work.
• Lead enterprise AI adoption and change initiatives in a complex enterprise.
• Collaborate across OE to translate experiments into reusable solutions.

Skills

AI-native mindset

Enterprise AI platforms

AI agents

Executive consulting

Product mindset

Change management

Systems thinking

Leadership development

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Master's degree or higher

7–10 years experience

Experience applying AI to leadership/workflows

Job description

Job Description

This role establishes and scales UCSF's Future of Work & Leadership Innovation capability using a phased strategy: prototype within OE, expand across Human Resources, and ultimately scale across UCSF Health and UCSF Campus. The Director applies an AI innovation and product mindset to leadership and OE work, designing AI-enabled workflows, digital assistants, practical tools, and future-state experiences that improve effectiveness while responsibly accelerating enterprise AI adoption. The Director also serves as a horizontal enablement partner across OE, combining the domain strategy and process expertise of other pillars with deep AI, design, co-design, and experimentation capability.

Success is reflected in a disciplined pipeline of high-value human-AI experiments tied to real organizational needs; leaders and employees actively participating in co-design; evidence being used to distinguish promising ideas from those that should be redesigned or stopped; and successful approaches being translated into practical, reusable solutions that domain teams can own and scale. Over time, the Lab should strengthen leadership capacity and human judgment, improve work and employee experiences, build AI fluency across OE, and create credible patterns for how humans and AI agents can work together effectively and responsibly.

The capability must produce approaches that are usable across UCSF's diverse workforce and operating contexts, including frontline, represented, highly regulated, clinical, technical, academic, research, and professional work. Success therefore requires innovation that improves work without compromising patient care, safety, quality, equity, human judgment, or the expertise on which UCSF's mission depends.

Full-time, one year contract role.

Qualifications

Knowledge Skills and Abilities (KSAs)

Knowledge, Skills And Abilities Req / Pref

• AI-native mindset with expertise in enterprise AI platforms and AI agents. (Req)
• Experience leading enterprise AI adoption and change. (Req)
• Product mindset and experience designing AI-enabled workflows or digital experiences. (Req)
• Executive consulting and communication skills. (Req)
• Strong systems thinking. (Req)
• Experience in change management or AI transformation in complex enterprise. (Pref)
• Leadership Development, OE or OD experience a plus. (Pref)

Education, Licenses And Certifications

Education

Req / Pref

• Bachelor's degree and/or equivalent experience. (Req)
• Master's degree or higher in a related field. (Pref)
• 7 – 10 years progressive work experience or equivalent combination of experience and training to succeed in role. (Req)
• Experience applying AI technologies to improve leadership effectiveness, organizational capability, or enterprise workflows.. (Req)

Certifications

Req / Pref

• AI/Generative AI certifications. (Pref)
• Prosci, Agile, Product Management, Human-Centered Design, or related certifications. (Pref)