Director of Digital Mindset & AI Adoption

D.R. Horton

Arlington (TX)

On-site

USD 160,000 - 260,000

Full time

3 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental and Vision

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Flex Spending Accounts

Life & Disability Insurance

Vacation, Sick, Personal Time and Bank

Job summary

D.R. Horton is seeking a Director of Digital Mindset & AI Adoption to lead the enterprise-wide adoption of digital, data, automation, and AI capabilities. You will design programs, partnerships, and learning experiences to translate new technology into measurable business outcomes.

The role requires building a scalable adoption network, collaborating with product and business leaders, and driving sustained behavioral change across a decentralized workforce. Travel overnight may be required.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Organizational Development, Communications, Business, Learning, Technology, Change Management, or a related field, or equivalent experience
10+ years of change, adoption, learning, digital transformation, communications, organizational development, or related experience
Demonstrated experience driving adoption across a distributed or decentralized workforce
Strong facilitation, storytelling, executive communication, and relationship-building skills
Working knowledge of generative AI, digital productivity tools, analytics, and technology adoption practices
Demonstrated ability to work independently, take ownership, communicate clearly, and deliver results in an evolving environment
Ability to build trusted relationships across the organization, balancing enterprise standards with business needs and operating realities

Responsibilities

Define enterprise digital mindset, AI adoption, learning, champion, communications, and business unit activation strategy
Build role-based enablement programs for everyday AI, data-driven decision-making, automation, and new transformation products
Create a scalable network of business unit and functional champions that shares practical use cases, feedback, and reusable practices
Partner with Product and business leaders to ensure adoption is designed into priority products from discovery through scale
Measure adoption, proficiency, behavior change, productivity, user sentiment, and barriers and use evidence to improve programs
Represent the function in cross-functional discovery, architecture, governance, operational-readiness, and continuous-improvement activities as appropriate
Stay current on relevant data, AI, digital, software, and industry practices and apply new capabilities when they create practical business value
Identify, shape, and pilot new opportunities where data, AI, and digital capabilities can create business value, operating with an owner's mindset and a bias toward building, testing, and learning quickly
Conduct all business in a professional and ethical manner
Ability to travel overnight

Skills

Facilitation

Storytelling

Executive communication

Relationship-building

Change management

Learning and development

Analytical thinking

Education

Bachelor's degree in Organizational Development, Communications, Business, Learning, Technology, Change Management, or a related field

Tools

Generative AI knowledge

Digital productivity tools

Analytics

Technology adoption practices

Job description

Job Description - Director of Digital Mindset & AI Adoption (2605606)

Job Description

Director of Digital Mindset & AI Adoption - 2605606

Description

D.R. Horton, Inc., the largest homebuilder in the U.S., was founded in 1978 and is a publicly traded company on the New York Stock Exchange. It is engaged in the construction and sale of high-quality homes designed principally for the entry-level and first time move-up markets. The Company also provides mortgage financing and title services for homebuyers through its mortgage and title subsidiaries. Please visit our website at www.drhorton.com for more information.

As the nation's largest homebuilder by volume, D.R. Horton is transforming how it uses data, AI, and digital solutions for the next generation of homebuilding, and we pair the reach of a national enterprise with a culture built on local ownership, practical innovation, and deep business partnerships. Our teams focus on solutions that work in the field and deliver real results, not technology for its own sake. In this role, you'll have a critical opportunity to shape modern capabilities that will influence how the company operates for years to come.

D.R. Horton, Inc. is currently looking for a Director of Digital Mindset & AI Adoption. The Director, Digital Mindset & AI Adoption (also known as Director / Lead, Digital Mindset) will help shape how employees adopt and apply modern digital, data, automation, and AI capabilities in everyday work. This role will build the programs, partnerships, learning experiences, and change mechanisms needed to translate new technology into sustained adoption and measurable business outcomes. The ideal candidate is an influential change leader who can inspire curiosity, simplify complex ideas, and create momentum across a large organization. This role sets and owns the enterprise adoption strategy and leads the adoption function, including the AI Adoption & Enablement Manager and Learning / Change Partners. Success in this role means data, AI, and digital ways of working become visible habits across business units, with adoption, proficiency, and business outcomes measured and improving.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Define enterprise digital mindset, AI adoption, learning, champion, communications, and business unit activation strategy
Build role-based enablement programs for everyday AI, data-driven decision-making, automation, and new transformation products
Create a scalable network of business unit and functional champions that shares practical use cases, feedback, and reusable practices
Partner with Product and business leaders to ensure adoption is designed into priority products from discovery through scale
Measure adoption, proficiency, behavior change, productivity, user sentiment, and barriers and use evidence to improve programs
Represent the function in cross-functional discovery, architecture, governance, operational-readiness, and continuous-improvement activities as appropriate
Stay current on relevant data, AI, digital, software, and industry practices and apply new capabilities when they create practical business value
Identify, shape, and pilot new opportunities where data, AI, and digital capabilities can create business value, operating with an owner's mindset and a bias toward building, testing, and learning quickly
Conduct all business in a professional and ethical manner
Ability to travel overnight

Supervisory Responsibilities

Supervises 2 or more employees

Qualifications

Education and/or Experience

Bachelor's degree in Organizational Development, Communications, Business, Learning, Technology, Change Management, or a related field, or equivalent experience
10+ years of change, adoption, learning, digital transformation, communications, organizational development, or related experience
Demonstrated experience driving adoption across a distributed or decentralized workforce
Strong facilitation, storytelling, executive communication, and relationship-building skills
Working knowledge of generative AI, digital productivity tools, analytics, and technology adoption practices
Demonstrated ability to work independently, take ownership, communicate clearly, and deliver results in an evolving environment
Ability to build trusted relationships across the organization, balancing enterprise standards with business needs and operating realities
Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written and oral form or via DRH applications
Ability to sit for majority of 8-hour workday; use hands and fingers to handle or feel; reach with hands and arms; talk and hear. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and peripheral vision
The noise level is generally moderate

Preferred Qualifications

Experience building an enterprise AI champion network, digital academy, or transformation adoption capability, and hands-on familiarity with current generative AI assistants and agent tools, is preferred
Experience in homebuilding, real estate, construction, mortgage, title, land development, sales, purchasing, finance, customer care, or another distributed operating business is a plus
Experience working in a large enterprise with complex enterprise environments is preferred
Experience founding, incubating, or building new products, capabilities, or businesses from the ground up is a plus

We offer an excellent benefits package including: