Executive Director of AI Strategy Portfolio and Partnerships

AdventHealth Corporate; Florida; On-site; USD 170,000 - 316,000; Full time

Job summary

AdventHealth seeks an Executive Director to lead the enterprise AI strategy, governance, and portfolio management. The role drives opportunities intake, prioritization, and budgeting across clinical and business domains, delivering measurable AI value.

You will coordinate senior partners, build roadmaps, and mentor a cross-functional team to scale AI capabilities across the enterprise in Florida.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree required.
• Field of Study: Information Technology, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or closely related technical discipline.
• 10+ years of relevant experience.
• 5+ years of leadership experience.
• PMP or PfMP preferred.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the enterprise AI strategy, operating model, investment principles, capability priorities, and multi-year portfolio roadmap.
• Operate a front door for AI opportunities and facilitate prioritization, sequencing, and decision records with the AI Transformation Governance Committee.
• Build trusted engagement with priority business and clinical domains and maintain AI capability roadmaps identifying opportunities and ownership.
• Manage strategic and operational AI budget flows with Finance and leadership, establishing business-case and benefits realization practices.
• Coordinate third-party AI partners and Forward-Deployed Engineering demand, including engagement models and performance measures.
• Create decision frames, portfolio analyses, value models, and rapid prototypes to reduce uncertainty and connect investments to value.
• Lead a high-leverage team, governance, and cross-domain collaboration to scale AI impact across the enterprise.

Skills

Enterprise strategy

Portfolio management

Investment governance

Operating models

Business transformation

Financial acumen

Executive stakeholder engagement

AI knowledge

Education

Master’s degree in IT/CS/IS/Engineering

Job description

Our promise to you:

Joining AdventHealth is about being part of something bigger. It’s about belonging to a community that believes in the wholeness of each person, and serves to uplift others in body, mind and spirit. AdventHealth is a place where you can thrive professionally, and grow spiritually, by Extending the Healing Ministry of Christ. Where you will be valued for who you are and the unique experiences you bring to our purpose-minded team. All while understanding that together we are even better.

All the benefits and perks you need for you and your family:

• Benefits from Day One: Medical, Dental, Vision Insurance, Life Insurance, Disability Insurance
• Paid Time Off from Day One
• 403-B Retirement Plan
• 4 Weeks 100% Paid Parental Leave
• Career Development
• Whole Person Well-being Resources
• Mental Health Resources and Support
• Pet Benefits

Schedule:

Full time

Shift:

Day (United States of America)

Address:

902 INSPIRATION AVE

City:

ALTAMONTE SPRINGS

State:

Florida

Postal Code:

32714

Job Description:

Leads enterprise strategy, portfolio management, and strategic partnerships for artificial intelligence. The role establishes enterprise opportunity intake, facilitates portfolio decisions with the AI Transformation Governance Committee, develops AI capability and engagement roadmaps with priority business domains, manages strategic and operational budget flows, and creates defensible benefits-realization practices. The Executive Director coordinates third-party partners and Forward-Deployed Engineering demand, engages Engineering when technical execution is needed, personally builds decision artifacts and rapid governed prototypes, and leads a high-leverage team that demonstrates measurable value and multiplies AI capability across the enterprise.

• Develop and maintain the enterprise AI strategy, operating model, investment principles, capability priorities, and multi-year portfolio roadmap.
• Operate a consistent front door for AI opportunities and facilitate prioritization, sequencing, resource tradeoffs, and decision records with the AI Transformation Governance Committee.
• Build trusted engagement with priority business and clinical domains and maintain AI capability and engagement roadmaps that identify opportunities, dependencies, ownership, and reusable enterprise needs.
• Manage strategic and operational AI budget flows with Finance and accountable leaders and establish business-case, baseline, benefit-owner, evidence, and corrective-action practices.
• Coordinate the third-party AI partner ecosystem and Forward-Deployed Engineering demand, including market scanning, optioning, engagement models, performance measures, escalation, and knowledge transfer.
• Create and visibly demonstrate decision frames, portfolio analyses, value models, reusable tools, and rapid governed prototypes that reduce uncertainty, accelerate decisions, and connect investment choices to measurable realized value.
• Orchestrate business, control, platform, data, adoption, and delivery participants and provide Engineering with clear outcomes, constraints, evidence, dependencies, and accountable sponsors; Engineering retains production technical execution.
• Build and lead a force-multiplier, AI-first team that creates reusable operating mechanisms, actively engages executive and domain leaders, models a build-and-show culture, and turns the work of a small team into enterprise-scale impact; lead function operations, talent, performance, budgets, capacity, and resourcing in accordance with enterprise policy.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Expert knowledge of enterprise strategy, portfolio management, investment governance, operating models, and business transformation. [Required]
• Strong financial and commercial acumen in budgeting, business cases, benefits realization, capacity tradeoffs, sourcing, and partner economics. [Required]
• Working knowledge of predictive, generative, and agentic AI capabilities, limitations, data and technology dependencies, responsible-use considerations, and delivery lifecycles. [Required]
• Demonstrated ability to coordinate strategic technology partners, consulting teams, and Forward-Deployed Engineering resources while preserving accountable delivery ownership. [Required]
• Ability to build trusted executive relationships across business, clinical, operational, and corporate domains and convert priorities into practical roadmaps. [Required]
• Ability to establish defensible baselines, benefit measures, evidence standards, review cadences, and corrective-action mechanisms. [Required]
• Hands‑on ability to create and demonstrate analyses, prototypes, decision artifacts, and reusable operating mechanisms using AI‑first, first‑principles, and lean‑management methods, with disciplined measurement of adoption, outcomes, and realized value. [Required]
• Strong executive presence, business‑value storytelling, negotiation, facilitation, active stakeholder engagement, organizational change leadership, and force‑multiplier people leadership across business, clinical, operational, and technical domains. [Required]

Education:

• Master’s degree [Required]

Field of Study:

• In Information Technology, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a closely related technical discipline [Required]

Work Experience:

• 10+ years of relevant experience [Required]
• 5+ years of leadership experience [Required]

Licenses and Certifications:

• Project Management Professional (PMP) OR Portfolio Management Professional (PfMP) [Preferred]

Physical Requirements:

• Physical Requirements - https://tinyurl.com/23km2677

Pay Range:

$170,060.80 - $316,284.80

Background Screening Requirement (Florida Law)

Certain positions are subject to Florida Level 2 background screening, including fingerprinting, as required by state law.

Applicants may review general information about Florida’s background screening requirements at Florida Care Provider Background Screening Clearinghouse: https://info.flclearinghouse.com/

This facility is an equal opportunity employer and complies with federal, state and local anti-discrimination laws, regulations and ordinances.