Lead, AI Enablement

Sphera; Illinois; On-site; USD 131,000 - 209,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance

Health Savings Account

Flexible Spending Account

401(k) Retirement Plan with Company Me

Life and Disability Insurance

Critical Illness Insurance

Accident Insurance

Hospital Indemnity Insurance

Paid Time Off and Holidays

Flexible Working Schedule

Job summary

Sphera in the United States is seeking an experienced leader to drive the AI enablement program across the business. You will design and deliver foundational training, role-specific sessions, hands-on labs, and self-paced pathways for audiences from complete beginners to advanced builders.

You will design and maintain the AI learning curriculum across proficiency levels, run the live cadence (office hours, workshops and labs), and build the AI Champion Network to scale enablement across

Responsibilities

• Deliver the AI enablement program across the business - foundational training, role-specific sessions, hands-on labs, and self-paced pathways - for audiences ranging from complete beginners to advanced builders.
• Design and maintain the AI learning curriculum across proficiency levels, from baseline literacy and prompting fundamentals through workflow integration and agent building, contextualized to each function's real work.
• Run the live enablement cadence: weekly office hours, team workshops and labs, protected practice time, and monthly showcases. Run them on schedule, with discipline, and cancel rather than pad.
• Build and lead the AI Champion Network - nomination and selection for coverage across functions, regions, and levels; train-the-trainer certification; roundtables; recognition; and term-based rotation.
• Progress ownership of activities from centrally led, to co-facilitated, to champion-led, so the program scales beyond the core team's capacity.
• Serve as the named enablement partner to every department - meet function leaders on their cadence, understand their workflows and pain points, co-design department-specific enablement plans, and agree adoption targets that reflect what that team actually needs.
• Run a department-by-department adoption view: where each function sits on the proficiency curve, what's blocking them, and what intervention comes next - and elevate the ones that are stalling.
• Partner closely with HR and People Ops to embed AI proficiency into the employee lifecycle - role definitions and job profiles, onboarding for new hires, goal-setting and performance conversations, career pathways, and internal mobility.
• Work with HR on the change and communications side of adoption: messaging that addresses job-security anxiety honestly, manager enablement so people leaders can model and protect AI practice, and recognition programs that reinforce the behavior.
• Co-own mandatory learning and policy acknowledgement with HR and L&D - completion tracking, compliance reporting, and the Learning Hub as system of record.
• Own adoption metrics and reporting: define the signals that matter for each department in partnership with its leadership, track engagement, capability progression, and reuse, and report results to function leaders, HR, and the ELT.

Job description

Sphera is a leading global provider of enterprise software and services that enables companies to manage and optimize their environmental, health, safety and sustainability. Our mission is to create a safer, more sustainable and productive world.

Sphera is a portfolio company of Blackstone, a U.S.-based alternative asset investment company that focuses on private equity, technology and innovation, and more. Blackstone businesses succeed through strong partnerships, a personalized approach and a commitment to exceptional performance with uncompromising integrity. Sphera and Blackstone are leaders in the Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) space.

We are guided by our core values of Customer Centricity, Accountability, Bias to Action, Innovation, and Collaboration. These values help us recruit the right talent to join our rapidly expanding team around the globe. It is important to us that each and every Spherion is not only eager to challenge themselves and knows how to get work done but is an awesome addition to our company culture.

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver the AI enablement program across the business - foundational training, role-specific sessions, hands-on labs, and self-paced pathways - for audiences ranging from complete beginners to advanced builders.
• Design and maintain the AI learning curriculum across proficiency levels, from baseline literacy and prompting fundamentals through workflow integration and agent building, contextualized to each function's real work.
• Run the live enablement cadence: weekly office hours, team workshops and labs, protected practice time, and monthly showcases. Run them on schedule, with discipline, and cancel rather than pad.
• Build and lead the AI Champion Network - nomination and selection for coverage across functions, regions, and levels; train-the-trainer certification; roundtables; recognition; and term-based rotation.
• Progress ownership of activities from centrally led, to co-facilitated, to champion-led, so the program scales beyond the core team's capacity.
• Serve as the named enablement partner to every department - meet function leaders on their cadence, understand their workflows and pain points, co-design department-specific enablement plans, and agree adoption targets that reflect what that team actually needs.
• Run a department-by-department adoption view: where each function sits on the proficiency curve, what's blocking them, and what intervention comes next - and elevate the ones that are stalling.
• Partner closely with HR and People Ops to embed AI proficiency into the employee lifecycle - role definitions and job profiles, onboarding for new hires, goal-setting and performance conversations, career pathways, and internal mobility.
• Work with HR on the change and communications side of adoption: messaging that addresses job-security anxiety honestly, manager enablement so people leaders can model and protect AI practice, and recognition programs that reinforce the behavior.
• Co-own mandatory learning and policy acknowledgement with HR and L&D - completion tracking, compliance reporting, and the Learning Hub as system of record.
• Own adoption metrics and reporting: define the signals that matter for each department in partnership with its leadership, track engagement, capability progression, and reuse, and report results to function leaders, HR, and the ELT.

Pay

$131,000.00 - $209,000.00 + Eligible for Variable Compensation Plan

Benefits

Commensurate with relevant qualifications and experience

• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• Health Savings Account
• Flexible Spending Account
• 401(k) Retirement Plan with Company Match
• Life and Disability Insurance
• Critical Illness Insurance
• Accident Insurance
• Hospital Indemnity Insurance
• Paid Time Off and Holidays
• Flexible Working Schedule

Sphera is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all colleagues. We provide equal employment opportunities to all individuals regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, disability, age, veteran status, marital status, or any other legally protected status.

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