Senior AI Portfolio Governance Lead

Ford; Dearborn (MI); Hybrid; USD 142,000 - 268,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision coverage

Flexible family care days

Vehicle discount program

Job summary

Ford is seeking a seasoned program leader to own the AI governance and portfolio reporting for a multi‑bet AI portfolio. You will define KPIs, automate data feeds, and ensure consistent reporting across teams, driving value realization with Finance and executives.

You will oversee weekly activity, calendar governance, and CEO/Board materials while coordinating with cross‑functional partners. This role is hybrid and requires onsite presence four days a week.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in a related field.
• 7+ years of experience in program management, PMO, or transformation roles in a large organization.
• Direct experience leading technology, digital, or AI-driven transformation programs from plan through delivery.
• Experience tracking value realization in partnership with Finance, including defending or pushing back on reported value.
• Hands-on experience running an operating cadence — recurring reviews, status reporting, and executive materials — for a multi-workstream portfolio.
• Experience applying stage-gate or governance criteria across multiple programs and holding teams to them.
• Experience aligning cross-functional stakeholders, including Finance, HR, Legal, and technical teams, on shared decisions.
• Experience spotting at-risk programs early and building recovery plans with program owners.
• Strong written communication: short, plain, and ready for an executive reader.
• Hands-on experience building automated dashboards and connecting them to source systems (Power BI or similar, SharePoint, Jira or equivalent).

Responsibilities

• Build and run the AI Governance Dashboard: define the KPIs each bet is measured on, agree them with the bet teams, and stand up automated data feeds from their systems so status, milestones, and value update without manual chasing.
• Hold bet teams to a consistent standard for what they report and when, and close the gaps where teams track the same thing in different ways.
• Own the weekly portfolio activity report: scope, DRIs, and 1-week / 30-day / 90-day milestones, written by the accountable people and published on a fixed cadence.
• Apply the portfolio governance standards and stage-gate criteria across all Enterprise and Functional AI Bets, and improve them when they stop working.
• Own the AI Portfolio review calendar and produce the CEO, Board, and ELT materials that come out of it.
• Track value realization across the portfolio with Finance: reconcile reported value against validated value, keep the benefits tracker current, and challenge numbers that don’t hold up.
• Track adoption and changed ways of working across bets, not just delivery milestones, so the portfolio is measured on outcomes.
• Manage cross-bet dependencies and blockers, resolve them at the working level where possible, and elevate the rest with a clear fact base and a recommendation.
• Flag at-risk bets early using agreed G/Y/R criteria, and build and track path-to-green recovery plans with bet owners.
• Coordinate the working-level network of bet program leads and DRIs; may lead a small team of program analysts.

Skills

Program management

Executive communication

Cross-functional leadership

Governance

Data-driven decision making

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Power BI

SharePoint

Jira

Job description

Ford is seeking a seasoned program leader to own the AI governance and portfolio reporting for a multi‑bet AI portfolio. You will define KPIs, automate data feeds, and ensure consistent reporting across teams, driving value realization with Finance and executives.

You will oversee weekly activity, calendar governance, and CEO/Board materials while coordinating with cross‑functional partners. This role is hybrid and requires onsite presence four days a week.