Senior Director, AI Enablement

McKesson; Ohio; On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

CoverMyMeds, part of McKesson, seeks a Senior Director, AI Enablement to lead AI-driven transformation. You will own AI strategy, governance, and engineering platforms, delivering AI products with an agentic-native approach across engineering and business teams.

You will collaborate with McKesson's Enterprise AI team to scale capabilities, drive ROI, and ensure responsible AI while building reusable assets, tooling, and an empowered enablement team.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent.
• 13+ years of software engineering & technology leadership.
• 5+ years leading engineering or platform teams.
• 3+ years hands-on AI/ML leadership in production environments.
• Proven track record driving AI adoption at scale with measurable outcomes.
• Experience delivering AI-powered products or agents to production.

Responsibilities

• Define and own AI enablement strategy and multi-year roadmap.
• Lead the build and delivery of AI products and agents end to end.
• Chair AI governance bodies and ensure responsible AI practices.
• Scale AI adoption across engineering, product, and business teams.
• Partner with Enterprise AI to reuse capabilities across units.

Skills

Bachelor's degree

13+ years software engineering

5+ years engineering leadership

3+ years AI/ML leadership

AI governance experience

AI-powered product delivery

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Job description

McKesson is an impact-driven, Fortune 10 company that touches virtually every aspect of healthcare. We are known for delivering insights, products, and services that make quality care more accessible and affordable. Here, we focus on the health, happiness, and well-being of you and those we serve - we care.

What you do at McKesson matters. We foster a culture where you can grow, make an impact, and are empowered to bring new ideas. Together, we thrive as we shape the future of health for patients, our communities, and our people. If you want to be part of tomorrow's health today, we want to hear from you.

CoverMyMeds is recognized across McKesson as a leader in AI adoption. Our Technology organization runs on an AI-First operating model, with AI embedded in how we plan, build, secure, and deliver software. We are looking for a Senior Director, AI Enablement to lead the next stage of this transformation.

This Sr Director, AI Enablement will own AI strategy, governance, and AI engineering platforms for CoverMyMeds, and will build and deliver AI products using an agentic, AI-native approach, where AI agents are designed into products and workflows from the start rather than added later. The role scales safe and measurable AI adoption across engineering and business teams, and partners with McKesson's Enterprise AI team so capabilities are built once and reused across business units. This is a builder's role for someone who combines technical depth, product delivery, strategic vision, and the ability to change how people work.

Key Responsibilities

AI Strategy and Roadmap

• Define and own the AI enablement strategy and multi-year roadmap for CoverMyMeds, aligned with business priorities and McKesson's enterprise AI direction.
• Manage a portfolio of concurrent AI initiatives and a multimillion-dollar budget, prioritizing investments by business value, risk, and reuse.
• Measure and report AI adoption, productivity, and ROI to executive leadership.

Agentic-Native Product Build and Delivery

• Own the build and delivery of AI products and agents end to end, from discovery and design through production release and ongoing improvement.
• Champion an agentic-native approach: design products and workflows around AI agents from the start, with humans in the loop where it matters.
• Partner with Product and business leaders to identify high-value use cases and turn them into products that deliver measurable clinical, operational, and financial outcomes.
• Use AI-accelerated delivery to move from idea to production in days and weeks, while holding the bar on quality, security, and compliance.

Governance and Responsible AI

• Chair the AI Review Board and own AI usage policy, model-selection frameworks, and token allocation and cost management.
• Ensure HIPAA, privacy, and security requirements are built into AI development and delivery processes.
• Partner with Legal, Privacy, Security, and Compliance to enable fast, safe, and responsible AI adoption.

AI Platforms and Engineering Acceleration

• Lead the teams that build and run reusable AI capabilities, including the AI Skills Marketplace, MCP servers, agents, and developer tooling.
• Advance the AI-embedded SDLC, including spec-driven development, AI code review, automated vulnerability remediation, shift-left testing, and self-service developer onboarding.
• Drive build-once, reuse-everywhere practices so shared AI assets serve multiple teams and business units.

Adoption, Enablement, and Change

• Scale AI adoption beyond engineering to product, business, legal, finance, privacy, call center, and platform teams.
• Own the AI training curriculum and champions network, from foundational AI literacy to advanced agentic workflows.
• Advise senior leadership and the C-suite on AI strategy, capabilities, and risk.
• Build a positive, curious AI culture through townhalls, ERG sessions, and hands-on enablement.

Partnership and Leadership

• Partner with McKesson's Enterprise AI team, architecture, product, and platform leaders to align standards and avoid duplicate effort.
• Work with external technology partners and vendors to evaluate and adopt emerging AI capabilities.
• Hire, develop, and retain a high-performing team of engineers, architects, and enablement specialists.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• Typically requires 13+ years of relative software engineering and technology leadership experience, including 5+ years leading engineering or platform teams.
• 3+ years of hands-on leadership in AI or ML, including generative AI, LLMs, and agentic AI in production environments.
• Proven track record of driving AI adoption at scale with measurable outcomes in productivity, quality, or delivery speed.
• Demonstrated experience building and delivering AI-powered products or agents to production, with measurable business impact.
• Experience establishing AI governance, responsible AI practices, or technology standa