Senior Manager, AI Learning & Development

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision coverage

Flexible family care days

Tuition assistance

Vehicle discount program

Paid time off & holidays

Job summary

Ford's Central AI Team is building a new capability to train and enable employees to work with AI and agentic tools across the enterprise. As Senior Manager, Learning & Development, you will own the curriculum, materials, and learning journeys, partnering with HR and functional leaders to land training in rollout moments and formats for varied audiences.

You will design measurable programs, manage external agencies, and foster communities of practice while aligning onboarding and career

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience.
• 5+ years designing and delivering training programs at enterprise scale.
• 4+ years building learning content for new technology/tool rollouts with measurable adoption.
• 4+ years strong instructional design for non-technical audiences.
• 3+ years measuring training effectiveness via data and results.
• 2+ years managing external agency/vendor resources.
• 2+ years collaborating across a matrixed organization.

Responsibilities

• Own AI training curriculum, enablement materials, and learning journeys across the AI initiative portfolio.
• Own training completion, proficiency, and adoption metrics feeding into scorecards; measure effectiveness.
• Build communities of practice across functional teams to reinforce training locally.
• Manage training and enablement agencies and vendors for scope, pace, quality.
• Partner with HR and leaders to integrate AI enablement into onboarding and career development.
• Maintain a library of reusable training assets for future AI initiatives.

Skills

Training design

Learning content creation

Training delivery

Measuring training effectiveness

Vendor management

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Master’s degree

Job description

We are the movers of the world and makers of the future. We get up every day, roll up our sleeves, and build a better world – together. At Ford, we're all a part of something bigger than ourselves. Are you ready to change the way the world moves?

Ford's Central AI Team is the enterprise hub responsible for scaling AI and agentic solutions across the company. This role owns the training and enablement layer that turns a new AI capability into something employees can pick up, trust, and use every day.

In this position...

Ford is building a new capability at the center of our enterprise AI strategy. Reporting into the Central AI Team's Director of AI Strategy, Enablement, & Workflow, the Senior Manager, Learning & Development builds and owns the curriculum, materials, and learning journeys that teach Ford employees how to work with AI and agentic tools. This role partners closely with the Workflow Redesign Lead and with functional teams to ensure training lands at the right moment in a rollout, in the right format, for the right audience — from a frontline user learning a new tool to a leader deciding how to manage a team that now works alongside AI.

The ideal candidate has built training programs that translate a technical capability into a learning path, and knows how to measure whether the training worke

Based in Dearborn, MI, this is a hybrid position with a required four-day onsite presence each week

What you’ll do...

• Own AI training curriculum, enablement materials, and learning journeys across the AI initiative portfolio, building content for a range of roles and skill levels
• Own training completion, proficiency, and adoption metrics feeding into Insight Generation's scorecard, and measure training effectiveness
• Build communities of practice - networks of champions across functional teams who can reinforce training and answer day-to-day questions locally
• Manage training and enablement agency and third-party resources, setting scope, pace, and quality bar for their output
• Partner with HR and functional team leaders to fold AI enablement into existing onboarding, career development, and skills programs, without duplicating training infrastructure
• Maintain a library of reusable training assets for new AI initiatives

You'll have...

• Bachelor’s degreeor equivalent combination of relevant education and experience
• 5+ years of experience designing and delivering training or enablement programs at enterprise scale
• 4+ years of direct experience building learning content for a new technology or tool rollout, with a track record of measurable adoption
• 4+ years of strong instructional design skills, including breaking down a technical capability into a clear learning path for a non-technical audience
• 3+ years of experience measuring training effectiveness through completion, adoption, or performance data, and iterating based on results
• 2+ years of experience managing external agency, consulting, or vendor resources against scope, timeline, and quality deliverables.
• 2+ years of experience working across a matrixed organization, partnering with teams that own their own local training needs

Even better, you may have...

• Master’s degree
• Experience in automotive, manufacturing, or another large-scale enterprise organization with a distributed workforce
• Background building champion or super-user networks to sustain adoption after initial training
• Familiarity with how AI agents and automation work, enough to design training that reflects what the tool can realistically do
• Experience partnering with HR on integrating new skills into broader career development or workforce planning programs
• Experience building modular or reusable training content that can scale across multiple initiatives at once

As an established global company, we offer the benefit of choice. You can choose what your Ford future will look like: will your story span the globe, or keep you close to home? Will your career be a deep dive into what you love, or a series of new teams and new skills? Will you be a leader, a changemaker, a technical expert, a culture builder…or all of the above? No matter what you choose, we offer a work life that works for you, including:

• Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage
• Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up childcare and more
• Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, and more
• Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases
• Tuition assistance
• Established and active employee resource groups
• Paid time off for individual and team community service
• A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day
• Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.

This position is leadership level 5 and ranges from $141,700- 268,300.

Final determination of salary grade will be based on candidate's skills and experience, and base salary will be set within the applicable range according to job scope, responsibility and competitive market value.

Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

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