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 is building a new capability at the center of our enterprise AI strategy. We are looking for a Director, AI Strategy, Enablement & Workflow to help turn our AI vision into a working portfolio. If you thrive at the intersection of strategy, transformation, and emerging technology, we want to hear from you.
This role translates enterprise strategy into a portfolio of initiatives, evaluating and prioritizing every opportunity. From intake to workflow redesign, to communications and change management and enablement, this role leads a team charged with fundamentally changing how Ford operates.
Responsibilities
- Translate enterprise AI strategy into an actionable portfolio and enablement plan, defining the progression model, decision forums, and adoption priorities that move opportunities from Sandbox experiments to Functional Programs and Enterprise Bets
- Own total portfolio health, ensuring every active bet has a clear owner, an accurate pipeline status, and a credible path to defined adoption and value outcomes
- Oversee enterprise-wide AI transformation communications and executive narrative, sharing how AI capabilities translate into business value and scaled adoption
- Direct workflow redesign efforts across the portfolio, ensuring teams baseline current-state work, identify friction points, and redesign roles and processes around what AI can enable
- Oversee the L&D team's curriculum, playbooks, and learning journeys, ensuring training is tailored to each audience to maximize adoption
- Ensure cohesive change management across HR and business unit / skill teams, so Ford's workforce experiences one coordinated transformation plan
- Manage enablement ROI, holding external agencies, third-party resources, and internal hubs accountable for whether their work moves upskilling and adoption metrics
- Partner with Insight Generation to make sure portfolio, adoption, and enablement data feeds a single, trusted scorecard for leadership
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree
- 8+ years of experience in strategy, portfolio management, or transformation leadership roles, including experience managing managers or leading multiple functional teams
- Direct experience running a portfolio of competing initiatives, including prioritization, progression decisions, and pipeline health tracking
- Experience leading or closely partnering with workflow redesign and organizational design work, including translating a new capability into a changed process or role
- Experience overseeing an L&D or capability-building function, including curriculum design and rollout tied to a specific technology or operating model change
- Track record of leading change management efforts that required coordination across HR and multiple business units
- Experience managing external agencies or third-party vendors against a defined scope and ROI expectation
- Strong executive communication skills, with experience building narratives and materials for senior leadership decision-making
Benefits
- 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