Director, AI Program Management

Apply now: Director, AI Program Management, location is Hybrid (Los Angeles, CA). The start date is Mid-August (target) or early September at the latest for this permanent position.

Job Title: Director, AI Program ManagementLocation-Type: Hybrid (Los Angeles, CA – Westwood; onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday)Start Date Is: Mid-August preferred, early September at the latestDuration: PermanentCompensation Range: $180,000 - $225,000 annually

Job Description

Lead the client's enterprise AI strategy by driving organization-wide AI initiatives, accelerating adoption, and delivering impactful AI-enabled business solutions across multiple business units.

Day-to-Day Responsibilities

• Develop and execute the organization's AI program roadmap from strategy through delivery.
• Drive enterprise-wide AI adoption across cross-functional business teams.
• Partner with executive stakeholders to identify and prioritize AI opportunities.
• Lead AI initiatives in fast-paced, ambiguous environments with minimal oversight.
• Build and launch commercial AI-enabled products and solutions.
• Establish KPIs and measure program success and AI adoption.
• Anticipate implementation risks and proactively remove roadblocks.
• Stay current on emerging AI technologies, trends, and best practices.
• Facilitate workshops and educate business leaders on AI capabilities.
• Influence teams across the organization without direct management responsibility.

Requirements

Minimum Requirements

• 10 years of program management, product program management, or transformation leadership experience owning large-scale strategic initiatives.

• Recent professional experience leading enterprise AI, GenAI, automation, or AI-enabled transformation programs.

• Must have owned AI initiatives beyond experimentation, including roadmap, rollout, adoption, governance, KPIs, and business impact.

• Demonstrated success deploying AI solutions into business environments for internal users, enterprise teams, customers, or commercial products.

• Experience translating business needs into AI use cases, prioritizing initiatives, and driving execution from intake through delivery.

• Strong working knowledge of modern AI tools and platforms such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, enterprise copilots, RAG/search tools, agents, or custom LLM solutions.

• Experience partnering with Legal, Security, Data, IT, Product, Engineering, or Compliance teams on AI risk, data access, governance, or responsible AI considerations.

• Proven ability to influence executives and cross-functional teams without direct authority.

• Strong executive communication skills, including roadmap updates, decision recommendations, KPI reporting, and stakeholder alignment.

• Experience defining success metrics for AI programs, including adoption, productivity, efficiency, ROI, usage, quality, or risk reduction.

• Ability to operate independently in ambiguous, fast-moving environments and build structure where little exists.

• Strong business acumen with the ability to connect AI initiatives to measurable business outcomes.

• Local to the Los Angeles area or able to reliably work onsite three days per week.

• Experience in consulting, agency, sports, entertainment, media, technology, or other fast-paced environments.

• Experience driving AI adoption across multiple business units or large employee populations.

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience with change management, training, enablement, AI champions, workshops, or organizational adoption strategies.

• Experience evaluating or negotiating AI vendors, enterprise AI platforms, or build-vs-buy decisions.

• Experience with AI governance, responsible AI, privacy, data security, or risk frameworks.

• Active involvement in the AI ecosystem through conferences, seminars, research, certifications, communities, or ongoing learning.