AI Strategy & Operations Senior Manager

About the role

The Sr. Manager of AI Operations & Strategy will play a critical role in helping scale and operationalize AI across the enterprise. This role sits at the intersection of AI, product, engineering, operations, and business transformation.

Responsibilities

• Operate and execute strategic AI priorities across the organization, working closely with the AI Engineering team.
• Coordinate organizational priorities, operating rhythms, planning processes, and cross-functional execution.
• Drive alignment and coordination across partner organizations including other Corporate Technology teams and business stakeholders.
• Establish and manage scalable operational mechanisms for roadmap planning, prioritization, executive reporting, portfolio management, governance reviews, and delivery tracking.
• Ensure AI initiatives remain aligned to business priorities, resource constraints, operational dependencies, and organizational goals.
• Coordinate complex, cross-functional AI programs spanning multiple teams, stakeholders, and delivery timelines.
• Prepare executive-level communications, updates, presentations, and operational reviews related to AI initiatives, investments, risks, and business impact.
• Identify organizational bottlenecks, execution gaps, and operational inefficiencies and help drive resolution plans across teams.
• Influence and help coordinate AI product roadmaps, prioritization processes, execution plans, measurement strategies, and operational rollout plans.
• Support the development of business cases, prioritization frameworks, implementation plans, and success metrics for AI investments.
• Help define operational KPIs and measurement frameworks tied to adoption, productivity, delivery execution, customer impact, and business value realization.
• Coordinate post-launch operational processes including adoption tracking, enhancement planning, stakeholder communication, and ongoing delivery management.
• Support leadership in balancing short-term execution priorities with longer-term strategic initiatives and transformation goals.
• Partner with leaders across marketing, operations, customer experience, product, engineering, responsible gaming, finance, and corporate functions to identify high-value opportunities for AI-enabled transformation.
• Coordinate pilots, proof-of-concepts, and experimentation initiatives to assess business impact, operational feasibility, organizational readiness, and scalability.
• Evaluate external vendors, strategic partners, and consulting opportunities that can accelerate innovation and delivery.
• Develop prioritization frameworks to identify the highest-value AI opportunities across customer, operational, and enterprise domains.
• Support change management, communication planning, organizational readiness, and adoption efforts for scaled AI initiatives.
• Partner with leadership to operationalize hackathons, innovation sprints, AI enablement programs, and culture-building initiatives that foster AI adoption across the company.

Qualifications

We’re looking for someone who brings strong experience across most of these areas. We’ll evaluate each candidate holistically, so don’t count yourself out if you don’t check every box.

• 6+ years of experience across strategy, operations, consulting, transformation, program management, product operations, or technology leadership roles (though we weight the quality and scope of what you’ve done over the number of years on paper).
• Strong experience managing large-scale cross-functional programs in complex technology organizations.
• Strong organizational and project management skills with the ability to manage multiple complex workstreams simultaneously is a non-negotiable.
• Proven ability to drive alignment, execution, and accountability across diverse stakeholder groups and organizational boundaries.
• Experience supporting executive leadership teams through strategic planning, operational reviews, roadmap planning, and organizational transformation initiatives.
• Ability to influence without direct authority and build trusted relationships across technical and non-technical teams.
• Comfortable operating in fast-moving, highly ambiguous environments with evolving priorities.
• Background in management consulting, technology strategy, PMO leadership, transformation offices, or high-growth technology environments strongly preferred.

Skills

While AI expertise is not a requirement, genuine curiosity about AI, a desire to learn, and the ability to ramp quickly in a fast-moving space are important qualities.

Benefits

The applicable salary range for this position is $171,000 - $224,700 USD, which is dependent on a variety of factors including relevant experience, location, business needs and market demand. This role may offer the following benefits:

• Medical, vision, and dental insurance;
• Life insurance;
• Disability insurance;
• A 401(k) matching program;
• among other employee benefits.

This role may also be eligible for short-term or long-term incentive compensation, including, but not limited to, cash bonuses and stock program participation. This role includes paid personal time off and 14 paid company holidays.

FanDuel is an equal opportunities employer and we believe, as one of our principles states, “We are One Team!”. As such, we are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, creed, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship status, marital status, disability, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by state, local or federal law. We believe FanDuel is strongest and best able to compete if all employees feel valued, respected, and included.