Director, AI Strategy & Enablement

Job Summary

The Director, AI Strategy & Enablement leads Trinchero Family Estates' enterprise AI strategy, portfolio, governance, adoption, and value realization. This role partners across the business to identify high-value opportunities, redesign workflows, guide responsible AI use, build internal capability, and move AI from experimentation to measurable business impact.

Essential Functions

• Define and maintain TFE’s enterprise AI strategy, operating model, roadmap, governance rhythm, and portfolio priorities.
• Create and manage a standardized intake, evaluation, prioritization, funding recommendation, and scale/stop decision process for AI and automation opportunities.
• Maintain a visible AI portfolio with business owners, executive sponsors, expected outcomes, status, risks, dependencies, and value measures.
• Prepare regular AI portfolio updates, decision recommendations, and value reporting for the AI Executive Steering Committee.
• Partner with the business to identify AI enabled workflow, decision, and process improvement opportunities.
• Facilitate discovery sessions, process redesign discussions, and use-case workshops that determine whether AI, automation, product, data, or process change is the right answer.
• Help business leaders define outcomes, adoption plans, ownership, baselines, and success measures before initiatives move forward.
• Drive adoption through practical enablement, demonstrations, communications, change management, and reinforcement with business leaders.
• Partner with IT, Security, Legal, HR, Compliance, and Data & Analytics to establish responsible-use standards, review checkpoints, and solution governance.
• Ensure AI initiatives appropriately address data protection, privacy, permissions, human review, transparency, compliance, and operational risk.
• Create reusable templates, playbooks, and decision frameworks for AI opportunity assessment, solution review, vendor evaluation, adoption, and value measurement.
• Develop function-specific AI learning and adoption plans for business users, leaders, champions, and technical teams.
• Led or coordinate external consultants, vendors, and technical partners as needed, with clear scopes of work, business ownership, and knowledge-transfer expectations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Information Technology, Data, Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field; Masters degree preferred.
• 15+ years of progressive experience in business transformation, digital transformation, product management, process automation, consulting, or related disciplines.
• Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional transformation initiatives from strategy through adoption, change management, measurement, and continuous improvement.
• Strong understanding of generative AI, copilots, intelligent agents, automation, data platforms, integration concepts, governance, security, and responsible-use considerations.
• Proven ability to develop operating models, governance frameworks, portfolio processes, value cases, and executive-level recommendations.

Skills & Competencies

• Excellent written, verbal, facilitation, and executive communication skills.
• Strong analytical, organizational, prioritization, and problem-solving skills with a practical orientation toward business outcomes.
• Experience managing vendors, consultants, solution evaluations, pilots, implementation plans, and knowledge-transfer expectations.
• Familiarity with Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot Studio, Power Platform, Azure AI, Microsoft Fabric, enterprise data ecosystems, or similar platforms preferred.

Working Conditions

• Extensive collaboration, computer work, facilitation, documentation, and executive communication.
• Office environment with the ability to work across TFE locations and with distributed teams.
• Frequent interaction with senior leaders, department heads, technical teams, vendors, and consultants.
• Multiple strategic initiatives, pilots, and priorities in progress at any given time.
• Occasional long or irregular hours may be required to meet business, project, or executive timelines.
• Frequent deadline pressure and the need to balance innovation, adoption, governance, and risk.

Salary Range

$170,000.00 - $220,000.00

The starting pay will be based on several factors, including but not limited to experience, training, education, and geographic location.

TFE offers a comprehensive benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision, life insurance coverage, disability benefits, PTO, wellness programs and fertility and family building benefits.

We also provide a 401(k) plan where TFE may make a discretionary profit-sharing contribution.

Trinchero Family Estates provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics.