Senior Manager, IT Communications & AI Evangelist

About the role

Sandisk understands how people and businesses consume data and we relentlessly innovate to deliver solutions that enable today’s needs and tomorrow’s next big ideas. With a rich history of groundbreaking innovations in Flash and advanced memory technologies, our solutions have become the beating heart of the digital world we’re living in and that we have the power to shape. Sandisk meets people and businesses at the intersection of their aspirations and the moment, enabling them to keep moving and pushing possibility forward. We do this through the balance of our powerhouse manufacturing capabilities and our industry-leading portfolio of products that are recognized globally for innovation, performance and quality. Sandisk has two facilities recognized by the World Economic Forum as part of the Global Lighthouse Network for advanced 4IR innovations. These facilities were also recognized as Sustainability Lighthouses for breakthroughs in efficient operations. With our global reach, we ensure the global supply chain has access to the Flash memory it needs to keep our world moving forward. Description Sandisk is investing to become an AI-enabled enterprise. The technology is arriving faster than the organization is absorbing it, and the gap between what IT ships and what the business actually adopts is now the binding constraint on return from that investment. This role exists to close that gap. The Senior Manager, IT Communications & AI Evangelist owns enterprise awareness, adoption, and engagement for AI, cybersecurity, and digital transformation. The role leads communications strategy, runs the AI and Cyber Councils, produces IT town halls and executive forums, and drives the change management that turns platform availability into measured behavior change. Success is judged on adoption and sentiment movement, not on volume of communications produced. This is not a traditional communications role. It blends four disciplines: IT communications leadership, AI adoption ownership, change management practice, and executive engagement. The person in this seat is a technology translator who can connect CIO vision to business outcomes, and is equally credible presenting to an executive staff meeting and recording a one minute product explainer.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the lead AI evangelist for the IT organization, building the narrative for AI platforms, capabilities, and use cases across systems, applications, and cybersecurity.
• Develop creative strategies that generate buzz and amplify AI momentum enterprise-wide, moving the organization from awareness to active daily use.
• Produce short-form content that people actually consume: one minute podcasts, product videos on AI capabilities in the works, and customer interviews on realized impact.
• Plan, design, and launch targeted, persona-based adoption campaigns differentiated by function, seniority, and technical fluency, extending the same approach to security training.
• Build a network of AI champions and ambassadors in the business, and convert their success stories into reusable proof points.
• Establish and run the enterprise AI Council to communicate AI platform and use-case