Hiring: Director, AI Enablement & Delivery Company: National Life Group Location: Addison, TX Job Posted Time: 2026-09-10 11:51:30 Employment Type: On-site Target Skills & Keywords : Digital Transformation, Machine Learning, Product Management, Stakeholder Management About the job Required Skills: •Lead an enterprise AI delivery and enablement program, department, or significant area of accountability. •Translate enterprise AI strategy into short-term objectives, operating plans, portfolio priorities, delivery standards, and adoption goals. •Direct large, complex AI initiatives spanning multiple business areas, technologies, data domains, risk functions, and operational processes. •Serve as a principal advisor to senior leaders, governance bodies, and business partners on AI opportunities, delivery feasibility, adoption readiness, business value, risk, and operating model implications. •Shape policies, methods, standards, and governance practices that affect AI delivery and AI-enabled operations across departments or the division. •Resolve critical, undefined, or multifaceted delivery issues by considering business, technology, data, regulatory, financial, operational, and human impacts. •Lead the development and management of AI portfolios and roadmaps for assigned areas, ensuring alignment with enterprise strategy, risk appetite, business priorities, and delivery capacity. •Establish performance measures and review mechanisms for AI initiatives, adoption programs, operational outcomes, and value realization. Qualifications: •Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Computer Science, Information Systems, Data and Analytics, Operations, or a related field and fourteen or more years of related work experience; advanced degree and eleven or more years of related experience; or eighteen or more years of equivalent combined education and work experience. •Extensive experience leading large, complex, cross-functional AI, data, technology, automation, digital transformation, product, program, or enterprise change initiatives. •Demonstrated experience leading a department, major program, team, or area of accountability with significant company impact. •Recognized expertise in AI delivery, enablement, adoption, governance, business transformation, or a related discipline. •Demonstrated ability to resolve critical issues that are not clearly defined and may lack established direction or precedent. •Strong business acumen, executive communication, negotiation, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills. •Leadership experience in insurance, financial services, or another highly regulated industry. •Deep experience with generative AI, machine learning, agentic systems, enterprise automation, AI platforms, or AI-enabled operating model transformation. •AI Proficiency Expectations (All Roles) Compensation: •$157,500 - $231,000 / year Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!