Sr. Director, AI Platform Engineering & Enablement

Overview

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At Ford, you’ll work on ideas that matter, alongside passionate people who want to make a global impact. Together, we’re shaping the next era of transportation—grounded in purpose, driven by progress. Make your move.

• Job Type: Full time
• Work Type: Remote

In this position...

This role requires a leader who brings deep technical knowledge of enterprise AI platforms and the strategic judgment to look across every platform EPEO offers — spanning leading AI and cloud platform providers — and define where AI belongs, what it should change, and how the organization gets there. This is not an operational role. It is the most forward-looking mandate in the platform organization: a cross-cutting AI strategy and enablement function with authority across all platform organizations.

The Senior Director, AI Platform Engineering & Enablement brings two equally weighted mandates. On the engineering side, this leader applies deep technical judgment to evaluate, architect, and govern how AI capabilities are integrated across EPEO’s platform portfolio — ensuring what is deployed is the right capability, properly engineered, and fit for the business functions it serves. On the enablement side, this leader ensures AI capabilities from our major providers are not just procured but actively activated, governed, and embedded into how our platforms operate. This person does not wait for the organization to ask what AI can do. They already know, and they have a plan.

What you'll do...

AI Portfolio Strategy & Platform Assessment

Own the cross-platform AI strategy across all of EPEO’s platform portfolio:

• Maintain a comprehensive, enterprise-wide view of how AI is strategically positioned across every platform EPEO operates — what is deployed, what it is being used for across business functions, whether it is the right capability for the problem, and where gaps or redundancies exist
• Continuously evaluate AI capabilities across...