Sr. Manager, AI Platform Enablement (Remote)
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As a global leader in cybersecurity, CrowdStrike protects the people, processes and technologies that drive modern organizations. Since 2011, our mission hasn't changed - we're here to stop breaches, and we've redefined modern security with the world's most advanced AI-native platform. We work on large scale distributed systems, processing almost 3 trillion events per day and this traffic is growing daily. Our customers span all industries, and they count on CrowdStrike to keep their businesses running, their communities safe and their lives moving forward. We're proud to work for a mission-driven company leveraging AI to transform the way we work. CrowdStrikers drive their careers through flexibility and autonomy while also being expected to contribute to a culture of responsible AI adoption, experimentation, and innovation. We use an AI-first mindset as a force multiplier to proactively and continuously accelerate execution, build expertise, uncover insights, and solve complex, CrowdStrike is seeking a Senior Manager to lead our AI Platform Enablement team. This leader will own a integrated charter across platform leadership and enablement, helping CrowdStrike build and scale a governed internal AI development experience that is secure, usable, and ready for broad adoption.
This role is focused on enabling the internal platform, workflows, and operating model that support AI-assisted development and governed AI usage across CrowdStrike. The team will not own AI as a product; instead, this leader will partner closely with the Enterprise AI team and other stakeholders to deliver secure platforms, strong adoption, and effective change management.
What You'll Do:
- Lead the AI Platform Enablement function as an operating domain with responsibility for roadmap, delivery, adoption, and operational strategy across multiple work-streams.
- Define and execute the strategy for a governed internal AI platform environment that includes developer workspaces, secure gateway patterns, identity, observability, and enterprise integrations, in close partnership with the Enterprise AI team.
- Partner with engineering, platform, infrastructure, security, risk, and compliance stakeholders to ensure the platform is secure, auditable, scalable, and aligned to enterprise standards.
- Drive enablement programs that help internal teams adopt approved AI capabilities through structured training, reusable templates, starter kits, and rollout playbooks.
- Build operating mechanisms, service models, and prioritization frameworks that help teams move from idea to working solutions in a controlled environment with speed and consistency.
- Establish success metrics for platform usage, onboarding, adoption, delivery velocity, control effectiveness, and user experience.
- Lead and grow a high-performing team, setting clear direction, developing talent, and creating strong cross-functional alignment across technical and business stakeholders.
- Act as an executive-facing leader who can translate technical platform decisions into business outcomes, adoption plans, and risk-managed execution.
Requirements
problems. We're always looking to add talented CrowdStrikers to the team who have limitless passion, a relentless focus on innovation and a fanatical commitment to our customers, our community and each other. Ready to join a mission that matters? The future of cybersecurity starts with you., * 8+ years of experience leading technical programs, platforms, or enterprise technology functions, with meaningful people leadership experience.
- Experience leading managers, senior individual contributors, or cross-functional teams in a complex enterprise environment.
- Strong understanding of AI platform enablement, developer productivity, enterprise architecture, and secure-by-design operating models.
- Experience with one or more of the following areas: cloud developer workspaces, API gateways, platform engineering, CI/CD, identity and access management, observability, or enterprise integration patterns.
- Track record of combining platform strategy with adoption and change management, including training, documentation, stakeholder engagement, and scaled rollout.
- Ability to partner effectively with security, risk, compliance, infrastructure, and engineering leaders on sensitive or high-governance initiatives.
- Strong communication and executive presence, with the ability to influence across technical and non-technical audiences.
- Comfort operating in ambiguity, setting direction, and building the function while the platform and operating model continue to mature.
- Proven experience utilizing AI technologies to enhance decision-making, streamline workflows and processes, improve efficiency and drive business outcomes.
Bouns Points:
- Strong leadership experience managing a global team
- Experience standing up or scaling internal AI development platforms, agent platforms, or governed GenAI environments.
- Familiarity with platforms and patterns such as Coder, Kong, GitLab, Okta, secrets management, and cloud-native infrastructure.
- Experience creating internal enablement programs for developers, technical users, or enterprise product teams.
- Background in IT, platform engineering, developer experience, digital workplace, or enterprise transformation environments.
Benefits & conditions
CrowdStrike, Inc. is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. Placement within the pay range is dependent on a variety of factors including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications, job level, supervisory status, and location. The base salary range for this position for all U.S. candidates is $145,000 - $220,000 per year, with eligibility for bonuses, equity grants and a comprehensive benefits package that includes health insurance, 401k and paid time off.