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# AI Champions Program Lead

- **Company:** ISO New England
- **Location:** Holyoke, MA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $185,000.0 - $220,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision, Collaborative Learning, IT Management
- **Published:** October 15, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerjet.com/job/usddc19c8e8a49c5c23db97a63e8159b89/eaa

## About the Role

* Bachelors Degree required, Masters preferred
 * 5+ years in enterprise strategy, digital transformation, or IT leadership
 * 3+ years building and scaling cross-functional teams or communities of practice
 * Demonstrated success driving adoption of new technologies or methodologies at scale
 * Proven experience translating technical concepts for business audiences, developing AI use cases, and evangelizing AI benefits
 * Strong skills in fostering collaboration across silos, managing resistance, and building coalitions
 * Proven ability to establish and sustain communities of practice, activate grassroots advocates, and drive peer-to-peer engagement
 * Ability to translate technical concepts for business audiences and evangelize AI benefits
 * Track record leading large-scale, cross-functional organizational change initiatives in complex, regulated environments

This employer will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position (ex: H-1B, F-1/CPT/OPT, O-1, E-3, TN, J, etc.).

## Description

* Execution of AI Strategic Leadership & Vision
 * Collaborate on and help communicate the organization's AI vision, strategy, and business case aligned with ISO New England's priorities (grid modernization, reliability, operational excellence, and markets efficiency)
 * Work with executive leadership to establish clear AI ambitions and translate them into divisional strategies
 * Drive operating model changes required for AI adoption across the enterprise
 * Building & Facilitating the AI Champions Network
 * Establish and formalize a community of practice (CoP) of AI champions drawn from across all business functions
 * Define clear roles, responsibilities, and expectations for AI champions (identifying use cases, educating peers, promoting tools, sharing success stories)
 * Recruit early adopters and AI enthusiasts who can serve as peer influencers and role models within their teams
 * Provide champions with resources, training, and ongoing support to sustain engagement and effectiveness
 * Fostering AI Adoption & Culture
 * Build and sustain a culture of disciplined innovation by facilitating workshops, hackathons, knowledge-sharing forums, and peer learning forums
 * Work with champions to identify, prioritize, and develop AI use cases
 * Monitor the champions program continuously, adapting and expanding it as it gains traction across business units
 * Governance & Risk Management
 * Work with IT Directors to establish AI governance frameworks and policies that balance innovation with risk management, compliance, and responsible AI practices
 * Coordinate with AI champions to embed governance policies locally and ensure consistent adherence to enterprise AI principles
 * Ensure alignment with regulatory requirements relevant to the energy and utilities industry
 * Organizational Capability Building
 * Oversee talent upskilling, and development programs to build internal AI expertise
 * Collaborate with HR to develop targeted AI literacy initiatives for workforce segments most impacted by AI
 * Lead cross-functional initiatives (with IT, data, finance, legal, etc.) to remove barriers to AI adoption
 * Collaborate with HR to develop change management program to help adoption of AI at different levels
 * Reporting and Metrics for AI Program
 * Collaborate with IT and Business Units to design the metrics to measure the progress of AI adoption across different dimensions including business outcomes, applications, teams and employees
 * Collaborate with IT Directors, cost center managers, and FinOps Lead to design and develop reports to help budgeting and forecasts related to AI programs