AI Adoption – Enablement Lead
Cisco
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Cincinnati • Ohio • United States
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About the role
- Lead the day-to-day operation of enterprise AI adoption and enablement programs, translating enterprise AI strategy into repeatable execution aligned with enterprise OCM practices.
- Shape program cadence, engagement models, and operating rhythms based on adoption outcomes and evolving AI maturity.
- Plan, organize, and facilitate recurring adoption forums, practitioner communities, and enablement sessions that provide clear agendas, meaningful outcomes, and practical value.
- Serve as the primary point of contact for AI practitioners by providing guidance grounded in AI capabilities and enterprise use cases.
- Track participation, engagement, and early adoption signals to identify risks, misconceptions, and knowledge gaps that require intervention.
- Gather practitioner feedback, recurring questions, and friction points related to AI usage, then synthesize findings into clear themes and recommendations for the Core AI team and leadership.
- Build and maintain AI enablement content and communications, ensuring materials are practical, accessible, aligned to enterprise messaging standards, and kept current over time.
- Communicate adoption progress, risks, and successes clearly to leadership while reinforcing desired behaviors through ongoing cadence, facilitation, and practical examples rather than one-time training efforts.
- Continuously evolve adoption programs to support enterprise needs as AI maturity, tooling, and organizational priorities change.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Organizational Leadership, Business Administration, Communications, or related fields
- Six or more years of experience in change execution, enablement, program management, communications, or transformation roles
- Demonstrated experience applying OCM frameworks in execution-focused, embedded roles
- Exceptional communication skills, including experience engaging senior leaders and translating complex concepts into clear, actionable messages
- Ability to quickly build working fluency in AI concepts, tools, and enterprise use cases
- Experience running communities of practice, adoption programs, or enablement forums
- Strong facilitation skills with the ability to drive clear outcomes
- Highly organized, proactive, and relationship-driven approach to work
- Comfortable influencing without authority in a matrixed enterprise environment.
- Experience supporting technology, digital, data, or AI adoption initiatives is preferred
- Demonstrated AI fluency, including familiarity with AI concepts, enterprise AI use cases, and adoption considerations is preferred
- Familiarity working alongside a centralized Enterprise OCM organization is preferred
- Exposure to formal change frameworks, such as ADKAR or Prosci, applied in a pragmatic way is preferred
- Experience partnering with product, platform, or AI teams during rollout and sustainment efforts is preferred
- Experience presenting to or working directly with executive and senior leadership audiences is preferred.
Benefits
- Access to medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Wellness plans
- Parental leave
- Adoption assistance
- Tuition reimbursement
- Paid Time Off and paid holidays
- 401(k) plan with company match
- Employee stock purchase plan
- Commuter benefits
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
AI conceptsOCM frameworksprogram managementchange executionenablementfacilitationcommunity of practiceadoption programsdigital adoptiondata adoption
Soft Skills
exceptional communicationrelationship-drivenhighly organizedproactiveinfluencing without authorityability to drive outcomesengaging senior leaderstranslating complex conceptssynthesizing feedbackbuilding working fluency
Certifications
Bachelor’s degreeADKARProsci