Director, AI Productivity Strategy – Governance

Emerson

Director of AI Productivity Strategy & Governance at Emerson, leading AI productivity initiatives aligned with business strategy and governance.

Posted 5/15/2026full-timePittsburgh • Pennsylvania • 🇺🇸 United StatesLeadWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Cyber Security

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Partner with senior and executive leadership to define the AI productivity vision, strategy, and multi‑year roadmap aligned to business priorities.
Translate organizational objectives into a structured portfolio of AI use cases focused on productivity improvement, operational efficiency, decision‑making, and business value.
Establish and lead a centralized AI productivity intake, prioritization, and portfolio management process, ensuring clarity of sponsorship, success metrics, and benefits realization.
Design, implement, and maintain AI governance and Responsible AI frameworks, embedding principles such as privacy, security, transparency, fairness, human oversight, and audit readiness.
Collaborate across business units, IT, data, cybersecurity, legal, compliance, finance, and HR to move AI initiatives from discovery through pilot, production, adoption, and value realization.
Lead development of business cases, ROI models, and benefit tracking to measure productivity gains, financial impact, and risk mitigation.
Build and execute AI adoption and change management strategies, including communication plans, training, playbooks, and enablement resources that support sustainable adoption.
Monitor emerging AI trends, tools, and best practices to inform strategy and continuously improve the AI productivity portfolio.
Facilitate AI steering committees, governance forums, and portfolio reviews, escalating risks, dependencies, and key decisions as needed.
Build and lead a team responsible for AI productivity governance support, adoption enablement, portfolio tracking, and value realization.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s degree in business, operations, engineering, information systems, data analytics, computer science, or a related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience
Minimum of 8 years’ experience with operations, strategy, transformation, process improvement, digital enablement, analytics, portfolio management, or technology adoption
Minimum of 2 years’ experience working with AI, GenAI, automation, analytics, or digital productivity tools
Experience leading cross-functional initiatives and strategy, transformation, portfolio management, or productivity initiatives in a complex or matrixed organization
Demonstrated ability to establish governance frameworks, operating models, roadmaps, and executive‑level reporting
Strong understanding of AI productivity use cases such as copilots, knowledge assistants, workflow automation, document generation, reporting automation, and decision support
Experience driving adoption, change management, training, or process redesign to support new ways of working
Strong communication skills with the ability to translate technical topics into business‑relevant language.

Benefits

Comp & perks

At Emerson, we are motivated by a spirit of collaboration that helps our diverse, multicultural teams across the world drive innovation that makes the world healthier, safer, smarter, and more sustainable.
We have built an engaged community of inquisitive, dedicated people who thrive knowing they are welcomed, trusted, celebrated, and empowered to solve the world’s most complex problems — for our customers, our communities, and the planet.
You’ll contribute to this vital work while further developing your skills through our award-winning employee development programs.

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Hard Skills & Tools

AIGenAIautomationanalyticsdigital productivity toolsportfolio managementgovernance frameworksoperating modelsbusiness casesROI models

Soft Skills

leadershipcommunicationcollaborationchange managementstrategic thinkingproblem-solvingorganizational skillsdecision-makingtrainingfacilitation

Certifications

Bachelor’s degree