AI Tooling Strategy – Lifecycle Management Director

Vizient, Inc

AI Tooling Strategy & Lifecycle Management Director at Vizient. Oversee enterprise AI tooling strategy and lifecycle management.

Posted 7/2/2026full-timeChicago • Illinois, Minnesota • 🇺🇸 United StatesLeadWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Develop and maintain Vizient’s enterprise AI tooling strategy and roadmap aligned with AI-DLC, architecture, security, governance, product, and delivery priorities.
Identify tooling gaps, duplication, interoperability issues, adoption barriers, operational risks, and consolidation opportunities.
Recommend tooling priorities, investment needs, lifecycle actions, and rationalization opportunities to leadership.
Own the enterprise lifecycle framework for AI tools from evaluation and onboarding through adoption, optimization, renewal, and retirement.
Establish standards for AI tool intake, ownership, onboarding, access model definition, integration readiness, documentation, observability expectations, support readiness, lifecycle reviews, and retirement.
Maintain an enterprise inventory of AI tools, capabilities, owners, users, licenses, integrations, costs, risks, controls, vendors, and operational status.
Partner with Architecture, Security, Infrastructure, Governance/Compliance, Procurement, Legal, Finance, Product, Engineering, Platform, LLMOps/AIOps and vendor teams to align AI tooling with enterprise requirements.
Coordinate vendor and platform engagement for AI tooling, in partnership with Procurement, Legal, Finance, and accountable platform owners, including vendor assessments, support models, escalation paths, roadmap awareness, renewal planning, and performance tracking.
Track AI tooling spend, license utilization, adoption patterns, renewal timelines, risks, and cost optimization opportunities.
Facilitate the intake, prioritization, and cross-functional review of AI tooling requests, lifecycle decisions, implementation dependencies, and operational readiness needs.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Develop and maintain Vizient’s enterprise AI tooling strategy and roadmap
Identify tooling gaps, duplication, interoperability issues, adoption barriers, operational risks, and consolidation opportunities.
Recommend tooling priorities, investment needs, lifecycle actions, and rationalization opportunities to leadership.
Own the enterprise lifecycle framework for AI tools from evaluation and onboarding through adoption, optimization, renewal, and retirement.
Establish standards for AI tool intake, ownership, onboarding, access model definition, integration readiness, documentation, observability expectations, support readiness, lifecycle reviews, and retirement.
Maintain an enterprise inventory of AI tools, capabilities, owners, users, licenses, integrations, costs, risks, controls, vendors, and operational status.
Partner with Architecture, Security, Infrastructure, Governance/Compliance, Procurement, Legal, Finance, Product, Engineering, Platform, LLMOps/AIOps and vendor teams to align AI tooling with enterprise requirements.
Coordinate vendor and platform engagement for AI tooling, in partnership with Procurement, Legal, Finance, and accountable platform owners, including vendor assessments, support models, escalation paths, roadmap awareness, renewal planning, and performance tracking.
Track AI tooling spend, license utilization, adoption patterns, renewal timelines, risks, and cost optimization opportunities.
Facilitate the intake, prioritization, and cross-functional review of AI tooling requests, lifecycle decisions, implementation dependencies, and operational readiness needs.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Vizient has a comprehensive benefits plan!

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Hard Skills & Tools

AI Tool EvaluationTooling Gap AnalysisOperational Risk IdentificationCost OptimizationIntegration Readiness

Soft Skills

LeadershipCommunicationFacilitation