Director, AI Enablement

## Director, AI Enablement Apply locations:
980 Hammond Drive Atlanta,Georgia time type:
Full time posted on:
Posted 14 Days Agojob requisition :
R0084818
** Church’s Texas Chicken
**** Employee

Job Description
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* Job Title:

** Director, AI Enablement
** Reports To**: SVP, Chief Technology Officer
** Department:
** Technology and Digital Platforms
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* Location:

** On-Site — Atlanta, GA
** Revised:
** May 2026
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* Job Summary:

** Leads AI enablement across Church’s Texas Chicken, serving as the primary connector between business needs and AI solutions. A player-coach role combining program management discipline with the instincts of a trainer, solution curator, and technology evangelist — working directly with business teams to surface high-value AI use cases, match them to the right solutions, steward initiatives from idea to adoption, and build the skills and cultural readiness the organization needs to leverage AI with confidence.

The ideal candidate brings off-the-charts intellectual curiosity and an innovative, entrepreneurial mindset — energized by the pace of change in AI, relentlessly exploring what is new and possible, and approaching every business problem as an opportunity to imagine a better solution.
** Key Duties/Responsibilities:
*** Act as the primary connector between business teams and AI solutions — engaging Marketing, Operations, Finance, Supply Chain, and Franchise partners to identify and curate AI use cases, translate business problems into well-scoped opportunity briefs, and support partners hands-on from use case identification through adoption.
* Own the enterprise AI enablement roadmap — maintaining a prioritized initiative pipeline, tracking program status, measuring adoption against defined targets by function and role.
* Lead AI solution and vendor evaluation, conducting structured assessments and making evidence-based recommendations balancing business value, feasibility, and readiness. Manage vendor relationships with rigor.
* Design and deliver AI training programs, workshops, and introductory experiences across roles and fluency levels. Define and maintain a company-wide AI skills framework mapping capability requirements to roles, identifying gaps, and prescribing a learning progression from AI awareness to practitioner-level application, in partnership with HR.
* Build and sustain an internal AI Champion network of early adopters who serve as local advocates and peer enablement resources. Maintain an AI use case library documenting evaluated cases, deployed solutions, reusable patterns, and lessons learned — making institutional knowledge accessible and accelerating future delivery.
* Own enterprise AI governance policies — defining the principles, standards, and guardrails governing how AI solutions are evaluated, approved, deployed, and monitored. Own AI security standards and policies, coordinating implementation of guidelines covering data handling, access controls, prompt security, output validation, and third-party vendor risk, in partnership with IT Security, Legal, and Compliance.
* Collaborate regularly with the Senior Manager of Data Architecture, AI/BI Product Director, and Director of IT Operations to evaluate technology directions, explore alternatives, and align on platform and policy decisions.
* Bring hands-on technical depth sufficient to prototype, evaluate, and critique AI solutions using leading LLMs — including Anthropic Claude, OpenAI GPT, and Microsoft Copilot — integrated with MCP servers and enterprise data. Applies this capability to assess solution quality, explore options, and form grounded corporate direction recommendations rather than own production development. Stays current with the AI landscape to serve as a credible internal voice on what…