Director, AI Execution & Operations

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Director, AI Execution & Operations

The Director, AI Execution & Operations is a full-time hybrid role based in Atlanta, Georgia. This position is responsible for turning Cox Media Group's AI strategy into measurable business outcomes through the successful execution, adoption, governance, and operationalization of AI initiatives across the enterprise.

This role serves as the operational leader for CMG's enterprise AI initiatives, partnering with business, technology, and cross-functional AI stakeholders to drive adoption, coordinate execution, and accelerate value realization across the organization.

The ideal candidate brings firsthand experience implementing enterprise AI programs and understands both the opportunities and challenges of AI adoption y have helped organizations deploy, govern, enable, support, measure, and expand AI capabilities, and can leverage those experiences to help CMG accelerate adoption, scale successful outcomes, and avoid common implementation pitfalls. They combine strong operational leadership with a hands‑on, problem‑solving mindset, bringing curiosity, practical AI expertise, and a willingness to explore new ideas, experiment, and apply AI to solve real business challenges.

• Execute and operationalize the enterprise AI strategy and roadmap.
• Coordinate and support AI initiatives across business and technology teams, establishing repeatable execution and deployment models that enable successful adoption and scale across business units.
• Track milestones, dependencies, risks, and business outcomes across the AI portfolio.
• Identify and resolve execution risks, dependencies, and implementation barriers.
• Ensure AI initiatives align with defined business objectives and success measures.
• Develop and coordinate enterprise AI adoption strategies in partnership with business leaders, AI champions, and cross‑functional stakeholders.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to business stakeholders by sharing AI best practices, lessons learned, and recommendations that help scale successful outcomes.
• Partner with AI champions, business stakeholders, and cross‑functional AI leaders to build, support, and expand CMG's AI Champion Network.
• Coordinate communications, awareness campaigns, webinars, and employee engagement activities.
• Partner with business leaders to support adoption and embed AI into day‑to‑day workflows.
• Coordinate AI training, workshops, office hours, and enablement programs to accelerate adoption across the organization.
• Create adoption playbooks, implementation guidance, best practices, FAQs, and success stories.
• Establish mechanisms for gathering employee feedback and measuring adoption effectiveness.
• Identify and address barriers preventing AI adoption and sustained usage.
• Promote sharing of successful use cases and lessons learned across business units.

• Define and maintain AI adoption, utilization, productivity, and value realization metrics.
• Develop executive dashboards, scorecards, and operational reporting frameworks.
• Measure productivity improvements, operational efficiencies, and business impact generated by AI initiatives.
• Establish methodologies for tracking ROI and benefits realization.
• Monitor adoption trends and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Prepare executive reporting on AI performance, adoption, and business outcomes.
• Validate and communicate success stories and realized business value across the organization.

AI Operational Leadership & Continuous Improvement

• Serve as an internal subject matter expert on enterprise AI execution, operationalization, adoption, and scaling.
• Partner with business and…