AI Program Manager

Art and Wellness Enterprises (AWE) is a professional services organization supporting non-profits founded by Alice Walton, including the Alice L. Walton Foundation, Alice L. Walton School of Medicine, Art Bridges Foundation, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, the Momentary, and Heartland Whole Health Institute.

Job Description:

Job Title: AI Program Manager
Reports to: Senior Director of Financial Planning and Strategic Projects
FLSA Classification: Exempt

Location: Bentonville, Arkansas (On-site)

Date Reviewed: 07/07/2026

Art and Wellness Enterprises (AWE) supports operating non-profits founded by Alice Walton, including the Alice L. Walton Foundation, Alice L. Walton School of Medicine, Art Bridges, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, the Momentary, and Heartland Whole Health Institute.

The AI Program Manager is a strategic thought leader that designs and operationalizes an enterprise AI ecosystem across Art and Wellness Enterprises (AWE) and the diverse, complex portfolio of supported organizations spanning healthcare, arts, education, and philanthropy. This role moves beyond isolated AI tools and instead establishes a governed, scalable, and version‑controlled AI architecture that enables repeatable, auditable, and value‑driven outcomes, with a focus on automation and responsible AI usage.

This role defines and implements the foundational architecture, governance model, and versioning strategy required to support AI‑enabled workflows and automation across the organization. This includes designing system‑level prompts, decision frameworks, and behavioral rules that ensure consistency, traceability, and compliance across all AI agents and solutions. This role owns the development of the architecture and strategy, as well as the hands‑on execution of AI‑enabled workflows and automation.

The AI Program Manager partners closely with executive leadership, technology teams, and business units to ensure AI is deployed as an integrated ecosystem—grounded in governance, structured architecture, and measurable business value—not as bespoke, one‑off solutions. This role is also responsible for accelerating adoption of AI‑enabled ways of working by partnering cross‑functionally to understand opportunities, strategies, and building repeatable AI‑driven solutions.

Success in this role requires strategic thinking, strong relationship‑building and communication skills, and the ability to influence stakeholders across technical and operational teams. The ability to balance enterprise AI strategy, governance, and architecture with practical execution, organizational change, and responsible AI adoption is essential, along with the ability to navigate ambiguity, build consensus, and deliver measurable organizational value in a fast‑paced, evolving environment.

• Define and implement a scalable AI architecture and framework capable of supporting multiple agents, workflows, and business use cases across the AWE ecosystem.
• Establish design principles for role‑based agents, scoped tool usage, and modular AI components.
• Develop and maintain reusable patterns for AI‑enabled workflows (e.g., financial review, operational analysis, stakeholder reporting).
• Design system prompts, reasoning frameworks, and rule sets that define how AI agents interpret data and generate outputs.
• Standardize prompt structures to ensure consistency across use cases and teams.
• Establish meta‑rules governing agent behavior (e.g., prioritization logic, discrepancy handling, data validation standards).
• Continuously refine prompts and rule sets as part of a controlled, versioned improvement process.

• Design and implement a formal AI governance framework aligned with organizational risk management and compliance requirements.
• Establish policies for responsible AI use, data integrity, model behavior, and decision transparency.
• Define control mechanisms to ensure AI outputs can be reviewed, validated, explained, and audited.
• Partner with leadership to position AI governance as a core capability, similar to financial and operational controls.
• Develop…