Director, AI Transformation, Value & Portfolio

Innovation starts from the heart. Our Advanced Innovation & Technology (AI&T) teams harness the imagination, courage, and resourcefulness to think beyond what’s currently possible, and create solutions for patients many years into the future. If you’re an early-stage innovator, then Edwards AI&T team is the place for you to take the next steps in your career. We’ll give you the tools and resources you need to create groundbreaking innovations that shape the future of structural heart technology.

How you will make an impact:

This role is the operating leader for the AI organization, translating enterprise priorities into scalable AI capabilities, measurable business outcomes, and sustained organizational change. It owns portfolio governance, investment prioritization, AI operating model effectiveness, executive reporting, organizational readiness, adoption tracking, and value realization across the enterprise AI portfolio.

Key Responsibilities:

Own the evolution of the enterprise AI operating model, including governance structures, intake processes, decision rights, funding mechanisms, and delivery rhythms

Establish and continuously improve the mechanisms required to scale AI adoption across business functions, and identify the organizational bottlenecks that slow delivery

Drive alignment across Product, Science, Engineering, Data, Evaluation, Governance, IT, and business stakeholders

Serve as the operating leader for the AI Center of Excellence and the AI Council, owning intake, agenda, cadence, decision record, and follow-through. AI Engineering & Architecture remains Operating Chair of the COE for technical rulings, and the SVP chairs both bodies

Own the enterprise AI intake, evaluation, prioritization, and portfolio review process, including the inherited backlog

Establish frameworks for measuring AI adoption, organizational readiness, and capability maturity, and monitor them across business functions

Partner with business leaders to improve change readiness and accelerate adoption, and build executive visibility into enterprise AI maturity over time Develop executive and Board-level reporting on portfolio progress, organizational maturity, adoption, risks, dependencies, and ranked investment opportunities

Maintain a sequenced enterprise AI roadmap aligned to business priorities and to organizational readiness, not only to technical dependency

Facilitate investment and prioritization discussions across competing business demands

Identify reusable capabilities, common patterns, and cross-functional opportunities that enable enterprise scale

Build executive narratives that connect AI initiatives to enterprise priorities and strategic objectives

Establish consistent approaches for defining expected outcomes and measuring progress across AI initiatives

Ensure initiatives have clear ownership, success measures, and accountability mechanisms before execution begins

Track business outcomes, adoption, operational impact, and progress against strategic objectives across the portfolio

Own the Finance partnership for the AI portfolio and the reconciliation of inherited benefit claims, with Role 21 building the underlying baselines and audit trail

Other incidental duties

What you'll need (Required):

Bachelor's Degree in related field, with 12 years of experience of leadership experience in enterprise transformation, strategic operations, portfolio management, operating model design, PMO leadership, or technology transformation or equivalent work experience based on Edwards criteria
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- Master's Degree or equivalent in related field, with 10 years of experience of leadership experience in enterprise transformation, strategic operations, portfolio management, operating model design, PMO leadership, or…