Lead AI Development

Why You’ll Love Working at BJ’s

At BJ’s Wholesale Club, our team members are at the heart of everything we do. That’s why we offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your health, well‑being and future – both on and off the job. When you grow, we grow.

• Weekly Pay:
  Get paid every week so that you can manage your money on your terms.
• Free BJ’s Memberships:
  Enjoy a complimentary The Club Card Membership, plus a free Supplemental Membership for someone in your household.
• Generous Paid Time Off:
  Take the time you need with vacation, personal, sick days, holidays, bereavement, and jury duty leave.
• Flexible and Affordable
  
  Health Benefits:
  
  Choose from three medical plans, and access optional dental, vision, Health Savings Account (HSA), and flexible spending account options to fit your lifestyle.
• 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan:
  Build your financial future with a company match (available to team members 18 and older).
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan:
  Accumulate funds through after‑tax payroll deductions that can be used to purchase shares of BJ’s common stock at a 15% discount.
• Eligibility requirements vary by position.

The AI Opportunity Development Lead plays a critical role in ensuring BJ’s AI initiatives are grounded in real business impact and executed with disciplined prioritization. Reporting to the Director of AI Strategy & Governance, this role works closely with business leaders, product managers, data teams, and AI/ML engineers to translate operational opportunities into well‑defined AI initiatives with clear business value.

You will help shape AI opportunities across merchandising, supply chain, club operations, digital experience, and corporate functions. Your focus will be on identifying high‑value use cases, developing practical business cases, structuring pilot program objectives, and ensuring initiatives are measured against clear success metrics. This role sits within the centralized AI Strategy & Enablement function and acts as a bridge between business domains and technology teams.

The function does not directly build or operate AI solutions; instead, it helps ensure AI investments are aligned with enterprise strategy, coordinated across domains, and developed in partnership with the teams responsible for delivery. This role succeeds through influence and facilitation—it carries no direct delivery authority over engineering or product teams.

The ideal candidate combines strong strategic thinking with practical familiarity with modern AI capabilities (including machine learning, generative AI, and emerging agent‑based workflows), allowing them to assess where AI can meaningfully improve business outcomes.

AI Opportunity Identification and Evaluation

• Partner with AI Champions across merchandising, supply chain, clubs, digital, and corporate functions to identify AI opportunities that improve growth, margin performance, operational precision, and member experience.
• Evaluate potential use cases with a practical understanding of AI capabilities (including machine learning, generative AI, and agentic workflows) and assess where AI is the right solution versus traditional analytics or process improvement.
• Facilitate structured discovery sessions with appropriate business and product teams to help teams clarify problems, define hypotheses, determine data readiness, and connect related initiatives across departments.
• Stay current on AI technologies and industry applications, translating emerging capabilities into practical opportunities for BJ's business functions.

Business Case Development, Prioritization, and Value Realization

• Develop disciplined business cases for AI initiatives, including expected value, feasibility, implementation effort, and operational readiness.
• Work with business and finance partners to estimate potential impact on revenue, margin, productivity, or cost reduction.
• Define and track metrics that measure business impact, and support enterprise reporting on AI initiative progress and value realization.

Pilot Design and Experimentation

• Support business and technology teams in structuring proofs of concept and pilot objectives that validate…