Head AI Strategy & Governance

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Here’s just some of what you can look forward to:

• 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.

Job Summary:

The Sr Director of AI Strategy & Governance will lead the organization’s efforts to mature how AI will be used, governed, and adopted across all business functions. Reporting directly to the CIDO, you will shape enterprise AI strategy, lead governance through the AI Council, drive organizational adoption, and manage the central hub for information on AI projects, tools, and resources.

In addition to setting direction and driving adoption, you are expected to champion operational excellence in delivery—ensuring AI initiatives are executed efficiently and deliver measurable value. This includes centralizing delivery standards, formalizing feedback loops between pilots and scaled deployments, and helping teams focus resources on the highest‑impact opportunities, particularly in a tight‑margin environment.

Key Responsibilities:

AI Strategy and Roadmap

• Define and document the enterprise AI strategy and roadmap in a structured, shareable format (e.g., playbooks, frameworks, roadmaps) and keep it updated as the landscape evolves, including:
  • Updated guiding principles and responsible AI standards that set expectations for how AI will be used across the organization.
  • A refined operating model, including roles, governance structures, intake processes, resource prioritization, and ROI measurement.
  • A talent and skills plan to ensure the workforce is prepared for AI adoption.
  • A communication and change management plan to drive awareness, understanding, and adoption.
  • Opportunities for agentic AI across business functions, where autonomous or semi-autonomous agents could improve efficiency or unlock new capabilities.
  • Priority use cases, required capabilities (e.g., data, platforms, skills), and sequencing of initiatives that focus on high‑value, practical use cases and avoid over investment in speculative efforts.
• Translate strategic direction into practical, time-bound plans with clear objectives, responsibilities, and measures of success.
• Leads the enterprise AI strategy, governance, and adoption.
• Expected to define the team responsibilities and support the scaling of AI capabilities across the enterprise.

AI Council Leadership

• Serve as the operational lead for the AI Council, ensuring meetings are well-structured, decisions are documented, and actions are followed through.
• Track and report on Council decisions, priorities, and progress.
• Establish clear intake, review, and approval processes for AI use cases by the AI Council.
• Assist in the identification and assessment of AI opportunities across business functions, helping the AI Council prioritize investments based on value, feasibility, and readiness.

Cross-Functional…