AI Academy Program Lead

** Company Overview*
* Bridgestone Americas, Inc. (BSAM), headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, and Bridgestone Europe, Middle East and Africa (BSEMEA), headquartered in Brussels, Belgium, operate collectively as a "Bridgestone West" strategic region. This region services the strategic business needs of teams across the Americas, Europe, Middle East and Africa. BSAM and BSEMEA are subsidiaries of Bridgestone Corporation, globally headquartered in Japan. Bridgestone and its subsidiaries develop, manufacture and market a wide range of Bridgestone, Firestone and associate brand products and solutions to address the needs of a broad range of customers and industries.

** Job Category*
* HR

** Position Summary*
* The AI Academy Program Lead will build and lead an enterprise AI learning strategy that develops an AI-fluent workforce across the organization.  This role is responsible for designing, launching, and continuously improving a scalable AI literacy program that enables teammates to confidently, responsibility, and ethically integrate artificial intelligence into daily work.  The role will help transform the workforce into a competitive engine of innovation, speed, and precision by combining practical enablement, strong governance alignment, and measurable business impact.

** Responsibilities*
* + Define and lead the enterprise AI literacy and AI academy strategy aligned to business priorities, workforce needs, and responsible AI principles

+ Build a multi-level AI learning curriculum for broad employee populations people leaders, functional teams, and specialized power users

+ Develop learning pathways covering foundational AI concepts, prompt writing, use-case identification, workflow redesign, responsible AI, data privacy, security, governance, and change adoption

+ Partner with business leaders, HR, Legal, Compliance, IT, Information Security, Data & AI, and Communications to ensure training content is practical, compliant, and aligned to enterprise standards

+ Create and manage an AI academy operational model, including course catalog, learning journeys, certification/badging, office hours, communities of practice, and train-the-trainer programs

+ Translate complex AI concepts into simple, engaging, business-relevant learning experiences for technical and non-technical audiences

+ Identify high-value use cases and embed role-based enablement that helps teams apply AI tools in daily operations

+ Establish standards for responsible and ethical AI usage, including guidance on human oversight, bias awareness, privacy, security, intellectual property, and acceptable use

+ Drive adoption of approved AI tools by creating practical playbooks, templates, examples, and internal communications

+ Measure program effectiveness through participation, proficiency, adoption, behavior change, productivity gains, and business outcomes

+ Monitor external AI trends, learning practices, and emerging risks to keep curriculum current and relevant

+ Build executive-facing updates, dashboards, and recommendations that communicate progress, risks, and opportunities

+ Lear or support pilots, workshops, and capability-building sessions that accelerate AI maturity across functions

** Preferred Qualifications*
* + Master's degree in a relevant field

+ Experience launching AI enablement, digital upskilling, or enterprise academy programs

+ Familarity with adult learning principles, instructional design, and learning technologies/LMS platforms

+ Experience in a large, matrixed organization

+ Experience creating role-based learning journeys and measurable capability frameworks

+ Revelant certifications in AI, learning design, change management, or project/program management

** Success Measures*
* + Increased AI literacy across teammate populations

+ Higher adoption of approved AI tools and workflows

+ Improved teamamtes' confidence in using AI responsibility

+ Measurable productivity, quality, or cycle-time improvement tied to AI-enabled work

+ Strong alignment with governance, privacy, security, and compliance requirements

+ Positive learner feedback and sustained engagement with the AI academy

** Minimum Qualifications*
* + Bachelor's degree in…