Director, AI Productivity Strategy & Governance

If you are a professional with experience utilizing AI to optimize productivity strategy Iooking for an opportunity to grow your career, Emerson has an exciting opportunity for you!

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** Director of AI Productivity Strategy & Governance** , you will lead the strategy, prioritization, governance, and adoption of AI‑enabled productivity initiatives, partnering closely with the executive owner of AI Productivity and Operations Performance to translate business priorities into a disciplined, responsible, and value‑driven AI productivity portfolio. This role serves as a central connector across business, technology, and risk partners to ensure AI productivity initiatives move from idea to adoption in a scalable, secure, and measurable way.

** In This Role, Your Responsibilities Will Be:*
* + Partner with senior and executive leadership to define the AI productivity vision, strategy, and multi‑year roadmap aligned to business priorities.

+ Translate organizational objectives into a structured portfolio of AI use cases focused on productivity improvement, operational efficiency, decision‑making, and business value.

+ Establish and lead a centralized AI productivity intake, prioritization, and portfolio management process, ensuring clarity of sponsorship, success metrics, and benefits realization.

+ Design, implement, and maintain AI governance and Responsible AI frameworks, embedding principles such as privacy, security, transparency, fairness, human oversight, and audit readiness.

+ Collaborate across business units, IT, data, cybersecurity, legal, compliance, finance, and HR to move AI initiatives from discovery through pilot, production, adoption, and value realization.

+ Lead development of business cases, ROI models, and benefit tracking to measure productivity gains, financial impact, and risk mitigation.

+ Build and execute AI adoption and change management strategies, including communication plans, training, playbooks, and enablement resources that support sustainable adoption.

+ Monitor emerging AI trends, tools, and best practices to inform strategy and continuously improve the AI productivity portfolio.

+ Facilitate AI steering committees, governance forums, and portfolio reviews, escalating risks, dependencies, and key decisions as needed.

+ Build and lead a team responsible for AI productivity governance support, adoption enablement, portfolio tracking, and value realization.

** Who You Are:*
* You effectively navigate complexity, turning ambiguity into clear priorities and actionable plans. You build strong partnerships across functions and levels, collaborating with others to align diverse perspectives and achieve shared goals. You consistently drive results by setting clear outcomes, communicating with clarity, and adapting your approach as conditions evolve.

** For This Role, You Will Need:*
* + Bachelor's degree in business, operations, engineering, information systems, data analytics, computer science, or a related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience

+ Minimum of 8 years' experience with operations, strategy, transformation, process improvement, digital enablement, analytics, portfolio management, or technology adoption

+ Minimum of 2 years' experience working with AI, GenAI, automation, analytics, or digital productivity tools

+ Experience leading cross-functional initiatives and strategy, transformation, portfolio management, or productivity initiatives in a complex or matrixed organization

+ Demonstrated ability to establish governance frameworks, operating models, roadmaps, and executive‑level reporting

+ Strong understanding of AI productivity use cases such as copilots, knowledge assistants, workflow automation, document generation, reporting automation, and decision support

+ Experience driving adoption, change management, training, or process redesign to support new ways of working

+ Strong communication skills with the ability to translate technical topics into business‑relevant language

** Preferred Qualifications That Set You Apart:*
* + Master's in business administration (MBA), Master's degree, or relevant certification in AI, data automation, project…