AI Specialist

Position Title: AI Specialist Department: IT Information Security Job Description: New to OU Health? Ask your recruiter about our competitive wages and total rewards package including a sign-on bonus and possible relocation assistance if you are located outside of 100 miles! General Description: The AI Specialist is responsible for assisting with strategic AI innovation and AI Governance processes. It is a transformative role that merges business acumen, strategic insight, innovation, and technological expertise to realize the full potential of AI within OU Health. The role is focused on improving enterprise AI literacy, creating AI strategies and facilitating the evolution of AI capabilities, implementing participative operating models, and codifying governance practices that reduce risk and increase differentiating business value. Essential Responsibilities Responsibilities listed in this section are core to the position. Inability to perform these responsibilities, with or without an accommodation, may result in disqualification from the position. Attends the AI governance bodies. Evolves responsible AI policies and governance programs to address AI’s unique regulatory and compliance requirements — data usage, model explainability, fairness, and privacy — while ensuring appropriate audit controls and adherence to ethical mandates. Establishes effective collaboration between security, risk, compliance, legal, ethics, safety, and other stakeholders to rapidly adapt practices as necessary. Supports the management of the AI portfolio for AI initiatives across the organization. Establishes transparent AI portfolio evaluation and management practices to estimate, measure, and foster accountability for business value and ROI of AI initiatives. Fosters and cultivates AI literacy across the enterprise, leading transformation efforts and developing change management programs. Builds and maintains the vision for how AI will drive value aligned with strategic objectives. Fosters collaboration to develop cross-organizational and functional alignment in accordance with the enterprise AI vision. Establishes internal and external AI partnerships, building working relationships with vendors, partners, research institutes, industry associations, and other external stakeholders. Maintains an AI strategy that aligns with the company’s overarching enterprise vision, including goal setting and measuring AI initiative success / failure. Defines the operating model and delivery capabilities to engineer and operationalize AI initiatives, overseeing the execution of advanced AI products and solutions, ensuring their scalable and seamless integration across the organization. Leads the strategy and creation of AI architectures and the selection of AI platforms and technologies. General Responsibilities General Responsibilities: Performs other duties as assigned. Minimum Qualifications Education: Bachelor's Degree required. Experience: 5 years of relevant IT experience, including AI experience, required. License(s)/Certification(s)/Registration(s) Required: Certified AI Engineer (CAIE) issued by the United States Artificial Intelligence Institute (USAII), AI Foundations Certification (AIFC) issued by the AI Risk Institute, or other relevant certification in AI required. Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Understand business objectives and goals. Industry domain expertise and knowledge of AI concepts, methods, and techniques. Exceptional interpersonal and leadership skills. Strong understanding of business concepts, practices, and business-domain language to engage in problem-solving sessions and discuss business issues in stakeholder language. Able to align AI initiatives with the organization's overarching vision, strategic goals, current market circumstances, and competitor activities. This includes understanding how AI will impact business objectives beyond financial metrics. Able to articulate AI's transformative impact on current and future business objectives, including its potential to drive new business models, regenerate existing workflows, optimize operations, and deliver measurable value based on key performance indicators (KPIs). Proficient with how decision intelligence, agentic AI, and other AI practices/approaches/application areas can transform work. Able to pinpoint where AI can yield the most significant impact and competitive advantage, while also identifying relevant business risks and opportunities, including how AI can disrupt or extend existing business models. Ability to bridge communication gaps and foster cross-functional synergy to align AI initiatives seamlessly across diverse business units and functions and effectively communicating complex AI topics to various stakeholders. Familiar with regulatory requirements and relevant data protection laws and regulations, such as HIPAA. Must have a proven track record of applying and orchestrating AI throughout an organization, coordinating complex, multidisciplinary talent teams in new endeavors and delivering solutions. Be a self-starter with an entrepreneurial spirit that thrives in dynamic environments, able to build teams, execute influence strategies, and advance ideas. OU Health is an equal opportunity employer. We offer a comprehensive benefits package, including PTO, 401(k), medical and dental plans, and many more. We know that a total benefits and compensation package, designed to meet your specific needs both inside and outside of the work environment, create peace of mind for you and your family. OU Health is the state’s only comprehensive academic health system of hospitals, clinics and centers of excellence. With 11,000 employees and more than 1,300 physicians and advanced practice providers, OU Health is home to Oklahoma’s largest doctor network with a complete range of specialty care. OU Health serves Oklahoma and the region with the state’s only freestanding children’s hospital, the only National Cancer Institute-Designated OU Health Stephenson Cancer Center, Oklahoma’s flagship hospital, which serves as the state’s only Level 1 trauma center and Edmond Medical Center in the heart of the Edmond Community. Becker’s Hospital Review named University of Oklahoma Medical Center one of the 100 Great Hospitals in America for 2020. OU Health’s oncology program at OU Health Stephenson Cancer Center was named Oklahoma’s top facility for cancer care by U.S. News & World Report in its 2020-21 rankings. OU Health also was ranked by U.S. News & World Report as high performing in these specialties: Colon Surgery, COPD and Congestive Heart Failure. OU Health’s mission is to lead healthcare in patient care, education and research. Experts in prevention, treatment and cures, our team works to improve lives through innovation in medical care, education and research, while investing in the people, technologies and facilities that will enable us to achieve our goals. We are seeking individuals who have a passion and talent for caring for others. By joining our team, you will provide quality health care to our community through the work you do every day. We provide clinical and non-clinical opportunities to further your career and we invite you to explore our available positions. Equal employment opportunities are provided to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or protected veteran status in accordance with applicable federal laws. 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