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!

As the 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 management, or change management
• Familiarity with enterprise AI tools and platforms such as Microsoft Copilot, generative AI assistants, RAG-based knowledge assistants, workflow automation
• Experience with Lean, Six Sigma, process excellence, product management, portfolio management, or change management.
• Experience partnering closely with IT, cybersecurity, legal, HR, data governance, and risk teams
• Experience supporting productivity or operational excellence initiatives in industrial automation, engineering services, manufacturing, project execution, cybersecurity services, operations, or shared services

Our Culture & Commitment to You:

ABOUT US

WHY EMERSON


Our Commitment to Our People


At Emerson, we are motivated by a spirit of collaboration that helps our diverse, multicultural teams across the world drive innovation that makes the world healthier, safer, smarter, and more sustainable. And we want you to join us in our bold aspiration.


We have built an engaged community of inquisitive, dedicated people who thrive knowing they are welcomed, trusted, celebrated, and empowered to solve the world's most complex problems - for our customers, our communities, and the planet. You'll contribute to this vital work while further developing your skills through our award-winning employee development programs. We are a proud corporate citizen in every city where we operate and are committed to our people, our communities, and the world at large. We take this responsibility seriously and strive to make a positive impact through every endeavor.

At Emerson, you'll see firsthand that our people are at the center of everything we do. So, let's go. Let's think differently. Learn, collaborate, and grow. Seek opportunity. Push boundaries. Be empowered to make things better. Speed up to break through. Let's go, together.


Work Authorization


Emerson will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States. This is not a position for which sponsorship will be provided. Individuals with temporary visas such as E, F-1(including those with OPT or CPT) , H-1, H-2, L-1, B, J or TN, or who need sponsorship for work authorization now or in the future, are not eligible for hire.


Equal Opportunity Employer


Emerson is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, color, religion, national origin, age, marital status, political affiliation, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, disability or protected veteran status. We are committed to providing a workplace free of any discrimination or harassment.


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ABOUT EMERSON

Emerson is a global leader in automation technology and software. Through our deep domain expertise and legacy of flawless execution, Emerson helps customers in critical industries like life sciences, energy, power and renewables, chemical and advanced factory automation operate more sustainably while improving productivity, energy security and reliability.


With global operations and a comprehensive portfolio of software and technology, we are helping companies implement digital transformation to measurably improve their operations, conserve valuable resources and enhance their safety.

We offer equitable opportunities, celebrate diversity, and embrace challenges with confidence that, together, we can make an impact across a broad spectrum of countries and industries. Whether you're an established professional looking for a career change, an undergraduate student exploring possibilities, or a recent graduate with an advanced degree, you'll find your chance to make a difference with Emerson. Join our team - let's go!


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