Sr Dir, Enterprise AI Adoption & Transformation

Sr Dir, Enterprise AI Adoption & Transformation Job Description: Collaborate with Innovative 3Mers Around the World Choosing where to start and grow your career has a major impact on your professional and personal life, so it’s equally important you know that the company that you choose to work at, and its leaders, will support and guide you. With a wide variety of people, global locations, technologies and products, 3M is a place where you can collaborate with other curious, creative 3Mers. This position provides an opportunity to transition from other private, public, government or military experience to a 3M career. The Impact You Will Make in this Role 3M is accelerating the adoption of generative AI and agentic technologies to transform how employees access knowledge, make decisions, automate work, and create business value. The Senior Director, Enterprise AI Adoption and Transformation will lead enterprise-wide adoption of Amazon Quick and related generative AI capabilities across 3M. This role serves as a senior product leader, enterprise evangelist, and transformation catalyst for AI adoption. The successful candidate will partner across business functions, technology, data, cybersecurity, legal, privacy, and executive leadership to identify high-value use cases, move solutions from pilot to production, establish repeatable adoption patterns, and deliver measurable business outcomes. This is a business-led technology transformation role, not primarily an infrastructure or cloud engineering position. The ideal candidate combines strong knowledge of generative AI and agentic technologies with enterprise product management, organizational change leadership, executive communication, and value realization discipline. Primary Responsibilities Develop and execute the enterprise adoption strategy for generative AI capabilities across the company. Serve as the enterprise product leader for the AI employee experience, including roadmap, use case prioritization, adoption strategy, and value delivery. Partner with leaders across R&D, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Commercial, Finance, Legal, Human Resources, Global Business Services, and other functions to identify and prioritize high-impact AI opportunities. Translate business challenges into scalable AI products, workflows, agents, knowledge experiences, and automation solutions. Align to a structured process for AI use case intake, prioritization, incubation, governance, scaling, and ongoing adoption. Lead executive demonstrations, business workshops, roadshows, innovation sessions, and AI showcases to build awareness and demand. Build and activate a community of AI champions and power users across 3M. Collaborate with AI platform engineering, enterprise architecture, cybersecurity, data, cloud, privacy, and compliance teams to enable secure and scalable solutions. Support integration of AI capabilities with enterprise systems and data sources. Influence the enterprise AI platform roadmap based on business needs, adoption barriers, user feedback, and value opportunities. Define success measures and executive reporting for adoption, active usage, productivity improvement, cycle time reduction, employee experience, risk, and financial impact. Partner with business leaders to validate realized benefits and continuously prioritize investments toward the highest-value use cases. Leadership Attributes Passionate advocate for practical, business-focused enterprise AI. Technically credible while remaining highly focused on business outcomes and user adoption. Able to simplify complex technologies for executives, business leaders, and employees. Strong product mindset with focus on user experience, scalability, and measurable impact. Comfortable operating in ambiguity and shaping strategy in a rapidly evolving technology area. Pragmatic, curious, and willing to challenge traditional ways of working. Able to move quickly from idea to experimentation to scaled deployment. Commercially minded and focused on value realization, not technology deployment alone. Your Skills and Expertise To set you up for success in this role from day one, 3M requires (at a minimum) the following qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in technology field (completed and verified prior to start) Twelve (12) years of experience in technology, digital transformation, product management, enterprise innovation, or related fields in a private, public, government or military environment Additional qualifications that could help you succeed even further in this role include: Significant experience in technology, digital transformation, product management, enterprise innovation Experience leading enterprise-scale technology, AI, machine learning, intelligent automation, digital workplace, or transformation initiatives. Experience deploying technology platforms or digital capabilities across large, complex organizations. Experience working with senior executives and cross-functional business leaders. Demonstrated experience moving AI or digital solutions from concept and pilot through production deployment and scaled enterprise adoption. Strong understanding of generative AI concepts, including large language models, retrieval augmented generation, AI agents, enterprise search, knowledge management, model evaluation, context management, and prompt engineering. Experience with AWS AI technologies, including Amazon Quick, Amazon Q, Amazon Bedrock, or related AWS services. Experience with enterprise AI platforms such as Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT Enterprise, Glean, Google Gemini, Salesforce Agentforce, or ServiceNow AI. Strong understanding of enterprise applications and data environments, including SAP, Microsoft 365, ServiceNow, Salesforce, cloud data platforms, APIs, and structured and unstructured enterprise information. Knowledge of cybersecurity, identity and access management, information governance, privacy, responsible AI, and enterprise risk controls. Proven ability to influence across organizational boundaries without direct authority. Strong executive communication, storytelling, facilitation, and presentation skills. Demonstrated ability to build coalitions across business, technology, data, cybersecurity, and corporate functions. Work location: On site in Maplewood, MN or US-Remotely Based Travel: May include up to 10% domestic and international Relocation Assistance: Is Authorized Must be legally authorized to work in country of employment without sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g., H1B status). Supporting Your Well-being 3M offers many programs to help you live your best life – both physically and financially. To ensure competitive pay and benefits, 3M regularly benchmarks with other companies that are comparable in size and scope. Additional information is available at: All US-based 3M full time employees will need to sign an employee agreement as a condition of employment with 3M. This agreement lays out key terms on using 3M Confidential Information and Trade Secrets. It also has provisions discussing conflicts of interest and how inventions are assigned. Employees that are Job Grade 7 or equivalent and above may also have obligations to not compete against 3M or solicit its employees or customers, both during their employment, and for a period after they leave 3M. Learn more about 3M’s creative solutions to the world’s problems at or on Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn @3M. Responsibilities of this position include that corporate policies, procedures and security standards are complied with while performing assigned duties. Safety is a core value at 3M. All employees are expected to contribute to a strong Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) culture by following safety policies, identifying hazards, and engaging in continuous improvement. Pay & Benefits Overview: does not discriminate in hiring or employment on the basis of race, color, sex, national origin, religion, age, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. Chat with Max For assistance with searching through our current job openings or for more information about all things 3M, visit Max, our virtual recruiting assistant on 3M.com/careers Terms of Use and Privacy Statement Please click on the following links and select the country where you are applying for employment to review the applicable Terms of Use (link here) and Privacy Policy (link here). Before submitting your application, you will be asked to confirm your agreement with the terms. Applicable to US Applicants Only:The expected compensation range for this position is $287,281 - $351,122, which includes base pay plus variable incentive pay, if eligible. This range represents a good faith estimate for this position. The specific compensation offered to a candidate may vary based on factors including, but not limited to, the candidate’s relevant knowledge, training, skills, work location, and/or experience. In addition, this position may be eligible for a range of benefits (e.g., Medical, Dental & Vision, Health Savings Accounts, Health Care & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts, Disability Benefits, Life Insurance, Voluntary Benefits, Paid Absences and Retirement Benefits, etc.). Additional information is available at: #J-18808-Ljbffr National Black MBA Association