Senior Director, AI Enablement

Job Description

Job Description

Datavant is the data collaboration platform trusted for healthcare. Guided by our mission to make the world's health data secure, accessible and actionable, we provide critical data solutions for organizations across the healthcare ecosystem - including providers, health plans, researchers, and life sciences companies. From fulfilling a single patient's request for their medical records to powering the AI revolution in healthcare, Datavanters are building the future of how data is connected and used to improve health.

By joining Datavant today, you're stepping onto a driven and highly collaborative team that is passionate about creating transformative change in healthcare.

What We're Looking For

We are looking for a Senior Director of AI Enablement to lead how AI is adopted, embedded, scaled, and governed — both within our product and across our internal teams. This is a dual-facing role: you'll work closely with Product and Engineering to bring AI capabilities to our Product Development teams, while simultaneously driving internal workforce adoption so our own teams lead by example.

This role is ideal for someone who thrives at the intersection of product strategy, organizational change, and AI — and who can move fluidly between a roadmap conversation with a CPO and a training workshop with an internal corporate team.

What You Will Do

Internal AI Adoption & Change Management

• Build and execute a company-wide AI adoption strategy that drives meaningful, measurable behavior change across product, engineering, and G&A functions.
• Design role-based enablement programs — from AI fundamentals for non-technical teams to advanced workflows for engineers and product managers.
• Stand up and scale an internal AI Champions network embedded across departments to sustain momentum and surface adoption blockers.
• Create communication strategies that demystify AI, build trust, and foster a culture of experimentation and continuous learning.
• Develop and track adoption metrics, workforce readiness scores, and program ROI (AI-Value Metrics) to report progress to executive leadership.

Governance & Responsible AI

• Define internal AI usage policies, acceptable use guidelines, and governance frameworks that balance innovation with risk management.
• Partner with Legal, Security, and Compliance to assess AI tools and use cases — ensuring data privacy and vendor risk standards are met.
• Advocate for ethical, transparent, and inclusive AI practices both internally and in customer-facing product decisions.
• Stay ahead of evolving AI regulation (EU AI Act, US executive guidance, etc.) and translate implications into policy and practice.

Team & Stakeholder Leadership

• Build and lead a team of AI enablement professionals — including program managers, instructional designers, and AI solution specialists.
• Influence senior stakeholders across a fast-moving, matrixed SaaS organization without always having direct authority.
• Represent AI Enablement at the executive level, contributing to company-wide AI strategy conversations and board updates.
• Partner with Finance to both track and forecast AI Spend and tracking that spend to AI-Value.
• Partner with People/HR and L&D to integrate AI fluency into hiring profiles, onboarding, and performance frameworks.

What You Need to Succeed

• 10-12+ years in SaaS, technology, or enterprise software, with significant experience in product management, digital transformation, or technology enablement.
• 3–5 years directly leading AI adoption and automation, AI product strategy, or large-scale change management programs in a SaaS environment.
• Hands-on experience with AI platforms such as OpenAI and Anthropic
• Strong working knowledge of the modern AI/GenAI landscape — LLMs, copilots, AI-native SaaS tools, MCPs/APIs — with the ability to engage credibly with both engineering and business audiences.
• Proven expertise in change management methodologies and the ability to drive adoption across a diverse, distributed workforce.
• Excellent communication and executive presence; a natural storyteller who can make AI accessible and compelling to any audience.
• Demonstrated success building and leading high-performing teams.

What Helps You Stand Out

• Strong understanding of ideal use cases for various AI platforms such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Vertex, Microsoft Copilot, or similar.
• Experience working with enterprise customers on technology adoption or digital transformation.

Why This Role

• You'll help shape how a modern SaaS company builds, ships, and lives AI — inside and out.
• Greenfield opportunity to define the function, the team, and the company's AI enablement playbook.
• Direct influence on both product strategy and company culture at a critical inflection point.
• Competitive compensation, equity participation, and a high-growth environment where this work is treated as a strategic priority — not a side project.

We are committed to building a diverse team of Datavanters who are all responsible for stewarding a high-performance culture in which all Datavanters belong and thrive. We are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other legally protected status.

At Datavant our total rewards strategy powers a high-growth, high-performance, health technology company that rewards our employees for transforming health care through creating industry-defining data logistics products and services.

The range posted is for a given job title, which can include multiple levels. Individual rates for the same job title may differ based on their level, responsibilities, skills, and experience for a specific job.

The estimated total cash compensation range for this role is:

$227,000—$280,000 USD

To ensure the safety of patients and staff, many of our clients require post-offer health screenings and proof and/or completion of various vaccinations such as the flu shot, Tdap, COVID-19, etc. Any requests to be exempted from these requirements will be reviewed by Datavant Human Resources and determined on a case-by-case basis. Depending on the state in which you will be working, exemptions may be available on the basis of disability, medical contraindications to the vaccine or any of its components, pregnancy or pregnancy-related medical conditions, and/or religion.

This job is not eligible for employment sponsorship.

Datavant is committed to a work environment free from job discrimination. We are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other legally protected status. To learn more about our commitment, please review our EEO Commitment Statement here. Know Your Rights, explore the resources available through the EEOC for more information regarding your legal rights and protections. In addition, Datavant does not and will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay.

At the end of this application, you will find a set of voluntary demographic questions. If you choose to respond, your answers will be anonymous and will help us identify areas for improvement in our recruitment process. (We can only see aggregate responses, not individual ones. In fact, we aren't even able to see whether you've responded.) Responding is entirely optional and will not affect your application or hiring process in any way.

Datavant is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with physical and mental disabilities. If you need an accommodation while seeking employment, please request it here, by selecting the 'Interview Accommodation Request' category. You will need your requisition ID when submitting your request, you can find instructions for locating it here. Requests for reasonable accommodations will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis.

For more information about how we collect and use your data, please review our Privacy Policy.