[Hiring] AI Enablement Manager @Franciscan Health

Role Description

The AI Enablement Manager leads the coordination, execution, and oversight of the organization's AI initiatives to ensure safe, compliant, and value‑driven adoption of artificial intelligence across clinical, research, operational, and enterprise domains. This role operationalizes AI governance framework, manages the AI initiative portfolio, and ensures alignment with regulatory requirements, organizational priorities, and risk‑management standards. This function drives the structured intake, review, monitoring, reporting, and lifecycle‑management processes to support responsible and scalable AI deployment.

Serving as a central connector across Franciscan Alliance, this role partners with clinical, technical, legal, compliance, security, and operational teams to ensure AI solutions are evaluated, implemented, and monitored consistently and transparently. In addition, the AI Enablement Manager champions AI literacy, promotes responsible‑use practices, and supports change‑management efforts to help Franciscan Alliance adopt AI safely and effectively. This role plays a critical part in maturing the organization's AI operating model, enabling innovation while safeguarding patient safety, data integrity, and organizational trust, while supporting the AI governance council and steering committees in fulfillment of charter responsibilities.

Qualifications

• Required: Bachelor's Degree in Business, Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Public Health, or related field
• Preferred: Master's Degree in Business, Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Public Health, or related field
• 8 years of program management in data governance, analytics, information services, or related field
• Required: 5 years of setting up and scaling program, governance or oversight processes across a maturing data and/or AI portfolio
• Required: 2 years of measuring and reporting AI performance, safety, value, and risk across the AI lifecycle
• Preferred: 2 years of managing AI, analytics, or model-based systems in healthcare or other regulated industries
• Preferred: 1 year of utilizing healthcare AI governance frameworks and regulatory standards (e.g., NIST, ISO, FDA, HIPAA)

Requirements

• Demonstrated expertise in data governance frameworks, data quality principles, data privacy regulations, and AI ethics
• Strong program/portfolio management experience in IT healthcare
• Proven ability to collaboratively design and facilitate governance frameworks and operational structures from the ground up

What You Can Expect

• Coordinate cross-functional review and assessment of AI driven solutions across clinical, operational, technical, compliance, privacy, legal, and security teams
• Lead execution of the enterprise AI governance framework and oversee end-to-end AI lifecycle management
• Monitor evolving AI regulations and industry best practices; translate requirements into program and control enhancements
• Manage the centralized AI governance program supporting AI governance council, Clinical/Business AI steering committees, and overall executive oversight
• Ensure AI initiatives include documented use cases, architecture reviews, risk assessments, data lineage, bias evaluation, and control frameworks
• Facilitate enterprise-wide stakeholder collaboration and governance alignment, working with committee co-chairs and senior leaders across IS and operations
• Maintain the enterprise AI inventory with full traceability, documentation standards, model metadata, and audit readiness
• Define technical governance controls including model validation standards, monitoring requirements, performance thresholds, and change management protocols
• Lead working sessions with business and technical teams to clarify requirements and ensure alignment
• Oversee implementation of model monitoring, drift detection, incident response processes, and remediation tracking
• Provide executive reporting on AI risk posture, safety, adoption, performance, and enterprise impact
• Provide clear technical and governance guidance on lifecycle expectations, documentation standards, and risk controls
• Create and update AI policies, standards, and acceptable‑use guidelines
• Lead enablement programs, training, and communication to help teams understand AI policies, risks, and best practices

Travel Requirements

• Never or Rarely

Job Range

• AI Enablement Manager: $108,638.40 - $149,385.60

Incentive

• EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER