[Hiring] Director, Engineering, Applied AI @McGraw Hill LLC.

Role Description

At McGraw Hill, our mission is to unlock the full potential of every learner. This role puts you at the center of that mission, applying cutting-edge AI to products used by millions of students and educators. We're looking for a Director, AI Enablement to build and lead the team responsible for making our company AI native. This is a senior leadership role with singular ownership of AI enablement across the organization, spanning three pillars: business workflow enablement, data enablement, and developer enablement.

You will report to the VP of Applied AI Engineering and will be accountable for adoption, best practices, governance, cost, and ROI across every business and technology AI transformation we undertake. This role is not about running a single project or a single pillar. It's about building the function, the team, and the operating model that turns AI from a set of scattered tools into a core capability that every part of the business, and every engineering team, relies on.

You will set the strategy across all three pillars, lead the group and personally represent AI enablement to executive leadership, while staying close enough to the work to know where it's succeeding and where it's stalling. We are looking for a hands-on practitioner on enterprise GenAI tools like M365 Copilot, Claude and coding assistants like Github Copilot, Claude Code; someone who can operate at both altitudes: deep in the technology and equally comfortable in executive presence.

This is a remote position open to applicants authorized to work for any employer within the United States.

Qualifications

• A senior leader with a software engineering background.
• An expert-level user of AI tools.
• Experience leading a team focused on technology adoption, enablement, platform strategy, or a similar cross-functional focus.
• A track record of driving org-wide change.
• Comfortable owning governance, cost, and ROI conversations.
• Strong executive presence and communication skills.
• Prior experience participating in or leading an AI transformation initiative is highly preferred.

Requirements

• Build, lead, and grow the AI Enablement team across all three pillars.
• Set the strategy, priorities, and operating model for AI adoption.
• Partner closely with the team's Solution Architect.
• Hire, coach, and develop a fast-moving team.
• Represent AI enablement to executive leadership.
• Own the company's overall approach to AI adoption.
• Establish governance for AI tools evaluation and usage.
• Define best practices for efficient use of enterprise AI tools.
• Build mechanisms for ongoing AI fluency growth.
• Own the cost model and help set the budget for AI tools.
• Define how AI ROI gets measured across the company.
• Prioritize the AI enablement portfolio based on business impact.
• Continuously reassess priorities as tools and business needs evolve.

Benefits

• The pay range for this position is between $175,000 - $220,000 annually.
• Base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and location.
• An annual bonus plan may be provided as part of the compensation package.
• A full range of medical and/or other benefits, depending on the position offered.