Leads Sony Pictures Entertainment’s enterprise AI portfolio from strategy through implementation, adoption, scaling, and value realization. Directs cross-functional AI initiatives, prioritizes investments, manages risks and dependencies, advises executives, and develops transformation roadmaps and operating models. Partners with business, technology, legal, privacy, security, and operational teams to ensure responsible AI governance, measurable outcomes, organizational adoption, and sustainable enterprise capabilities.
The Director, AI Programs and Enablement is responsible for driving execution, adoption, and value realization across Sony Pictures Entertainment's enterprise AI portfolio. Reporting to the Vice President, AI Strategy & Operations, this role serves as a key leader responsible for translating enterprise AI strategy into measurable business outcomes.The Director partners with business, technology, legal, privacy, security, and operational leaders to identify, prioritize, implement, and scale AI-enabled solutions that improve productivity, accelerate workflows, enhance decision-making, and support business transformation across SPE.This role serves as the primary operational leader for SPE's AI transformation portfolio, balancing strategic thinking with hands-on execution. The Director will lead high-priority initiatives, facilitate cross-functional collaboration, support operating model evolution, and ensure AI investments generate measurable value while aligning with operations and risk management requirements.KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Enterprise AI Portfolio Leadership
QUALIFICATIONS
Required
Enterprise AI Portfolio Leadership
- Lead execution of SPE's enterprise AI portfolio, ensuring initiatives align with strategic priorities and business objectives.
- Drive coordination across AI workstreams, maintaining clear objectives, milestones, accountability structures, and success measures.
- Facilitate portfolio prioritization and resource allocation discussions to focus investment on the highest-value opportunities.
- Identify, manage, and resolve risks, dependencies, and barriers impacting successful delivery.
- Support development of enterprise AI roadmaps and transformation plans.
- AI Transformation & Initiative Delivery
- Directly lead strategic AI initiatives, pilots, and transformation efforts from opportunity identification through implementation, adoption, and scaling.
- Partner with business leaders to identify opportunities for AI-enabled process improvement, workflow transformation, innovation, and business growth.
- Facilitate discovery workshops, opportunity assessments, business case development, solution evaluation, and implementation planning.
- Support development of future-state operating models, workflows, and organizational capabilities required for AI adoption.
- Accelerate scaling of successful pilots into sustainable enterprise capabilities.
- Business Engagement & Advisory
- Serve as a trusted advisor to business leaders on AI-enabled transformation opportunities.
- Collaborate with stakeholders across creative, production, post-production, distribution, marketing, and corporate functions.
- Support executive decision-making through structured analysis, recommendations, and strategic guidance.
- Foster alignment among diverse stakeholder groups to advance enterprise priorities.
- Operations & Responsible AI Enablement
- Partner with stakeholders to ensure AI initiatives align with legal, privacy, security, intellectual property, and responsible AI requirements.
- Support operations forums by providing portfolio insights, recommendations, and escalation of strategic decisions.
- Contribute to the development of governance frameworks, standards, policies, and operating procedures.
- Adoption & Value Realization
- Establish and maintain approaches for measuring AI adoption, business outcomes, productivity improvements, and value realization.
- Monitor initiative performance and ensure expected benefits are achieved.
- Identify opportunities to replicate and scale successful use cases across the enterprise.
- Support enterprise AI communications, change management, and enablement activities.
QUALIFICATIONS
Required
- 10+ years of experience in strategy, operations, transformation, consulting, program leadership, technology leadership, or related disciplines.
- Demonstrated success leading large-scale cross-functional transformation initiatives in complex enterprise environments.
- Strong understanding of artificial intelligence, generative AI, automation, and emerging technology trends.
- Experience driving organizational change, business transformation, and operating model evolution.
- Strong executive communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to influence across organizations without direct authority.
- Experience within media, entertainment, content production, distribution, or technology-enabled creative industries.
- Experience supporting enterprise AI, digital transformation, automation, or innovation initiatives.
- Experience working within governance-intensive environments.
- Leadership Characteristics
- Strategic thinker with strong business and operational acumen.
- Comfortable leading through ambiguity and helping define emerging operating models.
- Skilled facilitator capable of aligning diverse stakeholders around complex decisions.
- Strong consultative mindset with the ability to influence without authority.
- Results-oriented leader who balances innovation, governance, and execution.
- Demonstrated ability to drive organizational change and business transformation.
Sony Pictures Entertainment is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, or other protected characteristics.
SPE will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records in accordance with applicable law.
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Sony Pictures Entertainment Culver City, California, USA Office
10202 W Washington Blvd, Culver City, CA, United States, 90232
Sony Pictures Entertainment Los Angeles, California, USA Office
Los Angeles, United States
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