# Head of AI Enablement job description template (built from 71 real postings)

Template · By Nolli research, The Nolli team · Published 2026-10-20 · Updated 2026-10-20 · Prices and features checked 2026-10-19

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**Short answer.** Copy the template below and fill the blanks. It gives a title, a one-sentence mission, five duty areas, measures of success, a reporting line, must-haves, nine interview questions and a pay section. Duties, reporting lines and pay come from public postings read in October 2026. Decide builder or change leader before you post, because the postings split.

## Key takeaways

1. Write the duties in the order the postings name them: the use case list (42 of 55 internal postings), proof of results (39), rules (36), training (33) and tools (24), and cut from the bottom.
2. Put the blanks for targets in the posting and fill them after the first 30 days, because only one internal posting in 55 states a number to hit.
3. Look up your own market before you print a range: 28 of 62 postings state pay, all in US dollars, with a median midpoint of $216,675.

You need a job description and you have a blank page. Below is one you can paste. Each duty, reporting line and pay figure in it comes from public postings, and each blank is a decision only your company can make.

We read 71 distinct postings. Ten we read closely on October 14 and 15 (what does a Head of AI Enablement do). Sixty-two we read and counted on October 16 (who is hiring a Head of AI Enablement). One, Synchrony, is in both. Counts come from the 62, the builder-or-change split from the 10. The must-haves and the questions are ours.

## The job description

Fill every [bracket]. Delete every line that starts with //. Those are notes for you, with the data behind each choice.

**Template: Head of AI Enablement: job description**

Paste into your applicant system or a doc. The // notes show where each line comes from.

```text
HEAD OF AI ENABLEMENT: JOB DESCRIPTION
// Lines that start with // are notes for you. Delete them before you post.

TITLE (pick one)
Head of AI Enablement  |  Director, AI Enablement  |  AI Enablement Lead
// 62 postings: Lead 23, Director 22, VP or SVP 11, Head of 5, Chief 1. Pick by authority and budget, not by sound.

MISSION
Make sure the AI [Company] pays for changes how [named teams] work, and prove it with before-and-after numbers.

WHAT YOU WILL OWN
1. The use case list. Keep one ranked list of where AI should go. Each row has a business owner, an expected value and a risk. Say no to most requests.
   // Named in 42 of 55 internal postings (76%).
2. Proof. Measure each workflow before the change and after it. Report to [boss] every month.
   // 39 of 55 (71%).
3. The rules. Write the one-page rule for which data goes into which AI tool, with security and legal. Decide the exceptions.
   // 36 of 55 (65%).
4. Skills and champions. Find the people who already use AI well. Make them champions on their own teams. Teach with the team's real work.
   // 33 of 55 (60%).
5. Tools and licenses. Decide which tools are approved, who gets a license, and when it is taken back.
   // 24 of 55 (44%). Cut this one first if IT already owns licenses.
You build small tools yourself. You hand production-grade work to engineering.

HOW WE WILL JUDGE THE WORK
Day 30: a baseline for [3] workflows (median time per task over [10] recent cases each).
Day 90: one pilot reported on one page. Time per task against its baseline. What you will scale, fix or retire.
Year 1: [__]% of each pilot team still working the new way after 30 days. [__] use cases in production. [__]% of paid licenses in active use.
// Fill the [__] after the baseline, not before. 1 of 55 internal postings states a number to hit.
// Logins, licenses issued and training attendance are activity. Do not use them as the result.

REPORTS TO
[One named executive]. Executive sponsor: [named executive].
// 20 of 62 postings name a boss. 14 name a technology or AI leader, 5 the CEO's office, a COO or a CHRO, 1 a manager. None names a CIO.

MUST HAVE
- Built an AI tool, automation or workflow that people kept using, and can show it.
- Has measured work before and after a change, and can explain a baseline.
- Has changed how a team works without managing that team.
- Can write a one-page data rule that security and legal will sign.

NICE TO HAVE
- Change management training. [Certification you prefer, if any.]
- Experience in [our industry].
- Has run a license review or retired a tool.
- Has run a champion network.
// No source counts requirements. These lists are ours.

WORKPLACE AND PAY
Location: [hybrid / remote / on-site].
// 40 of 62 postings state it: 26 hybrid, 8 remote, 6 on-site.
Base pay: [range, currency, city].
// Look up your own market first. The 28 postings that print pay are all in US dollars. See the pay section below.
```

## Pick the title

Lead and Director are what employers write. “Head of” is the minority. Use Lead for a single seat with a sponsor. Use Director or Head when the person gets a team or a budget.

**Titles in 62 postings, one family each**

- Lead or Leader: 23 (37%)
- Director: 22 (35%)
- VP or SVP: 11 (18%)
- Head of: 5 (8%)
- Chief: 1 (2%)

Source: Nolli research, 62 postings read October 16, 2026. Seven titles contain “Head of”; two also hold a VP title and are counted as VP., #sources

Pay steps down with the title, so the title is a pay decision.

## Why these five duties, in this order

The order is the order of how often postings name each duty. Use case list first. Without it, training goes to whatever tool someone bought. The counts cover the 55 postings for an employer’s own staff. We left out 7 roles at firms that sell AI work to customers.

**Duty areas named, by title tier (internal postings only)** (none, partly or fully)

| | VP or above (12) | Head of (4) | Director (22) | Lead (17) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Use case list | fully | fully | fully | fully |
| Proof of results | fully | fully | fully | fully |
| Rules and risk | fully | fully | fully | partly |
| Skills and champions | fully | partly | fully | partly |
| Tools and licenses | fully | fully | partly | partly |

Our counts from a term search of the duties text, in the 62-posting read. Full circle: more than half the postings in the tier name the area. Half: at least one but half or fewer. Empty: none. The “Head of” tier has 4 postings, so one posting moves a cell.

Every tier names the use case list and proof. The tiers part ways on rules, training and tools. Lead postings name rules in 7 of 17, training in 8 of 17 and tools in 5 of 17. A Lead seat is mostly a list and a scoreboard. Do not write a Lead posting that asks for all five.

## Who it reports to

Twenty of 62 postings name the boss. Seven name an AI, data or AI-strategy leader and six a CTO or technology head. Three name the CEO or the CEO’s office. A Chief AI Officer, a COO, a CHRO and a business transformation manager have one each.

We would not put the job under IT unless the job is mostly tools and licenses. Put it next to the people who decide where work changes. In the first ten, Shine places the lead in the CEO’s office under its head of business performance, and Unity Advisory splits the line between its Chief People Officer and its Chief AI Officer. Name an executive sponsor in the posting too. A seat with no authority and no sponsor produces no result.

## Pay: look up your own market first

Do not copy a number from a blog post, this one included. Take your city, your industry and your title, and look at what your competitors print and what your recruiter sees. Then print a range.

This is what the 28 postings that state pay show. All 28 are in US dollars. None of the 21 postings located outside the US prints a range, so this is US data. The other 34 postings are silent.

**Base pay ranges stated in 28 of 62 postings** (thousand USD)

- All 28: middle half: 158.25 to 317.1 (25th percentile of the 28 floors to the 75th percentile of the 28 ceilings. Median midpoint $216,675.)
- VP or SVP (n=6): 171.68 to 372.5 (Same rule. Median midpoint $247,500.)
- Director (n=12): 172.4 to 334.3 (Same rule. Median midpoint $219,775.)
- Lead (n=9): 150 to 235 (Same rule. Median midpoint $188,050.)

Source: Nolli research, 28 postings that print a range, read October 16, 2026. Quartiles by linear interpolation. “Head of” has one posting with pay and is not shown. The lowest floor is $125,000 and the highest ceiling $442,750., #sources

The spread inside one title is wide. A Director band at Navan runs $172,800 to $384,000 and counts incentive pay for some roles. Check whether a range is base or total.

## Interview questions and a five-minute screen

Screen the resume against the checklist first. Then ask the same nine questions to everyone and score each answer 1 to 5 after the call.

**Five-minute resume screen**

- [ ] Names something it built. A tool, automation or workflow, with who used it. A list of tools it “has experience with” does not count.
- [ ] Has a before-and-after number. Time per task, cycle time, errors. “Improved productivity” does not count.
- [ ] Shows a change it led without authority. A team it did not manage that now works differently.
- [ ] Shows a thing it said no to or retired. A request, a tool or a pilot, and why.
- [ ] Matches the shape you chose. A builder shows builds. A change leader shows change. Do not hire half of each.

**Template: Nine interview questions**

Ask in this order. The line under each question says what a good answer shows.

```text
NINE INTERVIEW QUESTIONS
Score each answer 1 to 5 after the call, not during it.

1. Tell me about an AI tool or workflow you built that people were still using a month later. How do you know?
   Good: a named thing, a usage number, what they dropped. Weak: launch-week numbers.

2. Pick one workflow here. How would you find out how long it takes today?
   Good: watch it or time ten recent cases. Weak: send a survey or ask the manager.

3. We have 40 requests for AI help and room for three. How do you choose?
   Good: owner, expected value, risk, a ranking, and some requests refused. Weak: first come, first served.

4. Which would you report: logins, training attendance, time per task, share still using it after 30 days?
   Good: the last two lead. Logins and attendance are diagnostics. Weak: lead with attendance.

5. An executive wants a tool bought this week. What do you do?
   Good: asks for the workflow and the baseline first, offers a small pilot. Weak: buys it or says no with no reason.

6. Describe a rule you wrote about what data goes into which AI tool. Who signed it?
   Good: one page, security and legal signed, a path for exceptions. Weak: a 40-page policy nobody read.

7. Tell me about a team you got to change how it works when you did not manage it.
   Good: started with someone already using AI, shows a result. Weak: "I ran a workshop".

8. What would you stop in your first 90 days?
   Good: names a tool or pilot to retire and the usage data that supports it. Weak: only adds things.

9. What do you build yourself, and what do you hand to engineering?
   Good: small tools yourself, production-grade work to engineers. Weak: builds everything, or builds nothing.
```

## Choose the shape: change leader or builder

The ten postings we read closely split five and five. Deepgram, J.D. Power, Shine, Unity Advisory and Spectris want someone who builds. Synchrony, Flutter, Johnson Controls, HPE and Harvard want a change, standards or service lead. Decide before you post, because the interview questions above reward one more than the other.

We would pick the builder who likes sitting with a team. The two most common duties in the 62 are the use case list (42 of 55) and proof (39). Both ask for judgment about whether a use case will work and how to time it, and a person who has built a small thing has that judgment. Training is fourth at 33. The postings do not read like a job that runs prompt workshops.

Pick the change leader if engineers already exist to take the builds, or if the seat is mostly rules (governance is named in 36 of 55). The data shows what employers ask for. It cannot show which shape works better.

## What to cut below 500 people

- Cut the tools and licenses duty if IT or finance already owns licenses. It is the least common duty, at 44%.
- Cut the team and the Director title. Use Lead. Lead has the lowest median midpoint, $188,050, and the least duty load.
- Shrink the rules duty to one page signed by whoever owns security and legal. Skip a standing council.
- Keep the use case list and proof. Every tier names both.
- Keep the executive sponsor. A small company has fewer layers, so a sponsor is easier to name and still needed.

We did not code employer size in the 62 postings, so this is our judgment from the Lead tier, not a count of small employers.

> **What this is built from, and its limits.** No new reading. Counts, tiers and pay are copied from our two earlier posts (10 and 62 public postings read October 14 to 16, 2026, one shared, so 71). They are the postings a search could find, not the market. Pay is US only. A posting says what a company hopes for, not who it hired. The must-haves, the questions and the “good answer” lines are our judgment.

## Where Nolli fits

Nolli sells to the person this posting describes, so weigh this post with that in mind. Nolli maps how each team works from the work itself, ranks use cases by hours and cost, and measures the same workflow done by people, by people with AI and by agents, on time, quality and cost per task. That covers the use case list and proof. It does not write the rules, run training or choose your tools, and it does not write or hire for this job. Your company decides data and policy questions. No public price. Request a demo. See Nolli for AI enablement teams.

## Questions people ask

**What should a Head of AI Enablement job description include?**

A title, a one-sentence mission, the duties, how the work will be judged, who the role reports to, must-haves and nice-to-haves, and a pay range. In 62 postings read in October 2026, the duties most often named were the use case list (42 of 55 internal postings), measurement (39), governance (36), training (33) and tools (24).

**What should an AI enablement lead report to?**

Twenty of 62 postings name a boss. Fourteen name a technology or AI leader, five the CEO’s office, a COO or a CHRO, and one a manager. None names a CIO. We would put the role next to the people who decide where work changes, with a named executive sponsor.

**How much should I pay a Head of AI Enablement?**

Look up your own market first. Of 62 postings, 28 print a base range, all in US dollars, with a median midpoint of $216,675. By title, the median midpoint is $247,500 for VP or SVP, $219,775 for Director and $188,050 for Lead.

**Should the title be Head of, Director or Lead?**

Employers mostly write Lead (23 of 62) or Director (22). “Head of” appears in 5 titles once VP titles are counted first. Use Lead for one seat with a sponsor, and Director or Head when the person gets a team or a budget.

**Should I hire a builder or a change leader?**

In the ten postings read closely, five want a builder and five want a change, standards or service lead. We would pick the builder, because the two most common duties are the use case list and proof. The data cannot show which shape works better.

## Sources

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- "Director, AI Enablement (job posting)." Navan, via Greenhouse, accessed October 16, 2026. https://navan.com/careers/openings/8125738?gh_jid=8125738
- "Head of AI Enablement, CEO Office (job posting)." Shine, accessed October 15, 2026. https://careers.shine.co/jobs/8334488-head-of-ai-enablement-ceo-office
- "AI Enablement Lead (job posting)." Unity Advisory, via Ashby, accessed October 14, 2026. https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/unity-advisory/34dcd76e-650a-4313-b014-94a00a223fe8
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