Who is hiring a Head of AI Enablement? What 62 public job postings show
We read 62 public AI enablement and AI transformation job postings: titles, industries, pay, reporting lines, duties and how many state a number to hit.
Key finding
Few employers use the title. Of 62 public postings read on October 16, 2026, 7 say “Head of”, 23 say Lead and 22 say Director. Financial services posted the most (18). Pay is stated in 28, with a median midpoint of $216,675. A boss is named in 20. Only 1 in 8 internal postings leads its duties with training or adoption.
On this page
- Sample
- 62 public postings from 61 employers, read October 16, 2026
- State pay
- 28 of 62, median midpoint $216,675
- Use the title “Head of”
- 7 of 62
Key takeaways
- Only 7 of 62 titles say “Head of”; Lead (23) and Director (22) are the working titles, and financial services (18), software (13) and media (9) post the job most.
- Pay is printed in 28 of 62 postings, all in US dollars, and in none of the 21 postings located outside the US; the median midpoint is $216,675.
- Of the 55 postings for an employer’s own staff, 29 lead their duties with strategy or a roadmap, 7 lead with adoption or training, and one states a number to hit.
“Head of AI Enablement” is the phrase people search. Read the whole field and the title nearly disappears. Among 62 public postings for AI enablement and AI transformation leaders, 7 titles say “Head of”. Twenty-three say Lead and 22 say Director.
We wrote this to answer the questions a buyer, a recruiter or a candidate asks first. Who posts the job, what it pays, who it answers to, what it is asked to do, and whether anyone writes down a number to hit. It extends our earlier read of ten postings, which was careful and small. This one is wider and cruder, and where the two disagree we say so.
How we read them
We started from a list of 108 postings that Nolli collected with the Exa search API on October 4, 2026. We read every title and kept the 46 that name AI enablement, AI transformation, AI adoption or an AI center of excellence at head, director, VP or lead level. We dropped 62: engineering and data science roles, program managers, forward deployed engineers, chief AI officers and generic “Head of AI” seats. On October 16 we ran five fresh Exa searches so the sample would not be only the October 4 list: “Head of AI Enablement”, “AI Enablement Lead”, “VP AI Enablement”, “AI Transformation Lead” and “Director of AI Adoption and Enablement”.
| Step | Postings | What happened |
|---|---|---|
| October 4 list, title read | 108 | 46 kept, 62 dropped on title |
| October 16 searches, five queries | 75 | 27 kept because they sit on the employer’s own page or its applicant tracking system; 48 skipped (job aggregators, LinkedIn copies, duplicates, a 2014 page, postings already in our earlier post) |
| Fetched as text | 73 | 46 from the list plus 27 from the searches |
| No usable posting text | 11 | 5 pages showed no posting (removed, or only a job list); 3 returned nothing; 2 gave only a title and city or an application form; 1 was a general careers page |
| Read and counted | 62 | 39 from the October 4 list and 23 from the searches, at 61 employers |
| Of those, for the employer’s own staff | 55 | 7 are roles at consulting firms and AI software vendors that sell AI work to customers |
This is a sample of what Exa could find, and it is biased in ways we can name. We skipped LinkedIn and job-board copies, so a posting that exists only there is missing. Roles with a different title, such as “AI Champion”, “AI Adoption Manager” or “Head of AI Strategy”, are out by our own title rule. Nothing here counts roles that are never posted. It is a sample of postings, not of the market.
Posted dates appear in the text of 44 of the 62. They run from March 31 to October 13, 2026, and 38 of the 44 are dated August 1 or later. We read the text through Exa on October 16, which can return a recent cached copy, so we then checked each page. Five had been taken down since we read them. Twenty-three were open on the employer’s Workday record. Twenty-two others loaded with the full text, one of which says it takes applications “at least until” October 2. Twelve Workday pages blocked our check, so we cannot say whether they are open. Two Workday records carried a different title from the text we read, and we kept the title as read.
| Field | How we recorded it | n of 62 |
|---|---|---|
| Title | The title text in the posting. One family per title, by this order: Chief, VP (including SVP), Head of, Director, Lead (including Leader). | 62 |
| Employer industry | From the employer’s description in the posting, or its name when the posting is silent. We sorted employers into 8 groups. The grouping is ours. | 62 |
| Role type | For the employer’s own staff, or client-facing (a consulting firm or software vendor selling AI work to customers). Read from the duties. | 62 (55 and 7) |
| Pay | The base range as printed, in US dollars. Where a posting lists several city bands, the band for its stated city, else the lowest band. | 28 |
| Workplace | Remote, hybrid or on-site, only where the posting says so for the role. | 40 |
| Reports to | Only where the posting names the boss. | 20 |
| First-listed duty | The first bullet or sentence of the duties, sorted by hand into six classes. | 55 (internal) |
| Duty areas | A term search of the duties text, then the sentence behind each single-term match was read. Terms: train, champions, AI literacy (training); governance, policies, compliance, risk (governance); use case, intake, backlog (use case pipeline); KPI, metrics, ROI, business case, value realization (measurement); vendor, procure, Copilot, ChatGPT (tools). We removed 13 matches by hand. | 55 (internal) |
| Number to hit | Any number or multiple attached to a target for the role, found by scanning the full text. | 62 |
| Status on October 16 | HTTP check and, for Workday, the public job record. | 62 |
What the titles say
Lead and Director are the working titles, and “Head of” is the minority. Each title is counted once, under the highest family it contains.
Seven titles contain “Head of”. Two of them also hold a VP title, such as “VP, Head of AI Enablement”, and we count those under VP. On the topic word, 36 titles use “Enablement” and 24 use “Transformation”, one uses both, and 3 use neither: an adoption and commercialization lead, and two center of excellence titles.
One thing to know before you search “AI Transformation Lead”. Seven of the 62 postings are roles at consulting firms and AI software vendors, and the “customer” in their duties is someone else’s company. One of them asks the hire to carry a bookings target. If you want the internal job, check whose customers the duties name.
Who posts it
Financial services leads at 18 of 62. That group holds banks, insurers, an asset manager, a payments network, a mortgage finance company and crypto exchanges, and one coder could split it. Software and technology is second at 13, and some of those employers sell AI products as well as use them. Healthcare and education are thin here, at 5 and 1.
What it pays, where the posting says
Twenty-eight of 62 postings (45%) print a base pay range. All 28 are in US dollars. None of the 21 postings located outside the US prints one, and 28 of the other 41 do (68%). The 21 name places such as London, Singapore, Copenhagen, Warsaw, Madrid and Toronto. The other 41 are US-located or give no location. So the pay data is US data.
- All 28: lowest floor to highest ceilingThe extremes are one customer-facing role at $125,000 to $140,000 base and one Director at $292,000 to $442,750.125–442.75
- All 28: middle half25th percentile of the 28 floors to the 75th percentile of the 28 ceilings. Median midpoint $216,675.158.25–317.1
- VP or SVP (n=6)25th percentile of floors to 75th percentile of ceilings. Median midpoint $247,500.171.68–372.5
- Director (n=12)Same rule. Median midpoint $219,775.172.4–334.3
- Lead (n=9)Same rule. Median midpoint $188,050.150–235
Title tracks pay in steps. The median midpoint falls from $247,500 at VP level to $219,775 at Director to $188,050 at Lead, a drop of about $28,000 and then $32,000. Within a title the spread is wide: the median range tops out 38% above its floor, and the widest, a Director band at Navan, runs $172,800 to $384,000 and notes that for roles with on-target earnings the range includes target incentive pay.
At the top, NVIDIA prints a base range of $292,000 to $442,750 for a Director, AI Enablement, plus equity. Fannie Mae prints a target pay range of $300,000 to $400,000 for a VP. At the bottom, Liminal pays $125,000 to $140,000 base for a customer success role it calls an Applied AI Enablement Lead, with 30% variable pay on top. The earlier ten postings had five bands that ran from $84,000 to $290,000. The wider sample starts higher and tops out higher.
Who the job answers to
Twenty of 62 postings (32%) name the boss. Our earlier ten named a boss in six of ten. The gap is the difference between reading the best-ranked postings for a phrase and reading a field.
Only one reports to a Chief AI Officer: Synchrony for its VP, Head of AI Enablement. Western Sydney University puts its Chief AI Enablement Officer under the Chief Operating Officer. Marathon Petroleum puts a VP of HR AI Enablement under its CHRO and SVP of Communications. Crunchyroll puts a Director under its Head of Executive Office.
The most common answer is a technology boss or an AI leader, and no posting names a CIO. Fourteen of the 20 lines go to technology or AI leadership, counting the Chief AI Officer. Five go to the CEO’s office, a COO or a CHRO. One goes to a manager. Whether a seat gives the lead any authority over how people work is not something a posting can show.
What the job is asked to do
This section covers the 55 postings for an employer’s own staff. We left the 7 client-facing roles out, because their duties are about selling and delivering to customers. Five areas appeared in the duties text, and we counted a posting once per area.
The use case pipeline is the most common duty, and training is fourth. That ordering would surprise anyone who thinks of this job as the person who runs the prompt workshops. Tools and vendors is last at 44%, so more than half of the postings do not ask the lead to own license and tool decisions at all.
The median posting names three of the five areas. Eleven name all five, six name one, and one names none. Our earlier ten postings all named measurement. In this field 39 of 55 do (71%), which is still most of them, and lower than a small sample of well-written postings suggested.
| VP or above (12) | Head of (4) | Director (22) | Lead (17) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Use case pipeline | fully | fully | fully | fully |
| Measurement and ROI | fully | fully | fully | fully |
| Governance, policy and risk | fully | fully | fully | partly |
| Training, champions, community | fully | partly | fully | partly |
| Tools and vendors | fully | fully | partly | partly |
none partly fully · Our counts from the term search described in the method table. A full circle means more than half the postings in that tier name the area, a half circle means at least one but half or fewer, an empty circle means none. The “Head of” tier has only 4 postings, so one posting moves a cell. Lead postings name governance in 7 of 17, training in 8 of 17 and tools in 5 of 17.
Read it down the columns. VP-level postings name every area in more than half their text. Lead postings thin out at governance, training and tools, which is consistent with a seat that is asked to find and rank use cases and report on them, with less said about owning the rules. That is our reading of the counts, and the counts are small.
We read the first-listed duty as a signal of what the hiring manager thinks the job is. It is a signal and not a rule, since a person wrote the list in whatever order came to mind. Even so, 29 of 55 start with strategy, a roadmap or a portfolio, and 7 start with adoption or training. Eight start with building something. Half of our earlier ten were builder roles, so a posting can ask for building further down its list and still lead with something else.
Numbers to hit, and where the work happens
Thirty-nine of the 55 internal postings name a way to measure the work: KPIs, ROI, a business case, a dashboard or value realization. A posting that names a number to hit is rare. We found two among the 62. A Head of AI Enablement & Engineering at Capital on Tap is asked to baseline how fast the company builds in the first 30 days and set a 12-month plan to triple its ability to build products. The Liminal role above cites weekly active usage rising from 20% to 70% within 90 days as an example outcome.
So one internal posting in 55 states a number, and it measures how fast engineers ship, not how many people use AI. The rest say “measurable”, “success metrics” or “value realization” without a figure. The people inside those companies may well have targets we cannot see.
Among the 40 that state it, hybrid is the answer in 26 (65%). Eight are remote and 6 are on-site. The other 22 say nothing, so the true remote share could sit well above or below 13%.
What the data cannot say
- It cannot give a market size. These are the 62 postings we found, and a different search would find others.
- One snapshot cannot show a trend. We have no earlier count to compare against, so we cannot say the title is growing, and we will not.
- Postings are wishes. They say nothing about who was hired, how long the seat lasted, or whether the first duty listed is the one the person ends up doing.
- Pay is stated by 28 postings, none of them outside the US. Pay for the other 34 is unknown, and we cannot say what the role earns in London or Singapore.
- The duty counts come from a term search and our reading. A word can appear without being a duty, and a duty can be written in words we did not search. We removed 13 matches by hand and cannot rule out others.
- The industry groups are ours. A payments network, a mortgage finance company and a crypto exchange sit together under financial services here, and another coder could split them.
Where Nolli fits
Where Nolli fits: this role is our buyer
Nolli sells to this role. An AI enablement lead is the person we build for, so weigh this report 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 two of the five duty areas above, the use case pipeline and measurement. It does not run training or a champion network, choose your tools, write your AI policy or decide who the role reports to, and your company decides data and policy questions. No public price. Request a demo. See Nolli for AI enablement teams and how to measure AI impact.
Request a demoQuestions people ask
Who is hiring a Head of AI Enablement?
In 62 public postings read on October 16, 2026, the employers were financial services firms (18), software and technology companies (13), media and advertising companies (9), consulting and outsourced services firms (8), industrial and energy companies (6), healthcare and life sciences companies (5), retailers (2) and a university (1). Few use the exact title: 7 say “Head of”.
What do companies call the job?
Lead (23 of 62) and Director (22) are the most common, then VP or SVP (11), Head of (5) and Chief (1). Thirty-six titles use “Enablement” and 24 use “Transformation”. Seven of the 62 postings are at consulting firms and AI software vendors and are about customers, not the employer’s own staff.
How much does a Head of AI Enablement earn?
Twenty-eight of the 62 postings print a base range, all in US dollars. The median midpoint is $216,675, and the middle half runs from about $158,000 at the floor to about $317,000 at the ceiling. By title, the median midpoint is $247,500 at VP level, $219,775 for Director and $188,050 for Lead.
Who does an AI enablement lead report to?
Twenty of the 62 postings name a boss. Seven name an AI, data or AI-strategy leader, six a CTO or technology head, three the CEO or the CEO’s office, and one each a Chief AI Officer, a COO, a CHRO and a business transformation manager. None names a CIO.
Is a Head of AI Enablement job remote?
Mostly not. Forty of the 62 postings state a workplace: 26 hybrid, 8 remote and 6 on-site. The other 22 do not say.
Sources
- “VP, Head of AI Enablement (job posting, Job ID 2602496).” Synchrony, via Workday, accessed October 16, 2026.
- “Chief Artificial Intelligence (AI) Enablement Officer (job posting).” Western Sydney University, via SmartRecruiters, accessed October 16, 2026.
- “Vice President, HR AI Enablement (job posting).” Marathon Petroleum, via Workday, accessed October 16, 2026.
- “Director, AI Enablement (job posting).” Crunchyroll, via Greenhouse, accessed October 16, 2026.
- “Director, AI Enablement (job posting).” NVIDIA, accessed October 16, 2026.
- “Director, AI Enablement (job posting).” Navan, via Greenhouse, accessed October 16, 2026.
- “AI Enablement - VP (job posting).” Fannie Mae, via Workday, accessed October 16, 2026.
- “Applied AI Enablement Lead (job posting).” Liminal, via Greenhouse, accessed October 16, 2026.
- “Head of AI Enablement & Engineering (job posting).” Capital on Tap, via Greenhouse, accessed October 16, 2026.
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