SVP - Chief AI Officer

Cincinnati Children's

About The Position

The SVP - Chief AI Officer is responsible for developing and executing Cincinnati Children's enterprise AI vision, strategy, and multi-year roadmap. The role establishes the organizational structure, operating model, governance framework, and talent strategy needed to scale AI capabilities across the organization, and prioritizes investments across clinical, research, operational, and platform initiatives. It also leads sustainable processes that enable innovation with appropriate oversight and governance. The Chief AI Officer owns enterprise AI investment prioritization and sequencing, develops business cases aligned with organizational priorities and resources, and oversees multi-million-dollar operating and capital investments in AI technologies, platforms, infrastructure, and vendor partnerships. The role establishes measures for AI adoption, value creation, operational efficiency, and return on investment, and presents recommendations and outcomes to executive leadership and board committees. The position builds and leads a high-performing enterprise AI organization, including direct leadership of senior functional leaders and collaboration across matrixed teams. It sets priorities, accountability structures, and performance expectations; develops relationships with executive, clinical, research, and operational leaders; and fosters innovation, continuous learning, and responsible AI adoption. Key partnerships include the CIO, CDO, CISO, CHIO/CMIO, executive leadership, research and clinical leadership, operational leaders, the AI/Data Governance Council, and external industry partners. The role provides strategic oversight of enterprise AI platforms, agentic AI capabilities, knowledge engineering, and AI product development. It evaluates emerging technologies, vendors, industry trends, and AI methodologies, and guides decisions on architecture, standards, platform investments, and technology partnerships to ensure enterprise platforms are scalable, secure, reusable, and able to support varied use cases. The Chief AI Officer is accountable for AI outcomes and adoption across clinical care, research, and operations; establishes enterprise standards, governance processes, and performance measures for responsible scaling; and represents Cincinnati Children's in industry forums, healthcare collaboratives, academic partnerships, and vendor relationships. The role reports regularly to executive leadership, governance bodies, and the Board of Directors on strategy, investments, outcomes, risks, platform performance, adoption, and organizational readiness. It ensures AI initiatives support the organization's mission while protecting patient safety, reputation, and regulatory compliance.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in a related field.
15 or more years of work experience in a related job discipline.

Nice To Haves

Master's degree in a related field.
Demonstrated experience leading large-scale enterprise transformation initiatives.
Experience leading through multiple layers of leadership and highly matrixed organizations.
Experience developing AI governance, responsible AI frameworks, or emerging technology strategies.
Experience working with clinical, research, and operations stakeholders in highly regulated environments.
Working knowledge of knowledge graphs, ontology, and data governance sufficient to hire, evaluate, and direct a specialist team.

Responsibilities

Develop and execute Cincinnati Children's enterprise AI vision, strategy, and multi-year roadmap.
Establish the organizational structure, operating model, governance framework, and talent strategy needed to scale AI capabilities.
Prioritize AI investments across clinical, research, operational, and platform initiatives.
Develop sustainable processes that support innovation with appropriate oversight and governance.
Own enterprise AI investment prioritization and sequencing, develop business cases, and oversee multi-million-dollar operating and capital investments.
Establish frameworks to measure AI adoption, value creation, operational efficiency, and return on investment; present recommendations and outcomes to executive leadership and board committees.
Build and lead a high-performing enterprise AI organization, setting priorities, accountability structures, and performance expectations.
Develop collaborative relationships with executive, clinical, research, operational, and external industry partners.
Provide strategic oversight of enterprise AI platforms, agentic AI capabilities, knowledge engineering functions, and AI product development.
Evaluate emerging technologies, vendors, industry trends, and AI methodologies; guide architecture, standards, platform investments, and technology partnerships.
Be accountable for AI outcomes and adoption across clinical care, research, and operations, and establish standards, governance processes, and performance measures for responsible scaling.
Represent Cincinnati Children's externally and provide regular updates to executive leadership, enterprise governance bodies, and the Board of Directors.
Ensure AI initiatives support the organization's mission while protecting patient safety, organizational reputation, and regulatory compliance.