Director of Digital Mindset & AI Adoption

D.R. Horton•Arlington, TX

13d

About The Position

D.R. Horton is seeking a Director of Digital Mindset & AI Adoption to shape how employees adopt and apply modern digital, data, automation, and AI capabilities in their everyday work. The role builds programs, partnerships, learning experiences, and change mechanisms that translate technology into sustained adoption and measurable business outcomes across the company. The Director sets and owns the enterprise adoption strategy and leads the adoption function, including the AI Adoption & Enablement Manager and Learning / Change Partners. Success means data, AI, and digital ways of working become visible habits across business units, with adoption, proficiency, and business outcomes measured and improving. The role is part of a national homebuilding enterprise that emphasizes local ownership, practical innovation, and business partnerships. The position supervises two or more employees and requires overnight travel. The company describes the work environment as generally moderate in noise and states that the employee may need to sit for most of an eight-hour workday, handle or feel objects, reach with hands and arms, talk, and hear; close and peripheral vision are also required.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Organizational Development, Communications, Business, Learning, Technology, Change Management, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
10+ years of change, adoption, learning, digital transformation, communications, organizational development, or related experience.
Demonstrated experience driving adoption across a distributed or decentralized workforce.
Strong facilitation, storytelling, executive communication, and relationship-building skills.
Working knowledge of generative AI, digital productivity tools, analytics, and technology adoption practices.
Ability to work independently, take ownership, communicate clearly, and deliver results in an evolving environment.
Ability to build trusted relationships across the organization while balancing enterprise standards with business needs and operating realities.
Ability to apply common-sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written and oral form or via DRH applications.
Ability to sit for the majority of an eight-hour workday; use hands and fingers to handle or feel; reach with hands and arms; talk and hear. Close and peripheral vision are required.

Nice To Haves

Experience building an enterprise AI champion network, digital academy, or transformation adoption capability.
Hands-on familiarity with current generative AI assistants and agent tools.
Experience in homebuilding, real estate, construction, mortgage, title, land development, sales, purchasing, finance, customer care, or another distributed operating business.
Experience working in a large enterprise with complex enterprise environments.
Experience founding, incubating, or building new products, capabilities, or businesses from the ground up.

Responsibilities

Define enterprise digital mindset, AI adoption, learning, champion, communications, and business unit activation strategy.
Build role-based enablement programs for everyday AI, data-driven decision-making, automation, and new transformation products.
Create a scalable network of business unit and functional champions to share practical use cases, feedback, and reusable practices.
Partner with Product and business leaders to design adoption into priority products from discovery through scale.
Measure adoption, proficiency, behavior change, productivity, user sentiment, and barriers, and use evidence to improve programs.
Represent the function in cross-functional discovery, architecture, governance, operational-readiness, and continuous-improvement activities as appropriate.
Stay current on relevant data, AI, digital, software, and industry practices and apply new capabilities when they create practical business value.
Identify, shape, and pilot opportunities where data, AI, and digital capabilities can create business value, with an owner's mindset and a bias toward building, testing, and learning quickly.
Conduct all business in a professional and ethical manner.
Supervise two or more employees.
Travel overnight.