Head of AI CoE Operations

Agilent Technologies

7d•$196,320 - $306,750•Onsite

About The Position

The Head of AI CoE Operations serves as the CAIO’s strategic chief of staff and operating leader for the AI Center of Excellence. This is a senior business operations role inside AI transformation that owns the operating system that turns CAIO priorities into action: executive cadence, decision forums, resource tradeoffs, SteerCo and Board materials, partner follow-through, cross-functional alignment, and the management routines that keep the CoE focused on shipped value. The AI CoE Operations owns how the CoE runs: the CAIO agenda, leadership rhythm, governance, resourcing, partner tracking, executive materials, dependency management, and operating metrics that allow the portfolio to move.

Requirements

Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree or equivalent. Plus, broad knowledge of functional area(s) of responsibility.
Minimum of 10 years' experience formally or informally leading people, projects and/or programs.
Senior chief of staff, business operations, transformation, or strategy operations experience in a complex enterprise.
Strong executive communication skills, including SteerCo, C-suite, and Board-level materials.
Ability to run an operating cadence that improves decisions rather than adding process.
Experience coordinating across product, technology, finance, HR, legal, quality, security, and business teams.
Strong judgment on prioritization, resource tradeoffs, stakeholder alignment, and escalation.
Comfort working in AI, data, digital, or technology-led transformation environments.
Enough AI fluency to pressure-test status, understand delivery risks, and translate technical work into business and executive language.

Responsibilities

Serve as strategic chief of staff to the CAIO, translating priorities into operating agenda, leadership routines, decision forums, executive briefings, and follow-through.
Own the CoE operating cadence, including leadership team rhythm, SteerCo preparation, Board input, portfolio operating reviews, pod health reviews, and decision tracking.
Drive executive materials and communications for the CAIO organization, ensuring clear narratives, crisp decisions, and alignment across senior stakeholders.
Manage CoE forward deployments and logistics across CoE workstreams, prioritization, and tradeoff visibility.
Track delivery health across active pods and priority initiatives, including milestones, blockers, dependency aging, launch readiness, adoption signals, and reusable Fabric asset commitments.
Coordinate cross-functional dependencies with IT, Security, Legal, Quality, Finance, HR, Product, and business sponsors, ensuring blockers are named, owned, dated, and escalated when needed.
Manage external partner operating discipline, including milestone tracking, deliverable quality, capability transfer, acceptance criteria, and partner sunset/readiness planning.
Provide the operating fact base for CAIO, SteerCo, and executive decisions: what is on track, what is blocked, what needs resourcing, what should be escalated, and what should stop.