Senior Manager, AI Learning & Development

Ford Motor Company • Dearborn, MI

8d • $141,700 - $268,300 • Hybrid

About The Position

Ford’s Central AI Team is the enterprise hub responsible for scaling AI and agentic solutions across the company. The Senior Manager, AI Learning & Development owns the training and enablement layer that helps employees learn to trust and use new AI capabilities in their daily work.

Reporting to the Director of AI Strategy, Enablement, & Workflow, this role builds and owns curriculum, materials, and learning journeys that teach Ford employees to work with AI and agentic tools. It partners with the Workflow Redesign Lead and functional teams to ensure training reaches the right audience, in the right format and at the right point in a rollout. Training needs range from helping frontline users learn new tools to helping leaders manage teams working alongside AI.

Based in Dearborn, Michigan, this is a hybrid position requiring four days onsite each week. The role is leadership level 5. The salary range is $141,700–$268,300, with the final salary grade and base salary determined by skills, experience, scope, responsibility, and competitive market value. Visa sponsorship is not available.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience.
• At least 5 years of experience designing and delivering training or enablement programs at enterprise scale.
• At least 4 years of direct experience building learning content for a new technology or tool rollout, with a track record of measurable adoption.
• At least 4 years of strong instructional design experience, including breaking down a technical capability into a clear learning path for a non-technical audience.
• At least 3 years of experience measuring training effectiveness through completion, adoption, or performance data and iterating based on results.
• At least 2 years of experience managing external agency, consulting, or vendor resources against scope, timeline, and quality deliverables.
• At least 2 years of experience working across a matrixed organization and partnering with teams that own their local training needs.
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States; employment eligibility verification is required at hire.

Nice To Haves

• Master’s degree.
• Experience in automotive, manufacturing, or another large-scale enterprise organization with a distributed workforce.
• Background building champion or super-user networks to sustain adoption after initial training.
• Familiarity with how AI agents and automation work, sufficient to design training that reflects what the tools can realistically do.
• Experience partnering with HR to integrate new skills into broader career development or workforce planning programs.
• Experience building modular or reusable training content that can scale across multiple initiatives at once.

Responsibilities

• Own AI training curriculum, enablement materials, and learning journeys across the AI initiative portfolio, building content for a range of roles and skill levels.
• Own training completion, proficiency, and adoption metrics feeding into Insight Generation's scorecard, and measure training effectiveness.
• Build communities of practice, including networks of champions across functional teams who can reinforce training and answer day-to-day questions locally.
• Manage training and enablement agencies and third-party resources, setting scope, pace, and quality expectations for their output.
• Partner with HR and functional team leaders to integrate AI enablement into existing onboarding, career development, and skills programs without duplicating training infrastructure.
• Maintain a library of reusable training assets for new AI initiatives.

Benefits

• Immediate medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage.
• Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, and subsidized backup childcare.
• Family-building benefits, including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement and fertility treatments.
• Vehicle discount program for employees and family members, and management leases.
• Tuition assistance.
• Active employee resource groups.
• Paid time off for individual and team community service.
• Paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day.
• Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior