Senior Manager, AI Learning & Development

Ford • 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 AI and agentic tools in their daily work.

Reporting to the Central AI Team's Director of AI Strategy, Enablement, & Workflow, this role builds and owns the curriculum, materials, and learning journeys for Ford employees. The position partners with the Workflow Redesign Lead and functional teams to deliver training at the appropriate point in a rollout, in the right format, and for the right audience—from frontline users learning a tool to leaders deciding how to manage teams working alongside AI. The role also measures whether training is effective.

The position is based in Dearborn, Michigan, with a required four-day onsite presence each week.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or an 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 technical capabilities into clear learning paths for non-technical audiences.
• 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.

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, creating content for a range of roles and skill levels.
• Own training completion, proficiency, and adoption metrics that feed 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 local, day-to-day questions.
• Manage training and enablement agencies and third-party resources, setting the scope, pace, and quality standards 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 back-up 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.
• Established and active employee resource groups.
• Paid time off for individual and team community service.
• A generous schedule of 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