About the Role
Drive the practical application, adoption, and measurable business impact of AI capabilities across NBCUniversal News Group. This senior individual contributor role requires a hands-on AI practitioner with deep knowledge of modern AI tools, strong business acumen, and stakeholder engagement skills to influence without direct authority.
Responsibilities
- Drive AI adoption and innovation efforts across News Group functions.
- Partner with stakeholders to understand workflows, identify opportunities, and apply AI to improve efficiency, quality, creativity, and business outcomes.
- Lead AI engagement initiatives, including workshops, demos, office hours, use-case discovery, pilots, and communications.
- Serve as a trusted advisor, helping News Group teams move from AI exploration to meaningful adoption.
- Apply approved AI tools directly to business use cases, developing workflows, prompts, prototypes, demonstrations, and practical recommendations.
- Translate business challenges into scalable AI-enabled solutions.
- Identify reusable workflows and common use cases that can be expanded across the organization.
- Evaluate and recommend the best AI capabilities for specific business needs.
- Monitor emerging AI technologies, product releases, and vendor roadmaps.
- Assess new capabilities and translate developments into actionable guidance for stakeholders.
- Maintain strong relationships with AI vendors and internal partners to identify opportunities for experimentation and adoption.
- Build credibility with leaders and practitioners across the organization.
- Run and facilitate workshops, showcases, office hours, and adoption programs tailored to varying levels of AI maturity.
- Develop practical resources, playbooks, examples, and self-service materials to support responsible AI use.
- Develop and support AI communities of practice and champion networks.
- Define and track adoption, engagement, and business impact metrics.
- Quantify outcomes including productivity gains, time savings, process improvements, quality enhancements, cost avoidance, and revenue opportunities.
- Communicate results, success stories, risks, and opportunities to leadership.
- Partner with Product, Technology, Data, Editorial, Operations, Learning & Development, Legal, Security, and Governance teams within the News Group.
- Align AI adoption efforts with enterprise standards, product roadmaps, and responsible AI requirements.
- Act as a bridge between business users and technical teams within the News Group.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in digital transformation, innovation, enterprise technology, product adoption, or related fields.
- 3 years of recent AI Adoption lead experience at the enterprise level.
- Deep hands-on experience with modern AI platforms and enterprise AI tools.
- Proven ability to apply AI solutions directly to business workflows and deliver measurable outcomes.
- Experience leading adoption programs, workshops, demonstrations, and stakeholder engagement initiatives.
- Strong ability to identify opportunities, develop practical solutions, and drive adoption from concept through implementation.
- Demonstrated success defining metrics and measuring business impact.
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and influencing skills.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-moving, evolving environment with multiple priorities.
- Experience presenting to executive and enterprise audiences.
- Ability to work on fast moving environment.
- Experience in media, journalism, digital publishing, technology, or other high-velocity environments.
- Experience driving enterprise AI adoption or digital transformation initiatives.
- Experience developing communities of practice, champion networks, and enablement programs.
- Experience evaluating AI vendors and emerging technologies.
- Strong understanding of responsible AI, governance, privacy, security, and editorial considerations.
- Candidates should demonstrate deep hands-on practical knowledge of Generative AI applications for productivity, research, communication, content creation, planning, and analysis.
- Candidates should demonstrate deep hands-on practical knowledge of Advanced prompting techniques and workflow design.
- Candidates should demonstrate deep hands-on practical knowledge of AI-enabled research, knowledge management, and collaboration workflows.
- Candidates should demonstrate deep hands-on practical knowledge of AI-assisted content, creative, editorial, data, and operational use cases.
- Candidates should demonstrate deep hands-on practical knowledge of Automation and emerging agentic AI capabilities.
- Candidates should demonstrate deep hands-on practical knowledge of Enterprise AI considerations including privacy, governance, security, responsible use, copyright, and risk management.
- Candidates should demonstrate deep hands-on practical knowledge of Major enterprise AI platforms including Microsoft Copilot, OpenAI, Adobe, and similar solutions.
- Candidates should demonstrate deep hands-on practical knowledge of Rapid evaluation and adoption of emerging AI technologies and capabilities.
Skills
- Generative AI
- AI Adoption
- Stakeholder Engagement
- Prompt Engineering
- Workflow Design
- AI Strategy
- Business Acumen
- Communication
- Influencing
- Problem Solving
- Microsoft Copilot
- OpenAI
- Adobe
Location
- Hybrid
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Senior
- 10+ years of experience
- 3 years of recent AI Adoption lead experience
Salary/Compensations
- $150,000 - $200,000
Benefits
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- 401(k)
- Paid leave
- Tuition reimbursement
- Variety of other discounts and perks
About the Company
- NBCUniversal is one of the world's leading media and entertainment companies.
- We create world-class content, which we distribute across our portfolio of film, television, and streaming, and bring to life through our global theme park destinations, consumer products, and experiences.
- We own and operate leading entertainment and news brands, including NBC, NBC News, NBC Sports, Telemundo, NBC Local Stations, Bravo, and Peacock, our premium ad-supported streaming service.
- We produce and distribute premier filmed entertainment and programming through our powerhouse film and television studios, including Universal Pictures, DreamWorks Animation, and Focus Features, and the four global television studios under the Universal Studio Group banner, and operate industry-leading theme parks and experiences around the world through Universal Destinations & Experiences, including Universal Orlando Resort, home to Universal Epic Universe, and Universal Studios Hollywood.
- NBCUniversal is a subsidiary of Comcast Corporation.
- Our impact is rooted in improving the communities where our employees, customers, and audiences live and work.
- We have a rich tradition of giving back and ensuring our employees have the opportunity to serve their communities.
- We champion an inclusive culture and strive to attract and develop a talented workforce to create and deliver a wide range of content reflecting our world.
Equal Opportunity
- NBCUniversal's policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, gender identity or expression, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status, membership in the uniformed services, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law.
- If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran and require support throughout the application and/or recruitment process as a result of your disability, you have the right to request a reasonable accommodation. You can submit your request to [email protected].
