Senior Director, Artificial Intelligence

Join the future of news We’re on a mission to deliver riveting storytelling for all of America. At The Washington Post, you’ll help reinvent news. Our work is driven by a deep investigative spirit and enhanced by innovation to bring audiences closer to the stories that matter most. About Our Team The Washington Post is powered by the passion and talent of our people. It takes all of us to reinvent news. Beyond our award-winning News and Opinions teams, we work across many departments, including Brand & Events, Communications, Customer Care, Engineering & Product, Finance, Human Resources, Legal, Marketing & Advertising, Print Operations, and Sales. Why This Role Matters   Artificial Intelligence is reshaping how news organizations create products, serve audiences, operate their businesses, and compete. The Washington Post is seeking a Senior Director, Artificial Intelligence Strategy & Transformation to help define and execute how AI is responsibly applied across the enterprise. This role leads the development and execution of the company’s enterprise AI strategy in partnership with executive, editorial, product, technology, commercial, and corporate leaders. The Senior Director translates rapidly evolving AI capabilities into practical opportunities that strengthen journalism, accelerate product innovation, improve customer experiences, increase organizational effectiveness, and create measurable business value. Serving as a senior enterprise subject-matter leader for AI strategy and responsible adoption, this role develops recommendations for the enterprise AI roadmap, coordinates priorities across functions, and leads cross-functional initiatives that convert AI investments into measurable outcomes. The role will help establish the standards, governance practices, evaluation frameworks, and operating models that enable teams across The Washington Post to adopt AI responsibly and at scale. The Senior Director will also help determine where the company should build, buy, partner, or experiment, balancing technical capability, cost, scalability, data rights, security, accuracy, editorial integrity, and long-term strategic value. What Motivates You You are energized by the opportunity to help shape how AI transforms journalism, products, customer experiences, and business operations. You enjoy translating emerging technologies into practical strategies and measurable business outcomes. You thrive in complex environments where success depends on influence, collaboration, and alignment across multiple functions. You are passionate about responsible AI and believe innovation should strengthen trust, accuracy, transparency, and organizational integrity. You are comfortable operating between technical teams and business leaders and can translate complex technical concepts into clear strategic choices. You enjoy developing frameworks, standards, and operating models that help organizations adopt new technologies consistently and responsibly. You are motivated by identifying high-value use cases and moving them from concept through evaluation, implementation, and measurable impact. You value experimentation, but you also bring discipline to investment decisions, governance, risk management, and performance measurement. You enjoy building organizational capability by increasing AI literacy, strengthening cross-functional collaboration, and helping teams adopt new tools effectively. You are comfortable working in areas where technology, business strategy, ethics, editorial standards, and regulation intersect. How You'll Support the Mission Develop and recommend the enterprise AI strategy and multi-year roadmap in partnership with executive and functional leadership, translating organizational priorities into a coordinated portfolio of AI initiatives. Lead execution of the approved enterprise AI roadmap, establishing milestones, priorities, dependencies, governance practices, and performance measures that support measurable business outcomes. Identify and evaluate high-value AI opportunities across journalism, product development, advertising, subscriptions, customer experience, finance, HR, legal, and corporate operations. Develop business cases and investment recommendations for AI initiatives, including expected business impact, cost, scalability, technical feasibility, implementation risk, and return on investment. Coordinate the enterprise AI portfolio, working with functional leaders who retain accountability for their respective products, operations, budgets, and business outcomes. Lead cross-functional AI initiatives that improve productivity, decision-making, customer experiences, digital capabilities, commercial performance, and organizational effectiveness. Establish and operate an enterprise AI Center of Excellence or similar capability, providing reusable frameworks, technical guidance, evaluation practices, governance support, education, and implementation resources across the company. Develop responsible AI governance frameworks and operating standards in partnership with Legal, Editorial Standards, Information Security, Privacy, Technology, Product, and other governance functions. Create evaluation and quality frameworks for AI solutions, including standards for accuracy, reliability, bias, transparency, security, data use, and responsible deployment. Evaluate AI models, platforms, tools, and technology partners, providing recommendations regarding build-versus-buy decisions, third-party solutions, proprietary capabilities, scalability, latency, cost, data rights, and long-term strategic value. Partner with Product and Technology leaders to help translate emerging AI capabilities into scalable products, platforms, and customer experiences. Serve as a senior strategic advisor and subject-matter expert to leadership, translating technical developments, market trends, and emerging AI capabilities into business implications, opportunities, risks,