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How you can make a difference

The Director, AI Enablement, is accountable for how AI is strategically applied across the customer experience to deliver measurable business and customer outcomes. This role ensures AI investments are grounded in real customer pain points, embedded into priority journeys, and scaled responsibly to improve experience, resolution, and operational efficiency. Success is defined by what changes for customers and the business, not by pilots, tools, or experimentation.

What you'll be doing

• Own the enterprise strategy for applying AI through the customer experience, aligned to priority journeys and business outcomes
• Identify and prioritize AI use cases based on Voice of Customer insights, journey analytics, contact drivers, and business impact
• Ensure AI is used to reduce friction, increase clarity, and improve customer confidence, not simply to automate tasks
• Partner handson with data science, engineering, product, and operations teams to shape AI use cases from concept through scaled deployment
• Guide solution design to ensure models are operationally viable in live CX environments
• Ensure AI capabilities are embedded into the CX operating model and AI solutions are explainable, trustworthy, and responsibly deployed
• Manages and carries out the personnel actions for direct reports, including but not limited to hiring and scheduling; training and evaluating; coaching and managing performance; making salary, merit, or other compensation recommendations for team of direct reports; and making recommendations and/or taking corrective or disciplinary action as appropriate.
• Accountable for measurable CX and operational results and continuously validate impact
• Influence senior stakeholders across CX, Product, Technology, and Operations without direct ownership
• Make explicit tradeoff decisions across competing AI opportunities, balancing customer impact, feasibility, and speed to value
• Drive rapid validation and iteration of AI use cases (01scale), prioritizing speed and learning over perfect initial solutions

What you will need to be successful

• Bachelor's degree required; technical, analytics, or datadriven background preferred
• 12+ years of related experience in AI, advanced analytics, CX technology, or digital enablement
• Direct ownership of AIdriven CX decisioning systems, including model orchestration, guardrails, escalation logic, and performance monitoring.
• Handson experience applying AI/ML in CX contexts (e.g., NLP, automation, predictive analytics including autonomous or semiautonomous (agentic) customer actions with defined humanintheloop controls.)
• Experience establishing AI governance for CX use cases, including explainability, risk management, compliance, and lifecycle ownership.
• Close partnership with Contact Center Capabilities, Product, CX platform and data strategy teams to embed AI capabilities directly into CX systems of insight and action.
• Proven ability to translate technical outputs into customer experience and business results
• Strong crossfunctional leadership, influence, and delivery skills in complex environments

• Proven experience personally identifying, prioritizing, and owning AI use cases from concept through deployment-not solely executing against pre-defined roadmaps
• Demonstrated ability to make decisions on what to build, why, and how, including tradeoffs across business value, feasibility, and customer impact
• Direct ownership of AI solution design choices, including approach, scope, and prioritization (not limited to coordination or governance)
• Ability to operate in ambiguous, resource-constrained environments, with limited reliance on centralized data science or engineering teams
• Hands-on engagement in translating business problems into AI-enabled solutions and operational workflows

• Your experience is primarily focused on program management, governance, or execution of pre-defined AI initiatives
• You rely on data science or engineering teams to define solutions, while you coordinate delivery
• You have not directly owned AI use case identification, prioritization, and decision-making
• Your role has been primarily driving execution rather than shaping what should be built

#LI-Remote

This is a remote position.

The actual compensation offer is determined based on job-related knowledge, education, skills, experience, and work location. This position will be eligible for performance-based incentives and restricted stock units as part of the total compensation package, in addition to a full range of benefits including: 

• Medical, dental, and vision 

• HSA contribution and match 

• Dependent care FSA match 

• Uncapped paid time off 

• Paid parental leave 

• 401(k) match 

• Personal and healthcare financial literacy programs 

• Ongoing education& tuition assistance 

• Gym and fitness reimbursement 

• Wellness program incentives 

Onboarding & Travel 

This is a remote role, with an in-person onboarding training component. New team members must participate in Trailhead, HealthEquity's immersive onboarding experience Trailhead is designed to foster meaningful connections, support your integration into the organization, and equip you with a strong understanding of our business. Trailhead participation is a key expectation of this role. Trailhead is held onsite at our headquarters once per quarter. HealthEquity covers all required travel and accommodations.  

This role may begin with a virtual, self-paced onboarding experience, followed by a mandatory onsite Trailhead session at a later date. 

HealthEquity is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to team members with qualifying disabilities. Should you be selected for this role and require an accommodation, we will put you in touch with our Benefits Team so you can begin the accommodation request process.

HealthEquity has a vision that by2030 we will make HSAs as wide-spread and popular as retirement accounts. We are passionate about providing a solution that allows American families to connect health and wealth. Join us and discover a work experience where the person is valued more than the position. Click here to learn more. 

You belong at HealthEquity!

HealthEquity, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer, and we are committed to being an employer where no matter your background or identity - you feel welcome and included. We ensure equal opportunity for all applicants and employees without regard to race, age, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, status as a qualified individual with a disability, veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. HealthEquity is a drug-free workplace. For more information about our EEO policy, or about HealthEquity's applicant disability accommodation, drug-free-workplace, background check, and E-Verify policies, please visit our Careers page.

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At HealthEquity, our goal is to save and improve lives by empowering healthcare consumers. This shared purpose inspires everything we do, including how we approach hiring. Our process is designed to get to know the real you: your skills, experiences, and potential to make a difference. We value honesty, originality, and the courage to do the right thing, even when it is not the easiest path. Showing up as your authentic self reflects these values and helps us build something truly remarkable together.

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