Senior AI Enablement Specialist

At Curriculum Associates, we believe in the potential of every child and are changing the face of education technology with award-winning learning programs like i-Ready that serve a third of the nation’s K–8 students. For more than 50 years, our commitment to making classrooms better places, serving educators, and supporting accessible learning experiences for all students has driven the continuous improvement of our innovative programs. Our team of more than 2,500 employees is composed of lifelong learners who stand behind this mission, working tirelessly to serve the educational community with world-class programs and support every day.

Reporting to the Director of AI Adoption, the Senior Ai Enablement Specialist will help Curriculum Associates translate AI capability into practical, repeatable, high impact ways of working across the company. This role sits at the intersection of AI fluency, workflow design, enablement, and change management.

This is not a software engineering, model development, or enterprise architecture role. Instead, this role focuses on helping leaders and teams identify where AI can meaningfully improve work, redesign workflows to incorporate AI effectively, build reusable assets and playbooks, and drive sustained adoption aligned with CA’s mission, policies, and priorities.

The right candidate combines strong business judgment, hands on fluency with modern AI tools, experience guiding behavior change, and the ability to move from idea to operational practice.

The Impact You’ll Have:

AI Workflow Design & Applied Enablement

• Partner with leaders and teams to identify high value opportunities to apply AI in day to day work
• Translate real business tasks into practical AI enabled workflows, including clear inputs, prompts, tools, checkpoints, and human review steps
• Build reusable playbooks, templates, prompt patterns, and working examples that make strong AI use easier to repeat
• Help teams move from one off experimentation to durable ways of working

Adoption Strategy & Change Management

• Drive adoption of enterprise AI tools and practices across functions through targeted enablement, coaching, and workflow support
• Design and deliver training sessions, workshops, office hours, and role specific learning experiences
• Increase confidence, judgment, and fluency in how teams use AI effectively and responsibly
• Identify barriers to adoption and work with stakeholders to reduce friction

Cross Functional Partnership

• Partner with functional leaders to align AI efforts to business priorities and team workflows
• Collaborate with IT, Security, Legal, and other partners when workflow changes involve policy, data, governance, integrations, or enterprise tooling decisions
• Serve as a translator between rapidly evolving AI capabilities and practical internal use cases

Measurement & Operational Improvement

• Track adoption patterns, usage quality, friction points, and business impact
• Help define success measures for internal AI initiatives, including productivity, quality, speed, and workflow effectiveness
• Surface insights and recommendations that improve how CA scales AI adoption over time

Responsible Use & Standards

• Reinforce responsible AI use, sound judgment, and appropriate human oversight
• Help teams understand where AI is useful, where it is not, and what good output validation looks like
• Contribute to clear standards for effective and responsible AI-enabled work

Who You Are:

Experience & Skills

• Experience driving adoption, enablement, workflow improvement, or change management in a business environment
• Strong hands on fluency with modern enterprise AI tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, or similar platforms
• Ability to translate business needs into practical AI enabled workflows and repeatable operating patterns
• Experience designing training, playbooks, templates, or enablement resources that change how people work
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills across a range of functions and levels

Strengths

• Pragmatic and outcomes oriented
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity and in a rapidly evolving space
• Strong judgment about where AI adds value versus where traditional approaches remain better
• Able to connect AI use to measurable business outcomes
• Curious, highly organized, and able to move from concept to execution quickly

Nice to Have

• Experience supporting enterprise AI rollouts, pilots, or internal transformation efforts
• Familiarity with governance, responsible use, or data/privacy considerations in enterprise AI
• Experience working with executive stakeholders or highly cross functional environments
• Experience building dashboards or reporting frameworks for adoption and impact

Additional Details

• This role is focused on internal AI adoption, workflow transformation, and enablement
• It is not a software engineering, data science, or enterprise platform ownership role

Benefits and Pay Range:
Pay Range – This role’s range is $93,250. - $166,250. The wage range for this role takes into account the wide range of factors that Curriculum Associates considers in making compensation decisions based on our Compensation Philosophy. Actual base pay within that range will vary based upon several factors including, but not limited to, prior experience and relevant skill sets. At Curriculum Associates, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances for each case. This role is also eligible to participate in the company bonus plan. The Company recognizes that minimum wage varies by location and will ensure all compensation decisions comply with applicable state and local laws.

Benefits – Benefit eligible employees (and their families) are covered by medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance. Employees can enroll in our company’s 401k plan and receive an employer match. Employees have access to a flexible vacation and sick policy in addition to twelve paid holidays and a winter office closure between Christmas and New Year's, as well as a number of additional perks and benefits.