Director of AI Strategy and Communications

Job Profile:

Administrative Operations Specialist 4

Job Family:

Administrative Operations

Time Type:

Full time

Apply before 11:59 PM Arizona time the day before the posted End Date.

Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree and seven (7) years of experience appropriate to the area of assignment/field; OR, Any equivalent combination of experience and/or training from which comparable knowledge, skills and abilities have been achieved.

Job Profile Summary:

Provides leadership and support in planning, managing, developing, and evaluating departmental strategy, initiatives and activities.

Job Description:

Salary: $105,000-125,000 per year; offer dependent upon experience.

Artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping how communications teams discover stories, conduct research, create and distribute content, monitor issues and understand audiences. It is also a defining area of ASU research, teaching and public impact. Media Relations & Strategic Communications (MRSC) is seeking a Director of AI Strategy and Communications to help the department apply AI responsibly across its work and strengthen how ASU's AI expertise, strategy and impact are communicated to internal and external audiences.

MRSC's Visual Communications team, which includes the department's designers, web developers and AI developers, leads the product strategy, design, development and maintenance of MRSC's custom AI tools in partnership with the teams that use them. The Director of AI Strategy and Communications will complement that work by advancing AI adoption across MRSC, building staff fluency, establishing responsible-use practices and shaping communications about ASU's AI work.

Media Relations & Strategic Communications is the central communications team for Arizona State University, one of the largest public research universities in the country. ASU is a new type of American university, one grounded in both excellence and access. An R1 research university with more than $1 billion in annual research expenditures, ASU is a national leader in fields including microelectronics, engineering, space exploration, climate and sustainability. In a given year, 200,000 people enroll at ASU either in person or online.

The Director of AI Strategy and Communications will report to the Vice President for Media Relations & Strategic Communications.

The successful candidate will help MRSC:

Use AI well across the department

• Develop and lead MRSC's AI adoption strategy in partnership with team leaders. Identify opportunities across the department and recommend priorities informed by communications needs, potential impact and available capacity.

• Partner with Visual Communications and relevant MRSC teams to identify communications needs and opportunities for AI, develop use cases, establish content standards and evaluation criteria, and support adoption of AI initiatives. Potential applications include story discovery and background research; media targeting and identification of niche outlets, journalists, podcasts and creators; media pitch development; issue and trend monitoring; message and scenario analysis; and content adaptation and distribution. MRSC takes a human-first approach to AI.

• Modernize and enhance daily workflows. Identify opportunities to reduce repetitive work and expand staff capacity while preserving human judgment, editorial standards, accuracy and accountability. Evaluate whether AI, existing tools or workflow changes would best address identified needs.

• Build AI fluency and adoption across MRSC. Provide training, coaching, shared resources, demonstrations and practical playbooks that meet employees at different levels of experience and comfort.

• Advise on content standards, accuracy and evaluation for public-facing AI experiences such...

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