AI Enablement Strategist

Seeking an AI Enablement Strategist to establish and scale the operational foundation required for enterprise AI adoption across Microsoft Copilot, Copilot Studio, Power Platform, CoWork, Scout, and emerging AI capabilities.

This individual will serve as the bridge between business transformation, IT administration, governance, finance, and platform operations. Their mission is to create a sustainable AI service delivery model that enables innovation while maintaining strong governance, security, compliance, cost management, and operational excellence.

The AI Enablement Strategist will help evolve from AI experimentation to enterprise-scale AI operations by defining standards, documenting policies, enabling new AI capabilities, managing consumption models, supporting administrators, and building the long-term operating model for agentic AI.

This role requires a combination of strategic thinking, hands-on platform administration, program management, financial stewardship, and change leadership.

Key Responsibilities

AI Governance & Operating Model

• Develop and maintain the enterprise AI governance framework.
• Establish AI policies, standards, guardrails, and operating procedures.
• Partner with Security, Privacy, Compliance, Legal, and IT teams.
• Create governance processes for AI agents, copilots, and autonomous workflows.
• Define approval processes for new AI solutions and agents.
• Maintain inventories of AI solutions, agents, and business owners.
• Implement controls that balance innovation with responsible AI practices.

AI Financial Management & Consumption Planning

• Create strategies for Microsoft credits, token consumption, and AI budgeting.

Build forecasting models for:

• Microsoft Copilot
• Microsoft Fabric AI workloads
• Azure AI Foundry
• Copilot Studio agents
• CoWork and Scout consumption
• Establish cost allocation methodologies across business units.
• Implement budget controls and consumption monitoring.
• Define chargeback and showback models.

Create executive dashboards that track:

• AI utilization
• Cost trends
• Return on investment
• Adoption metrics

Copilot Studio & Agent Platform Strategy

• Govern enterprise Copilot Studio adoption.
• Develop standards for agent lifecycle management.
• Define agent ownership and accountability models.

Establish frameworks for:

• Agent creation
• Testing
• Publishing
• Monitoring
• Retirement
• Manage agent consumption budgeting and message forecasting.
• Assist business teams with planning and scaling agent solutions.
• Partner with development teams to accelerate agent deployment.

AI Platform Administration

Provide hands-on administration and operational support for:

• Microsoft 365 Copilot
• Microsoft Copilot Chat
• Copilot Studio
• Power Platform
• CoWork
• Scout
• Azure AI services
• Future Microsoft AI capabilities Responsibilities include:
• License administration
• Environment management
• Access control
• Capacity allocation
• Service health monitoring
• Provisioning and onboarding
• Platform configuration
• Consumption monitoring

AI Adoption & Frontier Programs

Lead enterprise AI enablement initiatives including:

• Copilot Frontier programs
• Champions networks
• AI Ambassadors programs
• Early adopter communities
• Pilot and proof-of-concept initiatives
• AI office hours
• Community engagement programs

Responsibilities include:

• Building champion networks
• Coordinating preview feature evaluations
• Managing feedback loops
• Communicating roadmap updates
• Helping business units identify AI opportunities

Policy, Documentation & Standards

• Create AI operations playbooks.
• Develop service catalogs for AI capabilities.
• Document governance policies.
• Build onboarding guides.
• Publish standards for AI usage.
• Define AI support and escalation models.
• Maintain reusable templates and frameworks.

AI Center of Excellence Support

Partner with leadership to establish an AI Enablement Practice that provides:

• Governance guidance
• Platform administration
• Agent advisory services
• Financial management
• Consumption optimization
• Training and enablement
• Operational support

Serve as a trusted advisor for business leaders adopting AI capabilities.

Responsible AI & Risk Management

• Ensure alignment with Responsible AI principles.
• Monitor AI risks and mitigation strategies.
• Support audit readiness.
• Track compliance requirements.
• Establish human …