Senior Director, AI Strategic Sourcing

Senior Director, AI Strategic Sourcing

College Board - Global Strategy & Talent

Location: This is a fully remote role. Candidates who live near CB offices have the option of being fully remote or hybrid (Tuesday and Wednesday in office).

Type: This is a full-time position

About the Team 

The Procurement team supports the purchasing needs for all divisions across College Board.  As a result, our category coverage is broad and includes contingent work force, conferences and events, building and construction projects, enterprise software systems, contact centers, custom consulting engagements, cloud services and increasingly involves AI.  Our category managers work directly with leaders from all parts of the business to help define and deliver College Board products and services. In the near term, this Category Manager will sit within our GenAI Studio, focusing their strategic sourcing efforts on products and processes related to Generative AI.  

The GenAI Studio is an internal incubator at College Board that launched in January 2024. Through the Studio, College Board is investing time and resources for genAI ideation. The Studio is responsibly experimenting with AI to generate user value across our portfolio of offerings as well as advising on AI literacy efforts for educators and students. The Studio is led by a diverse, cross-functional team of strategists, technologists, and managers at College Board committed to solving the most impactful and interesting problems arising with AI. 

About the Opportunity  

As our AI Strategic Sourcing Manager, you’ll work to define and improve processes, expanding the responsible use of AI and generative AI across existing products and offerings. This is an exciting role for an experienced procurement leader with expertise in Strategic Sourcing and knowledge of Machine Learning/AI to consult on generative AI products and services, serving as the Subject Matter Expert to College Board teams through the full sourcing life cycle. This includes leveraging your industry and supplier knowledge to identify appropriate vendors and refining the College Board procurement process to include AI reviews and how we store the appropriate/relevant documentation.

The AI Strategic Sourcing Manager will also lead the AI governance review process, working closely with legal, risk management, and other stakeholders to understand, articulate, and mitigate risks, supporting build v. buy decisions and aligning AI use with organizational priorities. Given the highly cross-functional nature of the role, the AI Strategic Sourcing Manager will sit in the GenAI Studio for the first-year reporting into the Executive Director, AI Business Strategy, while working closely with the Procurement team.  

In this role, you will: 

Leverage knowledge and expertise of AI and generative AI suppliers to strategically advise teams and accelerate deployment in College  Board (40%)

• Conduct market research into generative AI supplier’s product and service offerings to understand market trends, including the capabilities and limitations of AI as the technology continues to evolve, and relative strengths and weaknesses of different supplier offerings

• Evaluate new suppliers, or new features and functionality of existing suppliers, as requested by internal teams, working closely within GenAI Studio to identify AI functionality that supports multiple org-wide use cases

• Advise internal teams on supplier tools suited to potential use cases, serving as the translator between technical capabilities/functionality and business needs

• Work with Technology and AI Governance Committee to rationalize tools to reduce risk and improve College Board leverage

• Identify and track pilot efforts, reflect the status and evolution as the cases progress through agile development

Improve process and reporting on AI governance committee (40%)

• Manage the AI governance committee/process in close partnership with GenAI Studio leadership, bringing together relevant stakeholders (Legal, InfoSec, Technology, etc) to make informed decisions on scaling AI and generative AI

• Build and maintain the ML/AI registry to document all use cases, collaborating with teams org-wide on reporting needs

• Proactively engage with internal teams to document new and emerging use cases, consulting on to refining potential AI use cases and high-level business justifications to build a robust project pipeline

Procurement Process Improvement/Adjustment (20%)

• Analyze and manage our AI contract landscape, focusing on key suppliers and ensuring compliance with legal guidance.

• Work closely with the Procurement leadershi