Company Overview

Bridgestone Americas, Inc. (BSAM), headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, and Bridgestone Europe, Middle East and Africa (BSEMEA), headquartered in Brussels, Belgium, operate collectively as a “Bridgestone West” strategic region. This region services the strategic business needs of teams across the Americas, Europe, Middle East and Africa. BSAM and BSEMEA are subsidiaries of Bridgestone Corporation, globally headquartered in Japan. Bridgestone and its subsidiaries develop, manufacture and market a wide range of Bridgestone, Firestone and associate brand products and solutions to address the needs of a broad range of customers and industries.

Job Category

HR

Position Summary

The AI Academy Program Lead will build and lead an enterprise AI learning strategy that develops an AI-fluent workforce across the organization. This role is responsible for designing, launching, and continuously improving a scalable AI literacy program that enables teammates to confidently, responsibility, and ethically integrate artificial intelligence into daily work. The role will help transform the workforce into a competitive engine of innovation, speed, and precision by combining practical enablement, strong governance alignment, and measurable business impact.

Responsibilities

• Define and lead the enterprise AI literacy and AI academy strategy aligned to business priorities, workforce needs, and responsible AI principles
• Build a multi-level AI learning curriculum for broad employee populations people leaders, functional teams, and specialized power users
• Develop learning pathways covering foundational AI concepts, prompt writing, use-case identification, workflow redesign, responsible AI, data privacy, security, governance, and change adoption
• Partner with business leaders, HR, Legal, Compliance, IT, Information Security, Data & AI, and Communications to ensure training content is practical, compliant, and aligned to enterprise standards
• Create and manage an AI academy operational model, including course catalog, learning journeys, certification/badging, office hours, communities of practice, and train-the-trainer programs
• Translate complex AI concepts into simple, engaging, business-relevant learning experiences for technical and non-technical audiences
• Identify high-value use cases and embed role-based enablement that helps teams apply AI tools in daily operations
• Establish standards for responsible and ethical AI usage, including guidance on human oversight, bias awareness, privacy, security, intellectual property, and acceptable use
• Drive adoption of approved AI tools by creating practical playbooks, templates, examples, and internal communications
• Measure program effectiveness through participation, proficiency, adoption, behavior change, productivity gains, and business outcomes
• Monitor external AI trends, learning practices, and emerging risks to keep curriculum current and relevant
• Build executive-facing updates, dashboards, and recommendations that communicate progress, risks, and opportunities
• Lear or support pilots, workshops, and capability-building sessions that accelerate AI maturity across functions

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in a relevant field
• Experience launching AI enablement, digital upskilling, or enterprise academy programs
• Familarity with adult learning principles, instructional design, and learning technologies/LMS platforms
• Experience in a large, matrixed organization
• Experience creating role-based learning journeys and measurable capability frameworks
• Revelant certifications in AI, learning design, change management, or project/program management

Success Measures

• Increased AI literacy across teammate populations
• Higher adoption of approved AI tools and workflows
• Improved teamamtes’ confidence in using AI responsibility
• Measurable productivity, quality, or cycle-time improvement tied to AI-enabled work
• Strong alignment with governance, privacy, security, and compliance requirements
• Positive learner feedback and sustained engagement with the AI academy

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Learning & Development, Education, Organizational Development, Buisness, Technology, Data/Analytics, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• 7+ years of experience in learning strategy, workforce enablement, capability building, change management, digital transformation, or a related field
• Experience designing and scaling enterprise learning programs for broad and diverse audiences
• Strong understanding of generative AI, AI literacy, and practical business applications of AI
• Demonstrated ability to translate technical topics into accessible learning content for non-technical audiences
• Experience partnering across HR, business functions, technology, legal/compliance, and communications
• Strong program management, stakeholder manager, and executive communication skills
• Experience with responsible AI topics such as ethics, bias, privacy, governance, and risk awareness

At Bridgestone, you are Free to Be

We believe people can only provide superior service and quality to others when they feel safe bringing their chosen version of themselves to work. We believe in championing all perspectives, individuals and teams because we understand the importance of seeing the world and our business through many different lenses. So, show us what you are made of, because who you are is what we need.

What we offer

At Bridgestone, what really matters is to foster co-creation opportunities and empowering you to be creative and curious to make mobility safer, more efficient, and more sustainable for future generations. Whatever role you fill, when you represent Bridgestone, you are a valued teammate, and part of our larger mission to “Serve Society with Superior Quality”, for that, we offer you more than just a competitive compensation; we will provide you:

• A supportive and engaging onboarding experience to ensure a smooth transition into our team.
• The opportunity to develop and grow, through training and regular mentorship.
• Corporate Social Responsibility activities.
• A truly global, dynamic and challenging work environment.
• Agility and work/life effectiveness and your long-term well-being.
• An effective and inclusive team.

Bridgestone is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. It is our policy to consider all individuals for employment based on their unique merit and without regard to age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.

Employment Eligibility

If hired, a Form I-9 Employment Eligibility Verification must be completed at the start of employment. Temporary work authorization or the need for sponsorship may disqualify you from employment.