AI Academy Program Lead @ Bridgestone

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

This is a hands-on position located in Nashville, TN and is not remote. This person must live within a commutable distance to Nashville. The AI Academy Program Lead will design, launch, and scale Bridgestone’s enterprise AI learning and workforce readiness program. This role is responsible for building an AI-fluent workforce that can confidently, responsibly, and ethically apply artificial intelligence in daily work. The Program Lead will connect learning strategy, responsible AI governance, adoption enablement, and measurable business value to help transform AI literacy from one-time training into a durable enterprise capability.

In addition, this role will serve as a strategic change enablement leader for enterprise AI adoption, helping define teammate personas, capability models, learning pathways, adoption strategies, and communication plans that support workforce transformation. The program Lead will partner across HR, Communications, It, Data & AI, Legal, Compliance, Information Security, and business functions to ensure AI learning, governance, tool adoption, leadership readiness, and communication activities are coordinated into a cohesive enterprise AI experience.

This role will be accountable for shaping the long-term AI capability strategy, extending beyond required corporate training to include business, technical, leadership, and practitioner development program that help teammates continuously advance their AI maturity and achieve measurable business outcomes.

Responsibilities

AI Academy Strategy & Operating Model Own and lead the enterprise AI Academy strategy, roadmap, and operating model aligned to business priorities, workforce needs, responsible AI standards, and value realization goals.

Establish and manage the AI Academy operating model, including course catalog, learning tracks, certifications or badges, office hours, workshops, communities of practice, train-the-trainer programs, and executive enablement sessions. Develop and maintain a multi-year AI workforce readiness strategy that aligns learning investments with enterprise transformation priorities and emerging AI opportunities. Continuously monitor external AI trends, regulatory expectations, learning practices, tool changes, and emerging risks to keep the AI Academy current and relevant.

Curriculum & Learning Programs Develop curriculum pathways covering AI foundations, generative AI, prompt engineering, approved AI tools, use-case discovery, workflow redesign, responsible AI, data privacy, security, governance, and change adoption. Design and scale personas AI learning journeys for broad teammate populations, people leaders, functional teams, practitioners, power users, and technical enablement teams. Partner with third-party vendor(s) and subject matter experts to create practical, business-relevant learning experiences that help teammates apply AI effectively in their daily work. Lead pilots, workshops, and capability-building sessions that accelerate AI maturity across business functions and regions. Translate complex AI concepts into clear, engaging, business-relevant learning experiences for technical and non-technical audiences.

Change Enablement & Adoption Serve as the AI Academy change enablement lead by developing adoption strategies, audience readiness plans, stakeholder engagement approaches, reinforcement mechanisms, and behavior-change programs that help teammates move from awareness to confident, responsible AI usage. Own, in partnership with Communication and HR, the AI Academy communication strategy and communication calendar. Coordinate the timing, targeting, and sequencing of AI-related communications to reduce message overlap and improve teammate clarity Develop communication toolkits, newsletters, launch materials, leadership messaging, success stories, learning campaigns, and engagement content that support AI adoption. Drive adoption through practical playbooks, templates, prompt libraries, communications, events, workshops, and change-management campaigns. Define and track program effectiveness through participation, completion, proficiency, certification, adoption, behavior change, productivity impact, risk reduction, and business outcomes.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in a relevant field. • Experience launching AI enablement, AI literacy, digital upskilling, workforce transformation, or enterprise academy programs. • Familiarity with adult learning principles, instructional design, learning experience design, certification models, badging, and LMS platforms such as Workday Learning or SuccessFactors. • Experience operating in a large, global, matrixed organization with regional and functional stakeholders. • Experience creating role-based learning journeys, persona-based capability models, maturity frameworks, or adoption playbooks. • Relevant certifications in AI, instructional design, change management, project management, program management, agile delivery, or organizational development. • Experience with Microsoft Copilot, Copilot Studio, Databricks, Power Platform, generative AI tools, or enterprise AI governance programs.

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 and Development, Education, Organizational Development, Business, Technology, Data and Analytics, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience. • 7+ years of experience in learning strategy, enterprise capability building, workforce enablement, change management, digital transformation, AI adoption, or a related field. • Demonstrated experience designing, launching, and scaling enterprise learning programs for broad and diverse audiences. • Strong understanding of generative AI, AI literacy, responsible AI, and practical business applications of AI-enabled tools. • Proven ability to translate complex technical topics into simple, engaging, business-relevant learning content for non-technical audiences. • Experience partnering across HR, business functions, technology, legal, compliance, information security, communications, and senior leadership stakeholders. • Strong program/project management, stakeholder management, facilitation, executive communication, and change-adoption skills. • Experience defining learning metrics, adoption measures, capability frameworks, dashboards, or business impact reporting. • Working knowledge of responsible AI topics such as ethics, bias, privacy, security, intellectual property, governance, risk awareness, and human oversight.

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.