AI Innovation Leader, Employee Benefits - Remote

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The AI Innovation Leader is the embedded innovation leader for an assigned practice, driving practice-specific application of AI in partnership with OneDigital's central AI Product Team. The role exists to accelerate AI adoption within the practice without adding to the National Practice Leader's operational load. The AI Innovation Leader is the connective tissue between the practice and the AI Product Team - translating practice priorities into a use case pipeline, leading practice-embedded builders, and driving adoption through OneDigital's internal support functions (L&D, Change Management, Communications, Marketing, and the Project Management Office). They are accountable for AI outcomes within the practice. They are not accountable for building enterprise AI infrastructure, authoring governance policy, or personally executing training, change, or marketing work. AI is a new and fluid space, and OneDigital's approach to AI development within the practices will evolve as tools mature, use cases emerge, and the market shifts. This role requires a leader who is energized by that ambiguity - comfortable operating without a fixed playbook, adjusting strategy as the landscape changes, and partnering with the AI Product Team to shape an approach that will itself continue to change over time. Essential Duties and Responsibilities: The AI Innovation Leader is directly accountable for the following - the work does not happen without them: Practice AI Roadmap. Develop and maintain a rolling AI roadmap specific to the practice, aligned to enterprise AI strategy and practice growth priorities. Use Case Identification and Prioritization. Identify, evaluate, and sequence AI use cases with the highest business and client impact for the practice (e.g., benefits benchmarking and plan design analytics for EB; submission intake and placement workflow for P&C; compliance research and policy review for HR Consulting). Business Case Development. Translate AI opportunities into clear business cases for the National Practice Leader, practice leadership, and clients. Leadership of Practice-Embedded Builders. Provide day-to-day direction, priority-setting, and performance oversight to AI builders within the practice, with technical architecture and oversight from the AI Product Team. Adoption and Outcomes. Own practice-level adoption, active usage, and business impact - ensuring AI tools are integrated into core workflows and generating measurable value. Field Engagement and Feedback Loop. Serve as the visible face of AI within the practice - communicating new tools and capabilities in terms that resonate with consultants, energizing the field around practical value, and surfacing friction, ideas, and unmet needs back to the AI Product Team to refine tools, approaches, and roadmap. NPL ↔ AI Product Team Integration. Serve as the single point of integration between the National Practice Leader and the AI Product Team - surfacing practice needs, aligning on build-vs.-buy decisions, and ensuring the practice's voice is represented in enterprise AI planning. Practice AI Narrative. Define the external AI story for the practice - shaping client-facing positioning, thought leadership, and business development messaging, in partnership with Marketing and Business Development. What This Role Partners With The AI Innovation Leader does not personally execute in the following areas but shares accountability by defining requirements, providing SME input, and driving the practice's priorities through partner teams: AI Product Team - tool selection and procurement, technical architecture, security, data/IT integration, centralized builds, and governance application. Learning & Development - role-specific AI training curricula and practice-wide enablement programs. Change Management - stakeholder analysis, adoption planning, and transition support. Internal Communications - staff messaging, leadership alignment, and change narratives. Marketing - external thought leadership, case studies, and client-facing AI content. Project Management Office - pilot execution, rollout coordination, and timeline discipline. Peer AI Innovation Leaders - cross-practice learning and reusable solutions across Employee Benefits, P&C, and HR Consulting. What This Role Informs and Enables The AI Innovation Leader provide

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Employee Benefits is the core of our business and at our heart we are a people-focused organization. Every day, we help over 100,000 employers give their employees peace of mind by providing health, pharmacy, long and short-term disability, vision, dental and other insurance solutions. What makes us unique is that we can surround our clients with more services and more technology-based tools and a team of advisors that simply cares more than anyone else. If you want a career giving people the reassurance that they can have access to the health care they need for themselves and their loved ones, join OneDigital. Our Newest Opportunity:

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