About the role
The AI Enablement Partner is one of the most forward-looking — and most novel — roles at Athennian. It isn't a traditional IT, operations or even People function. It sits at the intersection of all three.
Reporting to the Senior Director of People, this role exists to close the gap between human cognition and synthetic cognition — diagnosing where AI can take on cognitive load, building the agents and automations that make it happen, and coaching the people who use them. You'll work cross-functionally across the organization serving as the go-to partner to help teams move faster, automate smarter, or understand where AI can genuinely help.
If you're passionately curious about AI, energized by ambiguous problems, able to explain complex automations with patience and clarity, and have a demonstrated history of building things — agents, workflows, integrations — this role was written for you.
What you'll do
Agent Development & Automation Building
- Design, build, and deploy AI agents and automated workflows across business functions, integrating tools and systems to reduce manual cognitive load and accelerate output.
- Identify opportunities to connect platforms — from CRMs and project management tools to communication stacks — and build automations that make them work together intelligently.
- Maintain and iterate on a living library of prompts, agents, and workflow templates that teams can self-serve and adapt.
- Partner with the Head of Privacy and Information Security and Senior Engineering Manager, DevOps & Infrastructure to ensure AI tools, agents, and integrations are deployed safely — maintaining visibility into what's enabled across the organization, assessing new tools for risk before adoption, and ensuring the pace of AI enablement never outstrips our ability to manage the exposure it creates.
Cross-Functional Partnership & Support
- Serve as an embedded AI resource across departments — partnering with teams to understand their workflows, surface high-impact automation opportunities, and help implement solutions.
- Manage an internal AI support queue, triaging and resolving requests from team members seeking guidance, tool recommendations, or hands-on help with AI-related challenges.
- Build trusted relationships across the organization by showing up as a patient, approachable, and genuinely helpful partner — not just a technical resource, but a thinking partner.
Training, Development & AI Culture
- Design and deliver practical, role-based AI training that helps team members develop real proficiency — not just awareness — with the tools and patterns most relevant to their work.
- Co-facilitate task audits, micro-sprints, and design sessions with department teams, helping them map where AI fits into their workflows using our six AI application patterns framework.
- Support the development of AI competency frameworks and career path integration alongside the People Team.
- Champion psychological safety around AI adoption — addressing automation anxiety with empathy, building confidence, and helping people see AI as an amplifier of their capabilities, not a threat.
Market Intelligence & Research
- Stay at the leading edge of the AI landscape — tracking product releases, model updates, emerging tools, and research across platforms including Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor, and beyond.
- Synthesize and share relevant developments with the organization in accessible, actionable formats — not just awareness, but clear recommendations on what we should be paying attention to and why.
- Evaluate new tools, platforms, and integrations for organizational fit and make evidence-based recommendations to leadership.