Head of AI Adoption & Evangelism

Head of AI Adoption & Evangelism Location: Abu Dhabi, UAE Employment: Full-time- 12 month FTE to perm The Role Our client is looking for a senior AI Adoption & Evangelism leader to drive measurable adoption of AI across a large enterprise. This is not a traditional training, communications or change-management role. The successful candidate will own the AI adoption strategy, employee engagement, use-case activation and measurement of business impact. Key Responsibilities - Own and execute the enterprise-wide AI adoption roadmap. - Define adoption KPIs and track usage, engagement, retention and business value. - Drive practical AI use cases across different functions and employee groups. - Build and manage an AI Champions / ambassador network. - Develop role-based training, enablement and adoption programmes. - Engage executives and managers to drive sustained behavioural change. - Lead internal AI communications, demonstrations, communities and showcases. - Identify adoption barriers and implement targeted interventions. - Partner with AI, product, technology, security and transformation teams to embed adoption into new AI initiatives. - Use employee and product data to distinguish between adoption, training and product-quality issues. Requirements - 8+ years in enterprise adoption, transformation, digital workplace, product adoption or change. - Proven experience owning large-scale adoption or behaviour-change programmes. - Strong understanding of Generative AI, AI assistants and enterprise AI tools such as ChatGPT Enterprise, Microsoft Copilot or Claude. - Strong analytical and programme-management skills, with experience using adoption/usage data. - Excellent executive communication and stakeholder-management skills. - Experience translating AI technology into practical business use cases. - Comfortable operating in large, complex or regulated organisations. Strong advantage: Experience driving AI adoption across 1,000+ employees, building AI champion networks, or working within government, banking or other regulated environments. We are looking for someone who can make AI adoption a measurable business outcome — not simply someone who can train or promote AI. *** Only successful candidates will be contacted ***