Manager, Strategy & AI Enablement

About Holtzbrinck and the AI Hub

Holtzbrinck is one of the worlds leading media companies. Were home to Springer Nature Macmillan Publishers Macmillan Learning DIE ZEIT and Digital Science with a portfolio spanning science education literature and journalism. Our values curiosity commitment and passion carried us to over 14000 people more than 120 countries and over USD 4 billion in revenue.

Based in San Francisco the AI Hub sits at the intersection of a global media group and the worlds most vibrant AI ecosystem. We shape the groups AI strategy build partnerships with leading AI labs run programs that grow AI capability across our companies and invest in what comes next. We work directly with the Executive Board leaders and builders across the portfolio.

The role

Our portfolio companies employ thousands of people whose work is changing because of AI. Your job is to make that change deliberate. You own the programs that turn curiosity into capability: from our San Francisco Residency Program where portfolio talent explore their AI-related ideas for up to three months in San Francisco to Functional AI Leadership Weeks that bring our functional leaders driving the AI transformation together with partners startups and thought leaders.

What you will do

• Run our Residency Program end to end: cohort selection onboarding curriculum
• Build a strong alumni network of global AI talent across Holtzbrinck
• Design and deliver Functional AI Leadership Weeks including playbooks agendas and speaker curation
• Plan and facilitate leadership offsites and enablement workshops
• Own regular meetings across AI leaders and builders and build it into a genuine community across portfolio companies
• Drive the AI Hubs internal and external communications including our newsletter and event comms
• Measure what matters: participation satisfaction and real adoption per cycle reported to leadership

What success looks like

• Our Residency Program runs at full capacity with a waitlist and the prototype-to-deployment rate exceeds benchmarks
• Every major function has been through a Functional AI Week within 18 months with each week producing implementation next steps that significantly drive our internal AI transformation
• Portfolio executives request your workshops instead of being sent to them
• Holtzbrincks AI communities are places where portfolio companies learn from each other
• People at Holtzbrinck say the AI Hub programs have been instrumental in advancing their AI initiatives and strategy.

What you bring

• A bachelors or masters degree in business innovation management or a related field ideally with a focus on technology data or business development.
• 2 years of experience in AI strategy innovation management or product strategy ideally within a science education or media.
• Technical fluency; you collaborate with AI tools every day can read a demo critically and are proactively following the latest AI developments.
• Demonstrated experience building and managing relationships with external partners whether AI companies academic institutions or startups.
• Experience presenting to and advising senior leadership and coordinating across stakeholders in a complex organization.
• Event and program experience for example organizing innovation workshops networking formats or partner-facing initiatives.
• A highly organized self-starter who enjoys running projects independently and thrives in a fast-moving environment.

Salary: $120000

FLSA Status:Exempt

Macmillan Publishers is the U.S. trade company that is part of the Holtzbrinck Publishing Group a large family-owned group of media companies headquartered in Stuttgart Germany. Holtzbrinck Publishing Groups publishing companies include prominent imprints around the world that publish a broad range of award-winning books for children and adults in all categories and formats.

U.S. publishers include Celadon Books Farrar Straus and Giroux Flatiron Books Henry Holt & Company Macmillan Audio Macmillan Childrens Publishing Group The St. Martins Publishing Group and Tor Publishing the UK Australia India and South Africa companies in the Holtzbrinck Publishing Group publish under the Pan Macmillan name. The German publishing company Holtzbrinck Deutsche Buchverlage includes among its imprints S. Fischer Kiepenheuer & Witsch Rowohlt and Droemer Knaur.

Macmillan is proud to be an equal opportunity employer consistently striving to foster a culture where everyone belongs. We welcome applicants of all backgrounds and identities. Qualified applicants are evaluated without regard to race color religion age ethnicity national origin sex sexual orientation gender identity or expression disability status physical ability neurodiversity genetic information protected veteran status family and economic status and background or any other characteristic protected by federal state or local law. We prohibit discrimination of any kind and will provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities in accordance with applicable law.

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