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We are known for delivering insights, products, and services that make quality care more accessible and affordable. Here, we focus on the health, happiness, and well-being of you and those we serve - we care.\nWhat you do at McKesson matters. We foster a culture where you can grow, make an impact, and are empowered to bring new ideas. Together, we thrive as we shape the future of health for patients, our communities, and our people. If you want to be part of tomorrow’s health today, we want to hear from you.\nCoverMyMeds is recognized across McKesson as a leader in AI adoption. Our Technology organization runs on an AI-First operating model, with AI embedded in how we plan, build, secure, and deliver software. We are looking for a Senior Director, AI Enablement to lead the next stage of this transformation.\nThis Sr Director, AI Enablement will own AI strategy, governance, and AI engineering platforms for CoverMyMeds, and will build and deliver AI products using an agentic, AI-native approach, where AI agents are designed into products and workflows from the start rather than added later. The role scales safe and measurable AI adoption across engineering and business teams, and partners with McKesson's Enterprise AI team so capabilities are built once and reused across business units. This is a builder's role for someone who combines technical depth, product delivery, strategic vision, and the ability to change how people work.\nKey Responsibilities:\nAI Strategy and Roadmap\nDefine and own the AI enablement strategy and multi-year roadmap for CoverMyMeds, aligned with business priorities and McKesson's enterprise AI direction.\nManage a portfolio of concurrent AI initiatives and a multimillion-dollar budget, prioritizing investments by business value, risk, and reuse.\nMeasure and report AI adoption, productivity, and ROI to executive leadership.\nAgentic-Native Product Build and Delivery\nOwn the build and delivery of AI products and agents end to end, from discovery and design through production release and ongoing improvement.\nChampion an agentic-native approach: design products and workflows around AI agents from the start, with humans in the loop where it matters.\nPartner with Product and business leaders to identify high-value use cases and turn them into products that deliver measurable clinical, operational, and financial outcomes.\nUse AI-accelerated delivery to move from idea to production in days and weeks, while holding the bar on quality, security, and compliance.\nGovernance and Responsible AI\nChair the AI Review Board and own AI usage policy, model-selection frameworks, and token allocation and cost management.\nEnsure HIPAA, privacy, and security requirements are built into AI development and delivery processes.\nPartner with Legal, Privacy, Security, and Compliance to enable fast, safe, and responsible AI adoption.\nAI Platforms and Engineering Acceleration\nLead the teams that build and run reusable AI capabilities, including the AI Skills Marketplace, MCP servers, agents, and developer tooling.\nAdvance the AI-embedded SDLC, including spec-driven development, AI code review, automated vulnerability remediation, shift-left testing, and self-service developer onboarding.\nDrive build-once, reuse-everywhere practices so shared AI assets serve multiple teams and business units.\nAdoption, Enablement, and Change\nScale AI adoption beyond engineering to product, business, legal, finance, privacy, call center, and platform teams.\nOwn the AI training curriculum and champions network, from foundational AI literacy to advanced agentic workflows.\nAdvise senior leadership and the C-suite on AI strategy, capabilities, and risk.\nBuild a positive, curious AI culture through townhalls, ERG sessions, and hands-on enablement.\nPartnership and Leadership\nPartner with McKesson's Enterprise AI team, architecture, product, and platform leaders to align standards and avoid duplicate effort.\nWork with external technology partners and vendors to evaluate and adopt emerging AI capabilities.\nHire, develop, and retain a high-performing team of engineers, architects, and enablement specialists.\nBasic Qualifications:\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, or 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Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, and Model Context Protocol (MCP).\nExperience with FHIR and healthcare interoperability standards.\nExperience in a matrixed, multi-business-unit enterprise.\nTechnical Skills:\nGenerative and agentic AI: LLMs, RAG, agents, prompt and context engineering, model evaluation.\nAgentic-native product design: multi-agent workflows, tool use, human-in-the-loop design, and agent observability and evaluation.\nProduct delivery: discovery, MVP definition, rapid iteration, and production release.\nAI platform engineering: MCP, reusable skills and plugins, AI marketplaces, LLMOps.\nModern SDLC: spec-driven development, CI/CD, DevOps, Cyber Security, automated testing and code review.\nCloud-native architecture (GCP or AWS), APIs, and integration platforms.\nData foundations for AI, including data quality, tagging, and synthetic data.\nLeadership:\nStrategic vision and the ability to turn it into an executable roadmap.\nExecutive communication and influence, including explaining complex technical topics simply.\nChange leadership: moving teams from skepticism to confident, everyday AI use.\nCross-functional partnership with Legal, Privacy, Security, Product, and business leaders.\nTalent development and building inclusive, high-performing teams.\nData-driven decisions, with a focus on measurable outcomes and ROI.\nWhat Success Looks Like in the First Year:\nAI adoption continues to grow across engineering and expands further into business functions.\nNew agentic-native AI products are delivered to production with measurable business outcomes.\nGovernance keeps pace with new AI capabilities without slowing delivery.\nReusable AI assets are adopted across multiple teams and business units, reducing duplicate effort.\nClear, regular reporting on AI adoption, productivity, and ROI to executive leadership.\nWe are proud to offer a competitive compensation package at McKesson as part of our Total Rewards. This is determined by several factors, including performance, experience and skills, equity, regular job market evaluations, and geographical markets. The pay range shown below is aligned with McKesson's pay philosophy, and pay will always be compliant with any applicable regulations.In addition to base pay, other compensation, such as an annual bonus or long-term incentive opportunities may be offered. For more information regarding benefits at McKesson, please click here.\nOur Base Pay Range for this position\n$174,800 - $291,300McKesson has become aware of online recruiting-related scams in which individuals who are not affiliated with or authorized by McKesson are using McKesson’s (or affiliated entities, like CoverMyMeds or RxCrossroads) name in fraudulent emails, job postings or social media messages. In light of these scams, please bear the following in mind:\nMcKesson Talent Advisors will never solicit money or credit card information in connection with a McKesson job application.\nMcKesson Talent Advisors do not communicate with candidates via online chatrooms or using email accounts such as Gmail or Hotmail. Note that McKesson does rely on a virtual assistant (Gia) for certain recruiting-related communications with candidates.\nMcKesson job postings are posted on our career site: careers.mckesson.com.\nMcKesson is an Equal Opportunity Employer\nMcKesson provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, age, genetic information, or any other legally protected category. For additional information on McKesson’s full Equal Employment Opportunity policies, visit our Equal Employment Opportunity page.\nMcKesson is committed to being an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer and offers opportunities to all job seekers including job seekers with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation to assist with your job search or application for employment, please contact us by sending an email to (United States)  or (Canada) . 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