# Internal AI Innovation Lead

**Company:** [Navan](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/navan)
**Location:** New York, NY
**Role:** Product Operations
**Salary:** $173k – $384k/yr
**Skills:** Generative AI, Ai Platforms, Prompt Engineering, AI Agents, AI Automation, Rapid Prototyping, Low-Code Tools, No-Code Tools, Product Management, Adoption Metrics, Ai Training, Change Management, Facilitation, Mentorship, Storytelling
**Posted:** 2026-08-17

> Leads the company’s internal AI platforms, education programs, business-led prototypes, and AI Champion community. The role requires strong hands-on generative AI fluency, rapid prototyping ability, internal product thinking, and excellent enablement and change-leadership skills.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities

- Manage internal AI platforms, tools, and sandboxes as products, ensuring adoption, guardrails, and continuous improvement based on user needs.
- Design and lead AI training programs, workshops, and resource hubs to help employees adopt AI effectively.
- Partner with business units to identify opportunities and build, test, and launch rapid AI proof-of-concept prototypes.
- Build and mentor a cross-departmental community of AI Champions who can design AI solutions for their teams.
- Evaluate emerging AI tools and trends and demonstrate practical ways to embed AI into everyday operations.

## Requirements

- Hands-on fluency with modern AI tools, generative AI platforms, custom agents, and prompt engineering.
- Ability to identify opportunities for AI automation.
- Experience rapidly prototyping with low-code/no-code AI builders, platform features, or lightweight tools.
- Experience treating internal platforms or programs as products, using feedback, iteration, and adoption metrics to improve the user experience.
- Track record of designing training, building employee communities, and teaching non-technical teams to use new technology.
- Strong storytelling, facilitation, communication, mentorship, and change-leadership skills.

## Compensation

- Pay range: **$172,800–$384,000 USD**.
- Starting pay depends on factors including primary work location, skills and experience, market demands, and internal parity.
- For roles with on-target earnings, the range includes base salary and target incentive compensation.

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