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About the Team
The People Technology team supports the systems, data, and tools used across Yahoo’s People organization. We partner with HR teams to improve workflows, reduce manual work, and make it easier for employees and managers to get the support they need. AI is a growing part of that work, and the team is focused on helping HR use it in ways that are practical, secure, and responsible.
About the Role
We’re hiring a Senior Manager, HR AI Strategy & Governance t o help determine where AI can add the most value across HR and put the right structure around how it is used. Partnering closely with the Director of People Technology, you’ll help shape the AI roadmap, prioritize use cases, and manage the governance process that moves new ideas through the appropriate legal, privacy, and security reviews.
You’ll provide direction on the solutions the team takes on and manage a direct report. While this is not primarily a development role, you’ll stay close to the work, help scope more complex solutions, and provide hands-on support when needed. You’ll also work with HR teams to improve their AI capabilities and partner with technical teams on solutions that require more advanced infrastructure or data access.
What You’ll Do
Set direction for HR’s AI roadmap
Partner with the Director of People Technology and HR leaders to identify priorities and develop a clear AI roadmap
Assess potential use cases based on value, feasibility, effort, risk, and timing
Create a consistent process for prioritizing requests and managing the use-case backlog
Define and track measures of adoption, impact, efficiency, and ROI
Manage AI governance for HR
Manage the intake and review process for new AI use cases
Coordinate the appropriate legal, privacy, security, and compliance reviews
Maintain and improve standards for responsible AI use, data protection, and model performance
Serve as a primary point of contact between HR and internal governance partners
Guide AI and automation solutions
Work with HR teams to understand workflow challenges and identify practical solutions
Scope solutions and guide the work from initial idea and prototype through adoption and improvement
Partner with technical teams on more complex solutions, such as HR assistants, case routing, and people analytics reporting
Provide hands-on support for select prototypes and workflows when needed
Improve the technical foundation
Partner with People Technology, Data Engineering, IT, and other technical teams to create secure ways to use HR data
Help move AI-enabled workflows away from temporary or manual solutions and toward secure, scalable infrastructure
Support the use of platforms such as BigQuery and Google Cloud Platform
Establish clear standards for evaluating AI tools and connecting them to the HR technology ecosystem
Improve high-friction HR workflows
Identify manual or inefficient processes where AI or automation could make a meaningful difference
Help design solutions that reduce work for HR teams and improve the employee experience
Encourage approaches that can be maintained, reused, and expanded over time
Help the People team build its AI capabilities
Advise HR teams as they identify and develop AI-enabled workflows
Support teams working through more complex use cases
Develop training and practical guidance for using AI tools safely and effectively
Help teams understand where AI is useful, where it has limitations, and when additional review is needed
Partner cross-functionally
Partner with teams across HR to turn their needs into clear priorities and workable solutions
Collaborate with Data Engineering, IT, Legal, Privacy, Security, and other central-services teams
Work through technical…