Western Governors University

Western Governors University

Senior Strategist - Future of Education and AI Innovation

Salt Lake City, UT · Senior · Full-time

Sponsorship not specified$110k-$170kDetected 3 days ago
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Entry-level history60
PERM / green-card track50
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About the role

  • It is intended to be an accurate reflection of the current position, however management reserves the right to revise or change as necessary to meet organizational needs.
  • Other responsibilities may be assigned when circumstances require.
  • Additional travel may include conferences, visits to company locations, and other business-related events as needed.

Responsibilities

  • Additional travel may be assigned as needed to support business requirements.
  • Innovation Portfolio Ownership: Own a portfolio of Innovation initiatives end-to-end, from problem framing and hypothesis through prototype, evaluation, and handoff or sunset. Recommend which initiatives advance, scale, or stop.
  • Strategy Development: Develop AI strategies that connect emerging capabilities to specific student outcomes and institutional priorities. Translate broad direction from leadership into scoped, testable workstreams.
  • Prototyping and Experimentation: Design and build prototypes and experiments that test whether an approach works before the university invests in it. Define the question, the method, and the threshold for success in advance.
  • Evidence and Evaluation Design: Set the evaluation design for assigned initiatives, including instrumentation, measures, comparison conditions, and analysis plan. Produce findings that partners can act on and defend.
  • Cross-Functional Partnership: Build durable working relationships with academic programs, assessment, technology, institutional research, and student-facing operations. Secure the alignment an initiative needs before it needs it.
  • Knowledge Transfer and Enablement: Build the artifacts that let others use the work, including documentation, playbooks, briefings, and training.
  • The Senior Strategist within the Program Experience Futures team owns a portfolio of AI initiatives from first concept through prototypes.
  • This role sets the evidence standards the team uses to decide what advances and what stops, designs and runs experiments that answer questions leadership cannot answer any other way, and translates emerging technology into decision-ready recommendations for academic and operational partners.
  • The Senior Strategist works independently on ambiguous, high-visibility problems, mentors Strategists, and represents the team's work to partner directors and university leadership.

Requirements

  • Demonstrated experience taking an AI or emerging technology initiative from concept through evaluated implementation.
  • Proficiency in data analysis and use of relevant software tools.
  • Department Specific Minimum Qualifications
  • Experience designing and running pilots or studies in a live academic environment, including instrumentation and measurement.
  • Proficiency in data analysis and interpretation to inform program development decisions, assess program efficacy, and identify areas for continuous improvement.

Nice to have

  • Experience contributing to AI governance, ethics review, or responsible AI standards.
  • Physical Requirements
  • Prolonged periods sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
  • Must be able to lift up to 15 pounds at times.

Skills

  • Deep understanding of AI and machine learning technologies, including current model capabilities, limitations, and failure modes.

Compensation

  • $109,900.00 - $170,400.00

Equal opportunity

  • All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any protected characteristic as required by law.
  • Accommodations: Applicants with disabilities who require assistance or accommodation during the application or interview process should contact our Talent Acquisition team at recruiting@wgu.edu.
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