AI Operations & Enablement Lead – Marketing Center of Excellence (CoE)

Chicago, IL (Hybrid)

$118K/yr – $174K/yrSenior Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 7 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own AI-enabled marketing ops by discovering use cases, prototyping agents, and scaling deployments with governance and brand enablement.

  • Own the discovery and triage of high impact AI opportunities across brand and marketing workflows.
  • Build and productionize AI agents and automation that integrate with Marketo, Salesforce, CMS, and dynamic creative platforms.
  • Drive adoption and enablement with playbooks, agile deployment, and governance to ensure responsible AI and ROI.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Use Case Discovery & Solution Auditing (The Systems Thinker)
  • Triage & Backlog Management: Actively partner with brand and business teams to audit their current workflows, identify bottlenecks, and surface high-impact AI opportunities (e.g., automated content variation, localized ad ops, predictive lead scoring).
  • Solution Review: Evaluate existing or vendor-proposed AI tools to ensure they integrate seamlessly with our current MarTech stack without fracturing data workflows or violating security guardrails.
  • Feasibility Guardrails: Filter opportunities into distinct buckets: "Quick wins" (low-code automation), "Strategic builds" (partnering with Data Science), or "Not viable."
  • 2. Technical Prototyping & Agent Development (The Builder)
  • Rapid Prototyping: Build and test AI-driven agents and intelligent automation workflows using APIs and orchestration frameworks approved by Brunswick Corporation.
  • Production Integration: Operationalize and inject these AI prototypes into our core marketing systems (e.g., Marketo, Salesforce, CMS, and dynamic creative platforms) to ensure a frictionless user experience for frontline marketers. Ensure every production workflow has a named business owner and review cadence .
  • Performance Monitoring: Set up basic observability tracking to ensure deployed agents are accurate, cost-effective, and performing as intended without "hallucination drift."
  • AI Governance: Partner with cross-functional teams to operationalize responsible-AI guardrails across all deployed agents including: tool/vendor intake reviews, data-handling and PII boundaries, prompt and output logging, human-in-the-loop checkpoints, and a documented kill-switch protocol for any agent that drifts out of tolerance.
  • 3. Tactical Deployment & Brand Enablement (The Program Manager)
  • Run Agile Sprints: Own the execution roadmap by managing 2-week agile sprint cycles to move AI solutions rapidly from ideation to active deployment within business units.
  • Playbook Creation: Translate successful deployments into repeatable, documented playbooks, governance decision trees, and self-service templates so other brands can adopt them autonomously.
  • Hands-on Hypercare: Embed with brand teams during early deployment phases to troubleshoot, gather immediate feedback, and optimize solutions in real-time.
  • Adoption: Drive sustained usage by running brand-embedded enablement programs, office hours, and a marketing AI Champions network across divisions and COE.
  • Community Building : Lead onboarding for new tools and proactively identify low-adoption pockets to coach teams through resistance, skill gaps, or workflow friction.
  • Prompting : Structure, standardize and continuously refine a shared prompt and pattern library.
  • 4. Reporting & Value Realization
  • Transparency : Own the AI COE value narrative by building and maintaining a leadership-ready dashboard that tracks adoption metrics (active users, % of teams onboarded ), efficiency outcomes (hours saved, cycle-time compression), and solution health (accuracy, incident counts, etc.).
  • Socialization : Deliver a monthly scorecard and quarterly business review that translates technical output into measurable enterprise impact for marketing leadership and the broader executive team.
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Brunswick Corporation

Brunswick is a global leader in marine recreation, delivering innovation that transforms experiences on the water and beyond. Our unique, technology-driven solutions are informed and inspired by deep consumer insights and powered by our belief that “Next Never Rests™”. Brunswick is dedicated to industry leadership, to being the best and most trusted partner to our many customers, and to building synergies and ecosystems that enable us to challenge convention and define the future. Brunswick is home to more than 60 industry-leading brands. In the category of Marine Propulsion, these brands include Mercury Marine, Mercury Racing and MerCruiser. Brunswick’s comprehensive collection of parts, accessories, distribution, and technology brands includes Mercury Engine Parts & Accessories, BLA and Land ‘N’ Sea. Our Navico Group and its industry-leading technology brands consist of Lowrance, Simrad, B&G, Mastervolt, RELiON, Attwood and Whale. Our Boat brands are some of the best known in the world, including Boston Whaler, Lund, Sea Ray, Bayliner, Harris Pontoons, Princecraft and Quicksilver. In addition, our service, digital and shared-access businesses include Freedom Boat Club, Boateka and a range of financing, insurance, and extended warranty businesses. While focused primarily on the marine industry, Brunswick also successfully leverages its portfolio of advanced technologies to deliver an exceptional suite of solutions in mobile and industrial applications. Headquartered in Mettawa, IL, Brunswick has approximately 19,000 employees operating in 27 countries. In 2022, Brunswick was named by Forbes as a World’s Best Employer and as one of America’s Most Responsible Companies by Newsweek, both for the third consecutive year. For more information, visit www.Brunswick.com.

Mettawa, IL, US
9K employees (470 in marketing)