AI Enablement Lead, Axios
$130-165k
News media company
Job no longer available
News media company
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$130-165k
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To get you smarter, faster on what matters.
Role
Who you are
- Strong curiosity about emerging AI technologies and a desire to continuously learn
- Strong communication skills. Able to translate technical concepts into accessible guidance
- Practical understanding of AI tools and how they apply to real-world workflows
- Ability to break down ambiguous problems and guide teams toward clear solutions
- Experience facilitating discussions, workshops, or advisory sessions with cross-functional teams
- Comfort operating as a visible, approachable point of contact across an organization
- Collaborative mindset with a focus on enabling others rather than directing them
- Ability to balance structure with flexibility when supporting a wide range of team needs
What the job involves
- The AI Enablement Lead serves as a connective partner across the organization, helping departments translate ideas into actionable AI-supported workflows. This role emphasizes partnership, guidance, and accessibility. It supports teams in understanding the problems they are trying to solve, identifying where AI can help, and navigating a clear path from concept to execution
- As the company’s first dedicated AI Enablement Lead, you will act as the central point of contact for AI across Axios
- You will be the face of AI within the organization, building trust, providing clarity, and creating approachable pathways for teams to engage with AI in their work
- You will translate complex technical concepts into clear, practical guidance, helping teams understand when and how to use AI to improve productivity while upholding responsible usage standards
- Rather than defining AI strategy for teams, you will partner with departments to help them achieve their own goals
- You will provide guidance, structured support, and targeted learning where needed
- You will also drive consistent communication around AI efforts, ensuring teams understand what is possible, what is working, and how to move forward
- Go deeper: While this role sits within the Product, Design, and Technology department, you will partner closely with Talent Management and HR to align AI enablement with broader competency frameworks, career development goals, and employee learning strategies
- This ensures that support is not one-off, but contributes to long-term capability building across the organization
- This role bridges technology and business needs
- It focuses on helping teams make meaningful progress, not just increasing awareness
- Act as a trusted partner and sounding board for teams exploring AI opportunities
- Help departments clearly define the problems they are trying to solve before recommending tools or approaches
- Guide teams in identifying practical, achievable paths to implement AI in their workflows
- Support teams through early-stage ideation, experimentation, and refinement of AI use cases
- Meet teams where they are. Provide tailored support based on their level of familiarity and confidence
- Host regular office hours to provide accessible, real-time support for teams across the company
- Offer ad hoc guidance to individuals and teams working through specific challenges or ideas
- Create an approachable environment where employees feel comfortable asking questions and exploring possibilities
- Serve as a consistent, visible resource for AI-related questions and problem-solving
- Deliver focused, practical training sessions based on real team needs and use cases
- Provide learning opportunities such as workshops, demos, and guided working sessions
- Support teams in applying AI tools directly to their workflows rather than teaching abstract concepts
- Partner with Talent Management and HR to align learning efforts with broader development frameworks
- Own and drive clear, consistent communication about AI across the organization
- Share updates, success stories, and examples of how teams are using AI effectively
- Help demystify AI by translating complex concepts into accessible, practical language
- Establish yourself as the recognizable and approachable face of AI at Axios
- Promote thoughtful, responsible use of AI tools across teams
- Provide guidance on appropriate use cases, limitations, and risks
- Develop and share lightweight best practices that teams can easily adopt
- Ensure teams are equipped to use AI safely while still moving quickly
- Maintain simple, actionable resources that support teams as they implement AI
- Capture and share repeatable patterns, playbooks, and examples from across departments
- Reduce duplication by helping teams learn from each other’s approaches and outcomes
- Partner with leaders and managers to understand team goals and where AI can support them
- Help identify gaps in understanding, tooling, or workflow design that may block progress
- Align support efforts with department-level priorities rather than introducing standalone initiatives
- What success looks like:
- Teams across Axios view this role as a trusted partner for AI-related problem solving
- Departments are able to move from ideas to execution with clear support and guidance
- Office hours and advisory support are actively used and valued across the organization
- AI adoption grows through practical, team-driven use cases rather than top-down mandates
- Communication around AI is clear, consistent, and widely understood
- Teams feel confident experimenting with AI and applying it to their work responsibly
- Knowledge and successful approaches are shared across departments, accelerating progress overall
Our take
Axios is a digital news site covering business, tech, politics, and media trends, with a focus on smart and efficient coverage. Much like rival comparable sites The Economist and Politico, it’s also diversified its media to include podcasts, newsletters, and a mobile app. Whilst it remains a major national and international news outlet, it’s also pursuing a new avenue to help shore up its position: local news.
Local news outlets have been in sharp decline over recent years: it’s too costly, with too little revenue. Axios’ plan is to opt instead for local newsletters. They’re highly advertiser-friendly, and the model itself is exceptionally scalable. So Axios may succeed where traditional efforts by other outlets like The Huffington Post (and countless local outfits) have failed.
Axios was previously held up as an exception to the mergers and acquisitions that other news outlets were enduring to weather the decline of print media. However, in order to fund the expansion into local news, Axios has been acquired by the global conglomerate (and previous investor in the company) Cox Enterprises. This is good news - Cox Enterprises owns and protects local newspapers in Ohio, and looks set to be a hands-off and values-aligned new Axios owner. In 2025, it was announced that OpenAI would be funding Axios's expansion into new US territories, suggesting even more growth on the horizon.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
60% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Dec 2019
$27m
SERIES C
Nov 2017
$20m
SERIES B
Total funding: $57m
Company benefits
- 401(k) with employer match
- Robust PPO and High Deductible health insurance options on the Blue Cross Blue Shield network
- Employer Health Savings Account (HSA) contribution for the high deductible health plan option
- Dental and vision coverage
- Primary caregiver 12-week paid leave
- Generous vacation policy, plus holidays
- One mental health day per quarter
- Annual learning and development stipend
- $100 monthly work-from-home stipend
- Tele-mental health services through Headspace
- OneMedical membership, including tele-health services
- Personal health advocacy resources through HealthAdvocate
- Inclusive fertility, hormonal health and family forming benefits through Carrot Fertility
- Access to the Axios “Family Fund”, which was created to allow employees to request financial support when facing financial hardship or emergencies
- Increased work flexibility for parents and caretakers
- Virtual company-sponsored social events
- A strong and positive work environment
- A commitment to an open, inclusive, and diverse work culture
Company HQ
Radnor - Fort Myer Heights, Arlington, VA
Leadership
Jim VandeHei
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously a Reporter for the Wall Street Journal and Washington Post, they then went on to found Politico and serve a decade as its CEO.
Mike Allen
(Co-Founder & Executive Editor)Spent nearly a decade as Politico's Chief White House correspondent before co-founding Axios in 2016.
Roy Schwartz
(Co-Founder & President)CEO of Axios HQ. Spent time as a partner at The Gallup Organization, then as VP and ultimately CRO of Politico.
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