Director of AI Enablement

Company Overview

Ambiq is on a mission to enable intelligence everywhere — powering the AI edge revolution with the world's lowest-power semiconductor solutions.

Built on our proprietary sub- and near-threshold technology, our chips deliver multi-fold improvements in energy efficiency without costly process scaling. Since 2010, we've shipped over 300 million units to customers building smarter wearables, medical devices, IoT products, and AI-powered edge applications.

Our cross-functional teams span design, research, development, production, marketing, sales, and operations across Austin, Hsinchu, Shanghai, Shenzhen, and Singapore. We move fast, tackle hard problems, and create space for people to grow through complex, meaningful work that shapes the future of technology.

We're looking for self-motivated, creative problem-solvers who are eager to push technological limits and make a real impact in energy efficiency.

At Ambiq, we live by five values: Innovate. Collaborate. Focus. Learn. Achieve.

If that's you, join us — the intelligence everywhere revolution starts here.

Build the Future of Work at Ambiq

Artificial intelligence is transforming how organizations innovate, collaborate, and execute. At Ambiq, we believe the greatest opportunity isn’t simply adopting AI tools. It’s using AI to fundamentally improve how work gets done across the enterprise, enabling our people to innovate faster, make better decisions, and create lasting competitive advantage.

At Ambiq, we’ve built our reputation by pushing the boundaries of ultra-low-power semiconductor technology and enabling intelligence at the edge. As AI reshapes how engineering organizations operate, we’re creating a new leadership role to help Ambiq become one of the industry’s most AI-enabled and productive engineering organizations.

We’re looking for a Director of AI Enablement to lead that journey.

This is not an IT role.

This is not an AI engineering role.

This is a business transformation leadership role focused on applying AI to improve engineering productivity, accelerate product development, strengthen operational performance, optimize business processes, and increase organizational capacity across the company.

You’ll operate across the enterprise to identify opportunities, quantify potential impact, redesign workflows, lead high-value initiatives, and ensure successful practices become embedded in the way work gets done.

Your mission is to help Ambiq do more with the talent we already have by eliminating low-value work, accelerating decision-making, improving access to knowledge, reducing process variability, and enabling employees to focus on higher-value activities.

Success will be measured not by AI adoption alone, but by measurable improvements in productivity, forecast accuracy, process performance, execution consistency, organizational capacity, and business outcomes.

What You’ll Do

Enterprise Productivity & Transformation Strategy

Develop and execute Ambiq’s enterprise AI Productivity & Enablement strategy.

Identify opportunities where AI can create measurable improvements in productivity, quality, speed, predictability, and scalability.

Establish a company-wide framework for evaluating, prioritizing, piloting, and scaling AI-enabled business improvements.

Build and manage a portfolio of transformation initiatives aligned with Ambiq’s strategic priorities.

Evaluate opportunities based on business value, feasibility, organizational readiness, risk, and expected return.

Serve as a trusted advisor to executive and functional leaders on opportunities to improve organizational effectiveness.

Operational Excellence & Process Improvement

Partner with leaders across Engineering, Software & Solutions, Operations, Finance, Sales, Marketing, HR, IT, and other functions to understand how work gets done today and where friction exists.

Redesign workflows to reduce manual effort, administrative burden, process bottlenecks, unnecessary handoffs, exceptions, and rework.

Improve cycle times, throughput, decision velocity, execution consistency, and operational predictability.

Help improve forecasting accuracy, planning reliability, and the timely execution of key business objectives.

Determine when AI is the right solution and when a process, organizational, data, or traditional automation solution would create greater value.

Establish repeatable methods for measuring and validating business impact.

AI Opportunity Identification & Deployment

Evaluate emerging AI technologies and determine where they can deliver meaningful business value.

Identify and size high-impact use cases and develop clear business cases for investment.

Lead selected high-priority initiatives from problem definition through pilot, implementation, adoption, and value realization.

Guide functional teams on additional initiatives they own, providing expertise, structure, and coaching without becoming the implementation owner for every project.

Partner with IT, Legal, Procurement, Security, and functional experts to ensure solutions are scalable, secure, sustainable, and appropriate for the business.

Establish practical standards for piloting, deploying, measuring, and operationalizing AI-enabled solutions.

Organizational Capability & Adoption

Build Ambiq’s organizational capability to use AI effectively in day-to-day work.

Develop role-specific enablement approaches for engineering, technical, operational, and business functions.

Identify and develop internal AI champions and communities of practice.

Create mechanisms for sharing successful use cases, lessons learned, reusable workflows, and best practices.

Drive sustainable adoption by demonstrating measurable value, not by measuring activity alone.

Partner with functional leaders to integrate successful AI-enabled practices into standard ways of working.

Measurement, Analytics & Accountability

Define productivity, efficiency, quality, capacity, and performance measures for AI-enabled initiatives.

Establish baseline measurements before significant initiatives begin.

Quantify realized benefits and compare outcomes against original business cases.

Develop executive dashboards that track productivity gains, operational improvements, adoption, investment, and value realization.

Establish clear ownership and accountability for initiative outcomes.

Provide regular reporting to executive leadership on progress, realized value, risks, lessons learned, and emerging opportunities.

Help Ambiq move beyond measuring AI consumption and activity toward understanding the return generated from its AI investments.

Governance & Risk Management

Establish practical governance frameworks for responsible and secure AI usage.

Partner with Legal, IT, Finance, Security, Procurement, and other stakeholders to ensure appropriate controls and compliance.

Develop clear guidance regarding data handling, intellectual property, confidentiality, human review, and the appropriate use of AI-generated outputs.

Assess AI-related risk based on potential business impact and sensitivity, enabling faster experimentation where risk is low and stronger controls where appropriate.

Ensure governance supports innovation while protecting Ambiq’s intellectual property, data, employees, customers, and reputation.

What Makes This Role Different

The Director of AI Enablement is not responsible for building Ambiq’s AI products or owning every AI technology used across the company.

Functional and technical leaders will continue to own the evaluation, selection, implementation, and ongoing management of the technologies that best support their organizations.

Instead, this role works across those functions to:

identify the highest-value business opportunities;

understand the underlying workflow, process, and data;

determine whether AI is the appropriate solution;

develop the business case;

align stakeholders;

accelerate implementation