Director Artificial Intelligence PMO at Cabot… · Boston

Cabot Corporation (NYSE: CBT) is a leading global specialty chemicals and performance materials company headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

Our businesses deliver a broad range of products and solutions to customers in every corner of the globe, serving the transportation, infrastructure, environment and consumer industry sectors. We bring the power of innovative chemistry to solve customers' challenges today while preparing them to meet tomorrow’s needs. Our commitment to innovation is driven by a passion to advance our customers' businesses through our deep understanding of their applications and the global trends that impact their operations.

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Your Role at Cabot Cabot is establishing an enterprise AI Program Management Office (PMO) to bring structure, prioritization, and execution discipline to AI initiatives across the company.The AI PMO Director will translate enterprise strategy into a prioritized AI portfolio and ensure the effective execution of high-quality AI programs. The role serves as the central integrator across businesses, functions, and Digital—bringing clarity, rigor, and transparency to AI efforts across the enterprise.This role works closely with Cabot’s AI SteerCo and, by extension, its Executive Committee (ExCO) to facilitate alignment on priorities while ensuring disciplined execution.Accountability model:

• The AI PMO Director is accountable for evaluation, prioritization, and execution discipline of AI initiatives
• Business sponsors are accountable for AI initiative outcomes, including value realization, adoption, and sustained impact
• The Digital function is accountable for ensuring AI solutions are technically sound, secure and compliant, and aligned with enterprise architecture, data platforms, and standards including security standards. This group either builds the solution or orchestrates the build.

This is a Director-level individual contributor role requiring strong execution leadership, enterprise perspective, and the ability to influence senior stakeholders. How You Will Make an Impact****Enterprise AI Strategy Alignment and Facilitation

• Translate Cabot’s enterprise strategy into a structured, actionable AI portfolio aligned to company strategic priorities
• Facilitate structured discussions with ExCo and the AI SteerCo to drive alignment on priorities and sequencing
• Synthesize business needs and constraints into clear AI prioritization options
• Frame tradeoffs, value cases, and resource implications to support decision-making
• Ensure proposed AI initiatives are credible, scalable, and aligned to enterprise value, constructively challenging assumptions where needed

Enterprise AI Portfolio Leadership

• Develop and maintain a prioritized portfolio of AI initiatives aligned to enterprise value
• Lead use-case identification and shaping with business and functional leaders
• Maintain visibility into portfolio progress, risks, dependencies, and tradeoffs
• Identify duplication and opportunities to streamline AI activity across the organization
• Serve as Program Director for select enterprise-critical AI initiatives
• Lead cross-functional teams through deployment and scale
• Ensure delivery quality, consistency, and alignment to intended business use cases

Execution Leadership and Delivery

• Own execution accountability for prioritized AI initiatives, ensuring delivery to a high standard
• Establish and enforce program management disciplines, including governance, milestones, and stage gates
• Lead cross-functional coordination across business sponsors, Digital, and support functions
• Proactively identify and resolve execution risks, bottlenecks, and resource constraints
• Ensure effective implementation and transition of solutions into business operations

Governance and Operating Model

• Establish and operate the AI SteerCo governance model and decision framework
• Enable structured prioritization, sequencing, and funding decisions
• Drive a consistent operating cadence, including:
• Annual portfolio and funding alignment with ExCo
• Quarterly prioritization and value reviews with SteerCo
• Monthly execution reporting to project sponsors

What You Will Bring to Cabot****Experience

• 10+ years of experience in program management, transformation, or large-scale initiative delivery
• Demonstrated success leading complex, cross-functional programs in a global organization
• Experience working closely with senior executives and influencing enterprise-level decisions
• Experience with digital, data, analytics, or AI-enabled initiatives strongly preferred Capabilities
• Strong execution leadership with a consistent track record of delivering complex initiatives successfully
• Ability to translate strategy into structured, actionable plans and execution roadmaps
• Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills without direct authority
• Strong business and financial acumen, including value case development and tracking
• Demonstrated fluency in AI and advanced analytics, including the ability to:
• Evaluate and shape AI use cases in partnership with the business
• Differentiate high-value, scalable initiatives from low-value or experimental efforts
• Assess feasibility, including data readiness, integration complexity, and adoption challenges
• Engage effectively with technical teams while maintaining a business-first perspective

Organization Context

• This role sits outside of the company’s Digital organization, reporting to the SVP who oversees Digital and Global Business Services (GBS)
• Operates as an enterprise role across all businesses and functions
• Works closely with:
• AI SteerCo (comprised of ExCo members and subject matter experts)
• Executive Committee (ExCo)
• Business and functional leadership teams
• Digital and delivery teams
• Finance

How We Will Support Your Success

• The actual compensation offered to the successful candidate will depend on the candidate's skills, qualifications, experience and location. The anticipated pay for this position is between $228,700 to $331,600, with bonus based on personal and company performance.
• In addition to base salary, all positions are eligible for health benefits on the first day of employment, annual bonus based on company performance, local benefits, and opportunities for professional growth and development.
• Dynamic, Flexible, Hard Working, Team Environment – We are busy, collaborative, growing, and we are doing really meaningful work.
• Feedback – we are committed to giving and receiving feedback in a direct and open fashion.
• Support – you are part of a team and deserve to feel encouraged and supported. You will be part of a team that cares about you personally and professionally. Our success depends on your success.

At Cabot, we bring the power of innovative chemistry and a spirit of partnership with our customers to advance solutions that will enable a sustainable future. Our strength in research and development is a major reason why we have been an industry leader for more than 135 years in products such as reinforcing and specialty carbons, battery materials, aerogel, fumed metal oxides, inkjet colorants, masterbatches and conductive compounds.

Our employees around the world are united by our shared purpose: Creating materials that improve daily life and enable a more sustainable future. Through our corporate strategy, “Creating for Tomorrow,” we are focused on our core strengths to lead in performance and sustainability – today and into the future.

EEO/AA Employer/Vet/Disabled/RC14001Realizing we function better together than individually, Cabot Corporation is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to fostering an inclusive culture that embraces our differences and to empower employees to achieve exceptional results, without consideration of sex, race, color, religion, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, marital or veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other legally protected categories. This includes providing reasonable accommodation for employees’ and applicants’ disabilities or religious beliefs and practices, in accordance with applicable law.

Cabot is committed to supporting and maintaining a safe and environmentally focused working environment. All employees are expected to uphold this commitment in every position.

Nondiscrimination Policy with Respect to Discussion of PayThis is to advise that it is the policy of Cabot Corporation not to discharge or in any other manner discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because such employee or applicant has inquired about, discussed, or disclosed the compensation of the employee or applicant or another employee or applicant. This policy, however, shall not apply to instances in which an employee who has access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as part of that employee's essential job functions (such as in payroll or HR) discloses the compensation of such other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to such information, unless that disclosure is in response to a formal complaint or charge, in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing or other action, including an investigation conducted by Cabot, or otherwise as required by law.

Pre-Employment Drug Testing and Background ChecksCabot is proud to operate as a drug-free workplace. All applicants conditionally offered a position must (a) complete and pass a background check and (b) complete a drug test and receive an acceptable test result. For certain manufacturing, quality and production positions, a pre-employment physical may be required.