Chief AI and Digital Transformation Officer - Trinity Health

Employment Type: Full time Shift: Description: Purpose The Vice President, Chief AI & Digital Transformation Officer is a newly created enterprise leadership role with a unique opportunity to shape the future of one of the nation's largest Catholic health systems. Reporting directly to the CEO and based in Livonia, Michigan, this executive will lead Trinity Health's AI vision, strategy, and transformation agenda to drive meaningful impact across care delivery, operations, workforce productivity, and the colleague experience. The Vice President, Chief AI & Digital Transformation Officer is an enterprise executive) who serves as Trinity Health's seniormost AI thought leader, strategic architect, and catalyst for AI-enabled digital transformation. Working closely with the CEO and Executive Leadership Team (ELT), the VP, Chief AI & Digital Transformation Officer establishes and stewards the enterprise AI vision, strategy, and transformation roadmap to advance Trinity Health's mission and strategic priorities through improved clinical quality, connected care, colleague engagement, operational effectiveness, workforce productivity, and stewardship. The role drives enterprise alignment, responsible AI use, and AI literacy across the multi-state ministry, enabling leaders, clinicians, and colleagues to adopt AI effectively and in accordance with Catholic ethics and values. In partnership with the Chief Data & Analytics Officer (CDAO), SVP Technology & Information Services (TIS), TogetherHealth leadership, health informatics, and operational leaders, the VP accelerates AI innovation and adoption, leads the organizational change required to realize value, and ensures Trinity Health implements AI responsibly, effectively, and at scale. Success is measured by sustained, mission-aligned outcomes achieved through enterprise adoption, trust, and value realization. Reporting Relationship Reports directly to Trinity Health Chief Executive Officer This is a single incumbent role and has no direct reports. About Trinity Health Trinity Health is one of the largest not-for-profit, faith-based health care systems in the nation. It is a family of 133,000 colleagues and more than 38,900 physicians and clinicians caring for diverse communities across 23 states. Nationally recognized for care and experience, the Trinity Health system includes 91 hospitals, 101 continuing care locations, the second largest PACE program in the country as well as many other health and well-being services. In fiscal year 2025, the Livonia, Michigan-based health system invested $2.9 billion in its communities in the form of charity care, community benefit and other programs and services. Role Accountabilities 1. Enterprise AI Vision, Strategy & Executive Thought Leadership

• Set and champion a system-wide AI strategy aligned with clinical, operational, financial, and mission goals and strategy.
• Integrate Catholic ministry ethics and values into all initiatives.
• Translate ELT priorities into a multi-year AI vision and roadmap with measurable outcomes and ROI, recognizing AI’s impact on business objectives beyond financial metrics.
• Serve as TH’s seniormost AI thought leader to the, CEO, ELT, and ministry stakeholders — building and maintaining the enterprise vision for how AI will create value.
• Establish a world-class AI strategy and organization that aligns with TH’s overarching enterprise vision, including goal-setting and measurement of AI initiatives.
• Bridge communication gaps and foster cross-functional synergy to align AI initiatives across business units and functions — ensuring value realization, minimizing conflicting implementations, and communicating complex AI topics clearly to varied stakeholders.
• Leverage a deep understanding of industry dynamics and TH’s core mission to pinpoint where AI can yield the greatest impact, while identifying relevant risks and opportunities.
• Develops and maintains a multi-year AI and Digital Transformation Roadmap that translates enterprise strategy into sequenced execution priorities, measurable milestones, and value realization targets 2. Ethics & Responsible AI
• Establish and lead a matrixed operating model; balancing enterprise standards with regional flexibility.
• Chair the AI oversight committee;
• Evolve responsible-AI policies and programs that address AI’s regulatory and compliance requirements — especially data usage, model explainability, fairness, and privacy — with appropriate audit controls and adherence to ethical mandates.
• Define decision rights across enterprise, regional, and local levels to enable scale and speed.
• Establish effective collaboration among security, risk, compliance, legal, ethics, safety, mission, and clinical stakeholders to monitor bias and adapt practices as needed, upholding TH’s Catholic identity.
• Ensure enterprise AI management includes appropriate controls, monitoring, transparency, performance management, compliance reviews, and risk mitigation practices to support responsible and ethical AI adoption.
• Establishes mechanisms to continuously monitor AI integrity, fairness, reliability, and organizational compliance requirements. 3. AI Value Orientation & Portfolio Accountability
• Provide strategic direction and prioritization for the enterprise AI portfolio across a multi-state, matrixed system, in partnership with operations, TogetherHealth leaders, health informatics, TIS, and finance.
• Establish transparent AI portfolio evaluation practices to estimate, measure, and foster accountability for the business value and ROI of AI initiatives.
• Champion a balanced portfolio of AI investments that ensure sustainable, strategy and mission-aligned impact — focusing first on member experience, clinician and operational efficiency, and lower-risk, high-value areas.
• Establish enterprise processes and performance-management frameworks to monitor, measure, and communicate AI-enabled business outcomes and organizational value creation.
• Conduct regular portfolio reviews and recommend acceleration, redesign, scaling, or discontinuation of initiatives based on realized value and organizational priorities.
• Drive measurable AI-based outcomes in:
• Cost optimization
• Operational efficiency
• Clinical quality and patient outcomes
• Workforce productivity 4. Clinical, Operational & Experience Transformation
• Partner with clinical and operational leaders to identify, prioritize, and champion high-value AI use cases that advance the connected care experience.
• Guide evidence-based validation and safe, responsible deployment of patient-facing AI solutions.
• Champion the redesign of workflows, operating models, services, and care experiences to maximize the benefits of AI and digital technologies.
• Set strategic direction across core domains:
• Clinical decision support
• Patient access and digital front door
• Revenue cycle, supply chain, workforce management 5. Data, Platform & Technology Partnership
• Guide enterprise digital product and platform strategy across the patient journey, leveraging common platforms (e.g., TogetherCare/Epic, PeopleSoft, Workday, Oracle) to scale effectively.
• Champion AI integration across multiple environments and legacy systems.
• Partner on AI-ready data infrastructure, including unified data models and real-time capabilities.
• Partner with the CDAO to drive enterprise data stewardship, ethical data use, and data readiness for AI initiatives across multi-state environments.
• Maintain a comprehensive understanding of Trinity Health operations, care delivery models, and administrative functions to identify opportunities for scalable AI and digital transformation. 6. Innovation, Ecosystem & External Partnerships
• Establish an internal and external AI ecosystem — building relationships with vendors, hyper-scalers, regulators, and industry associations to inform enterprise AI strategy.
• Build a disciplined innovat