AI Community and Business Support Lead
Helsinki
Would you like to work in a work environment that is most certainly unique? With us, you get to do meaningful work and enable a more environmentally friendly way to travel and transport.
We are looking for an AI Community and Business Support Lead to help us with our AI transformation journey across VR. In this role, you will establish and run practices to support our end users, key projects and business teams with AI related questions, and feed improvement ideas to our AI operating model.
You will be a key member of our AI transformation team and our AI interest group.
Your key responsiblites are
- Communication: Build and nurture our AI community, foster knowledge sharing, engagement, and collaborative culture. Maintain the VR AI community.
- Training: Develop organizational AI capabilities through training programs, capability assessments, and culture change initiatives.
- Change management: Orchestrate organizational change for AI transformation, ensuring adoption, engagement, and sustained cultural shift.
- Support our key business development programs and guide end users with AI usage related questions
You understand the possibilities and risks of AI. You have some experience of AI usage or development, but most importantly, you can communicate, train and drive AI change across an organization. You can communicate the value, implications, and risks of AI in a way that is easy for everyone in the organization to understand.
You have organized events and forum communities across multiple business units and you know how to amplify AI success stories and best practices. You can create and curate AI learning content and utilize different channels or ways of working for knowledge exchange.
You understand the importance of change management as part of AI transformation, and how change is made happen. You are not only facilitating the AI community, but can also provide practical AI guidance and support to both our business teams and projects on different levels.
In order to be successful in this role, you need to have good communication skills, both verbal and written. You are a natural facilitator and communicator.
You're not alone in this work: our AI core team, covering business, governance, technology, legal and compliance aspects of AI, is here to support you.
10 reasons to choose us
- Your work will impact the daily lives and travel of hundreds of thousands of people and the transportation of thousands of tons of cargo
- We reduce the carbon footprint of society through our actions
- 8,800 nice co-workers and professionals
- A wide variety of training and learning opportunities as well as different career paths
- A competitive monthly salary and incentive reward models
- We offer work time flexibility for different life situations and a remote working opportunity
- Free travel on Finnish railways for both work and leisure, as well as a wide range of tourism and recreational opportunities at staff prices in Finland and abroad
- Support for your sports and cultural activities as well as daily lunches
- Extensive occupational health services
- Modern tools and workspaces
Customers and growth are at the heart of what we do, as well as the well-being of our staff. We are constantly developing our management and work culture, as we believe that a good employee experience also produces the best customer experience.
We invest heavily in the future of our business and digitalization. All our operations are guided by responsibility and continuous development, as we want to continue to be a major leader in public transport and logistics.
Interested?
Great! Submit your application by 20.6.2026 via the link below.
Need more information?
For more information on the task, please contact Director, Data and AI Maija Nikula by email maija.nikula@vr.fi
At VR, we work for the responsible transport of the future. We are a service company specializing in passenger transportation, logistics, and maintenance. We ensure smooth travel in Finland and Sweden and serve as a pillar of support for domestic industry in logistics.
We do meaningful work and impact the daily lives of thousands of people every day. With us, you contribute to enabling sustainable mobility and logistics – and the well-being of society as a whole.
In 2025, our customers made a total of 16.1 million journeys on long-distance trains with us in Finland, and we transported 24.8 million tonnes of goods by rail. Our net sales were EUR 1,252.5 million and by the end of the year we employed more than 9,500 top professionals.
We carry out our purpose driven by our values – we care, we work together, and we always drive improvement. Join us on a shared journey together towards a better world!
Further information: https://www.vrgroup.fi/en/