Overview

We are seeking a visionary and execution-focused Director of Artificial Intelligence to lead and scale our enterprise AI transformation strategy across all technology functions.

Responsibilities

• Establish a unified CTO AI strategy and operating model.
• Create AI governance, standards, and a compliance framework.
• Deliver an enterprise AI portfolio with measurable business outcomes.
• Standardize AI adoption measurement across departments.
• Expand AI-enabled engineering capabilities and agentic workflows.
• Implement executive AI dashboards and reporting mechanisms.
• Demonstrate measurable productivity, quality, and operational improvements attributable to AI initiatives.
• Build a sustainable AI organization capable of scaling AI across all technology functions.
• Define and execute the enterprise AI strategy across the CTO organization.
• Develop a multi-year AI roadmap aligned with business and technology objectives.
• Identify, prioritize, and govern AI initiatives across engineering, operations, product development, and innovation teams.
• Serve as the senior AI advisor to executive leadership and ExCo.
• Drive adoption of AI as a core capability within the engineering operating model.
• Scale AI adoption across software engineering, quality engineering, architecture, SRE/L3 hardware engineering, computer vision, and R& D functions.
• Establish AI transformation plans and maturity targets for each department.
• Drive AI-enabled productivity improvements in software delivery, testing, architecture design, operational support, documentation, analytics, and engineering workflows.
• Build and lead communities of practice that accelerate AI adoption and innovation.
• Define the enterprise architecture for AI platforms, agents, MCPs (Model Context Providers), knowledge systems, and engineering automation capabilities.
• Lead the development of reusable AI frameworks, AI services, AI portals, and engineering productivity platforms.
• Drive the adoption of AI tooling, including coding assistants, agentic development platforms, test automation agents, and AI-powered development workflows.
• Establish architectural standards, best practices, and technical guardrails for AI solutions.
• Lead the organization's transition from AI-assisted work toward AI-agent-driven execution.
• Identify opportunities for autonomous agents across software development, testing, DevOps, support, documentation, and operational workflows.
• Sponsor initiatives involving AI-generated testing, automated validation, AI-driven regression testing, engineering copilots, and agent orchestration platforms.
• Establish metrics to measure AI-generated outcomes and productivity improvements.
• Own the enterprise AI governance framework.
• Establish AI policies, standards, guardrails, security controls, and acceptable-use models.
• Ensure responsible AI practices covering transparency, privacy, intellectual property protection, auditability, and regulatory requirements.
• Partner with security, legal, compliance, and leadership teams to manage AI-related risks.
• Lead AI risk assessments and mitigation strategies.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, data science, or artificial intelligence, or equivalent experience.
• Master's degree preferred.
• 10+ years of technology leadership experience.
• 5+ years leading enterprise AI, machine learning, data science, or intelligent automation initiatives.
• Proven success delivering measurable business outcomes through AI and automation.
• Strong knowledge of generative AI, large language models (LLMs), agentic AI architectures, prompt engineering, model orchestration, vector databases, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), MCP architectures, AI security and governance, MLOps / LLMOps, and cloud AI platforms (Azure, AWS, and GCP).
• Leadership Competencies: Strategic Thinking, Executive Presence, Technology Vision, Organizational Influence, Change Leadership, Program Execution Excellence, Innovation Management, Data-Driven Decision-Making, Stakeholder Management, and Talent Development.