About the role

  • Director of Artificial Intelligence at Heartland Business Systems, establishing AI function and delivering solutions. Leading hands-on AI projects and managing cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

  • Establish and lead the AI function at HBS, initially prioritizing internal business use cases that demonstrate measurable value.
  • Architect and deliver initial AI solutions hands-on, setting technical patterns, standards, and credibility for broader adoption.
  • Build and govern a scalable AI platform that can be leveraged across internal systems and in the future client-facing solutions.
  • Operate effectively in a matrixed delivery model, coordinating existing engineering, data, and product resources without direct authority.
  • Manage allocated AI development and product budget, prioritizing initiatives based on business impact and organizational readiness.
  • Define and institutionalize AI standards, lifecycle practices, and governance including responsible AI, data integrity, and model oversight.
  • Establish success metrics for AI initiatives and regularly communicate progress and business impact to executive stakeholders.
  • Transition from direct execution to leading through teams and partners, coaching others and enabling sustained AI delivery across the organization.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of hands-on experience designing and implementing AI solutions in production environments, with demonstrated progression from hands-on execution to technical leadership
  • Experience defining and leading large-scale projects with multiple stakeholders.
  • Excellent stakeholder management skills with C-level and operational decisionmakers.
  • Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, related field or equivalent experience
  • Expertise with technologies such as transfer learning, unsupervised feature generation, meta-learning, generative text models, computer vision, or reinforcement learning.
  • Advanced data science and mathematical skills.

Benefits

  • Equal Opportunity Employer – Including Disabled and Veterans

Job title

Director of Artificial Intelligence, AI

Job type

Experience level

Lead

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

Report this job

See something inaccurate? Let us know and we'll update the listing.

Report job