Deputy Chief AI Officer

About Us:

NYSTEC is a nonprofit technology consulting company advising agencies organizations institutions and businesses since 1996. Were independent and vendor-neutral so we have our clients best interests at heart. At NYSTEC we know that we succeed when individuals and teams flourish personally and professionally so our benefits and perks support that mindset.

About the Role:

The Deputy Chief AI officer is responsible for leading NYSTECs enterprise AI portfolio and advancing the organizations ability to responsibly adopt build govern and commercialize artificial intelligence capabilities.

This role will serve as the operating leader for NYSTECs AI investment model ensuring AI work is organized prioritized governed and measured across three investment lanes:

• Workforce Productivity AI
• Vendor-Embedded AI
• AI Use Case & Offering Enablement

The Deputy Chief AI Officer will report to the CTO and work closely with IT Security Legal Finance BD Service Delivery Strategy HR and business leaders to ensure AI investments create measurable value while maintaining NYSTECs standards for security ethics compliance and client trust.

Key Responsibilities:

Lead the Enterprise AI Portfolio

• Own and maintain NYSTECs enterprise AI portfolio across the AI investment lanes.
• Establish a single intake classification scoring and prioritization process for AI ideas and initiatives.
• Partner with the PMO to ensure AI initiatives are visible tracked sized sequenced and governed.
• Maintain an AI portfolio dashboard showing active pilots vendor evaluations internal use cases client offerings risks costs benefits and decisions.
• Recommend which AI initiatives should be scaled piloted deferred consolidated or stopped.
• Ensure AI investments align with NYSTECs strategic goals operational maturity financial model security posture and client-service mission.

Drive Workforce Productivity AI

• Lead the strategy for enterprise use of tools such as Microsoft 365 Copilot ChatGPT Copilot Studio Teams AI features and other approved AI productivity platforms.
• Develop role-based AI adoption patterns for executives consultants project managers analysts finance legal HR IT and service delivery teams.
• Create prompt libraries training programs playbooks office hours and adoption campaigns.
• Partner with HR Learning Service Delivery and Communications to build AI literacy across the organization.
• Measure adoption productivity gains employee experience improvements and reduction in repetitive work.
• Ensure responsible use policies are clear practical and consistently communicated.

Govern Vendor-Embedded AI

• Establish an AI SaaS readiness gate for vendor-provided AI features and add-ons.
• Evaluate AI modules in existing or proposed systems including ERP legal HR CRM BI service management project management and finance platforms.
• Partner with Procurement Legal Security IT and business owners to evaluate:
• Data usage and model training terms
• Security and privacy controls
• Permission inheritance
• Auditability
• Vendor lock-in
• Cost and licensing impact
• Business value
• Support model
• Integration complexity
• Prevent AI tool sprawl by determining whether vendor AI capabilities duplicate existing enterprise platforms.
• Recommend whether to approve pilot renegotiate defer or reject vendor AI capabilities.

Lead AI Use Case & Offering Enablement

• Build a structured AI use case development pipeline from idea to discovery prototype pilot scale reuse or retirement. This pipeline should integrate with the Service Delivery Technology Investment process where applicable.
• Help business sponsors and Service Delivery leaders define problems in measurable terms before selecting technology.
• Assess use cases for value feasibility data readiness risk platform fit ownership operating model reusability and potential applicability to internal operations or client delivery.
• Coordinate with IT Security Data/BI PMO Service Delivery and business teams to prototype AI-enabled workflows applications agents and accelerators.
• Ensure each use case has a named business sponsor product owner success metric data owner and human-in-the-loop model.
• Support development of internal AI accelerators including knowledge assistants RFP response tools contract analysis workflows service desk assistants onboarding tools and project delivery accelerators.
• Where Service Delivery identifies client needs support practice leaders in evaluating whether internal AI successes reusable patterns or accelerators can be adapted into client-facing offerings.
• Support proposal development client demos proof-of-concept design and AI solution roadmaps when requested by Service Delivery.
• Coordinate with Legal Security Finance Strategy and Service Delivery to ensure AI-enabled offerings are compliant scalable supportable financially viable and aligned with NYSTECs mission public-sector context nonprofit positioning and trusted-advisor brand.
• Identify opportunities for NYSTEC-owned intellectual property reusable frameworks accelerators and AI-enabled service models in coordination with Service Delivery and the appropriate governance process.
• Ensure reusable patterns components prompts architectures and lessons learned are captured for future use.

Establish Responsible AI Governance

• Develop and maintain NYSTECs responsible AI governance model.
• Define AI decision rights intake thresholds approval paths risk tiers and escalation rules.
• Partner with the CISO and Legal to establish standards for:
• Data classification
• Client data handling
• Confidential information
• Regulated data
• Model usage
• Human oversight
• Auditability
• Bias and fairness considerations
• Output validation
• Vendor terms
• Incident response
• Ensure governance enables innovation without creating unnecessary friction
• Establish lightweight policies templates and review processes appropriate to NYSTECs size mission and risk profile
• Maintain an inventory of approved AI tools restricted use cases and prohibited uses.

Partner Across the Organization

• Serve as liaison between IT Security PMO Service Delivery Finance Legal HR Strategy and business teams.
• Facilitate an AI Portfolio Council or similar governance forum.
• Work with Service Delivery to identify AI opportunities that improve consultant productivity proposal quality client outcomes and delivery efficiency.
• Work with Finance to measure ROI cost avoidance revenue enablement and resource impact.
• Work with Security to design safe experimentation environments sandbox controls and responsible access models.
• Work with PMO to ensure AI projects follow appropriate intake prioritization governance and reporting disciplines.
• Work with Communications and HR to support change management training and adoption.
• Perform other duties as assigned.
• Demonstrate the NYSTEC Core Values and Behaviors.

Required Qualifications:

• Demonstrated experience leading AI automation analytics digital transformation or emerging technology initiatives.
• Strong understanding of generative AI large language models prompt engineering retrieval-augmented generation AI-enabled workflows and enterprise AI adoption patterns.
• Experience translating business problems into technology-enabled solutions.
• Experience with portfolio management governance prioritization business case development and value measurement.
• Experience working with cross-functional stakeholders including technology security legal finance operations and business leaders.
• Strong understanding of cloud platforms modern collaboration tools SaaS platforms data governance and enterprise integration concepts.
• Strong written verbal facilitation and executive communication skills.
• Ability to lead through influence in a matrixed environment.
• Ability to balance innovation risk security compliance cost and business value.
• Understands NYSTECs mission brand mindsets and core values and can put the behaviors into practice.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in public sector healthcare regulated environments nonprofit consulting or government contracting.
• Experience developing client-facing technology offerings accelerators or reusable service models.
• Experience with Microsoft 365 Copilot Azure OpenAI Copilot Studio Power Platform Microsoft Fabric OpenAI/ChatGPT Enterprise or similar platforms.
• Experience with data platforms vector search knowledge management RAG architectures workflow automation or AI-enabled application development.
• Experience with ITIL COBIT PMO governance enterprise architecture product management or agile delivery.
• Familiarity with responsible AI frameworks data privacy cybersecurity compliance and AI vendor risk.
• Experience building adoption programs training enablement playbooks or communities of practice.
• Consulting experience especially in solution development proposal support client advisory or productized service offerings.

Education and/or Experience:

• Bachelors degree in Information Technology Computer Science Data Science Business Administration Public Administration Engineering or related field and 10 years of progressive experience in technology digital transformation product management consulting data enterprise architecture innovation or related disciplines.
• An equivalent combination of education training and professional experience will be considered.

The target starting salary range for this role is $163659 - $243032 per year. When determining compensation we analyze and carefully consider several factors including skill set experience location and job-related qualifications.

It is NYSTECs policy to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all individuals regardless of actual or perceived race color creed religion sex or gender (including pregnancy childbirth and related medical conditions) gender identity or gender expression (including transgender status) age national origin ancestry citizenship status physical or mental disability protected medical condition as defined by applicable state or local law genetic information military service and veteran status sexual orientation marital status or any other characteristic protected by local state or federal laws and ordinances. NYSTEC is strongly committed to this policy and believes in the concept and spirit of the law.

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Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States without the need for visa sponsorship now or in the future.

Required Experience:

Chief