IS Manager (AI)

Job Summary:

The IS Manager Connected Incubation Hub leads a cross-functional team responsible for rapidly exploringvalidating and delivering emerging technology capabilities that improve recruiting selling talent and enterprise operations across Allegis Group and its operating companies.

This roleoperatesat the intersection of AI data science recommendations product architecture and business workflows. The IS Manager turns ambiguous opportunities into evidence-based experiments proofs of value pilots and clear scale or stop recommendations across multiple enterprise technology platforms.

The role partners closely with Business Product UX Architecture Engineering Data Legal Security AI governance TPRM and strategic vendors. The IS Manager is accountable for portfolio movement team leadership stakeholder alignment experiment measurement responsible AI practices and successful handoff of validated capabilities.

The IS Manager is responsible for:

• Leading a portfolio of AI data science recommendation search automation agentic AI generative AI conversational AI and voice AI experiments across recruiter and seller experiences.
• Supporting and driving business problems from hypotheses research plans technical discovery prototypes experiments pilots and measurable success criteria.
• Partnering with Product and UX to define user needs prioritize opportunities coordinate showcases and research and incorporate feedback into experiment decisions.
• Partnering with Architecture and Engineering to evaluate feasibility integration patterns scalability supportability performance and paths to production.
• Coordinating governance with Legal Security Privacy AI COE Compliance and TPRM to support responsible auditable and policy-aligned experimentation.
• Driving initiative movement from intake and discovery through proof of concept experiment pilot handoff documentation and scale or sunset recommendations.
• Contributing and advising metrics for adoption quality accuracy latency efficiency experience cost business impact and operational readiness.
• Managing strategic technology and vendor relationships including workshops evaluations commitments costs and outcomes.

Essential Fucntions:

• Lead multiple cross-functional initiatives in parallel aligning scope capacity timing dependencies and enterprise priorities.
• Facilitate problem framing hypothesis development experiment planning decision making and stakeholder alignment.
• Guide teams in building and testing working solutions across cloud CRM data search AI API and user-experience layers.
• Remove delivery roadblocksidentifyrisks early create mitigation plans and escalate issues affecting outcomes.
• Ensure experiments include user feedback loops instrumentation measurement documentation and exit criteria.
• Present findings tradeoffs recommendations and investment implications to technical business and executive audiences.
• Promote reusable patterns and clear knowledge transfer for transition to product platform architecture or delivery teams.
• Championcontinuous improvement in experimentation software delivery data quality responsible AI and cross-functional ways of working.

Supervisory or Management Responsibility:

• Act as Coach-Leader coaching others in their development as leaders catalyzing the growth of peoples capacity to embrace greater complexity and focus on helping others formulate their development agenda
• Assistin team development while holding teams accountable for their commitments removing roadblocks to their work;leveragingorganizational resources to improve capacity for feature work; and mentoring team members
• Promote empowerment of the team ensure that each team member is fully engaged and making a meaningful contribution and encourage a sustainable pace with high-levels of quality for the team
• Management responsibility for the teams including hiring leadershipdevelopmentand accountability for performance.
• Establish operational/teamobjectivesand goals.

Budget Responsibility:

• Develops and manages budget
• Produces monthly forecasts
• Approves operational expenditures
• Plans capacity fluctuations based on roadmap of features

Minimum Education and/or Experience:

• BA or BS or equivalent experience is required
• Experienceleading development teams- preferred managed
• Experience delivering capabilities through Agile iterative product or experimentation-based methods.
• Experience with enterprise-scale applications cloud platforms data products AI or machine learning capabilities or comparable emerging technologies.

• Demonstrated experience leading complex cross-functional initiatives across business and technology stakeholders.
• Experience translating ambiguous business problems into executable plans measurable outcomes and executive-ready recommendations.
• Experience with Salesforce Google Cloud Platform Azure AWS Elastic Snowflake or similar enterprise platforms.

Skills/Abilities:

• Proven ability to lead multidisciplinary development efforts and ensureobjectives goals and commitments are met
• Strong business acumen and ability to connect technology investments to user needs and measurable business value
• Strong interpersonal skills including mentoring coaching collaborating and team building
• Strong analytical planning and organizational skills with an ability to manage competing or ambiguous demands
• Excellent oral and written communications skills and experience interacting with both business and IT individuals at all levels including the executive level
• Experience managing large budgets and finances
• Prior Experience in the Staffing Industry a plus
• Prior Technical / Development / Product experience a plus

Benefits Overview:

Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections plan or program terms. This role is eligible for the following:

• Medical dental & vision
• Hospital plans
• 401(k) Retirement Plan Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available
• Life Insurance (Company paid Basic Life and AD&D as well as voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents)
• Company paid Short and long-term disability
• Health & Dependent Care Spending Accounts (HSA & DCFSA)
• Transportation benefits
• Employee Assistance Program
• Tuition Assistance
• Time Off/Leave (PTO Allegis Group Paid Family Leave Parental Leave)

Office Requirements:

• Required in office out of our headquarter in Hanover MD 4 days a week

Salary Range:

• $116600-$197796
• This position is bonus eligible

Individual compensation offered for this position within this range will depend on many factors including qualifications skills relevant experience job knowledge geographic location internal equity and other pertinent job-related factors.

Core Competencies:

• Build relationships
• Develop people
• Lead change
• Inspire Others
• Think critically
• Communicate clearly
• Create Accountability