Head of AI Strategy – Operations

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $240k - $280k / year

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⚙️ Operations

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Accela

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

201 - 500 employees

Founded 2000

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

🏗️ Construction

Consulting • Logistics • Construction

Accela is a leader in providing cloud-based solutions designed to modernize government services. Their unified suite of innovative applications focuses on building more connected communities through enhanced efficiency and secure data management. Accela empowers local and state governments by streamlining processes such as building permits, licensing, cannabis regulation, and environmental health. With a focus on civic solutions, Accela aims to improve public sector operations by eliminating data silos and facilitating better interactions with residents. By leveraging their SaaS platform, governments can enhance service delivery, increase transparency, and reduce operational costs, leading to significant time and cost savings.

📋 Description

• Develop Accela’s enterprise AI strategy and investment priorities • Assess AI capabilities and readiness, aligning plans with business goals, resources, and acceptable risk • Identify and prioritize AI opportunities based on benefits, readiness, data needs, effort, risk, and cost • Define success measures and recommend initiatives to fund, expand, adjust, or stop • Establish AI risk categories, review processes, and approval criteria • Translate legal, regulatory, contractual, and policy obligations into requirements for security, privacy, data use, human oversight, and AI evaluation • Define responsibilities and handoffs from experimentation through deployment and retirement • Maintain company-wide visibility into AI initiatives, tools, owners, investments, dependencies, and risks • Provide role-specific training, guides, templates, office hours, and peer learning; build an AI champion network • Partner with functional leaders to address skill gaps and set AI goals • Guide approved technology selection and evaluate whether to build, buy, or configure solutions • Establish technical standards for access controls, activity records, monitoring, incident response, and ongoing AI system management • Use AI-assisted development and targeted prototypes to test assumptions • Build executive scorecards covering adoption, outcomes, quality, reliability, risk, cost, and value • Lead cross-functional and executive collaboration with clear recommendations, decisions, and follow-through • Partner with the Senior Director, AI Transformation & Operations to align enterprise requirements with operational needs

🎯 Requirements

• 6+ years of experience in AI, AI strategy, or technology strategy, including leadership of complex initiatives involving multiple teams • Experience establishing enterprise AI or technology governance, standards, operating practices, or adoption programs • Practical experience with large language models, retrieval, agents, workflow automation, AI evaluation, and AI-assisted development sufficient to prototype and assess solutions • Ability to prioritize opportunities, turn unclear business problems into actionable requirements, and deliver measurable operational or financial results • Strong communication, facilitation, and negotiation skills, including the ability to explain technical topics clearly, build agreement, and lead without direct authority • Relevant credentials, such as IAPP AIGP, ISO/IEC 42001 Lead Implementer, ISACA AAISM, CRISC, or CGEIT, or equivalent practical experience implementing enterprise AI governance • Preferred: Experience in enterprise SaaS, GovTech, or another regulated environment • Preferred: Experience working with security, risk, or compliance teams • Preferred: Experience building AI champion networks, employee learning programs, or shared internal AI capabilities

🏖️ Benefits

• Annual bonus target, discretionary based on company and individual goal achievement • Flexible time off • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans • Family planning benefits • 401(k) retirement savings plan with company match • Health savings account with company contributions • Flexible spending account • Life, accident, and disability coverage • Business travel insurance • Employee assistance programs • Other well-being benefits • Job accommodations available upon request