AI Applications Manager - Secure, Enterprise Deployments

Form Energy; Somerville, Berkeley (MA, CA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work

Competitive compensation

Job summary

Form Energy in Somerville, MA is seeking a Manager of AI Applications to own the full lifecycle of AI tools used across the business, from intake to governance. You will evaluate, deploy, secure, configure, and monitor AI applications, plugins, and agents, ensuring data safety and compliant usage.

Relocation assistance is available. This hybrid role partners with IT security, legal, and business stakeholders to scale responsible AI and reduce risk while enabling teams to move fast.

Qualifications

• Direct experience evaluating, deploying, or managing AI applications, copilots, or LLM-based tools in a business or enterprise IT setting.
• Working knowledge of AI/LLM security concepts - data exfiltration risk, prompt injection, model access controls, plugin/tool permission scopes, and agent autonomy risk.
• Comfort with SaaS security fundamentals: OAuth and API permission review, third-party integration risk assessment, and access governance.
• Strong stakeholder management skills: able to run an intake/review process that business teams actually use, and to say no to risky requests without becoming a blocker.
• Project and program management skills: able to track a growing portfolio of tools, vendors, and review cycles with clear documentation and measurable outcomes.
• Clear written and verbal communication; able to translate technical AI risk into guidance non-technical stakeholders can act on.

Responsibilities

• Own the intake and review process for new AI applications, skills, plugins, and agents - assessing business value, data access, permission scope, and vendor security posture before approval.
• Lead security review of AI tools, including evaluating data handling and retention practices, model/vendor trust boundaries, prompt-injection and jailbreak exposure, third-party plugin risk, and integration permissions (OAuth scopes, API access, connected data sources).
• Manage deployment and configuration of approved AI applications across the organization, including access provisioning, environment/tenant setup, and rollout communication and training.
• Establish and maintain an inventory and risk register of all AI applications, skills, plugins, and agents in use, tracking ownership, data scope, and review status - including inactive or abandoned deployments.
• Define and enforce guardrails for agentic tools specifically - reviewing what actions an agent is authorized to take autonomously (e.g., sending communications, modifying records, executing code) and setting approval thresholds, logging, and rollback procedures.
• Monitor usage, cost, and performance of deployed AI tools, and manage the ongoing vendor relationship including contract renewals, model/version updates, and deprecation planning.
• Partner with IT security, legal, and business stakeholders to develop and maintain AI usage policy, acceptable-use guidelines, and an approval workflow that scales with demand without becoming a bottleneck.
• Investigate and respond to AI-related incidents (e.g., data leakage through a connected tool, unexpected agent behavior, plugin compromise), coordinating remediation and post-incident review.
• Build lightweight documentation, training, and office-hours support to help employees use approved AI tools effectively and safely, and to route new requests through the review pipeline.
• Stay current on the fast-changing AI application, plugin, and agent landscape, and proactively flag emerging capabilities or risks relevant to Form Energy.

Skills

AI applications

LLM security

SaaS security fundamentals

stakeholder management

project management

clear communication

Tools

OAuth

API review

Job description

Form Energy in Somerville, MA is seeking a Manager of AI Applications to own the full lifecycle of AI tools used across the business, from intake to governance. You will evaluate, deploy, secure, configure, and monitor AI applications, plugins, and agents, ensuring data safety and compliant usage.

Relocation assistance is available. This hybrid role partners with IT security, legal, and business stakeholders to scale responsible AI and reduce risk while enabling teams to move fast.