AI Automation Lead — Enterprise Workflows & Tools

WAI GLOBAL; Town of Florida (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

WAI is seeking a hands-on AI Automation Engineering Manager to turn approved use cases into practical AI-enabled workflows and tools across multiple business functions. You will design, build, test, and roll out scalable solutions that reduce manual effort and improve decision quality.

You will partner with IT, data, security, and vendors to ensure production readiness, governance, and adoption. The role emphasizes hands-on delivery, coaching, and cross-functional collaboration to scale

Qualifications

• Hands-on AI and automation delivery leadership with experience turning use cases into working workflows.
• Experience building or guiding AI-enabled workflows and enterprise integration.
• Ability to translate business problems into technical requirements and tests.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, test, rollout, and improve AI-enabled workflows and internal productivity tools across multiple business functions.
• Partner with business stakeholders to understand process pain points, manual work, decision points, workflow dependencies, controls, exceptions, and opportunities.
• Translate business needs into practical workflow steps, prompts, business rules, logic, integrations, user-facing experiences, test plans, acceptance criteria, documentation, and support procedures.
• Coordinate with IT, data, security, AI platform resources, vendors, and offshore engineers on access, integrations, architecture review, and production readiness.
• Lead or support discovery sessions, process mapping, future-state workflow design, solution design documentation, testing, rollout planning, training, feedback collection, and benefit tracking.
• Test solutions for accuracy, reliability, usability, data handling, security considerations, and alignment with business requirements before deployment.

Skills

AI

Workflow automation

Business-IT liaison

Problem solving

Delivery leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / Information Systems / Data Analytics

Equivalent hands-on experience

Tools

Power Automate

Power Platform

UiPath

Zapier

Workato

Make

Copilot Studio

Azure AI

Job description

WAI is seeking a hands-on AI Automation Engineering Manager to turn approved use cases into practical AI-enabled workflows and tools across multiple business functions. You will design, build, test, and roll out scalable solutions that reduce manual effort and improve decision quality.

You will partner with IT, data, security, and vendors to ensure production readiness, governance, and adoption. The role emphasizes hands-on delivery, coaching, and cross-functional collaboration to scale