AI Enablement & Field Intelligence Lead (AEC) - Dallas

Human Agency; United States; Hybrid; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Human Agency is looking for a construction technology specialist who understands real jobsite needs and can connect technology to those needs. You will conduct job shadows, synthesize observations, help with AI tool adoption, and assess construction technology innovations. The ideal candidate has at least 3 years in the field, strong communication skills, and is ready for heavy travel. This remote position demands a background in project management or engineering and expertise in the contech landscape.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of construction industry experience, familiar with jobsites.
• Know the contech landscape, including players and platforms.
• Demonstrated ability to implement AI tools in workflows.
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to travel 60–80% to jobsites nationwide.

Responsibilities

• Conduct structured job shadows of project engineers and managers.
• Extract and codify expert knowledge from experienced professionals.
• Evaluate and apply emerging technologies to jobsite needs.
• Help teams adopt AI-assisted workflows and tools.
• Identify adoption barriers for AI tools and improve them.

Skills

Construction industry experience

Deep fluency with the contech landscape

AI literacy

Exceptional communication

Natural credibility with construction professionals

Tools

Procore

PMWeb

OpenSpace

Bluebeam

Job description

Location: Remote (US only) + 60–80% travel to jobsites nationwide

About the Opportunity

We partner with large design-build companies (~$10B revenue) that employ thousands of project engineers and project managers running complex jobsites across the country. Human Agency is building custom AI tools and strategies to make those teams dramatically more effective. The missing piece is someone who lives in the field, understands how construction actually works, and can connect the dots between emerging technology and real jobsite needs.

What You’ll Own

Field Intelligence & Expert Knowledge Capture

• Conduct structured job shadows of Project Engineers, Project Managers, and superintendents across project types — healthcare, industrial, data centers, commercial — to map how work actually flows day‑to‑day and where the friction, waste, and brilliance live.
• Extract and codify expert knowledge from experienced construction professionals. The people you shadow know things that aren’t written down anywhere. Your job is to capture that institutional intelligence and make it an asset.
• Synthesize field observations into actionable briefs for Human Agency’s venture studio and product teams, directly informing what to build, what to invest in, and where the biggest opportunities are.
• Build and maintain a living knowledge base of construction workflows, pain points, and technology gaps across our design‑build partners’ project portfolios.
• Identify systemic patterns across jobsites and project types that point to high‑leverage opportunities for technology intervention or process improvement.

Contech Landscape & Evaluation

• Maintain comprehensive, current knowledge of the construction technology landscape. You should have an informed opinion on every major platform, startup, and emerging capability in the space.
• Evaluate emerging technologies like Bedrock Robotics (autonomous heavy equipment), reality capture tools, AI co‑pilots for estimating and scheduling, and next‑generation project management platforms against real jobsite needs you’re observing firsthand.
• Develop technology fit assessments: given what you see in the field, where could a given tool actually create value vs. where would it be shelfware? Your judgment on this is the product.
• Brief Human Agency and client leadership on contech trends, investment‑worthy companies, and technology bets with a practitioner’s perspective, not a vendor’s pitch.
• Contribute directly to Human Agency’s venture studio thesis on where the AEC industry is heading and which technology gaps represent real opportunities.

AI Enablement & Coaching

• Help jobsite teams understand and adopt AI‑assisted workflows that Human Agency has built for the client — tools for submittals, change orders, RFP assessment, meeting synthesis, quality knowledge, and more.
• Run hands‑on coaching sessions (1:1, small group, lunch‑and‑learns) that translate AI capabilities into construction language. You’re teaching a PM how this saves them an hour on submittals, not lecturing about large language models.
• Identify the highest‑leverage AI use cases for specific roles and project types based on what you’re seeing in the field, and work with our product team to customize solutions accordingly.
• Serve as the credible, trusted voice on AI and technology for field teams. You earn this by understanding their work, not by evangelizing from a slide deck.
• Surface adoption barriers, user friction, and workflow mismatches back to the product team so tools get better with every jobsite visit.

Who You Are

Required

• Construction industry experience (3+ years) with time spent on or around jobsites. You know what a three‑week lookahead is, you’ve seen a PE’s actual day, and you understand the difference between how construction is supposed to work and how it actually works. Backgrounds in project engineering, project management, field operations, or construction technology.
• Deep fluency with the contech landscape. You follow the space obsessively — you know the players, the platforms, the funding rounds, and the gaps. You have a point of view on where it’s all heading.
• AI literacy that goes beyond using ChatGPT. You’ve built workflows, automated processes, and can demonstrate how AI tools change the way people work. You can teach this to others.
• Exceptional communication skills across audiences — you can have a credible conversation with a superintendent on a slab at 6 am and brief a C‑suite on technology strategy at 2 pm.
• Comfort with heavy travel (60–80%) to jobsites across the country. This role lives in the field, not behind a desk.
• Natural credibility with construction professionals. You’re respected in those rooms because you understand the work, not just the tools.

Preferred

• Direct experience with construction technology platforms (Procore, PMWeb, OpenSpace, Bluebeam, BIM tools, or similar) — either as a power user, implementer, or builder.
• Background in construction technology or AEC innovation — whether at a startup, a GC’s operations or innovation team, or a technology consultancy serving the industry.
• Experience in technology evaluation, venture analysis, or strategic advisory roles where your judgment on “will this actually work” was the deliverable.
• Familiarity with how AI products are built — understanding how field insights and user research translate into product decisions.
• Comfort operating in a consulting structure where you’re a Human Agency team member embedded in a client’s organization and culture.

Equal Opportunity Commitment

Human Agency is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We value diverse backgrounds and strive to build an inclusive culture where everyone feels welcomed and empowered.