Application Readiness Lead

Quality Ai; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Diversity & inclusion

Internal rotation & mobility

Career progression

Flexible & casual culture

Tech academy training

Referral bonuses

Competitive pay

Job summary

QualityAI in the United States seeks an Application Readiness Lead to ensure applications are restored, validated, governed, and approved for return to service after cyber-events.

The role acts as the executive integrator across recovery domains, providing leadership and assurance to client executives that systems are ready to resume business operations safely.

Qualifications

• Twelve+ years of progressive leadership across technology delivery and cyber recovery.
• Experience leading large-scale programs with executive stakeholders.
• Strong understanding of cybersecurity, infrastructure operations, and data restoration.
• Exceptional executive communication and stakeholder management.
• Ability to influence outcomes across teams without direct reporting.
• Experience in crisis management or mission-critical environments preferred.

Responsibilities

• Ensure each application is restored, validated, governed, and approved for return to service.
• Serve as executive integrator across recovery domains with transparency and assurance.
• Lead cross-functional teams and coordinate with client executives during cyber-events.

Skills

Executive leadership

Program governance

Cyber recovery

Operational resilience

Technology transformation

Enterprise operations

Executive communication

Stakeholder management

Crisis management

Job description

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Application Readiness Lead

Date: 1 Oct 2026 Company: QualityAI Country/Region: US

Are you interested in working with the World’s leading AI-first Quality Engineering Company? Ready to advance your career, team up with global thought leaders across industries and make a difference every day? Join us at QualityAI!

We are looking for an Application Readiness Lead to join our growing team in United States!

This role is ultimately accountable for ensuring that every application is restored, validated, governed, and approved for return to service in accordance with the client organization’s recovery framework. The individual serves as the executive integrator across recovery domains, providing leadership, transparency, and assurance to client executives that systems are ready to safely resume business operations following a cyber-event.

Qualifications:

• 12+ years of progressive leadership experience spanning technology delivery, program governance, cyber recovery, operational resilience, technology transformation, or enterprise operations.
• Demonstrated success leading large-scale, high-visibility programs involving executive stakeholders and complex organizational dependencies.
• Strong understanding of cybersecurity, infrastructure operations, enterprise applications, data restoration, and operational readiness practices.
• Exceptional executive communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management capabilities.
• Proven ability to influence and drive outcomes across teams without direct reporting authority.
• Experience operating in crisis management, cyber incident recovery, or mission-critical operational environments strongly preferred.

Executive Competencies:
The ideal candidate will be recognized as:

• A trusted advisor to executive leadership.
• An exceptional communicator capable of driving alignment across diverse stakeholder groups.
• A highly organized operator who thrives in complex, fast-moving environments.
• A governance-focused leader who balances speed, risk, and operational integrity.
• An accountable and results-oriented executive with a demonstrated bias toward execution and completion.
• A strategic thinker who can simultaneously manage enterprise-level objectives and critical operational details.

Benefits:

Why QualityAI?
QualityAI is an AI-first quality engineering company helping enterprises deploy and scale complex systems with greater confidence. Operating across data, models, platforms, infrastructure, and operational environments, the company provides assurance and engineering expertise that helps organizations ensure systems perform reliably in real-world conditions.

Formerly Qualitest, QualityAI supports global enterprises across regulated and technology-driven industries, combining deep engineering heritage with AI-enabled delivery, operational assurance, and lifecycle expertise to help clients achieve certainty at go-live.

• Be a part of a company who strives to support for diversity and inclusion in the workplace - we are one, we are many at QualityAI. Celebrate culture, share knowledge with engineers from around the globe, and inspire each other through our differences.
• Local and global opportunities - we offer you internal rotation and international mobility opportunities to grow your career.
• Clear view of your career and progression with the company - QualityAI is growing massively (since Jan 2021 - added more than 2000 engineers) and giving you the opportunity to grow with us.
• Work hard and play harder with our flexible and casual culture. Take a break from work and join an employee event, or enjoy the amenities and games provided from one of our Employees Centers.
• Never stop experimenting and learning with QualityAI Tech academy: 3000+ training courses, mentorship programs, technical tribes, sponsored certifications, leadership programs and much more.
• Earn bonuses via our Client Referral and Employee Referral Program’s. Refer and earn - tap your network for net-worth.
• A Competitive pay, the salary range for the role is $120,000 - $140,000.