Director, AI Strategy & Enterprise Innovation

Clean Energy & Infrastructure Services; West Fargo (ND); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

MasTec’s Clean Energy & Infrastructure (CE&I) division seeks a Director of AI Strategy & Innovation to build and lead the AI Strategy and Innovation department. You will advise executive leadership, define the AI vision, identify strategic opportunities across the business, and guide a team delivering AI-enabled solutions with measurable ROI.

This role partners with field operations, estimating, safety, engineering, and finance to ensure solutions address real-world challenges and enable

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Business, or related field.
• Master's degree in Business, Technology, Data Science, Engineering, or related field preferred.
• 12+ years of progressive technology, innovation, digital transformation, or business systems leadership experience.
• Five+ years leading enterprise technology or innovation teams.
• Proven success delivering AI, automation, advanced analytics, or digital transformation initiatives through the full lifecycle, including pilot, measure, iterate, and adoption at enterprise scale.
• Experience building AI programs from inception preferred.
• Experience solving complex operational challenges with scalable technology solutions in construction, engineering, energy, utility, industrial services, infrastructure, or large project-based enterprises.
• Experience within a construction or engineering organization exceeding $1B in annual revenue preferred.
• Experience managing both strategic initiatives and technical delivery teams preferred.
• Take reasonable care of health and safety and of those who may be affected by day-to-day delivery of this role by taking personal responsibility for CE&I's Zero Injury principles.
• Ability to lead organizational transformation initiatives.
• Exceptional executive communication and influence skills.
• Ability to build consensus among diverse stakeholder groups.
• Strong business acumen and strategic thinking.
• Understanding of field operations, project controls, estimating, safety programs, capital projects, workforce productivity challenges.
• Strong executive presence and presentation skills, successfully engaging leaders and driving consensus around proposed solutions.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute a multi-year enterprise AI strategy aligned with corporate objectives.
• Identify opportunities where AI can improve business performance, project execution, safety, quality, estimating, scheduling, procurement, equipment utilization, risk management, and back-office operations.
• Establish a prioritized AI innovation portfolio and roadmap.
• Evaluate emerging technologies, vendors, platforms, and market trends.
• Serve as the primary advisor to executive leadership on AI opportunities, risks, investments, and organizational readiness.
• Translate business challenges into practical AI initiatives with measurable outcomes.
• Present business cases, investment proposals, and program results to executive stakeholders.
• Develop governance processes ensuring AI initiatives align with enterprise priorities.
• Partner directly with field operations, project teams, estimating, safety, engineering, finance, procurement, and corporate functions.
• Spend significant time understanding real-world workflows, pain points, and operational challenges.
• Build strong relationships across all business units to ensure AI solutions solve actual business problems rather than technology problems.
• Lead the design, development, and deployment of AI-enabled applications, automations, agents, and analytics solutions.
• Collaborate with application development, infrastructure, security, and data teams to deliver scalable solutions.
• Establish development standards, architecture patterns, and solution governance.
• Ensure successful adoption and business value realization.
• Partner with Information Security, Legal, Compliance, and Data Governance teams.
• Establish responsible AI practices, policies, and oversight.
• Evaluate risks associated with data privacy, intellectual property, regulatory requirements, model management, and AI-generated outputs.
• Ensure enterprise AI solutions operate within approved governance frameworks.
• Build and lead a high-performing AI Innovation team.
• Recruit, mentor, and develop AI engineers, solution developers, and technical specialists.
• Foster a culture of innovation, experimentation, business partnership, and continuous learning.
• Establish delivery metrics, performance expectations, and career development plans.

Skills

AI strategy

Executive leadership

Stakeholder management

Strategic thinking

Change management

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IS/Engineering/Business

Master's degree preferred in Business/Tech/Data/Engineering

Tools

Cloud architecture

Data platforms

Enterprise integration

Microsoft Copilot

LLMs

Job description

MasTec’s Clean Energy & Infrastructure (CE&I) division seeks a Director of AI Strategy & Innovation to build and lead the AI Strategy and Innovation department. You will advise executive leadership, define the AI vision, identify strategic opportunities across the business, and guide a team delivering AI-enabled solutions with measurable ROI.

This role partners with field operations, estimating, safety, engineering, and finance to ensure solutions address real-world challenges and enable