Director of AI Strategy & Innovation - Enterprise Impact

Clean Energy & Infrastructure Services; Indianapolis (IN); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) with match

Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)

Health, Dental & Vision insurance

Flexible spending account

Paid time off & holidays

Job summary

MasTec CE&I is seeking a Director of AI Strategy & Innovation to build and lead an enterprise AI program across renewables, infrastructure, and industrial projects. You will partner with executive leadership to define the AI vision, identify scalable opportunities, and drive adoption of AI-enabled solutions that generate measurable ROI.

The role requires deep executive presence, a track record of delivering large-scale AI initiatives, and the ability to translate business challenges into

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.
• Demonstrated success delivering AI, automation, advanced analytics, or digital transformation initiatives through the full lifecycle.
• 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.

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 with field operations, project teams, estimating, safety, engineering, finance, procurement, and corporate functions.
• Build strong relationships across all business units to ensure AI solutions solve actual business 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.
• 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

Executive leadership

AI strategy

Stakeholder management

Enterprise technology

Change management

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

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

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

Tools

Microsoft Copilot

AI/ML platforms

Cloud platforms

Job description

MasTec CE&I is seeking a Director of AI Strategy & Innovation to build and lead an enterprise AI program across renewables, infrastructure, and industrial projects. You will partner with executive leadership to define the AI vision, identify scalable opportunities, and drive adoption of AI-enabled solutions that generate measurable ROI.

The role requires deep executive presence, a track record of delivering large-scale AI initiatives, and the ability to translate business challenges into