Enterprise AI & Automation Program Lead

AKS Engineering & Forestry; Tualatin (OR); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

401(k) match

Paid holidays

Weekly team lunches

Job summary

AKS Engineering & Forestry seeks a Business Automation & AI Program Manager to lead AI strategy, automation, and data initiatives across the enterprise. You will collaborate with executives, discipline leaders, and technical teams to map current processes, identify automatable opportunities, and deliver scalable digital solutions.

The role emphasizes business impact, governance, and hands-on implementation of Power Platform capabilities, with a focus on secure, measurable outcomes across the

Qualifications

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Responsibilities

• Lead the enterprise roadmap for AI, automation, data, and digital transformation.
• Identify and prioritize high-value opportunities based on business impact, complexity, risk, and organizational readiness.
• Lead practical adoption of generative AI, enterprise AI assistants, AI agents, workflow automation, and data-driven tools.
• Ensure AI and automation initiatives are tied to measurable business outcomes rather than technology for technology’s sake.
• Work directly with discipline and department leaders to understand current-state business processes and proactively identify manual, repetitive, spreadsheet-driven, email-driven, or disconnected processes that can be simplified, improved, automated, or redesigned.
• Design improved future-state processes and determine when automation, applications, integrations, analytics, or AI are appropriate.
• Challenge existing processes when appropriate rather than simply automating the way work is performed today, with a focus on simplifying and improving the process before technology is applied.
• Provide leadership and technical direction for Microsoft Power Automate, Power Apps, Dataverse, and related Power Platform capabilities.
• Establish standards for environments, security, development, testing, documentation, deployment, support, and lifecycle management.
• Provide leadership, prioritization, technical direction, and mentorship to team members and technical resources responsible for delivering Power Platform, automation, integration, data , and AI solutions.
• Set the organization’s Microsoft Fabric and OneLake direction in partnership with IT, data teams, and vendors.
• Guide enterprise data integration, pipelines, semantic models, Power BI and analytics capabilities, data quality, governance, and security.
• Define the strategy for integrating enterprise systems using REST APIs, JSON, HTTP, OAuth 2.0, webhooks, connectors, and related technologies.
• Build strong, trusted relationships with executives, discipline leaders, department leaders, technical teams, and end users.
• Lead organization adoption of new AI, automation, and digital solutions through stakeholder engagement, communication, demonstrations, pilot programs, training, feedback, and change management.
• Translate business challenges into technology opportunities and explain technical concepts clearly to nontechnical audiences.
• Establish success metrics and measure the business impact of initiatives, including hours saved, cycle-time reduction, error reduction, user adoption, ,improved data quality,, cost avoidance, and other measurable operational improvements.
• Establish and maintain governance for AI usage, Power Platform development, data access, security, documentation, solution ownership, and lifecycle management.
• Manage a portfolio of AI, automation, integration, data, and analytics initiatives.

Skills

Power Platform

Power Automate

Power Apps

Power BI

REST APIs

Data governance

Security

Change management

Stakeholder management

Project management

Tools

Dataverse

Fabric

OneLake

Azure

SQL

Python

PowerShell

Job description

AKS Engineering & Forestry seeks a Business Automation & AI Program Manager to lead AI strategy, automation, and data initiatives across the enterprise. You will collaborate with executives, discipline leaders, and technical teams to map current processes, identify automatable opportunities, and deliver scalable digital solutions.

The role emphasizes business impact, governance, and hands-on implementation of Power Platform capabilities, with a focus on secure, measurable outcomes across the