IS Manager - Connected

Allegis Group; Hanover (MD); On-site; USD 117,000 - 198,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) Retirement Plan

Life Insurance

Disability Insurance

Health Spending Accounts

Tuition Assistance

Paid Time Off

Job summary

Allegis Group seeks an IS Manager, Connected Incubation Hub, to lead a cross-functional team exploring, validating, and delivering emerging technology capabilities across Allegis Group and its operating companies. This role intersects AI, data science, product, architecture, and business workflows, turning opportunities into experiments and pilots with scale or stop decisions.

The incumbent partners with Business, Product, UX, Architecture, Engineering, Data, Legal, Security, AI governance, and

Qualifications

• Experience leading cross-functional development teams in an Agile environment.
• Experience delivering capabilities through Agile, iterative, product, or experimentation-based methods.
• Experience with enterprise-scale applications, cloud platforms, data products, AI or machine learning capabilities, or comparable emerging technologies.

Responsibilities

• Lead a portfolio of AI and ML experiments across recruiter and seller experiences.
• Translate hypotheses into research plans, prototypes, pilots, and measurable criteria.
• Partner with Product and UX to define user needs and prioritize opportunities.
• Collaborate with Architecture and Engineering on feasibility and production paths.
• Coordinate governance with Legal, Security, Privacy, and AI COE.
• Drive movement from intake to scale or sunset decisions.
• Contribute metrics for adoption, accuracy, latency, and ROI.

Skills

Leadership

Business acumen

Mentoring

Analytical thinking

Planning

Communication

Budget management

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Salesforce

Google Cloud Platform

Azure

AWS

Elastic

Snowflake

Job description

The IS Manager, Connected Incubation Hub, leads a cross-functional team responsible for rapidly exploring, validating, and delivering emerging technology capabilities that improve recruiting, selling, talent, and enterprise operations across Allegis Group and its operating companies.

This role operates at the intersection of AI, data science, recommendations, product, architecture, and business workflows. The IS Manager turns ambiguous opportunities into evidence-based experiments, proofs of value, pilots, and clear scale or stop recommendations across multiple enterprise technology platforms.

The role partners closely with Business, Product, UX, Architecture, Engineering, Data, Legal, Security, AI governance, TPRM, and strategic vendors. The IS Manager is accountable for portfolio movement, team leadership, stakeholder alignment, experiment measurement, responsible AI practices, and successful handoff of validated capabilities.

The IS Manager is responsible for:

• Leading a portfolio of AI, data science, recommendation, search, automation, agentic AI, generative AI, conversational AI, and voice AI experiments across recruiter and seller experiences.
• Supporting and driving business problems from hypotheses, research plans, technical discovery, prototypes, experiments, pilots, and measurable success criteria.
• Partnering with Product and UX to define user needs, prioritize opportunities, coordinate showcases and research, and incorporate feedback into experiment decisions.
• Partnering with Architecture and Engineering to evaluate feasibility, integration patterns, scalability, supportability, performance, and paths to production.
• Coordinating governance with Legal, Security, Privacy, AI COE, Compliance, and TPRM to support responsible, auditable, and policy-aligned experimentation.
• Driving initiative movement from intake and discovery through proof of concept, experiment, pilot, handoff, documentation, and scale or sunset recommendations.
• Contributing and advising metrics for adoption, quality, accuracy, latency, efficiency, experience, cost, business impact, and operational readiness.
• Managing strategic technology and vendor relationships, including workshops, evaluations, commitments, costs, and outcomes.

Minimum Education and/or Experience:

• BA or BS or equivalent experience is required
• Experience leading development teams - preferred managed
• Experience delivering capabilities through Agile, iterative, product, or experimentation-based methods.
• Experience with enterprise-scale applications, cloud platforms, data products, AI or machine learning capabilities, or comparable emerging technologies.

Preferred / Nice to Have

• Demonstrated experience leading complex cross-functional initiatives across business and technology stakeholders.
• Experience translating ambiguous business problems into executable plans, measurable outcomes, and executive-ready recommendations.
• Experience with Salesforce, Google Cloud Platform, Azure, AWS, Elastic, Snowflake, or similar enterprise platforms.

Skills/Abilities:

• Proven ability to lead multidisciplinary development efforts and ensure objectives, goals, and commitments are met
• Strong business acumen and ability to connect technology investments to user needs and measurable business value
• Strong interpersonal skills including mentoring, coaching, collaborating, and team building
• Strong analytical, planning, and organizational skills with an ability to manage competing or ambiguous demands
• Excellent oral and written communications skills and experience interacting with both business and IT individuals at all levels, including the executive level
• Experience managing large budgets and finances
• Prior Experience in the Staffing Industry – a plus

Benefits Overview:

Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. This role is eligible for the following:

• Hospital plans
• 401(k) Retirement Plan – Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available
• Life Insurance (Company paid Basic Life and AD&DD as well as voluntary Life & AD&DD for the employee and dependents)
• Company paid Short and long-term disability
• Health & Dependent Care Spending Accounts (HSA & DCFSA)
• Employee Assistance Program
• Tuition Assistance
• Time Off/Leave (PTO, Allegis Group Paid Family Leave, Parental Leave)

Office Requirements:

• Required in office out of our headquarter in Hanover, MD 4 days a week

Salary Range:

• $116,600-$197,796
• This position is bonus eligible
• Individual compensation offered for this position within this range will depend on many factors, including qualifications, skills, relevant experience, job knowledge, geographic location, internal equity, and other pertinent job-related factors.

Core Competencies:

• Build relationships
• Develop people
• Lead change
• Inspire Others
• Think critically
• Communicate clearly
• Create Accountability

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.

If you would like to request a reasonable accommodation, such as the modification or adjustment of the job application process or interviewing process due to a disability, please email Lauren Lara at [e-mail] or call 410-579-3526 for other accommodation options.