Senior AI Execution & Operations Lead

TEKsystems; United States; Hybrid; USD 85,000 - 94,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental & vision

401(k) Retirement Plan

Paid Time Off

Job summary

TEKsystems in West Des Moines, IA, is seeking an expert lead business consultant to translate AI priorities into executable plans, manage cross-functional work, and drive programs from planning through implementation in a highly matrixed environment.

This contract hybrid role requires hands-on execution, risk and dependency management, and the ability to provide clear executive updates while establishing scalable governance across Operations, Product, Technology, and Risk.

Qualifications

• Translate AI priorities into clear work plans, milestones, deliverables, owners, and target dates.
• Lead day-to-day execution across multiple initiatives, pilots, and operational readiness activities.
• Establish repeatable execution routines, templates, and governance practices that can scale across ULO AI initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Translate AI priorities into clear work plans, milestones, deliverables, owners, and target dates.
• Lead day-to-day execution across multiple initiatives, pilots, and operational readiness activities.
• Maintain integrated project plans, action logs, decision trackers, risk and issue logs, and dependency maps.
• Coordinate activities across Operations, Product, Technology, Risk, Compliance, Finance, change management, and other partners.
• Facilitate working sessions, document decisions, and drive timely completion of follow-up actions.
• Identify execution gaps, competing priorities, resource constraints, and delivery risks before they affect outcomes.
• Escalate issues with a clear summary of the impact, available options, and recommended action.
• Coordinate business requirements, testing, implementation readiness, communications, training dependencies, and transition into ongoing operations.
• Prepare concise executive updates that highlight progress, risks, decisions, dependencies, and next steps.
• Establish repeatable execution routines and governance practices that can scale across AI initiatives.

Skills

Operational planning

Project management

Cross-functional leadership

Risk management

Executive communication

Structured problem solving

Change management

Stakeholder management

Job description

TEKsystems in West Des Moines, IA, is seeking an expert lead business consultant to translate AI priorities into executable plans, manage cross-functional work, and drive programs from planning through implementation in a highly matrixed environment.

This contract hybrid role requires hands-on execution, risk and dependency management, and the ability to provide clear executive updates while establishing scalable governance across Operations, Product, Technology, and Risk.