Senior Director, AI Operations & Platform Strategy

Huron; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 205,000 - 295,000; Full time

Job summary

Huron seeks a Senior Director to define, implement, and drive the AI Operations charter, MVP, operating model, and platform direction for its governed AI capability within the Office of the CTO.

This role combines strategic program leadership with hands-on platform judgment, engaging across IT, security, privacy, legal, finance, and engineering to enable adoption, establish governance, and deliver measurable outcomes.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in enterprise technology, platform leadership, cloud operations, AI enablement, digital transformation, or enterprise architecture, including 5+ years leading cross-functional platform or capability work.
• Strong understanding of enterprise AI operating needs, including model access, data protection, cost attribution, auditability, workload classification, sandboxing, governed knowledge, and AI governance.
• Technical fluency with cloud platforms, AI platforms, platform engineering, or enterprise architecture.
• Demonstrated ability to use AI tools as a practical system-building accelerator for analysis, documentation, planning, technical review, or lightweight prototyping.
• Ability to translate technical platform work into business outcomes, stakeholder decisions, funding needs, and adoption measures.
• Proven experience working across senior stakeholders in technology, security, privacy, compliance, finance, legal, architecture, product, and delivery organizations.
• Strong written communication skills, including executive narratives, decision memos, roadmap artifacts, and operating model documentation.

Responsibilities

• Own the AI Operations charter, MVP definition, roadmap, prioritization, intake process, decision forum, adoption outcomes, and operating model.
• Lead definition of the MVP for governed enterprise AI capability, including workload classes, priority use cases, Bedrock access needs, usage and cost visibility, sandbox ownership, application and agent registration, logging, exception handling, Huron Knowledge validation, and decision rights.
• Establish a federated platform operating model in partnership with Client-facing AI Delivery, Enterprise IT, Global Products, Engineering, Analytics, Consulting, Security, Privacy, Compliance, Legal, Finance, and Enterprise Architecture.
• Provide enough technical direction to make architecture, sequencing, control-plane, and delivery of tradeoffs visible and actionable.
• Use AI tools to accelerate planning, architecture analysis, documentation, backlog development, decision records, stakeholder communication, and review of platform artifacts.
• Ensure AI Operations is positioned as an enablement capability that provides reusable, approved, observable, and cost-managed paths for AI adoption.
• Coordinate MVP scope, stakeholder participation, implementation of budget estimates, and phase-two scaling criteria.
• Track success measures for governed access adoption, workload visibility, cost visibility, operational readiness, Huron Knowledge enablement, agent safety, and delivery acceleration.

Job description

Huron seeks a Senior Director to define, implement, and drive the AI Operations charter, MVP, operating model, and platform direction for its governed AI capability within the Office of the CTO.

This role combines strategic program leadership with hands-on platform judgment, engaging across IT, security, privacy, legal, finance, and engineering to enable adoption, establish governance, and deliver measurable outcomes.