Director of AI Technologies
remote remote, PA 11111 US
Job Description
- AI Roadmap Ownership: Oversee and drive the execution of AI strategy, ensuring all initiatives directly support organizational goals.
- Business-to-Technical Translation: Convert business needs into detailed AI/ML technical plans, including model requirements, agent capabilities, and implementation roadmaps.
- Performance Measurement: Establish clear, quantifiable success metrics—such as model accuracy, ROI impact, and system latency—and track progress across all AI programs.
- Cross-Functional Alignment: Partner with both technical teams and business stakeholders to ensure smooth delivery, integration, and adoption of AI-driven solutions.
- Governance, Security & Compliance: Uphold best practices in data security and privacy while ensuring adherence to NIST, SOC-2, and other relevant compliance frameworks.
- Practical Technical Leadership: Provide hands-on guidance throughout the AI development lifecycle, balancing experimentation with the rigor required for production-grade deployment.
Required Qualifications
- Three plus years of experience working for a small company/ start-up.
- Experience working as a hands-on leader working on AI Strategy and delivery.
- Extensive experience defining a long-term AI Strategy and delivered on it tactically.
- Prior Project Management experience leading AI/ML initiatives, AI product development, or technical AI programs.
- This role requires a blend of strategic vision, deep AI technical acumen, project management skills, and hands-on leadership of a small team to drive the technical delivery of our AI initiatives.
- Strong working knowledge of LLMs, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), machine learning workflows, and agent-based AI frameworks.
- Demonstrated success delivering innovative AI capabilities while ensuring performance, scalability, and operational stability.
Meet Your Recruiter
Shana Nelson
Vice President
Shana is a Managing Director of Top Stack’s Information Technology Division. She started in the recruiting industry 23 years ago with a large national firm where she worked for many years. Shana shares over a decade of experience in recruitment, account management, and leadership. Throughout her career, Shana has proven to be a leading performer by developing a strong rapport with clients by understanding their true needs. She is an accomplished professional with an established ability to leverage industry experience in business development, and strategic planning to improve client relations. Shana has supported clients ranging from small companies to Fortune 500 firms. Serving as an industry consultant, she provides her clients valuable insight into the local talent pool and hiring trends, as well as lending her expertise for job analysis to assist in building a thorough job description.
Shana is a native of San Francisco, California, and moved to Philadelphia 27 years ago. She earned her Bachelor of Arts from University College Cork. Shana loves ballet, Pilates, interior design, and spending as much time as she can at the beach. Shana has two amazing daughters. She is also involved in the community and several non-profits in the Philadelphia and Chester County area.