Director, Internal AI Operations (AI)

Location: Remote - US

Pay ranges by US geographic zone: $229,000–$370,480, with a 15% bonus target; exact compensation varies by skills, experience, and location.

Company

hirify.global provides a software platform for controlled feature delivery, experimentation, targeted customer experiences, and safer, more effective software releases.

What you will do

• Build visibility into AI spend, usage, adoption, efficiency, cost drivers, ROI, risks, and vendor or model-cost optimization.
• Maintain the enterprise inventory of AI tools, initiatives, agents, vendors, integrations, owners, dependencies, status, spend, and risks.
• Manage AI vendor reviews and the Internal AI Feature Review process from intake through approval, exception, conditions, or rejection with Security, Legal, IT, and business stakeholders.
• Develop and operationalize Internal AI Policy resources with Legal, Security, and the Executive team.
• Track AI roadmaps, migrations, platform dependencies, adoption milestones, resources, risks, and executive decisions while partnering with technology and product teams.
• Define and audit access, ownership, configuration, data controls, logging, retention, vendor settings, and offboarding standards; coordinate communications, enablement, and distributed AI CoEs.

Requirements

• 15+ years of progressively responsible experience in AI or technology operations, enterprise systems, data and analytics, FinOps, governance, transformation, or a related field, including 5+ years leading teams or complex cross-functional programs.
• Experience designing, implementing, or scaling operating models across multiple functions with ownership, policies, processes, metrics, governance, and measurable outcomes.
• Experience managing enterprise portfolios of AI or technology tools, vendors, integrations, or platforms, including lifecycle management, access, administration, risk, controls, contracts, usage, and spend.
• Strong financial, analytical, and data-driven capabilities, including adoption, efficiency, unit economics, ROI, business-value metrics, forecasting, budget controls, cost avoidance, waste reduction, and value-improvement planning.
• Experience using Snowflake, Excel, Python, or equivalent tools to turn complex data into executive-ready recommendations.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including presenting recommendations to senior and executive leaders and influencing diverse stakeholders without direct authority.
• Practical understanding of responsible AI, data governance, privacy, security, vendor risk, and change management.
• Strong systems thinking, program management, prioritization, and change leadership skills; comfortable structuring ambiguous, company-wide problems.
• Experience hiring, coaching, or developing teams and partnering across Finance, IT, Security, Legal, Procurement, and business functions.

Nice to have

• Curiosity about emerging AI capabilities, pragmatic experimentation skills, and judgment about where AI should and should not be used.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote work within the United States with a high-trust and transparent working environment.
• 15% bonus target in addition to the geographic-zone pay range.
• Restricted Stock Units, health, vision, and dental insurance, and mental health benefits.
• Collaborative, respectful, humble, open, and kind team culture.