{"id":1158347,"url":"https://alion.io/job/air-communities-technical-ai-program-manager","title":"Technical AI Program Manager","company":{"id":4212,"name":"AIR Communities","domain":"aircommunities.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/air-communities","size_band":"1001-5000","is_staffing_agency":false,"is_intermediary":false,"ats_vendor":"SmartRecruiters","truth_index":{"grade":"B","score":75,"open_postings":6,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":1,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":22,"computed_at":"2026-09-24T05:45:00Z"}},"role":"Management","role_family":"Management","seniority":"senior","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Denver, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":170000,"max":190000,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":190000},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":8,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Platform Engineering","optional":false},{"name":"FinOps","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-23T20:31:49Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-23","last_verified_at":"2026-09-24T11:33:51Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":0,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":0},"description":"Who We Are\nAIR Communities owns and operates best-in-class apartment communities in major markets across the country. We are committed to operational excellence, innovation, and delivering exceptional experiences for our residents and team members.\n About the Role\nThe Technical AI Program Manager connects the enterprise's growing demand for AI solutions with the technical and functional teams who deliver them. You'll field new AI requests, analyze them, and shape directional solutions before handing them to delivery teams. You'll also track AI spending and value delivered, giving the organization a clear basis for investment decisions. This role combines leadership, technical expertise, program management excellence, and organizational change management to accelerate AI adoption across the enterprise.\nYou bring real world computer science and engineering fundamentals and have shipped things - but you've grown into a well-rounded professional who holds your own with executives as easily as with architects. You pressure-test every request against what matters, not what's most interesting to build.\nInnovation Strategy. We drive measurable value across our real estate portfolio by improving the resident experience, elevating team performance, and delivering superior financial outcomes. You'll make every request to that bar:\nDoes this improve the resident’s experience?\nDoes this improve team experience?\nDoes this drive measurable financial results?\nAI Strategy. We accelerate business value by combining best-in-class external solutions, scalable approved platforms, and proprietary capabilities. You'll guide stakeholders through:\nWhen to use an external AI solution\nWhen to use an approved internal platform\nWhen to build customs\nYou'll apply the same discipline to AI initiatives themselves: if it doesn't create value, improve efficiency, or strengthen competitive advantage, it doesn't move forward.\nWhat You'll Do\nIntake & Triage\nField incoming AI requests from across the enterprise.\nAssess each one fast: what's the real problem, who's affected, how urgent, what's the rough shape of a solution.\nRoute requests a quick answer, a scoped pilot, or a full program.\nMaintain a transparent pipeline of AI requests, decisions, priorities, and next steps.\nSolution Shaping\nPartners with functional and technical stakeholders - data science, platform engineering, security, legal/compliance, business leaders - to sketch directional solutions delivery teams can pick up with confidence.\nDecide between external, approved platform, and custom-build paths based on the AI strategy and the problem's fit.\nTranslate business asks into technical requirements, and technical constraints into business terms.\nLead planning, execution, and governance of AI initiatives from concept through production deployment.\nProgram & Portfolio Management\nTrack the AI portfolio: status, owners, blockers, outcomes.\nKeep initiatives scoped to the value they deliver; push back on scope creep and over-engineering.\nAlign stakeholder groups when priorities or dependencies collide.\nFlag initiatives that drift from resident experience, team experience, or financial return.\nAccountability and Tracking\nAI Governance and Adherence\nOwn visibility into AI spends across tools, platforms, compute, and vendors.\nBuild and maintain ROI, adoption, and value reporting for each initiative.\nReport leadership on what's working, what's not, and where to invest.\nSynthesis & Communication\nTurn technical and business input into decision-ready narratives for engineers, functional leads, and executives.\nKeep documentation and status updates simple and current.\n What You Bring\n8+ years of experience spanning software engineering and technical program/product delivery, ideally including direct work with AI/ML systems.\nTechnical Background\nCS/engineering foundation and hands-on delivery experience, ideally including AI/ML systems in production.\nEnough AI/ML fluency - model types, data pipelines, integration patterns, failure modes - to hold credible technical conversations.\nComfort evaluating technical tradeoffs and risk at a directional level.\nCollaborate with architects and engineering teams on solution design and technical architecture.\nEnsure delivery follows established engineering, security, and operational standards.\nOversee AI platform scalability, reliability, and operational readiness.\nProgram & Business Acumen\nTrack record managing cross-functional programs with competing priorities.\nExperience owning spend tracking and turning it into ROI narratives leadership can act on.\nComfort moving forward on incomplete information.\nDrive alignment among business leaders and technology teams.\nProvide executive-ready updates on program health, risks, opportunities, decisions needed, and investment recommendations.\nExecutive Presence & Stakeholder Leadership\nSynthesize messy input into clear, actionable narratives fast.\nBuilding trust across engineers, functional leaders, and executives; adapt your style without losing substance.\nJudge every option by relevance and outcomes, not technical sophistication.\nMake reasonable calls under uncertainty and adjust as you learn more.\nCommunicate with confidence in writing and in the room.\nBring people along; say \"not ready\" as readily as \"let's move.\"\nNice to Have\nExperience with AI governance or responsible AI frameworks.\nFinOps or cloud cost management experience applied to AI/ML.\nBackground blending technical PM, solutions architecture, or technical product management.\nSuccess Looks Like\nNew requests get a credible response and a clear path within days not weeks without sacrificing rigor.\nEvery active initiative traces back to resident experience, team experience, or financial outcome.\nStakeholders trust you as an honest broker on technical reality and on when to buy, use a platform, or build.\nLeadership has a current, trustworthy view of AI spend and ROI.\nInitiatives are sized to the value they create - no under-investment, no over-engineering.\n Benefits\nAn anticipated base salary between $170,000-$190,000 plus annual bonus. Salary will be offered depending on skills and experience.\nPaid time off includingvacation, sick time, and 14 holidays.\nMedical, dental, vision, and life insurance options, HSA/FSA plans, short and long-term disability paid by the company.\nAn Apartment Benefit option is available to live on-site at the community you are working\n 401(k) plan with up to 6% employer match.\nPaid parental leave of up to 16 weeks.\nTuition assistance program and up to 100% reimbursement for job-related certifications and licenses.\n15 hours of paid time annually for community service.\nCommuter benefits and pet insurance.\nConsumer discounts on various products and services.\nOpportunities for ongoing professional development, leadership training, and career growth.\nApplication Deadline: The initial deadline for applications is 9/28/2026. Applications submitted after this date may still be considered on a rolling basis until the position/program is filled. We encourage all interested candidates to apply as early as possible. If a final decision has not been made by the initial deadline, subsequent applications will be reviewed as they are received.\nCandidates extended an offer will be required to undergo pre-employment screening that includes checking references, a four-panel drug screening that excludes marijuana testing, employment verification & criminal background check.\nAIR values diversity and provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment. 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