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Advancing new ideas every day to build even stronger clients, individuals and communities. We’re helping our clients find new ways to drive growth, enhance business performance and sustain leadership in the markets they serve. And, we’re developing strategies and implementing solutions that enable the transformative change they need to own their future.\nAs a member of the Huron corporate team, you’ll help to evolve our business model to stay ahead of market forces, industry trends and client needs. Our accounting, finance, human resources, IT, legal, marketing and facilities management professionals work collaboratively to support Huron’s collective strategies and enable real transformation to produce sustainable business results.\nJoin our team and create your future.\nRole SummaryThe Director, AI Infrastructure Operations will lead the AI Operations team and run the day-to-day operations of Huron's governed AI capability within Corporate IT. This role combines operational leadership and people management with practical platform understanding: managing the team, the intake and prioritization process, the decision forums, and the delivery of the AI Operations roadmap.\nThe role is designed to help teams move faster through appropriate governance by operating approved pathways, clear decision rights, reusable patterns, evidence standards, and measurable adoption goals. The person in this role should be comfortable using approved AI tools to develop artifacts, evaluate options, review technical approaches, and continuously improve the operating model. The capability is centered on AI infrastructure and platform operations rather than application development, though the team supports and contributes to solution delivery where needed.\nReporting / Organization\nThis role sits within AI Infrastructure Operations in Corporate IT, part of the CIO organization, with the CIO several levels above this role in the reporting line. It manages the AI Infrastructure Operations team, including the AI Infrastructure Architect and AI Infrastructure Engineer roles. The executive sponsor for the capability is the CIO.\nKey Responsibilities\nHire, develop, and manage the AI Infrastructure Operations team, including architects and engineers; set goals, provide coaching and performance feedback, and build team capability over time.\nOwn day-to-day execution of the AI Infrastructure Operations charter: roadmap delivery, prioritization, intake process, decision forums, adoption outcomes, and operating cadence.\nOperate the 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.\nRun the 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.\nPartner with the AI Capability Center under the Chief AI Officer to align priorities, innovate, and deliver the infrastructure and platform capabilities behind solutions for Huron's go-to-market teams.\nProvide enough technical direction, working with the AI Infrastructure Architect, to make architecture, sequencing, control-plane, and delivery tradeoffs visible and actionable.\nUse AI tools to accelerate planning, documentation, backlog development, decision records, stakeholder communication, and review of platform artifacts.\nEnsure AI Operations is positioned as an enablement capability that provides reusable, approved, observable, and cost-managed paths for AI adoption.\nManage scope, stakeholder participation, budget tracking, and scaling criteria across delivery phases.\nTrack and report success measures for governed access adoption, workload visibility, cost visibility, operational readiness, Huron Knowledge enablement, agent safety, and delivery acceleration.\nRequired Qualifications\n10+ years of experience in enterprise infrastructure, platform leadership, cloud operations, AI enablement, digital transformation, or enterprise architecture, including 3+ years directly managing technical teams or leading cross-functional platform work.\nDemonstrated people management experience: hiring, developing, coaching, and performance management of technical staff.\nStrong understanding of enterprise AI operating needs, including model access, data protection, cost attribution, auditability, workload classification, sandboxing, governed knowledge, and AI governance.\nTechnical fluency with cloud platforms, AI platforms, platform engineering, or enterprise architecture.\nDemonstrated ability to use AI tools as a practical system-building accelerator for analysis, documentation, planning, technical review, or lightweight prototyping.\nAbility to translate technical platform work into business outcomes, stakeholder decisions, funding needs, and adoption measures.\nProven experience working across senior stakeholders in technology, security, privacy, compliance, finance, legal, architecture, product, and delivery organizations.\nStrong written communication skills, including decision memos, roadmap artifacts, and operating model documentation.\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience with AWS, Amazon Bedrock, enterprise AI platforms, MLOps, LLMOps, platform engineering, or cloud governance.\nExperience with durable agentic AI orchestration platforms for platform, business, or AI operational workflows.\nExperience creating or operating intake, prioritization, governance, exception, or architecture review processes.\nExperience with regulated, client-sensitive, PHI, PII, or confidential-data environments.\nExperience leading platform adoption across federated business teams.\nFlexible living locations across the US. Ability to travel as needed.\nThe estimated base salary for this job is $190,000 - $265,000. The actual salary paid to an individual will vary based on multiple factors, including but not limited to specific skills or certifications, years of experience, market changes, and required travel. This job is also eligible to participate in Huron’s annual incentive compensation program, which reflects Huron’s pay for performance philosophy. Inclusive of annual incentive compensation opportunity, the total estimated compensation range for this job is $247,000 - $344,500. 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