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Our portfolio includes Interface® carpet tile and LVT, nora® rubber flooring, and FLOR® premium area rugs. Across every brand, we innovate in a way that combines design, performance, and sustainability-without compromise.\nTrusted by architects, designers, and building professionals worldwide, we help bring bold visions to life with solutions that deliver real, measurable impact. Building on more than 30 years of sustainability progress and industry-first innovation, we remain ‘all in’ on our goal of becoming carbon negative by 2040, without the use of offsets.\nThe Director, Enterprise Artificial Intelligence (AI) is responsible for driving the execution of Interface’s enterprise AI strategy-translating vision into scalable, secure, and value-generating solutions across commercial and corporate functions.\nThis role serves as the bridge between business leaders, technology teams, and strategic partners to identify, prioritize, and deliver AI use cases that improve decision-making, accelerate growth, and increase operational efficiency-while ensuring strong governance, security, and ethical use of AI.\nThe role will act as Interface’s AI execution leader, owning delivery, adoption, and measurable outcomes, not experimentation in isolation.\nKey Responsibilities:\nAI Strategy Execution & Delivery\nExecute Interface’s enterprise AI roadmap, aligned to company strategy, digital priorities, and value creation goals.\nTranslate strategic AI priorities into clearly defined programs, use cases, and roadmaps with measurable business outcomes.\nLead delivery of AI initiatives across domains and functions.\nProvides Project Management services for the key AI projects.\nUse Case Identification & Business Partnership\nPartner with senior business leaders to identify, vet, and prioritize high-impact AI opportunities.\nDrive structured use case intake, value assessment, and sequencing to ensure focus on ROI-driven outcomes.\nServe as a trusted advisor to business teams on where and how AI can responsibly accelerate results.\nAI Architecture\nDefine and lead the enterprise AI architecture strategy, establishing scalable, secure, and reusable AI platforms, services, and integration patterns\nDesign and govern the enterprise AI ecosystem, including large language models (LLMs), AI agents, knowledge platforms, data foundations, vector databases, orchestration frameworks, APIs, and cloud AI services\nArchitect enterprise data and knowledge foundations for AI, including data pipelines, metadata, semantic layers, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), knowledge management, and data quality controls required to deliver trusted AI outcomes.\nDrive AI technology standards and solution architecture reviews, evaluating emerging AI capabilities, platforms, vendors, and reference architectures while ensuring interoperability, scalability, reliability, and operational excellence across the enterprise\nGovernance, Risk & Responsible AI\nLead AI governance in partnership with Security, Legal, Privacy, and Compliance teams.\nEnsure AI solutions align with Interface standards for: - Data privacy and security - Ethical and responsible AI use\n- Model transparency and explainability\nEstablish guardrails, patterns, and standards for internal and vendor-provided AI solutions.\nTechnology & Partner Management\nLeverage strategic platforms and partners (e.g., Microsoft, Salesforce, Adobe, Workday, others) to accelerate AI adoption.\nEvaluate third-party AI tools and embedded AI capabilities with a “buy vs. build” mindset.\nCollaborate with Enterprise Architecture and Engineering teams to ensure scalability, interoperability, and long-term viability.\nDefine and track adoption, usage, and value realization metrics.\nTeam Leadership & Operating Model\nLead and mentor a small, high-impact AI delivery team (internal and/or hybrid with partners).\nEstablish a lean operating model focused on rapid iteration, business outcomes, and continuous improvement.\nInfluence without authority across global, matrixed teams.\nRequired Qualifications:\nBachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Business, or related field; Master’s preferred.\n8-12+ years of experience across digital, analytics, AI, or advanced technology roles.\nProven experience leading enterprise AI or advanced analytics initiatives from concept through production.\nStrong understanding of: - Applied AI / machine learning concepts (not pure research) - Data platforms, cloud ecosystems, and modern enterprise architectures - AI risks related to privacy, security, bias, and compliance\nDemonstrated ability to partner with senior business leaders and influence outcomes.\nExperience operating in a global, matrixed organization.\nPreferred Experience:\nExperience deploying AI solutions leveraging hyperscale’s (e.g., Microsoft Azure AI / Google Cloud)\nBackground in manufacturing, industrial, supply chain, or commercial B2B environments.\nExposure to embedded AI within enterprise platforms (CRM, ERP, productivity tools).\nExperience establishing AI governance frameworks or centers of enablement\n4 - Mid-Senior Level / ManagementLearn more about Interface (NASDAQ: TILE) and our brands at interface.com and FLOR.com. Join us on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Pinterest.\nWe are a VEVRAA Federal Contractor. We desire priority referrals of Protected Veterans for job openings at all locations within the State of Georgia. 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