# AI Operations Lead

QAD | Redzone is building an enterprise AI platform to support AI-enabled and agentic workflows across the organisation. The AI Centre of Excellence (CoE) is accountable for turning that ambition into deployed, measured, production workflows across priority business functions. The CoE is small, senior and high-leverage. Architecture and engineering build the platform; functional AI Engagement Specialists own the demand side; and AI Operations owns the run side: keeping every live agent and AI tool reliable, observable, affordable and supported once it reaches the business The AI Operations Lead owns how AI runs at QAD after go-live. You will run AI FinOps (where the money goes, whether it is worth it, and how to keep spend inside budget), build the observability that tells us when an agent is drifting, failing or getting expensive, and stand up the operational support model that colleague across the business rely on when something breaks or they need help. This is an operations and service ownership role, not a reporting role. Dashboards are an input, not the output. You will be measured on AI that stays reliable, affordable and trusted in production. If spend runs ahead of value,

- **Id**: 3857967
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/qad-ai-operations-lead>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Pune, India
- **Countries**: IN
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-06T06:30:22Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-06
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T12:55:16Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 3
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 10729
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: ERP & Business Management Software, Supply Chain & Logistics Software, Manufacturing & Industrial Software

## Company

- **Id**: 6493
- **Name**: QAD
- **Domain**: qad.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/qad>
- **Size band**: 201-500
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: SmartRecruiters

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 75
- **Open postings**: 9
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 1
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 31
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Technologies

- **Agentic Workflows** — Optional: no
- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **Amazon CloudWatch** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **Azure** — Optional: no
- **Claude** — Optional: no
- **Copilot** — Optional: no
- **Datadog** — Optional: no
- **FinOps** — Optional: no
- **GCP** — Optional: no
- **Gemini** — Optional: no
- **Incident Management** — Optional: no
- **ITIL** — Optional: no
- **Langfuse** — Optional: no
- **LangSmith** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **LLM Guardrails** — Optional: no
- **OpenTelemetry** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Service Desk** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no
- **SRE** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 3

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

### Languages

- Language: English; Level: All levels; Optional: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-06T07:27:07Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 90
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.903
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 2
- **Expected fill days**: 31
- **Reasons**: conf:0, velocity, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

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