IS Manager (Connected)

Job Summary:

The IS Manager, Connected Incubation Hub, leads a cross-functional team responsible for rapidly exploring, validating, and delivering emerging technology capabilities that improve recruiting, selling, talent, and enterprise operations across Allegis Group and its operating companies. 

This role operates at the intersection of AI, data science, recommendations, product, architecture, and business workflows.

The IS Manager turns ambiguous opportunities into evidence-based experiments, proofs of value, pilots, and clear scale or stop recommendations across multiple enterprise technology platforms. 

The role partners closely with Business, Product, UX, Architecture, Engineering, Data, Legal, Security, AI governance, TPRM, and strategic vendors.

The IS Manager is accountable for portfolio movement, team leadership, stakeholder alignment, experiment measurement, responsible AI practices, and successful handoff of validated capabilities. 

The IS Manager is responsible for:


* Leading a portfolio of AI, data science, recommendation, search, automation, agentic AI, generative AI, conversational AI, and voice AI experiments across recruiter and seller experiences. 


* Supporting and driving business problems from hypotheses, research plans, technical discovery, prototypes, experiments, pilots, and measurable success criteria. 


* Partnering with Product and UX to define user needs, prioritize opportunities, coordinate showcases and research, and incorporate feedback into experiment decisions. 


* Partnering with Architecture and Engineering to evaluate feasibility, integration patterns, scalability, supportability, performance, and paths to production. 


* Coordinating governance with Legal, Security, Privacy, AI COE, Compliance, and TPRM to support responsible, auditable, and policy-aligned experimentation. 


* Driving initiative movement from intake and discovery through proof of concept, experiment, pilot, handoff, documentation, and scale or sunset recommendations. 


* Contributing and advising metrics for adoption, quality, accuracy, latency, efficiency, experience, cost, business impact, and operational readiness.


* Managing strategic technology and vendor relationships, including workshops, evaluations, commitments, costs, and outcomes.

Responsibilities

Essential Fucntions:


* Lead multiple cross-functional initiatives in parallel, aligning scope, capacity, timing, dependencies, and enterprise priorities. 


* Facilitate problem framing, hypothesis development, experiment planning, decision making, and stakeholder alignment. 


* Guide teams in building and testing working solutions across cloud, CRM, data, search, AI, API, and user-experience layers. 


* Remove delivery roadblocks, identify risks early, create mitigation plans, and escalate issues affecting outcomes. 


* Ensure experiments include user feedback loops, instrumentation, measurement, documentati...