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Director of Applied AI

South Poleabout 2 months ago
Remote
Senior Level

Top Benefits

Flexible work hours and remote options with generous vacation
Option to purchase up to 5 additional vacation days
Global life insurance coverage

About the role

Who you are

  • A technical enterprise operator who can translate AI capability into measurable business results
  • Combines strategic thinking with strong program leadership and execution
  • Experienced in redesigning end-to-end workflows and embedding AI
  • Strong judgment on where AI can improve workflow performance and business outcomes
  • Fluent in the current AI tooling landscape and able to guide build vs buy decisions
  • Understands enterprise architecture and application stacks well enough to design and deploy workflow solutions
  • Track record of deploying production solutions in enterprise environments
  • Strong understanding of tooling, integration, governance, and adoption
  • Can teach, influence, and build capability across teams
  • Communicates clearly with senior leadership and works effectively across functions

What the job involves

  • We’re looking for a technical enterprise operator who can improve how work gets done and translate that into measurable business results
  • AI transformation of key workflows
  • Identify high-value internal workflows, understand how the work actually gets done, redesign what is broken, and embed AI where it improves speed, quality, and cost
  • AI capability diffusion across the business
  • Help teams build with AI in their day-to-day work through training, practical guidance, shared patterns, and responsible-use guardrails
  • Prioritize workflows based on business value, feasibility, and adoption potential
  • Work with business stakeholders to map priority workflows end-to-end, diagnose where performance breaks down, identify what needs to improve, and determine where AI can add value
  • Make build, buy, or partner decisions based on strong knowledge of the AI tool landscape
  • Lead the development and deployment of solutions into real workflows and systems
  • Define baselines, targets, and metrics tied to business outcomes
  • Build internal capability so teams can work with AI effectively and responsibly through hackathons, training, and practical guidance
  • What success looks like
  • Key workflows are redesigned and measurably better (improvements in speed, quality, margin)
  • AI is embedded where it improves business performance
  • Teams across functions are increasingly able to build with AI directly in their own work
  • Clear adoption, governance, and impact metrics are in place

Benefits

  • Work-life balance: From flexible working hours to flexible workplace (home office), with above-average vacation allowances, we strive to make the work and family life puzzle an easy one for our employees
  • Flexible Vacation Benefits: Options to buy up to 5 extra days of time off
  • Life Insurance: Available to all employees across the world
  • Care for your Wellbeing: Access to mental, physical and financial wellbeing support through our Employee Assistance Program (TELUS Health)
  • Parental Leave: Should any of our employees need to take time off the Iceberg as a result of a new addition to their household, we are happy to be able to offer competitive Paid Parental leave to support them during this time
  • Compassionate Leave: Sometimes life is unpredictable, and when unfortunate events occur, we want to give you peace of mind so you feel fully supported during this time

About South Pole

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