Manager - Connected

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.

• BA or BS or equivalent experience is required
• Experience leading development teams - preferred managed
• Experience delivering capabilities through Agile, iterative, product, or experimentation-based methods.
• Experience with enterprise-scale applications, cloud platforms, data products, AI or machine learning capabilities, or comparable emerging technologies.

• Demonstrated experience leading complex cross-functional initiatives across business and technology stakeholders.
• Experience translating ambiguous business problems into executable plans, measurable outcomes, and executive-ready recommendations.
• Experience with Salesforce, Google Cloud Platform, Azure, AWS, Elastic, Snowflake, or similar enterprise platforms.

• Proven ability to lead multidisciplinary development efforts and ensure objectives, goals, and commitments are met
• Strong business acumen and ability to connect technology investments to user needs and measurable business value
• Strong interpersonal skills including mentoring, coaching, collaborating, and team building
• Strong analytical, planning, and organizational skills with an ability to manage competing or ambiguous demands
• Excellent oral and written communications skills and experience interacting with both business and IT individuals at all levels, including the executive level
• Experience managing large budgets and finances
• Prior Experience in the Staffing Industry – a plus

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