Asustaff

Asustaff

Executive Director, AI and Data

Campus: Tempe · Director · Part-time

Sponsorship not specified$132k-$200kDetected 1 day ago
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About the role

  • Job Profile: IT Administration Manager 4 Job Family: IT Management Time Type: Full time Max Pay - Depends on experience: $200,000.00 USD Annual Apply before 11:59 PM Arizona time the day before the posted End Date.
  • This is not a traditional higher education IT role.
  • The successful candidate will help move ASU from fragmented systems and isolated data environments toward connected "data rivers" capable of powering real-time intelligence, institutional agility, and AI at scale.

Responsibilities

  • To help lead this transformation, ASU is recruiting an Executive Director of AI and Data - a senior Enterprise Technology leader responsible for shaping the university's AI-ready data ecosystem, enterprise integration strategy, and intelligent platform architecture.
  • The Executive Director of AI and Data will help shape how AI becomes embedded responsibly, securely, and strategically into the fabric of a modern public research university. This includes helping establish the technical foundations that support:
  • Building trusted data ecosystems
  • Developing high-performing technical teams

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree and nine (9) years of experience appropriate to the area of assignment/field including five (5) years managerial experience
  • The ideal candidate brings experience leading complex AI, data, or platform modernization initiatives within large-scale environments such as:
  • This role will define and advance the enterprise architecture required to support:
  • Applicants must be eligible to work in the United States.
  • Research universities
  • Global enterprises
  • Cloud and platform organizations
  • Digital-native organizations
  • Large healthcare, technology, or public-sector ecosystems

Skills

  • Executive Director, AI and Data
  • Arizona State University - Enterprise Technology
  • Reimagining the Future of AI, Data, and the Intelligent University
  • Arizona State University is seeking a visionary executive leader to help architect the next generation of the AI-enabled university.
  • As one of the nation's leading innovation universities, ASU is advancing a bold transition from traditional "EdTech" models toward a new
  • Enterprise data architecture and governance
  • AI/ML platforms and AI operations
  • Cloud-native infrastructure and platform engineering
  • Enterprise systems integration and APIs
  • Semantic data models and modern analytics ecosystems
  • Intelligent automation and agentic workflows
  • Scalable AI deployment patterns

Compensation

  • $132,300.00 - $200,000.00

Benefits

  • Executing on strategic vision
  • Enterprise Technology (ET) embraces its role as both an enabler and catalyst for advancing the vision and work of the New American University.
  • ET is a rapidly reconfigurable and entrepreneurial organization at ASU that prioritizes and executes to meet the needs of our community of learners, faculty, researchers and staff.
  • Our flexible work environment allows employees to explore opportunities with their supervisor beyond the traditional work schedule.
  • Arizona State University is a new model for American higher education, an unprecedented combination of academic excellence, entrepreneurial energy and broad access.
  • This New American University is a single, unified institution comprising four differentiated campuses positively impacting the economic, social, cultural and environmental health of the communities it serves.

Company info

  • Belonging, Relational, Authentic, Visionary and Empowered.
  • Scale of impact.
  • Our work changes the world.
  • With 200k+ learners, faculty, researchers and staff, working with ET means you have the capacity to improve many lives and entire communities.
  • World-class, low cost education.
  • Our professional development is built in!
  • ET encourages staff to seek additional certificates and degrees via ASU's top ranked programs with major tuition breaks.
  • Exposure to industry giants.
  • ET partners with Amazon, Apple, Arista, Cox, Verizon, Salesforce, Alteryx and a diversity of technology companies to enhance our innovations and deepen their impact.
  • We are a values-driven organization.
  • We are staunch champions of learner success and put people first.

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