The AI & Digital Innovation team builds and runs AI products used across QuadReal, from document intelligence and underwriting support to agentic workflows connected to our core platforms. The team is small and senior, spanning AI architecture, engineering, business analysis, program management and business engagement, and it moves at the pace of a technology that keeps changing underneath it. What it needs is a manager who owns delivery of the portfolio end to end, makes the prioritization calls, and raises the technical bar without becoming the bottleneck.
This is the connective role on the team. AI architecture sets the technical direction, business engagement brings the demand, and delivery has to tie the two together into working software that people actually use. This individual is the glue: the single point of accountability for what ships, when, at what quality, and whether the business got the value it was promised.
This is a functional manager, not a pure people leader. This individual will be in the work: reviewing designs and requirements, sitting in stakeholder sessions, building the value case, and deciding what gives when two initiatives need the same person in the same week. Using AI day to day is central to the job, not a side interest. Intimate, hands-on knowledge of how these tools behave is what makes the judgment calls sound and what earns credibility with our stakeholders. They are deliberately hands-off with senior specialists and hands-on with team members who are still growing.
The hardest part of this role is judgment. Business stakeholders bring more ideas than the team can build, and they do not arrive labelled. Some are valuable, some only sound urgent, some are both. This individual separates them, quantifies what is real, sequences the rest, and says no clearly enough that the relationship still works afterward.
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Own delivery of the active AI portfolio: scope, sequencing, quality, and the commitments made to the business
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Manage and develop the delivery team (program and project management, business analysis, engineering) while working alongside senior specialists in AI architecture and business engagement
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Make prioritization and trade-off calls across competing initiatives, and defend them to sponsors and leadership
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Help business sponsors quantify the value of their initiative before build, and validate it after launch
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Act as a credible technical counterweight in design, requirements and vendor discussions