Director, AI Product Management

Covista•Chicago, IL

1d•$100,172 - $181,035•Hybrid

About The Position

Covista is a national leader in post-secondary education and leading provider of professional talent to the healthcare industry. As the Director of AI Product Management, you will be a key leader in IT products and services for 300,000+ students and 10,000 employees, across 5 institutions and 27 campus locations. In this role, the Director will be accountable for overseeing and managing all aspects of an organization's information technology systems and operations for the function in which it is assigned. People/Talent leadership Responsible for overseeing multiple teams, departments, or functions within an organization. This may include managing multiple projects, budgets, and resources across various areas of IT. Attracts, hires, and builds high-performing teams, empowers people and rewards results; achieves results through clearly articulated goals, discernment, priorities, and a belief in the positive intentions of our employees. Takes an active role in developing talent. Builds and enables a highly engaged, high performing team. Strong communicator. Operational Leadership: Demonstrates organizational agility and an ability to build a high-performance culture which models the willingness, leadership, and courage to challenge the status quo; fosters creativity; problem solves/acts quickly to activate change, innovation, and resilience. Delivers a highly stable, robust environment for Covista and enables our business. Thinks “human first” in operational experiences delivered. Shows discipline of execution and delivery. Financial leadership: Understands the organization’s financial processes. Prepares, justifies, and administers her/his budget. Oversees procurement and contracting to achieve desired results. Monitors expenditures and uses cost benefit thinking to (re)set priorities. Focuses on value creation for Covista – this includes IT centric cost management and business results. Drives a fiscal disciplined behavior in her/his organization. Thinks long term and short term while managing finance and value creation. Technical leadership: Demonstrates breadth and depth of professional/technical skills and capabilities required for position; shares knowledge; sets or contributes to the organization's direction within an area of expertise. Leads to drive value for Covista through technology. Influences with fluency on technology related change. Strategic Leadership: They collaborate with executive management and other senior leaders to align IT initiatives with business objectives. Demonstrates the process of using well considered tactics to establish/communicate a vision for an organization or one of its parts. Fluently thinks between needs for today, while planning for the near and far future. Understand the competitive landscape, industry directions. Aligns with Covista IT & Digital strategy, builds their own game plan, communicates and delivers on the strategy. Performs other duties as assigned. Comply with all policies and standards.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree in related discipline Required.
Ten (10) plus years years of IT work experience.
Five (5) plus years years of managerial and supervisory experiences.
Demonstrated leadership abilities.
Advanced level of technical knowledge and experience.
Strong project management, process, technical and financial management knowledge.
Excellent written and oral communication skills.
Highly organized and able to manage multiple projects and multiple employees simultaneously

Nice To Haves

Master's Degree Preferred.

Responsibilities

Overseeing and managing all aspects of an organization's information technology systems and operations for the function in which it is assigned.
Attracts, hires, and builds high-performing teams, empowers people and rewards results.
Achieves results through clearly articulated goals, discernment, priorities, and a belief in the positive intentions of our employees.
Takes an active role in developing talent.
Builds and enables a highly engaged, high performing team.
Demonstrates organizational agility and an ability to build a high-performance culture which models the willingness, leadership, and courage to challenge the status quo.
Fosters creativity; problem solves/acts quickly to activate change, innovation, and resilience.
Delivers a highly stable, robust environment for Covista and enables our business.
Thinks “human first” in operational experiences delivered.
Shows discipline of execution and delivery.
Understands the organization’s financial processes.
Prepares, justifies, and administers her/his budget.
Oversees procurement and contracting to achieve desired results.
Monitors expenditures and uses cost benefit thinking to (re)set priorities.
Focuses on value creation for Covista – this includes IT centric cost management and business results.
Drives a fiscal disciplined behavior in her/his organization.
Thinks long term and short term while managing finance and value creation.
Demonstrates breadth and depth of professional/technical skills and capabilities required for position; shares knowledge; sets or contributes to the organization's direction within an area of expertise.
Leads to drive value for Covista through technology.
Influences with fluency on technology related change.
Collaborates with executive management and other senior leaders to align IT initiatives with business objectives.
Demonstrates the process of using well considered tactics to establish/communicate a vision for an organization or one of its parts.
Fluently thinks between needs for today, while planning for the near and far future.
Understands the competitive landscape, industry directions.
Aligns with Covista IT & Digital strategy, builds their own game plan, communicates and delivers on the strategy.
Performs other duties as assigned.
Comply with all policies and standards.