Director of AI & Business Solutions

Talent Acquisition at Blue Water•Ocean City, MD

1d•$110,000 - $160,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Blue Water Hospitality is seeking a Director of AI & Business Solutions to own the build of the company's AI-native operating platform. This role is for a builder who embeds within revenue management, marketing, operations, and finance teams to identify leverage points and build solutions. The individual will break down processes into human-owned and agent-owned components, build them to prove their value, and then translate successful builds into technical scopes for contracted engineers to scale. This position is a core member of the AI Task Force, reporting to the SVP of Capital Investments, with the goal of transitioning Blue Water's operations from human-run to system-run for increased speed, accuracy, and efficiency, ultimately driving measurable operating leverage across the portfolio.

Requirements

Innovation or business-solutions background, with a track record of shipping working pilots.
Experience carrying ideas from whiteboard to working tool and getting them past the pilot stage.
7+ years of professional experience.
3+ years of building with AI, automation, or digital transformation, with a track record of delivering into production with measurable business value.
Strong process and workflow mapping ability.
Strong project management skills (scope, budget, sequence, drive initiatives).
Genuine hands-on technical depth (automation, coding, databases, AI harnessing, context engineering).
LLM fluency with practical, hands-on experience with modern AI tools and agentic workflows.
Executive and operator communication skills.
Bias toward outcomes over credentials.

Nice To Haves

Experience in hospitality, property management, real estate, or PE-backed operations.
Hands-on workflow automation (Zapier, Make, n8n, Microsoft Power Automate) and scripting (Python, SQL).
Familiarity with the modern data stack (e.g., Snowflake, dbt).
RPA background (UiPath, Power Automate) and/or agentic / multi-agent system experience.
PMP, PRINCE2, or equivalent project-management credential.

Responsibilities

Build small wins yourself by standing up automations, prompts, and lightweight tools end-to-end.
Scope big builds for others to scale by translating proven builds into clean technical scopes and budgets, then directing contracted engineering and database specialists.
Own the project portfolio by running intake, prioritization, sequencing, and delivery for the AI Task Force.
Drive adoption by translating operator pain into usable tools and demonstrating value to skeptical teams.
Govern build-vs-contract decisions, selecting and managing vendors, and maintaining spending discipline.
Attack variance by using standardized, AI-audited workflows to reduce performance inconsistency across the portfolio.
Measure and report on throughput, cycle time, automation hours saved, and NOI impact.