Director of AI Transformation

ITS Logistics, LLC•Reno, NV

4h•Hybrid

About The Position

ITS Logistics is seeking a Director of AI Transformation with an entrepreneurial mindset to disrupt and redefine how logistics operates at its core. This role is not a traditional AI or automation position. Reporting directly to the Chief Operations Officer (COO), this leader will be responsible for identifying, building, and scaling AI-powered strategies and capabilities to enhance company operations. The Director will act as an internal founder, challenging assumptions, moving quickly, and creating solutions across all business aspects, including business services, warehousing, and transportation. The position involves developing new AI-driven capabilities to unlock revenue, expand margins, and achieve market differentiation, including proprietary approaches to pricing, capacity, and decision-making. The role requires operating like a startup founder within the business, taking ideas from concept to deployed solutions quickly, maintaining a close partnership with the IT organization, and rapidly testing and refining ideas based on business impact. The Director will challenge deeply embedded ways of working, replace legacy thinking with AI-native approaches, introduce new ways of interacting with data, customers, and capacity, and drive a culture of rapid experimentation and high-velocity execution. Additionally, this role involves ensuring ITS leverages cutting-edge AI tools, defining and executing the company’s AI transformation roadmap, establishing best practices for responsible and effective AI usage, and ensuring enterprise AI tools and data are leveraged securely in conjunction with the CIO. The ultimate goal is to position ITS as a technology-forward disruptor in logistics.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, Economics, or a related field preferred.
3–5 years of experience in AI, data systems, automation, or technical/product-oriented roles.
Startup or entrepreneurial experience - you’ve built something from scratch, operated in change, or owned outcomes end-to-end.
A builder first, not just a strategist- you execute, iterate, and ship.
Think in terms of products, systems, and leverage - not tasks or workflows.
Comfortable challenging leadership and rethinking how an industry should operate.
Experience applying AI (LLMs, automation, data systems) to drive real business outcomes - not just experimentation.
You move fast, prioritize impact, and are energized by creating something new vs. optimizing what exists.

Nice To Haves

Background in logistics is helpful.

Responsibilities

Identify and build new AI-driven capabilities that unlock revenue, margin expansion, and market differentiation.
Develop proprietary approaches to pricing, capacity, and decision-making that separate ITS from traditional asset-lite companies.
Partner directly with leadership to shape the future state of the business.
Build internal models, platforms, and systems that drive efficiency and exponential growth.
Operate like a startup founder within the business - taking ideas from concept to deployed solutions quickly.
Maintain a close partnership with our IT organization, maximizing all products and development across our organization.
Rapidly test, iterate, and refine ideas based on business impact.
Challenge deeply embedded ways of working across logistics and operations, and warehousing.
Replace legacy thinking with AI-native approaches to execution and decision-making.
Introduce new ways of interacting with data, customers, and capacity.
Drive a culture of rapid experimentation and high-velocity execution, delivering visible wins quickly while building toward larger, transformative outcomes.
Prioritize initiatives based on measurable business impact (revenue, margin, speed, win rate, etc.).
Ensure ITS leverages cutting-edge, market-leading AI tools in a rapidly evolving landscape.
Partner cross-functionally to define and execute the company’s AI transformation roadmap.
Establish best practices for responsible and effective AI usage across teams.
In conjunction with ITS in-house CIO, ensure enterprise AI tools and data are leveraged securely.
Help position ITS as a technology-forward disruptor in logistics.