Director, AI Architecture & Platforms - National Office (Remote)

About the role

The Director of AI Architecture & Platforms is responsible for defining, implementing, and governing the organization’s enterprise AI architecture and technical strategy. This role provides leadership for the design and delivery of scalable, secure, and compliant AI platforms and solutions that enable responsible adoption of generative AI, machine learning, and advanced analytics across the organization.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership for the design and delivery of scalable, secure, and compliant AI platforms and solutions that enable responsible adoption of generative AI, machine learning, and advanced analytics across the organization.
• Establish architectural standards and reference designs for AI solutions, with a strong emphasis on cloud-native implementation using Amazon Web Services (AWS) and managed AI services such as Amazon Bedrock.
• Ensure consistent, reusable, and secure patterns for integrating leading large language models (LLMs), including Anthropic, OpenAI, and Microsoft Copilot, into enterprise applications and workflows.
• Partner closely with product, application development, data, security, legal, and business leaders to identify, prioritize, and design high-value AI use cases.
• Ensure AI solutions are developed with a strong focus on business outcomes, operational readiness, and lifecycle management—from experimentation and prototyping through production deployment and ongoing optimization.
• Establish and enforce AI governance frameworks, including policies, controls, and guardrails related to model selection, data usage, risk management, explainability, monitoring, and regulatory compliance.
• Lead AI-specific cybersecurity and risk considerations, ensuring protections against data leakage, prompt injection, model misuse, and emerging AI threat vectors.
• Enable the organization to adopt AI responsibly, securely, and at scale, while accelerating innovation and delivering measurable business value.

Requirements

A successful candidate will possess a majority of the following professional and personal attributes and competencies:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher required in a relevant field such as Business, or related disciplines required.
• Advanced degree strongly preferred.
• 8-12 years of experience required.
• Expert functional skills, advanced industry knowledge and experience, advanced managerial skills.
• Manages multiple teams or functions.
• Strategic and operational decision-making authority.
• Highly complex tasks and managerial tasks.
• Minimal supervision.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher required in a relevant field such as Business, or related disciplines required.
• Advanced degree strongly preferred.
• 8-12 years of experience required.
• Expert functional skills, advanced industry knowledge and experience, advanced managerial skills.
• Manages multiple teams or functions.
• Strategic and operational decision-making authority.
• Highly complex tasks and managerial tasks.
• Minimal supervision.

Skills

A successful candidate will possess a majority of the following professional and personal attributes and competencies:

• Expert functional skills, advanced industry knowledge and experience, advanced managerial skills.
• Manages multiple teams or functions.
• Strategic and operational decision-making authority.
• Highly complex tasks and managerial tasks.
• Minimal supervision.

Benefits

YMCA of the USA (Y-USA) offers a full benefits package including medical, dental, vision, defined benefit plan (retirement savings), defined contribution plan (403(b) plan), life and disability insurances, technology stipend, and generous paid time off, all in a work from anywhere in the continental U.S. workplace.

Pay

Details on pay are not specified in this job description.

Schedule

Details on schedule are not specified in this job description.

Employment Type

The YMCA of the USA (Y-USA) embraces a remote-first working environment which means most employees work remotely from a home office within the continental United States.