AI Program Manager - Special Projects & Innovation

Smart Tech Contracting delivers turnkey BAS & EPMS solutions for mission-critical colocation and hyperscale data centers operating at national program scale. As a Master Systems Integrator (MSI), we unify controls construction (DDC, PLC, SCADA) with software engineering, optimized graphics / UI standards, and program-level governance.

Complex integrations are delivered cleanly, consistently, and fast. Our teams thrive in high-stakes environments where quality control and uptime matters, schedules are compressed, and coordination is everything.

Join us and be part of a team where your voice matters, your work makes an impact, and your growth is a shared priority.

Position Title: AI Program Manager — Special Projects and Innovation

Position Location: Remote — work virtually from anywhere in the United States, with occasional travel to job sites, lab environments, and company meetings

JOB SUMMARY

Smart Tech Contracting delivers turnkey BAS & EPMS solutions for mission-critical colocation and hyperscale data centers operating at national program scale. As a Master Systems Integrator (MSI), we unify controls construction (DDC, PLC, SCADA) with software engineering, optimized graphics / UI standards, and program-level governance. Our Special Projects and Innovation (SPI) group is where we pursue the ideas that do not fit inside a standard project — and it is the home of SmartTech.ai, our company-wide AI enablement program.

AI adoption at STC has grown fast and organically: capable people across every department have built real tools and returned real time. That grassroots energy is our foundation — and it has outgrown an informal, team-by-team approach. As AI Program Manager, you will take SmartTech.ai from siloed experimentation to a governed, supported, and scalable capability — setting light-touch policy and standards, standing up the development frameworks and hosting platforms that turn prototypes into deployable products, pairing the right tools to the right use cases, and raising the AI fluency of every employee through training, messaging, and hands-on support.

This is STC’s first dedicated AI enablement hire. You will report to the VP of Engineering & Technology, operate within the SPI department, and coordinate a hub-and-spoke network of departmental AI Champions. You are equal parts builder and enabler — technical enough to architect and ship AI solutions yourself, and skilled enough with people and process to make the entire company better at using AI. You will receive general direction on objectives and work independently to build the program, communicating and operating in line with organizational goals and values as well as departmental objectives.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

Program Governance, Policy & Intake (20%)

• Establish light-touch, practical governance for AI use company-wide — acceptable-use standards, data-handling and security guardrails, and a clear tool-approval pathway — in partnership with IT and InfoSec
• Contribute to development of the innovation and idea intake (“funnel”), triaging incoming requests and prototypes and prioritizing them by value, effort, and risk
• Maintain a lightweight review cadence that keeps the program safe and consistent without slowing the people doing the work

AI Enablement, Training & Messaging (20%)

• Raise the AI fluency of the entire company — technical and non-technical staff alike — through hands-on training, office hours, documentation, and reusable prompt and workflow libraries
• Own internal messaging and change management for SmartTech.ai: announcements, wins, and adoption campaigns that build momentum and engagement
• Coordinate the departmental AI Champions network, turning individual wins into shared, company-wide capability

Solution Development & Deployment (20%)

• Turn ideas and prototypes into deployable, supportable solutions — designing, building, and shipping LLM-powered tools, agents, and integrations
• Serve as a hands-on power user of Claude and modern AI development tools, setting the technical bar for prompt engineering, agentic workflows, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) over company knowledge, and API integration
• Harden and deploy high-value prototypes built by others so delivery teams can rely on them without owning their maintenance

Development Frameworks & Hosting Platforms (15%)

• Design and stand up the sanctioned development environments, hosting platforms, and DevOps toolchain …