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About the Role

Longroad is hiring its first Director of AI Strategy & Transformation to define how AI will reshape operations across all functions and lead the required change. This new role within IT is chartered by senior leadership and begins with a strategic assessment phase, defining a multi-year enterprise AI strategy and establishing the foundation for sustainable transformation. The Director will spend most of their time on strategy, advisory, and transformation leadership, with potential to grow and add direct reports as the program scales.

Responsibilities

Lead an enterprise-wide assessment of current AI usage, capability gaps, governance processes, and transformation opportunities.
Develop and steward Longroad’s multi-year AI strategy, including platform standards, build-vs-buy decisions, operating-model implications, and a prioritized investment roadmap.
Partner with senior leadership to identify where AI fundamentally changes business operations and translate this into concrete workflow redesigns and capability shifts.
Serve as Longroad’s senior change agent for AI transformation in partnership with Human Resources, defining and executing a change management plan to build AI fluency and address cultural, organizational, and workflow changes.
Serve as Longroad’s lead AI evangelist and trusted advisor to senior leadership, translating the AI market into pragmatic, business-value-driving recommendations.
Own the enterprise AI tool stack in coordination with IT, developing working fluency across the company's technology portfolio to ensure AI strategy alignment.
Standardize on a primary AI platform, rationalize redundant tooling, and establish guardrails for data handling, vendor due diligence, model selection, and acceptable use.
Evaluate and govern agentic AI deployments, with attention to operational and SCADA-adjacent contexts where reliability and auditability are critical.
Partner with leaders across various departments to identify and deliver high-impact AI use cases, providing hands-on coaching and building surrounding teams' capacity.
Establish the foundation for Longroad’s AI enablement program, including role-based learning paths, an internal community of practice, and an AI ambassadors’ network.
Define how Longroad measures AI transformation and value, emphasizing business outcomes, and report on progress to senior leadership, adjusting strategy as needed.

Requirements

10+ years of professional experience, with significant time leading enterprise strategy, business transformation, or large-scale change programs.
Demonstrated track record as a transformation leader with proven ability to drive durable change, build executive alignment, and sustain behavior change across functions.
Broader technology leadership experience or exposure across enterprise data infrastructure, operational technology, or IT governance.
Hands-on fluency with leading frontier LLM platforms (Claude strongly preferred), including practical experience with prompt design, agents and skills, and integration patterns.
Strong strategic thinking and executive presence.
Excellent written and verbal communication, with a teaching and coaching instinct.
Comfort operating as a department of one in the early phase, with the judgment to know when to build, buy, or partner.
Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States. The Company does not sponsor applicants for work visas.

Skills

AI Strategy
Business Transformation
Change Management
Executive Advisory
AI Evangelism
Prompt Design
Agent and Skills Development
Integration Patterns
Data Infrastructure
Operational Technology
IT Governance
LLM Platforms

Location

San Francisco, CA
Boston, MA

Work Type

Onsite
Full-time

Experience Level

10+ years of professional experience
Director

Salary/Compensations

$185k-225k

Benefits

Bonus
Health insurance
Vision/dental insurance
Flexible spending accounts
401(k) plan
Accrued paid time off
Life insurance
Disability coverage
Merit-based salary increases
Incentive plan participation
401(k) plan and matching
Paid holidays
Paid volunteer time
Paid parental leave

About the Company

Longroad Energy is a Boston, MA headquartered renewable energy developer focused on the development, ownership, and operation/asset management of wind and solar energy projects throughout North America.
Founded in 2016, Longroad owns 4.5 GW of wind and solar projects across the United States in addition to operating and managing a total of 6.2 GW of wind and solar projects on behalf of Longroad and third parties.
Our vision is to create lasting value for our shareholders, communities, and employees by responsibly developing, owning, and operating renewable energy projects.
We have assembled a world-class team with a passion for renewable energy innovation and a commitment to developing renewable projects throughout the US.
At Longroad, we SHINE. We aim to be the most trusted renewable energy company on the long road to a green future.
We are an experienced team of problem solvers and promise-keepers who develop sustainable solutions that meet today’s challenges and make a lasting impact on people and our planet.

Equal Opportunity

Longroad Energy is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer (“EOE”). Qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status, citizenship, or any other legally protected status.
Longroad Energy prohibits discrimination against individuals with disabilities and will reasonably accommodate applicants with a disability, upon request, and will also ensure reasonable accommodations are made for disabled employees.
Longroad Energy is firmly committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities in all employment practices and personnel actions, including advertising, recruitment, testing, screening, hiring, selection for training, upgrading, transfer, demotion, layoff, discipline, termination, rates of pay, and other forms of compensation.
Diversity, equity, and inclusion matter - at Longroad, in our industry, in our communities, and in society at large.
We embrace our responsibility to build and promote a diverse, equitable, and inclusive working experience and drive change where we live and operate.
We work to actively promote and celebrate diversity, equity, and inclusion.
We foster a supportive space that empowers everyone at Longroad to learn about, discuss and ask questions related to embracing and honoring identity.
We collaborate with our community, colleagues, and industry in the ongoing pursuit of evolving and growing an inclusive and diverse environment.