Portfolio Manager, AI

Portfolio Manager, AI

We are seeking a Portfolio Manager to join Kiewit's AI Technology & Services team. This role will lead Kiewit's centralized intake and portfolio management for AI initiatives, establishing an operating model that drives intake, prioritization, resourcing, governance, and value realization. You will work closely with Kiewit's districts, departments, and corporate groups (including Legal, Privacy, and Compliance) to eliminate ad-hoc, multi-channel intake, reduce duplication, and increase proof-of-concept to production conversion. This is a dynamic, cross-functional role that requires both technical fluency and a strong process and solution-oriented mindset, along with excellent communication skills, to help scale and sustain AI adoption across Kiewit.

This is a full time in-office role and candidates. This role is available out of the LaVista, NE or Lenexa, KS office. We will not offer relocation assistance for this role.

Responsibilities

• Establish and own a use case intake process with clear SLAs; retire ad-hoc email / DM requests; maintain the enterprise AI use case registry
• Conduct stakeholder discovery to map workflows, define needs and success metrics, and recommend right-sized solutions (AI / automation, process change, buy-vs-build)
• Apply a standardized prioritization rubric to assess business value, risk, feasibility, and scalability; sequence work across districts and departments
• Define and enforce stage gates (Idea, Discovery, POC / Pilot, Production, Post-deployment) with readiness / kill criteria and acceptance thresholds
• Lead buy-vs-build assessments and vendor evaluations using sanitized datasets, as-needed.
• Run recurring portfolio reviews; publish decisions, next steps, and rationale to ensure transparency
• Build and publish portfolio dashboards and brief leadership regularly
• Manage portfolio economics; forecast resourcing and demand; recommend trade-offs based on constraints and impact
• Maintain accurate documentation and artifacts for decisions and lessons learned

Qualifications

Other Requirements :

We offer our fulltime staff employees a comprehensive benefits package that's among the best in our industry, including top-tier medical, dental and vision plans covering eligible employees and dependents, voluntary wellness and employee assistance programs, life insurance, disability, retirement plans with matching, and generous paid time off.

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status.