Senior Director, AI Infrastructure Strategy

AFL is seeking a strategic, forward-looking leader to serve as Senior Director, AI Infrastructure Strategy and right hand to the Vice President, Corporate Strategy.

This role will define AFL's enterprise perspective on AI infrastructure and translate market, technology, and competitive shifts into actionable corporate and divisional strategies.

The successful candidate will bring a panoramic view of the AI infrastructure landscape, spanning power, compute, data centers, networks, and emerging AI technologies.

This is not a fiber optics, network engineering, or product engineering role; AFL already has deep technical expertise within its operating businesses. This leader will connect technology, economics, regulation, and infrastructure trends to AFL's long-term strategy and customer opportunities.

The role requires executive presence with Boards, C-Suites, customers, investors, and partners, combined with the ability to work hands-on with business leaders to translate strategy into execution.

Key Responsibilities

Enterprise Strategy Leadership

Define AFL's strategic perspective on the AI infrastructure ecosystem and translate market, technology, and competitive trends into growth strategies, investment priorities, and long-range plans.

AI Infrastructure Market Intelligence

Develop and maintain AFL's perspective on the AI infrastructure ecosystem, including power, grid modernization, data centers, cloud and edge computing, semiconductors, networking, cooling, and sovereign AI. Monitor hyperscalers, AI labs, utilities, communications providers, investors, and regulators to guide AFL's view of future market direction and strategic implications.

Strategic Foresight and Scenario Planning

Lead long-range scenario planning on AI infrastructure, assessing implications of centralized versus distributed architectures, training and inference economics, agentic AI, sovereign AI, AGI, energy constraints, and regulatory shifts. Translate uncertainty into strategic recommendations, investment priorities, and competitive advantage for AFL.

Divisional Strategy Partnership

Partner with AFL's Products and Services leaders to align business strategies with evolving market opportunities, guiding growth priorities, market focus, resource allocation, partnerships, capabilities, and customer investment. Serve as a trusted advisor and servant leader who translates enterprise strategy into actionable plans and measurable outcomes.